Linguistics Journal Volume 10 Issue 1 2016

Linguistics Journal Volume 10 Issue 1 2016

Foreword by Biljana Čubrović

Research Articles

1. Elsa González-Álvarez and Susana Doval-Suárez
The Use of Extraposition in the Written Production of Spanish Advanced Learners of English

2. Intesar Elwerfalli
The Difficulties in Acquiring the English Article System: The Role of Contrastive Analysis Hypothesis (CAH) and Explicit/Implicit Teaching Strategies

3. Yi-Chun Christine Yang
Noticing, Contrastive Analysis, and EFL Learners’ Speech Production

4. Fatemeh Mahdavirad
The Effect of Personal Familiar vs. Impersonal Less Familiar Topic on Expository Writing Task Performance

5. Sara Nezami Nav
Topical Structure Analysis of Thesis Discussion Sections: A Cross-Disciplinary Study

6. Mustafa Yildiz
A Cross-Linguistic Inquiry into the Potential Reasons for the Avoidance of English Phrasal Verbs: The Case of Turkish and Norwegian EFL Learners

7. Rachel Allan
Lexical Bundles in ELF Business Meetings

8. Charles Marfo
Prosody Drives Syntax: Prosody in the Focus and Topic Constructions of Akan

9. Hmoud Alotaibi
Comparison of Metadiscourse Markers in Arabic and English Research Articles in the Introduction and Conclusion Sections

10. Ourania Katsara
The Use of Linguistics in Indicating the Influence of Political Power in Shaping Politicians’ Behaviour: The Case of Demetrios D. Bousdras

Research Notes

11. Aikaterini Alexi, Georgia Papathanasopoulou, and Evangelos C. Papakitsos
The Development of Morphological Generators and Related Issues: The Case of Modern Greek