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Constructions waxing and waning: A diachronic overview of the zero-Secondary Predicate Construction KU Leuven
In the English Secondary Predicate Construction (SPC), a predicative relation between a noun phrase (NP) and a “secondary predicate” (XP) is established by a main verb (He findsVerb herNP attractiveXP). While the syntactic nature of this construction has received ample attention from a synchronic perspective, this study aims to shed light on the diachronic developments of the SPC. First, using data from the YorkToronto-Helsinki Corpus of Old ...
Paradigm shifts in linguistics KU Leuven
English as a Lingua Franca in Europe: the Identification of L1 and L2 accents: A Multifactorial Analysis of Pan-European Experimental Data KU Leuven
While empirical research on attitudes towards languages and linguistic varieties has become increasingly popular from the 1960s onwards (e.g. Lambert at al. 1960), experimental investigations into the ability to correctly identify the origin of speakers are in comparison still relatively scarce. We know that the ability to correlate a stretch of uncategorised speech (token) with a series of models (types) is experientially acquired in early ...