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Open Journal of Modern Linguistics (OJML) is an international journal dedicated to the latest advancements in modern linguistics. The goal of this journal is to provide a platform for scientists and academicians all over the world to promote, share, and discuss various new issues and developments in different areas of…
Timothy Adeyemi Akanbi
Language is a vital instrument used by human beings to disseminate information to the understanding of people. The way language used usually determines the consequence or outcome of its impact on the society. Through language, conflict that could result in wa…
Lin Yu
Based on the question of “what happened to the king has his daughter sent for ”, this paper aims to get a contrastive analysis of English periphrastic causative construction of [X HAVE Y V pp ] from different perspectives including Langacker’s action chain th…
Atalah Al-Rubaat, Anas Ahmed Qarqaz
This study aimed at identifying and documenting some linguistic phenomena in the temporary dialect of Skakans at Al-Jouf region in the northern part of Saudi Arabia. Two major linguistic phenomena: the Istintta and the Kaskasa have been investigated. The stud…
Rongbin Wang, Pei Wang
Multimodal refusal is a common type of multimodal communicative act. Driven by naturally occurred corpus, this paper first classifies the parental acts that usually trigger children’s refusal into three types: positive parenting, negative parenting and non-pa…
Jennifer Ball
Meow . We know this is the sound a cat makes. Five thousand years ago, so did the Ancient Egyptians. They called the cat “miw.” Mandarin Chinese speakers call the cat, “ māo .” Three different cultures—Ancient Egyptian, Chinese, and Sumerian—used similar mech…
Christiana Ngozi Ikegwuonu, Martha Chidimma Egenti
The Igbo language is one of the languages of the Benue Congo family spoken predominantly in the southeast part of Nigeria. Although, some works have been done on the inflectional and extensional suffixes in the language but no detailed study so far has been d…
Christiana Ngozi Ikegwuonu
Igbo language belongs to the Igbo sub-group within Benue-kwa in the new west Benue Congo (Williamson & Blench, 2000). It is chiefly spoken in the South-Eastern geo-political zone of Nigeria. In the natural languages, the notion of gender is expressed, but the…
Junye Li, Pinglan Zhang
Civil engineering English is more widely used and has become an indispensable part of professional fields with the rapid development of economy. Its texts and syntax features have attracted the attention of some experts. Based on the Functional Equivalence th…
Shukun Zhang, Peiying Guo
The accuracy of English translation of construction texts ensures the implementation of cooperative projects with foreign parties. However, translators are prone to comprehension errors in the process of English translation, thus leading to illogic expression…
Joel Laffita Rivera
The current research article exposes a linguistic-outline-analysis about the use of Nouns-Object/Thing/Place, Definite and Indefinite Articles and Descriptive Adjectives in the writing and speaking context of Spanish language communication. The teaching and l…
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Open Journal of Modern Linguistics (OJML) is an international journal dedicated to the latest advancements in modern linguistics. The goal of this journal is to provide a platform for scientists and academicians all over the world to promote, share, and discuss various new issues and developments in different areas of… All articles are open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence, with authors retaining copyright.
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