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Papers by Saghie Sharifzadeh

Research paper thumbnail of Colour adjectives or nouns?

HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), 2011

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Research paper thumbnail of The future’s so bright I gotta wear shades

HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), 2010

All the world acknowledges that the invention is the greatest event that secular history has reco... more All the world acknowledges that the invention is the greatest event that secular history has recorded…. Science was found lurking in the corners much prosecuted; the invention gave it freedom on land and sea and brought it within reach of every mortal."-Mark Twain, 1900 This quote from Mark Twain is excerpted from his article in the Hartford Daily Courant 1 commemorating the 500th year anniversary of the birth of Johannes Gutenberg, the inventor of the movable type press. Admittedly, Gutenberg's invention was one of the more significant inventions in the past millennium. It simplified the production of the written work, thereby expanding the audience and facilitating the transfer of information and knowledge. Perhaps nowhere is the transfer of knowledge more crucial than in science and medicine. "I told you to do it this way." "Why?" "Because, I said so."

Research paper thumbnail of Lexical do or auxiliary do?

HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), 2019

Research paper thumbnail of L’ellipse pré-/post-verbale, étude comparative entre le persan et l’anglais

HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), 2018

Research paper thumbnail of A study of the fuzzy boundary between lexical do and auxiliary do

HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), 2018

Research paper thumbnail of Pseudogapping and negation

HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), 2014

Research paper thumbnail of Post-verbal ellipsis in English and Persian: a comparative study

HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), 2017

Research paper thumbnail of Colour adjectives or nouns

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Research paper thumbnail of “The future's so bright, I gotta wear shades…”

Research paper thumbnail of What semantic dementia reveals about the processes underlying reading and writing

HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), 2017

Research paper thumbnail of Constraints on the categorization of do

HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), 2018

Research paper thumbnail of Do auxiliaire + prédicats d'action : une propension nulle en anglais contemporain

HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), 2016

Research paper thumbnail of Les stratégies de correction dans l'interaction entre apprenants d'une langue seconde

HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), 2017

Research paper thumbnail of Auxiliary do: towards a theory of a factitive origin

HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), 2013

Research paper thumbnail of Quels liens entre inférence et négociation du sens dans la communication orale ?

HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), 2016

Research paper thumbnail of L’anaphore prédicative en anglais : étude comparative des reprises en DO SO, DO IT, DO THIS, DO THAT et DO opérateur

HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), 2019

Research paper thumbnail of Combining colour-related terms with nouns

Philosophical semantics has a recent tradition of talking about colour adjectives. Witness the he... more Philosophical semantics has a recent tradition of talking about colour adjectives. Witness the heated debates about whether russet leaves painted green can properly be called ‘green’ in certain contexts (see Travis 1997, Predelli 2005). Those examples are invoked in the debate between contextualists and defenders of more conservative truth-conditional semantics. Philosophical semantics has also shown interest in the combination of adjectives and nouns, mostly one adjective and one noun. To our knowledge, scarcely any attention has been paid to complex combinations involving colour(-related) terms. We say ‘terms’ because we are sometimes unsure whether they are adjectives or nouns. We say ‘colour-related’ because we also want to look at words that are not strictly speaking colour terms, but adjectives like dark, pale, or bright. Our aim in this exploratory paper is to consider what happens when several adjectives or nouns are combined, one of which at least is a colour(-related) term.

Research paper thumbnail of Del Prete’s The Interpretation of Indefinities in Future Tensed Sentences studies the semantics of the English auxiliary ‘will’

Research paper thumbnail of Colour adjectives or colour nouns

Colour adjectives or colour nouns?This paper presents partial results of corpus research into col... more Colour adjectives or colour nouns?This paper presents partial results of corpus research into colour terms. Our focus here is on lexical-class membership. Colour terms are known to be either adjectives or nouns. But there may be cases where they have too easily been classified as adjectives.When a phrase headed by a colour term (or a colour compound) occurs in predicative position, this colour term is sometimes unequivocally a noun, witness the indefinite article:1) BNC B7G The motorcycle was a bright red. It belonged to the Post Office.These alternate with articleless occurrences:2) BNC BP1 […] touching the reeds with golden fingers so that they were bright yellow.In 2), nothing in principle rules out the (uncountable) noun analysis. However, we have found few occurrences of articleless bright/dark/light/pale colour in predicative position in the BNC, a finding which supports the adjectival reading.But it is striking that when bright/dark/light/pale appear in the comparative form i...

