35.1060, Qs: All Things X Questionnaire

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LINGUIST List: Vol-35-1060. Tue Mar 26 2024. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 35.1060, Qs: All Things X Questionnaire

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Date: 26-Mar-2024
From: Sara Gesuato [sara.gesuato at unipd.it]
Subject: All Things X Questionnaire


I am an associate professor of English linguistics at Padua University
(Italy). My main research interests lie in pragmatics (esp. speech
acts in English as an L1 and L2), academic communication (esp. "small"
genres like titles, book blurbs, automatic signatures), and corpus
approaches to the study of lexico-grammatical constructions (e.g.
nominal compounds with plural premodifiers, "to come + Infinitive",
the encoding of semantic subjects in sentences with anticipatory
"it").

For one of my current projects, I am interested in exploring the
meanings and co-text of use of the expression "all things" when
followed by an adjective or noun (e.g. "all things fashionable; all
things fashion"). This, however, excludes cases in which the
expression "all things" might be followed by an appositional expansion
(e.g. "all things, good or bad; all things, the videos, the scripts
and the recordings"), an adjective with complementation (e.g. "all
things consistent with the theory"), a generic adverb (e.g. "all
things whatsoever"), a participle (e.g. "all things examined") or an
adjective with a predicative-like function (e.g. "all things
available").

While my main goal is to analyze corpus data, I would also like to
find out what native speakers' impressions of this construction may
be. To this end, I have designed a questionnaire in which interested
respondents will have to do 2 things: one, judge how natural they find
sentences containing instances of "all things X", and two, make up a
few sentences of their own. The questionnaire is phrased in very
simple terms so that it can be administered also to non-linguists.

I would therefore greatly appreciate it if you could fill out the
questionnaire. Here is the link: https://forms.gle/zkDwcjpp5Ueqc56H9

For any questions or comments, my email address is
sara.gesuato at unipd.it

Thank you

Linguistic Field(s): Semantics
                     Syntax

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Language Family(ies): Germanic



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