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Sugar Makes You Sweet: Polysemy and Cultural Beliefs about Causation
(July 20-22)
Earlier studies showed some word pairs in health discourse being conflated. If some polysemes are not recognized as fully separate senses, is there a pattern of use showing if speakers feel that experiencing one sense ...
Vernacular Explanations of Causation in Lay Health Discourse
(2013-06-07)
Few linguistic works exam vernacular terms for health concepts rather than technical medical terms (cf. Rueda-Baclig & Florencio 2003). The prevalence of conversations on food, sleep, exercise, and illness – and the ...
Inferring New Vocabulary Using Online Texts
(Routledge, 2005)
**Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: Through small-scale sampling of relevant specialized texts to craft hands-on inferential vocabulary tasks, both students and teachers can benefit from corpus ...
Truth Is, Sentence-Initial Shell Nouns Are Showing Up Bare
(Palacký University, 2014)
**Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: In one subtype of English shell noun construction, the noun serves as the subject in a pre-clausal unit, e.g., “The thing is.” Shell noun NPs have mainly been ...
Deliberations before running another Wikipedia editing assignment
(2022-09-23)
**Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: In assessing a popular Open Educational Resource that instructs and is shaped by students, I weigh the costs for both instructors and students in using classroom ...
The Contingent Meaning of -ex Brand Names in English
(Edinburgh University Press, 2006)
**Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: The –ex string found in English product and company names (e.g., Kleenex, Timex and Virex), is investigated to discover whether this ending has consistent meaning ...
The functional range of bare singular count nouns in English
(John Benjamins, 2007)
**Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: One overlooked and highly polysemous English noun phrase form is the bare singular, i.e. a null determiner with a singular count noun complement. Occurring in all ...
Who builds it, who benefits? Deepening student and faculty knowledge about wikipedia’s scholarly value
(Springer Nature, 2023-02)
**Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: Students and faculty can jointly play a role in how Open Educational Resources are created and deployed by assigning students to expand Wikipedia pages. By producing ...
Semantic incorporation as an account for some bare singular count noun uses in English
(2009)
**Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: This work investigates inter-related syntactic and semantic issues concerning bare singular count nouns (BSCNs) in English. I explore differences in interpretation, ...