Lingua

Papers
(The median citation count of Lingua is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Editorial Board47
Object preference in the interpretation of floating numeral quantifiers of Korean39
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Spatial language production in Chinese preschoolers: Developmental patterns and associated predictors30
Polarity metaphor in English: Definition, identification, and categorization23
The architecture of absence: How nominal and clausal grounding illuminate profiling verb-noun compounds22
Is there a polarity-prominent language? A typological perspective on Dagaare verbal systems19
A corpus analysis of two by-passives in Japanese from the viewpoint of information structure16
The role of diacritical dots in the early stages of lexical processing in Arabic16
Declarative intonation of Japanese-Spanish bilinguals in Spanish casual speech13
Book Review12
Editorial Board12
Syntactic differences of the probabilistic valency of nouns in Chinese–English Code-switching12
A functional model for the tag question paradigm: The case of invariable tag questions in English and Portuguese12
Shocking projections: The rise of the [x-shock] construction complex in macroeconomics11
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Assessing structural language skills of autistic adults: Focus on sentence repetition10
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Constructional variation, grammaticalization, and constructional network of extreme degree resultatives in Mandarin: A quantitative analysis10
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Editorial Board10
Canonical and non-canonical roots: The diversity of roots in Mandarin Chinese10
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Language contact and translation: dependency relations as a lens for source language influence in fiction9
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A better or worse communicator? Comparing human and machine translation in source language shining through across registers8
Greek-Cypriot learners’ perception and production of L2 English vowels8
A corpus-based study of phrasal and clausal temporal adjuncts at the left and right peripheries across genres of written English discourse8
Interpreter mediation as other-initiated self-repair in court: Effects on the defence in Chinese bilingual criminal trials8
Epistemological challenges in the study of alternating constructions8
The difference intersubjective grammar makes in protactile DeafBlind communities8
Modality effect in interactive alignment: Differences between spoken and text-based conversation8
Construal and impersonalization in German and English: Comparing impersonal pronouns in online hotel reviews8
Syllable structure and syllabification in Maaloula Aramaic7
Editorial Board7
Towards a system of principles for identifying nominalizing metaphors7
Book Review7
Re-investigating the classification of definite CL-NP constructions in Chinese dialect: An empirical study based on semantic maps7
Effects of frame-semantically (in)congruent food labels on taste in non-native English speakers7
Effects of L2 experience on Mandarin listeners’ perception of Korean politeness7
Verbal group complexes in Norwegian6
Interaction in bilingual early speech acquisition: Acceleration in the bilingual acquisition of English liquids for English-Spanish bilinguals6
Language interference in Mandarin Chinese-English simultaneous interpreting: insights from multi-dimensional syntactic complexity6
How are neural machine-translated Chinese-to-English short stories constructed and cohered? An exploratory study based on theme-rheme structure6
Understanding depiction in tactile Norwegian sign language interpreting6
Syntactic and typological properties of translational language: A comparative description of dependency treebank of academic abstracts6
Book Review6
Attentional semantics of deictic locatives5
Editorial Board5
ERP evidence for the effect of rhythmic patterns on the semantic processing of Chinese trisyllabic NN compounds5
Politeness as a participants’ matter: the interactive construction of apologies in Mandarin Chinese conversation5
A multi-method approach to estimating subjectivity of causal connectives: The case of ‘poetomu’ and ‘tak chto’ in Russian5
Towards a description of palm-up in bidirectional signed language interpreting5
Towards a speech-gesture profile of discourse markers: The case of ‘I mean’5
Brain activation in noun-based- and predicate-Eojeol processing during Korean visual word recognition5
An extensive analysis of blending in Contemporary Italian5
Cross-linguistic variation in pragmatic inference: Anaphora resolution in Chinese and German4
The Chinese change-of-state token o in responsive units4
The semantic typology of expressive interjections: colexifications in pain, disgust and joy interjections across languages4
Nativeness perceptions and speaker voice as predictors of (non-)native English speaker evaluations in four ELF contexts4
Editorial Board4
Definiteness in plural reference in Shaoxing Wu4
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Adverb placement by Chinese EFL learners: A MuPDAR(F) approach4
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Training non-native speech sounds results in long-lasting plastic changes – Hard-wiring new memory traces takes time4
Formulaic expressions in Korean academic discourse: A corpus-based combinatoric morphemic analysis4
Structural similarity in figurative language: A preliminary cognitive analysis4
The effectiveness of metaphors in Chinese video advertisements for depression: An experimental study4
Sequential order of antonym pairs in Modern Standard Arabic: A corpus-based analysis4
