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Truth Is, Sentence-Initial Shell Nouns Are Showing Up Bare

Stvan, Laurel Smith (Palacký University, 2014)

**Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: In one subtype of English shell noun construction, the noun serves as the subject in a pre-clausal unit, e.g., “The thing is.” Shell noun NPs have mainly been ...
Vernacular Explanations of Causation in Lay Health Discourse

Stvan, Laurel Smith (Department of Linguistics & TESOL, University of Texas at Arlington, 2013-06-07)

Few linguistic works exam vernacular terms for health concepts rather than technical medical terms (cf. Rueda-Baclig & Florencio 2003). The prevalence of conversations on food, sleep, exercise, and illness – and the ...
Who builds it, who benefits? Deepening student and faculty knowledge about wikipedia’s scholarly value

Stvan, Laurel Smith (Springer Nature, 2023-02)

**Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: Students and faculty can jointly play a role in how Open Educational Resources are created and deployed by assigning students to expand Wikipedia pages. By producing ...