We sought to determine the role of verbless sentences across the writing process. We compared two corpora: a longitudinal corpus of social reports and a transversal corpus of diary entries and letters. An examination of successive draft reports revealed that verbless sentences were present in… read more
In the present study, we adopt a cognitive-discursive approach to analyse the linguistic structures of bursts of production in a corpus of reports by social workers about children at-risk. Bursts were identified as periods of fluent writing between pauses of at least two seconds, and were coupled… read more
The aim of this paper is to propose a detailed analysis of allocentric emotional expressions (AEE) like I am happy for you; She worries for him in English, French, Romanian and Russian. Joy, sadness, fear, and shame are the four emotional domains concerned by these constructions. The formal… read more