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Parameterizing Case and Activity: Hyper-raising in Bantu
(2009)
Case theory has long played a crucial role in explaining the distribution of nominal
expressions. Raising constructions are a well-established case in point (Chomsky 1981,
George & Kornfilt 1981, Chomsky 2000, Chomsky ...
Situated Writing Workshops: Putting Writing Advice in Context
(The Writing Instructor, 2004)
Even the most brilliant of college teachers can absorb only so much writing theory in a two- or three-day writing-in-the-disciplines workshop. The faculty who register for our writing workshops are typically committed to ...
Measuring Lexical Style and Competence: The Type-Token Vocabulary Curve
(Northern Illinois University, 1990)
A personal computer is used to analyze samples from literary texts by thirteen
different authors, including passages from Genesis, Hemingway, Longfellow, Jane
Austen, Henry James, George Eliot, James Joyce, and Basic ...
The Vocabulary-Management Profile: Two Stories by William Faulkner
(1994)
The Vocabulary-Management Profile (VMP) is a graph of the moving average of the number of new vocabulary words introduced over successive intervals of text. Peaks and
valleys on the VMP correlate closely with narrative ...
A New Tool for Discourse Analysis: The Vocabulary-Management Profile
(1991)
A Turbo Pascal program is used to generate vocabulary management profiles (VMPs). The program counts the new vocabulary words introduced into a text over successive thirty-five-word intervals, and these numbers are then ...
Hyperactivity and Hyperagreement in Bantu
(2011)
Many Bantu languages exhibit A-movements and patterns of iterating agreement that are disallowed in Indo-European languages. In Minimalist theory, both agreement and movement are constrained by an Activity requirement ...