OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Lingua is 2. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	39
Is there a polarity-prominent language? A typological perspective on Dagaare verbal systems	39
Polarity metaphor in English: Definition, identification, and categorization	30
Editorial Board	28
Object preference in the interpretation of floating numeral quantifiers of Korean	25
Spatial language production in Chinese preschoolers: Developmental patterns and associated predictors	21
Comparatives in Korean: A grammaticalization perspective	18
A corpus analysis of two by-passives in Japanese from the viewpoint of information structure	15
Declarative intonation of Japanese-Spanish bilinguals in Spanish casual speech	12
Assessing structural language skills of autistic adults: Focus on sentence repetition	11
Syntactic differences of the probabilistic valency of nouns in Chinese–English Code-switching	11
Constructional variation, grammaticalization, and constructional network of extreme degree resultatives in Mandarin: A quantitative analysis	10
Book Review	10
Shocking projections: The rise of the [x-shock] construction complex in macroeconomics	9
Editorial Board	9
Editorial Board	8
A better or worse communicator? Comparing human and machine translation in source language shining through across registers	8
Editorial Board	8
The role of semantics and orthography in modulating conscious access to Chinese words	8
Interpreter mediation as other-initiated self-repair in court: Effects on the defence in Chinese bilingual criminal trials	8
A functional model for the tag question paradigm: The case of invariable tag questions in English and Portuguese	8
Pitch syntax as part of an ancient protolanguage	8
Language contact and translation: dependency relations as a lens for source language influence in fiction	7
Modality effect in interactive alignment: Differences between spoken and text-based conversation	7
Mediating linguistic diversity in the diaspora: An illustration from Haitian Canadians	7

Effects of frame-semantically (in)congruent food labels on taste in non-native English speakers	7
Editorial Board	7
Editorial Board	7
The difference intersubjective grammar makes in protactile DeafBlind communities	7
A corpus-based study of phrasal and clausal temporal adjuncts at the left and right peripheries across genres of written English discourse	7
The development of VdeO clefts in Chinese: A diachronic constructionist approach	7
Editorial Board	7
Editorial Board	7
Re-investigating the classification of definite CL-NP constructions in Chinese dialect: An empirical study based on semantic maps	6
Editorial Board	6
Greek-Cypriot learners’ perception and production of L2 English vowels	6
Construal and impersonalization in German and English: Comparing impersonal pronouns in online hotel reviews	6
Editorial Board	6
Verbal group complexes in Norwegian	6
Introduction: Reimagining language and belonging in the diaspora	6
Language interference in Mandarin Chinese-English simultaneous interpreting: insights from multi-dimensional syntactic complexity	6
Towards a system of principles for identifying nominalizing metaphors	6
Epistemological challenges in the study of alternating constructions	6
Book Review	5
Syntactic and typological properties of translational language: A comparative description of dependency treebank of academic abstracts	5
ERP evidence for the effect of rhythmic patterns on the semantic processing of Chinese trisyllabic NN compounds	5
The effectiveness of metaphors in Chinese video advertisements for depression: An experimental study	5
An extensive analysis of blending in Contemporary Italian	5
Effects of L2 experience on Mandarin listeners’ perception of Korean politeness	5
Syllable structure and syllabification in Maaloula Aramaic	5
The Chinese change-of-state token o in responsive units	5
Book Review	5
Pseudo-cleft constructions in Swedish talk-in-interaction: Turn projection and discourse organization	5
Towards a description of palm-up in bidirectional signed language interpreting	5
How are neural machine-translated Chinese-to-English short stories constructed and cohered? An exploratory study based on theme-rheme structure	5
Interaction in bilingual early speech acquisition: Acceleration in the bilingual acquisition of English liquids for English-Spanish bilinguals	5
Understanding depiction in tactile Norwegian sign language interpreting	5
A multi-method approach to estimating subjectivity of causal connectives: The case of ‘poetomu’ and ‘tak chto’ in Russian	5
Structural similarity in figurative language: A preliminary cognitive analysis	5
Towards a speech-gesture profile of discourse markers: The case of ‘I mean’	4
Attentional semantics of deictic locatives	4
Editorial Board	4
Scalar pseudo-cleft constructions in Mandarin conversation: A multimodal approach	4
Editorial Board	4
Formulaic expressions in Korean academic discourse: A corpus-based combinatoric morphemic analysis	4
An intercultural analysis of metadiscourse in international mathematical contest papers: From research to EAP practice	4
Brain activation in noun-based- and predicate-Eojeol processing during Korean visual word recognition	4
Exploring motion event construal: How much attention do speakers of different languages and cultures pay to context?	4
Definiteness in plural reference in Shaoxing Wu	3
Editorial Board	3
Editorial Board	3
The semantic typology of expressive interjections: colexifications in pain, disgust and joy interjections across languages	3
Verum shi, sentence-final de and the emphatic effects in Mandarin	3