Research paper thumbnail of Constraints on pseudogapping constructions with do

Constraints on pseudogapping constructions with doThis paper is part of a wider research project ... more Constraints on pseudogapping constructions with doThis paper is part of a wider research project into the ways in which do functions in a variety of anaphoric structures, and the interaction between its particular semantics and its anaphoric potential. Here we focus on a subset of structures involving what generative syntacticians have named “pseudogapping” (cf. Levin 1986). The structures we are interested in are clauses in which a form of the verb do – sometimes in combination with an auxiliary – stands for a lexical verb in a preceding clause, as in:(1) PeopleinGreecedrinkmoreouzothantheydobrandy.(Levin1986:16)The constituent to the right of do, usually called a “remnant” (e.g. Lasnik 1999), semantically contrasts with a constituent in the antecedent clause.Linguists have very different acceptability judgements with respect to pseudogapping constructions (see Lasnik 1999: 152-53). The only way to circumvent this difficulty is to rely on corpus data. We have started searching the ...

Research paper thumbnail of Colour adjectives or nouns?

HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), 2011

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Research paper thumbnail of The future’s so bright I gotta wear shades

HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), 2010

All the world acknowledges that the invention is the greatest event that secular history has reco... more All the world acknowledges that the invention is the greatest event that secular history has recorded…. Science was found lurking in the corners much prosecuted; the invention gave it freedom on land and sea and brought it within reach of every mortal."-Mark Twain, 1900 This quote from Mark Twain is excerpted from his article in the Hartford Daily Courant 1 commemorating the 500th year anniversary of the birth of Johannes Gutenberg, the inventor of the movable type press. Admittedly, Gutenberg's invention was one of the more significant inventions in the past millennium. It simplified the production of the written work, thereby expanding the audience and facilitating the transfer of information and knowledge. Perhaps nowhere is the transfer of knowledge more crucial than in science and medicine. "I told you to do it this way." "Why?" "Because, I said so."

Research paper thumbnail of Lexical do or auxiliary do?

HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), 2019

Research paper thumbnail of L’ellipse pré-/post-verbale, étude comparative entre le persan et l’anglais

HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), 2018

Research paper thumbnail of A study of the fuzzy boundary between lexical do and auxiliary do

HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), 2018

Research paper thumbnail of Pseudogapping and negation

HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), 2014

Research paper thumbnail of Post-verbal ellipsis in English and Persian: a comparative study

HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), 2017

Research paper thumbnail of Colour adjectives or nouns

info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublishe

Research paper thumbnail of “The future's so bright, I gotta wear shades…”

Research paper thumbnail of What semantic dementia reveals about the processes underlying reading and writing

HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), 2017

Research paper thumbnail of Constraints on the categorization of do

HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), 2018

Research paper thumbnail of Do auxiliaire + prédicats d'action : une propension nulle en anglais contemporain

HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), 2016

Research paper thumbnail of Les stratégies de correction dans l'interaction entre apprenants d'une langue seconde

HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), 2017

Research paper thumbnail of Auxiliary do: towards a theory of a factitive origin

HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), 2013

Research paper thumbnail of Quels liens entre inférence et négociation du sens dans la communication orale ?

HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), 2016

Research paper thumbnail of L’anaphore prédicative en anglais : étude comparative des reprises en DO SO, DO IT, DO THIS, DO THAT et DO opérateur

HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), 2019

Research paper thumbnail of Combining colour-related terms with nouns

Philosophical semantics has a recent tradition of talking about colour adjectives. Witness the he... more Philosophical semantics has a recent tradition of talking about colour adjectives. Witness the heated debates about whether russet leaves painted green can properly be called ‘green’ in certain contexts (see Travis 1997, Predelli 2005). Those examples are invoked in the debate between contextualists and defenders of more conservative truth-conditional semantics. Philosophical semantics has also shown interest in the combination of adjectives and nouns, mostly one adjective and one noun. To our knowledge, scarcely any attention has been paid to complex combinations involving colour(-related) terms. We say ‘terms’ because we are sometimes unsure whether they are adjectives or nouns. We say ‘colour-related’ because we also want to look at words that are not strictly speaking colour terms, but adjectives like dark, pale, or bright. Our aim in this exploratory paper is to consider what happens when several adjectives or nouns are combined, one of which at least is a colour(-related) term.

