In this paper, we test the hypothesis that irony aptness is sensitive to both ironiness and sophistication...
Keywords: Degree of irony, irony aptness, sophistication, accessibility, explicitness, negation
04/2005 | Humor - International Journal of Humor Research, Walter de GruyterThe typologist reader is presented here with an overview of the most interesting characteristics of Mwotlap, an Oceanic language of Vanuatu...
Keywords: actionality, animacy, aspect, clause combining, deixis, Mwotlap, negation, number, incorporation, Oceanic, possession, predication, pronoun, referentiality, serial verbs, valency change, vowel harmony
06/2005 | Linguistic Typology, Walter de Gruyter