Applied Linguistics and Translation Studies Journals
Circular applied linguistics: A model for impactful, inclusive, and sustainable research
International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
Applied Linguistics and Translation Studies Journals
Modeling the contribution of self‐efficacy, collective efficacy, and autonomy to professional creativity of Chinese EFL teachers
International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
Applied Linguistics and Translation Studies Journals
Applicative Recursion and Nominal Licensing
Languages with applicative morphology vary in whether their applied arguments can stack, or “recurse.” Focusing primarily on Bantu languages, I argue that the availability of applicative recursion in a given language depends on abstract nominal licensi…
Applied Linguistics and Translation Studies Journals
More on (the Lack of) Reconstruction in English Tough -Constructions
Abstract: This squib presents three new arguments that the matrix subject in English tough-constructions cannot reconstruct into the embedded gap. The first two arguments reexamine data in the literature purported to show such reconstruction. Upon clos…
Applied Linguistics and Translation Studies Journals
Using Computational Models to Test Syntactic Learnability
We studied the learnability of English filler-gap dependencies and the “island” constraints on them by assessing the generalizations made by autoregressive (incremental) language models that use deep learning to predict the next word given preceding co…