Research paper thumbnail of Del Prete’s The Interpretation of Indefinities in Future Tensed Sentences studies the semantics of the English auxiliary ‘will’

Research paper thumbnail of Colour adjectives or colour nouns

Colour adjectives or colour nouns?This paper presents partial results of corpus research into col... more Colour adjectives or colour nouns?This paper presents partial results of corpus research into colour terms. Our focus here is on lexical-class membership. Colour terms are known to be either adjectives or nouns. But there may be cases where they have too easily been classified as adjectives.When a phrase headed by a colour term (or a colour compound) occurs in predicative position, this colour term is sometimes unequivocally a noun, witness the indefinite article:1) BNC B7G The motorcycle was a bright red. It belonged to the Post Office.These alternate with articleless occurrences:2) BNC BP1 […] touching the reeds with golden fingers so that they were bright yellow.In 2), nothing in principle rules out the (uncountable) noun analysis. However, we have found few occurrences of articleless bright/dark/light/pale colour in predicative position in the BNC, a finding which supports the adjectival reading.But it is striking that when bright/dark/light/pale appear in the comparative form i...

Research paper thumbnail of Constraints on pseudogapping constructions with do

Constraints on pseudogapping constructions with doThis paper is part of a wider research project ... more Constraints on pseudogapping constructions with doThis paper is part of a wider research project into the ways in which do functions in a variety of anaphoric structures, and the interaction between its particular semantics and its anaphoric potential. Here we focus on a subset of structures involving what generative syntacticians have named “pseudogapping” (cf. Levin 1986). The structures we are interested in are clauses in which a form of the verb do – sometimes in combination with an auxiliary – stands for a lexical verb in a preceding clause, as in:(1) PeopleinGreecedrinkmoreouzothantheydobrandy.(Levin1986:16)The constituent to the right of do, usually called a “remnant” (e.g. Lasnik 1999), semantically contrasts with a constituent in the antecedent clause.Linguists have very different acceptability judgements with respect to pseudogapping constructions (see Lasnik 1999: 152-53). The only way to circumvent this difficulty is to rely on corpus data. We have started searching the ...

Research paper thumbnail of Future Time(s)/Future Tense(s)

De Brabanter, Ph., M. Kissine & S. Sharifzadeh (eds), Future Time(s)/Future Tense(s). Oxford : OUP, 2014

Research paper thumbnail of "Inferential Processes in Multimodal L2 Interactions" (with Cédric Sarré)

BICLCE (Alicante, Spain), 2024

While published research on the role of the body in multimodal didactic discourse is growing at a... more While published research on the role of the body in multimodal didactic discourse is growing at a fast pace, as shown by the numerous recent studies on the subject (Aden, 2017; Azaoui, 2015; Sime, 2001, 2008 ; Tellier, 2014, 2016), research on the multimodal nature of learner-learner interactions in English as a foreign language (EFL) remains more confidential than that on interactions between teacher and learner(s) or between native speaker(s) and learner(s) (Kurhila, 2006). In addition, few studies have been published so far on the use of non-verbal resources in learner-learner exchanges (Gullberg, 2010). As a result, our knowledge of the types of interactional resources involved in these exchanges and the way they are used is still limited. This is particularly true of interactional resources other than the words uttered by interactants. Interacting results from a complex cognitive process (McNeill, 2005; Kendon, 2004) which combines verbal resources as well as vocal and visual ones (postures, facial expressions and gestures, cf. “ressources posturo-mimo-gestuelles” for Cosnier, 1985). We investigate the impact of visual resources in learner-learner exchanges based on a corpus of biology student interactions in EFL (B1/B2), as well as the way they are interpreted by the co-speakers through the inferential processes in play. It is only thanks to these pragmatic inferential processes, which are instrumental in the interpretation of contextual elements (cf. Gumperz 1989), be they intra-textual or extra-textual, that co-speakers can truly access the speaker’s intended meaning. Our results show that inferences based on visual resources are related to both the speaker’s communicative intent and the management of speech turns. Our study also sheds light on the multiple functions that a single visual resource can take on in a given context.

Research paper thumbnail of "Norm and meaning"

Norme(s) et marge(s): la langue mise à l’épreuve (Aix-Marseille Université), 2022

Research paper thumbnail of "Lexical DO or auxiliary DO?"

BICLCE (Bamberg, Germany), 2019

Research paper thumbnail of "Les processus inférentiels dans l’interaction multimodale en L2"

La multimodalité dans l'enseignement-apprentissage des langues : quels enjeux ? (ESPE, Paris), 2018

Research paper thumbnail of "Constraints on the categorization of DO"

ISLE 5 (UCL, England), 2018

Research paper thumbnail of "Does surface dyslexia/dysgraphia relate to semantic deficits in the semantic variant of primary progressive aphasia?"

