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    6 research topics · 19 questions

    The simplification hypothesis in translation universals and corpus-composition bias2 questions

    1. Source-induced or process-inherent? Parallel-corpus decomposition of explicitation and source-language interference in translational Chinese

    2. Disentangling translation-process effects from source-language interference in translated Chinese: tripartite-corpus evidence, an evidential standard for translationese markers, and finer-grained syntactic-complexity measurement

    Robustness of the translation explicitation hypothesis after controlling for text type4 questions

    1. Register and the features of translated language: are translation-feature effects register-modulated, and is register variation levelled out in translated language?

    2. Does pragmatic explicitation generalize beyond high-resource formal registers? Extending the PETra corpus and detection framework to low-resource languages, oral registers, and literary genres

    3. Are simplification, explicitation, and formality in translational language crosslinguistic universals or language-specific manifestations? Crosslinguistic validation of the multi-feature translational profile of Hu, Xiao and Hardie (2019)

    4. The sources of added explicitness in translation and interpreting: operationalizing and quantifying genuinely mediation-specific explicitation

    Oral Formulaic Tradition of Homeric Epics and the Multi-Layered Authorship Issue4 questions

    1. Operational Criteria for Status Differences among Traditional Texts: The Status of Homer between Oral Theory and Neoanalysis

    2. Origin and early diffusion of the Greek alphabet and the first written recording of the Homeric poems

    3. Homer's professed poetics versus Homeric practice: explaining the discontinuity between point-by-point traditional poetics and the unified composition of the Iliad and Odyssey

    4. Fine-Grained Computational Authorship Structure of the Homeric Corpus: Sub-Book Patterns, the Odyssey's Apologoi, and the Full Corpus of Homeric Hymns

    Boundaries of Collaborative Writing in Shakespeare’s Plays2 questions

    1. The Full Authorship of The Taming of the Shrew: Sole Shakespeare, or Collaboration with Marlowe?

    2. What survives of Shakespeare and Fletcher's lost play Cardenio in Theobald's Double Falsehood? The attribution and transmission problem

    Unidirectionality of Grammaticalization Paths and Authenticity of Counterexamples3 questions

    1. Is bidirectional grammaticalization between temporal and conditional connectives a regular mechanism of grammatical change?

    2. Asymmetric priming as a mechanism of unidirectional semantic change in grammaticalization: the untested production regime

    3. Generality and constraints of syntactic lexicalization as a type of degrammaticalization (Willis 2007)

    Explanatory Conflicts of the Sapir-Whorf Effect in Evidence from Color Terms and Spatial Language4 questions

    1. Spatial frames of reference in preschoolers: does task-context flexibility generalize to learners of geocentric languages, and do rule-guessing paradigms measure cognition or language-shaped pragmatic strategy?

    2. The locus and developmental origin of lateralized categorical perception of color: perceptual encoding versus post-perceptual decision, and the interaction of learned lexical categories with early-developed perceptual biases

    3. Does categorical perception in the left hemisphere depend on language? Boundary conditions, online versus indirect linguistic influence, and cross-study variability of lateralized category effects

    4. Does language make color perception categorical? Determining the existence, locus, and conditions of language-based color category effects

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