The effects of linguistic proximity on dependency distance and dependency direction of translated English from 35 languages4
Editorial Board4
French V-N compounds: Plural marking, headedness endocentricity/exocentricity continuum4
An acceptability study of triadic constructions in Hong Kong Cantonese3
Intersubjective understanding in finger braille interpreter-mediated interaction: Two case studies of other-initiated repair3
Form, Function, and Change in Chinese Two-plus-Two Idioms: A Diachronic Corpus Analysis3
An empirical study on parameters affecting the recoverability of deictic null subjects in Korean3
The role of interactional and cognitive mechanisms in the evolution of (proto)language(s)3
Placeholders in written language: The case of Japanese kō and otsu3
Mixtec negative existential cycles, standard negation and negative indefiniteness3
Frequency matters in second language acquisition too! Frequency effects in the production of preterit morphology with state verbs in Spanish second language learners and heritage speakers3
On the production of bare nouns and case marking in Korean heritage speakers in contact with English3
Referential choice in the narrative discourse of people with aphasia3
Correlations of valency alternations and morphological types: A typological perspective3
Anaphora resolution and age effects in Greek-Spanish bilingualism: Evidence from first-generation immigrants, heritage speakers, and L2 speakers3
Verbal effect on the processing of complement coercion: Distinguishing between aspectual verbs and psych verbs3
Editorial Board3
Editorial Board3
Retrieval practice enhances learning and memory retention of French words in Chinese-English bilinguals3
Bilingual influences and sources of variability in acceptability judgments: A case study of Chinese3
Telic motion constructions in French and the notion of tendentiality3
Evidence for syntactic audience design from the production of active and passive relative clauses in Chinese3
Variation in verbal negation in Jordanian Arabic: A corpus-based analysis3
Phonological preparation in Korean: the role of syllable complexity and orthographic support3
L2 acquisition of classifier reduplication in Chinese3
A corpus-based analysis of the fortition of the word-initial /ʒ/ in French3
Book Review2
Bound productivity in stem-formation and categorial separation2
Derivational zero affixes worldwide2
What do Chinese bidirectional Life–Xì (‘Drama’) similes/metaphors tell us about metaphorical bidirectionality?2
Gender classification of Korean personal names: Deep neural networks versus human judgments2
Reduplication in South African Englishes: A what-what borrowing gets a life of its own2
Explicit and implicit (im)politeness: A corpus-based study of the Chinese formulaic expression “Nikezhen+X”2
An investigation of nominal copular sentences in three reading paradigms: Acceptability judgments, self-paced reading, and eye-tracking2
Comparing intelligibility between Occitan, Gallo-“Italic”, and Tuscan: Classification of Gallo-“Italic” empirically tested2
Editorial Board2
Comparison-and-contrast in research articles of applied linguistics: A frame-based analysis2
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Vulgarity and bad language in online and public discourse: an introduction2
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Situation-bound utterances and constructional networks: The evolution of the Hebrew see-farewell family2
The typology of degree marking2
Afrikaans discourse-pragmatic features in South African English2
Syntax, scope, and semantic identity: a genuine-sluicing approach to multiple sluicing in Mandarin Chinese2
Functional profile of the lexeme ot in contemporary Polish: A cross-linguistic examination2
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Acquisition of reflexive and reflexively used pronouns in Croatian and Austrian German: A corpus-based study2
Proximity, polarity and scalarity: A semantic study of approximative sentence-final particles in Cantonese2
Pseudo-cleft-like structures in Hebrew and French conversation: The syntax-lexicon-body interface2
Coordinating individual actions in joint activities: The case of the German deictic so2
Looking for someone: The encoding of indefinite human reference in Chinese/English aligned translation2
How effective is expressive? Consumer perceptions of new vernacular features in Facebook webcare responses2
Modelability of WAR metaphors across time in cross-national COVID-19 news translation: An insight into ideology manipulation2
Gaplessness in Chinese relative clauses2
Diachronic changes in lexical density of research article abstracts: A corpus-based study2
Syntactic functions of words grammatically related to verbs in interlanguage: A valency perspective2
Standard language dynamics in postcolonial Suriname2
Children interpret simple disjunction conjunctively: evidence from Mandarin Chinese2
“I agree!” empathetic head-nodding and its role in cultural competences development2
Cultural conceptualisations of karma in American, Indian, and Hong Kong varieties of English2
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Face-saving strategies: The case of Hebrew SAY expressions2
Contextual variation of internal and external modifications in L2 Chinese requests: effects of power, imposition, and proficiency2
Socio-cognitive influences on translating forward causal connectives: A multivariate analysis of English translations of Tao Te Ching1
‘Did I repeat so many English words?’: Stability of L1 and L2 word association responses over time and across response positions1
Regional variation in conventional expressions: a comparative study of Mandarin in Mainland China and Taiwan1
Editorial Board1
Gratitude for compliance: A developmental study on the speech act of thanking1