CPLOL 10 (Cascais, Portugal), 2018

The semantic variant of primary progressive aphasia (sv-PPA) is a degenerative condition which ca... more The semantic variant of primary progressive aphasia (sv-PPA) is a degenerative condition which causes surface dyslexia/dysgraphia, resulting in reading/writing errors with irregular words having non-transparent grapheme-to-phoneme correspondences (e.g., ‘plaid’) as opposed to regular words (e.g., ‘cat’). According to connectionist models, most authors have attributed this deficit to semantic impairments, but this assumption is at odds with symbolic models, such as the DRC account, stating that the reading/writing of irregulars relies on the mental lexicon. Our study investigated whether sv-PPA affects the lexicon in addition to the semantic system, and whether semantic or lexical deficits cause surface dyslexia/dysgraphia, while challenging the two major models of written language.
We explored a cohort of 12 sv-PPA patients and 25 matched healthy controls using a reading and writing task, a semantic task (category decision: living vs. non-living), and a lexical task (lexical decision: word vs. no-neighbor non-word). Correlation analyses were conducted to assess the relationship between reading/writing scores with irregulars and semantic vs. lexical performance. Furthermore, item-by-item analyses explored the consistency of reading/writing errors with item-specific semantic and lexical errors.
Results showed that sv-PPA patients are impaired at reading and writing irregular words, and that they have impaired performance in both the semantic and the lexical task. Reading/writing scores with irregulars correlated significantly with performance in the lexical but not the semantic task. Item-by-item analyses revealed that failure in the lexical task on a given irregular word is an excellent predictor of reading/writing errors with that item (positive predictive value: 77.5%), which was not the case for the semantic task (positive predictive value: 42.5%).
Our findings show that sv-PPA is not restricted to semantic damage but that it is also linked to damage to the mental lexicon, which appears to be causatively involved in surface dyslexia/dysgraphia. Our data support symbolic models whereas they challenge connectionist accounts.

Research paper thumbnail of "A study of the fuzzy boundary between lexical DO and auxiliary DO"

20th DiscourseNet conference (Budapest, Hungary), 2018

Research paper thumbnail of "What semantic dementia reveals about the processes underlying reading and writing"

Dubois/Dubois-Charlier (Aix-en-Provence, France), 2017

Research paper thumbnail of "Les stratégies de correction dans l’interaction entre apprenants d’une langue seconde"

GReG PLS 5 (Nanterre, France), 2017

Research paper thumbnail of "Post-verbal ellipsis in English and Persian: a comparative study"

Crelingua (Sorbonne nouvelle, Paris, France), 2017

Research paper thumbnail of "DO auxiliaire + prédicats d'action : une propension nulle en anglais contemporain"

NACLA 1 (Avignon, France), 2016

Research paper thumbnail of "Quels liens entre inférence et négociation du sens dans la communication orale ?"

ICOL 2 (Montpellier, France), 2016

Research paper thumbnail of "L’anaphore prédicative en anglais : étude comparative des reprises en DO SO, DO IT, DO THIS, DO THAT et DO auxiliaire"

GReG PLS 4 (Nanterre, France), 2015

Research paper thumbnail of "Pseudogapping and negation"

Journée d'étude sur la négation, Paris-Sorbonne (Paris, France), 2014

Research paper thumbnail of "Auxiliary DO: towards a theory of a factitive origin"

3rd Biennial Conference on the Diachrony of English (Amiens, France), 2013

Research paper thumbnail of "DO auxiliaire ou DO lexical ? Indifférenciation sémantique et/ou syntaxique entre différents emplois anaphoriques du verbe"

SAES (Dijon, France), 2013

Research paper thumbnail of "Combining colour-related terms with nouns"

11th International Workshop on Semantics, Philosophy and Rhetoric (Donostia, Basque Country), 2011

Research paper thumbnail of "Colour adjectives or colour nouns?"

SLE 44 (Logroño, Spain), 2011

Research paper thumbnail of "Colour adjectives or nouns?" (a syntactic approach)

ICLCE 4 (Osnabrück, Germany), 2011

Research paper thumbnail of Future time(s)/Future tense(s) (workshop)

SLE 43 (Vilnius, Lithuania), 2010