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 speakers	3
Training non-native speech sounds results in long-lasting plastic changes – Hard-wiring new memory traces takes time	3

L2 acquisition of classifier reduplication in Chinese	3
Editorial Board	3
Nativeness perceptions and speaker voice as predictors of (non-)native English speaker evaluations in four ELF contexts	3
French V-N compounds: Plural marking, headedness endocentricity/exocentricity continuum	3
The role of interactional and cognitive mechanisms in the evolution of (proto)language(s)	3
Mixtec negative existential cycles, standard negation and negative indefiniteness	3
A multidimensional analysis of the Spanish reportative epistemic evidential dizque	3
A corpus-based analysis of the fortition of the word-initial /ʒ/ in French	3
Retrieval practice enhances learning and memory retention of French words in Chinese-English bilinguals	3
Verbal effect on the processing of complement coercion: Distinguishing between aspectual verbs and psych verbs	3
The effects of linguistic proximity on dependency distance and dependency direction of translated English from 35 languages	3
Sequential order of antonym pairs in Modern Standard Arabic: A corpus-based analysis	3
Editorial Board	3
How did language evolve in the lineage of higher primates?	3
Editorial Board	3
On the production of bare nouns and case marking in Korean heritage speakers in contact with English	2
Face-saving strategies: The case of Hebrew SAY expressions	2
Editorial Board	2
Developing local grammars of speech acts in Italian: The case of apology	2
Afrikaans discourse-pragmatic features in South African English	2
Standard language dynamics in postcolonial Suriname	2
Looking for someone: The encoding of indefinite human reference in Chinese/English aligned translation	2
What do Chinese bidirectional Life–Xì (‘Drama’) similes/metaphors tell us about metaphorical bidirectionality?	2
Editorial Board	2
Intersubjective understanding in finger braille interpreter-mediated interaction: Two case studies of other-initiated repair	2
Explicit and implicit (im)politeness: A corpus-based study of the Chinese formulaic expression “Nikezhen+X”	2
Form-function mismatches: The semantics of the definite article in Jordanian Arabic	2
Derivational zero affixes worldwide	2
Telic motion constructions in French and the notion of tendentiality	2
Conceptual metonymy and emotive-affective meaning at the interface: Examples from online medical consultations	2
Anaphora resolution and age effects in Greek-Spanish bilingualism: Evidence from first-generation immigrants, heritage speakers, and L2 speakers	2
Syntactic functions of words grammatically related to verbs in interlanguage: A valency perspective	2
Variation in verbal negation in Jordanian Arabic: A corpus-based analysis	2
Correlations of valency alternations and morphological types: A typological perspective	2
Coordinating individual actions in joint activities: The case of the German deictic so	2
The motivations and limits of Mandarin contact-induced evolution: A case study of Xiaoling Junhua in contact with Min dialects in Hainan	2
Diachronic changes in lexical density of research article abstracts: A corpus-based study	2
Metaphors and trauma: An image schematic analysis of symptom-specific metaphors	2
5–9-year-olds categorisation of regional accents: The role of exposure to variation	2
Editorial Board	2
Textual functions of low confidence adverbs: The case of perhaps	2
Syntax, scope, and semantic identity: a genuine-sluicing approach to multiple sluicing in Mandarin Chinese	2
Functional profile of the lexeme ot in contemporary Polish: A cross-linguistic examination	2
How effective is expressive? Consumer perceptions of new vernacular features in Facebook webcare responses	2
Bilingual influences and sources of variability in acceptability judgments: A case study of Chinese	2
Bound productivity in stem-formation and categorial separation	2
Comparison-and-contrast in research articles of applied linguistics: A frame-based analysis	2
Reduplication in South African Englishes: A what-what borrowing gets a life of its own	2
An acceptability study of triadic constructions in Hong Kong Cantonese	2
Placeholders in written language: The case of Japanese kō and otsu	2
Editorial Board	2
What happened to the modal expressions? Modality in translating Chinese texts into English	2
Regional pragmatic variation in the use of conventional expressions at three Spanish-speaking sites	2
The interface issue in second language acquisition research: An interdisciplinary perspective	2
Referential choice in the narrative discourse of people with aphasia	2
Modelability of WAR metaphors across time in cross-national COVID-19 news translation: An insight into ideology manipulation	2
An investigation of nominal copular sentences in three reading paradigms: Acceptability judgments, self-paced reading, and eye-tracking	2
Acquisition of reflexive and reflexively used pronouns in Croatian and Austrian German: A corpus-based study	2
Proximity, polarity and scalarity: A semantic study of approximative sentence-final particles in Cantonese	2
Book Review	2
“I agree!” empathetic head-nodding and its role in cultural competences development	2
An empirical study on parameters affecting the recoverability of deictic null subjects in Korean	2
Pseudo-cleft-like structures in Hebrew and French conversation: The syntax-lexicon-body interface	2
Evidence for syntactic audience design from the production of active and passive relative clauses in Chinese	2
Cultural conceptualisations of karma in American, Indian, and Hong Kong varieties of English	2