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Chinese nouns are mass nouns: An information-theoretic computational proof1
Italian verbal groups: A systemic functional perspective1
Book Review1
Editorial Board1
Implicit and explicit linguistic biases: The influence of social dominance orientation (SDO) upon hierarchical language attitudes1
Projecting telicity in the event structure of Mandarin Chinese: Evidence from production and eye-tracking experiments1
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How labial and alveolar consonants evoke the images of softness and cuteness?: Experiments with Korean speakers1
The motivations and limits of Mandarin contact-induced evolution: A case study of Xiaoling Junhua in contact with Min dialects in Hainan1
Corrigendum to “Non-standard morphosyntactic variation in L2 English varieties world-wide: a corpus-based study” [Lingua 322 (2025) 103948]1
Syntactic simplification in interpreted English: Dependency distance and direction measures1
Dependencies between adverbs and sentence-final particles: A case of confirmative and non-confirmative modals in Cantonese1
Mandarin-speaking children’s acquisition of the additive particle ye ‘also’1
Metaphorical events in translation: Does language type matter?1
Polyadic fronting does not exist in German (but crowded CPs do): Cyclic internal Merge and multiple external Merge in the left edge of the clause1
From fear to grammar: The case of avoidives1
The development of copula/affirmative response marker polysemy in Chinese and other languages in China1
The role of phonetic radical information in compound character recognition during sentence reading1
Pragmatics of second person address variation in New Zealand Sign Language1
Comparing Germanic, Romance and Slavic: Relationships among linguistic distances1
Editorial Board1
Ranking the acoustic cues of contrastive focus in Taiwan Mandarin: Evidence from number words1
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Salience-simplification strategy for markedness of causal subordinators: “Because” and “since” in argumentative essays1
Dynamics of scope ambiguities: comparative analysis of human and large language model performance in Korean1
Subjecthood and argument structure of synonymous Dat-Nom/Nom-Dat verbs across German and Icelandic1
Emergence and evolution of language in multi-agent systems1
Developing local grammars of speech acts in Italian: The case of apology1
Perceptions of impoliteness in Twitter interactions: Evidence from Spanish Heritage speakers1
‘What the X’ in Anglophone government meetings: Areal distribution, emotionality, and euphemism1
Editorial Board1
Evaluative and interactive functions of retrospective epistemic causal markers: A discourse grammar analysis of ‘no wonder’ expressions from a cross-linguistic perspective1
Dashing is faster than lumbering by sound: Speed sound symbolism in English motion verbs1
Emotion and moral stance in evaluations of impoliteness in L1 and L2 from video clips of workplace interactions1
Unraveling the logical status of sentential relative clauses in English: Constructing a multifunctional framework1
Referentiality and thematic importance: The discourse functions of Zauzou classifiers1
The merger of falling tones: A perception study in Taiyuan Jin Chinese1
The power of swearing: What we know and what we don’t1
Characterizing natural interpreters’ attitudes towards interpreting: The effect of experimental contexts1
Projecting incongruity in turn and action: the TCU-medial particle ha in Chinese conversation1
A cognitive psychological model of linguistic intuitions: Polysemy and predicate order effects in copredication sentences1
Lexical and sublexical effects on diachronic stability and instability of phonological systems1
Predictive processing of grammatical gender: Using gender cues to facilitate processing in Spanish1
Figuratively used product names: From ergonyms to eponyms and paragons1
What happened to the modal expressions? Modality in translating Chinese texts into English1
Regional pragmatic variation in the use of conventional expressions at three Spanish-speaking sites1
The role of phonological overlap and cognates in dual logographic bilinguals’ phonological processing1
Understanding spelling conflicts in Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin, and Serbian: Insights from speakers’ attitudes and beliefs1
Lexical creativity in modern Nahuatl: An analysis of multidialectal data1
Introduction to Evolving (Proto)Language/s1
The evolutionary order of the macro-events: a case study of the diachronic evolution of 过-Guò in Chinese1
Editorial Board1
Final consonant clusters: A repair continuum1
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Revisiting Chinese modality types: A collostructional approach to post-modal verbs1
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Psych verbs in Japanese: Inchoativity and boundary types1
Chinese is a discourse-configurational language: Miyagawa’s typology revisited1
Verbal groups in Australian and Papuan languages: A comparative study1
Complex interactions in the multilingual mind: Assessing metalinguistic abilities and their effects on decoding a new language system in trilingual learners1
A comparative study of the phrase frames used in the essays of native and nonnative English students1
Three-layered hierarchical structure of Mandarin Chinese aspectual projections1
‘Yòu+neg.+Xp’ as a social action format for staging rebuttals in Chinese talk-in-interaction1
‘Jackpot!’: How social forces intertwine with language-internal mechanisms to turn Korean noun taypak into an interactive1
The use of gender-fair language in Austria, Germany, and Switzerland: A contrastive, corpus-based study1
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