Syntactic Components Research Articles

On Ronald Langacker’s Semanticocentrism

Ray Jackendoff understands that Noam Chomsky’s linguistic models distort the nature of language due to its ‘syntactocentrism.’ Coined by Jackendoff, this term means Chomsky’s assumption that the syntactic component of language is central while the phonological and semantic components are merely interpretive. Jackendoff also states that since the 1970s many researchers have made a mistake opposite to Chomsky’s, by denying that syntax has a relevant role in grammar. Considering such a scenario, this paper analyzes Ronald Langacker’s cognitive grammar, in which syntax is replaced by semantics as the central linguistic component. The goal is to show how Langacker misrepresented language structure by doing so.

A Review of Research on Mother Tongue Transfer During English as a Second Language Acquisition

In the process of second language acquisition, learners are often influenced by native language transfer. The effect can be both positive and negative. That is, the impact of positive and negative migrations. This paper is aimed at learners who speak English as a second language. This paper mainly summarizes the influence of mother tongue transfer on grammar, pronunciation, and vocabulary. Mother tongue transfer may be challenging for English as a second language learners in terms of grammatical morphological changes, word order, virtual word functions, and syntactic component correspondence. The sentence structure in English is more complex than in Chinese. This makes it easy for learners to have difficulties in mastering English tenses, voice, singular and plural, etc. The second is the impact of native language transfer on English pronunciation. Native Chinese speakers are influenced by Chinese tones when learning English pronunciation. This results in a lack of fluency and accuracy in pronunciation. Finally, there is the impact of mother tongue transfer on English vocabulary. Since each language will have similarities, it indirectly enriches the vocabulary of the second language, and it is faster for us to learn and memorize. Learners should be aware to avoid the adverse effects of negative transfer of mother tongue.

Syntactic Variation in Reduced Registers Through the Lens of the Parallel Architecture.

Diversion from the syntactic norm, as manifested in the absence of otherwise expected lexical and syntactic material, has been extensively studied in theoretical syntax. Such modifications are observed in headlines, telegrams, labels, and other specialized contexts, collectively referred to as "reduced" registers. Focusing on search queries, a type of reduced register, I propose that they are generated by a simpler grammar that lacks a full-fledged syntactic component. The analysis is couched in the Parallel Architecture framework, whose assumption of relative independence of linguistic components-their parallelism-and the rejection of syntactocentrism are essential to explain properties of queries.

Narrative skills and language comprehension in preschool children with cochlear implants: A comparison with children with Developmental Language Disorder or typical development

IntroductionThe narrative skills of children with cochlear implants (CIs) are fragile, but the factors at play and whether these difficulties could be similar to those detected in language impairment are not clear. The present study aims to assess, at the microstructural level, narrative skills, comparing children with CIs with children with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) or Typical Development (TD). Furthermore, the relationship between verbal (lexical and morphosyntactic) comprehension and narrative skills across groups is investigated. MethodsThe narratives of 19 children with CIs (Mage = 62.42 months, SD = 6.83), 13 children with DLD (Mage = 65.38 months, SD = 4.27), and 18 preschool children with TD (Mage = 63.67 months, SD = 4.31) were assessed in a standardized task. Articles, prepositions, pronouns, gender and number agreement, accuracy in the use of verbs, and number of arguments in each sentence were analysed. Lexical and morphosyntactic comprehension were also assessed. Performance was compared across groups using ANOVAs or Kruskal–Wallis tests. The role of lexical and morphosyntactic comprehension in predicting each morphological and syntactic element in the narrative task was examined using linear regressions. ResultsData analysis showed that both children with CIs and DLD had fragilities in narration, both in the morphological and syntactic components. Although some differences between children with CIs and those with DLD emerged in descriptive analyses, these were not statistically significant. Regressions showed that morphosyntactic comprehension predicted the number of pronouns produced only in the TD group. ConclusionsThe scarce differences between CI and DLD groups and the absence of an effect of morphosyntactic comprehension on pronoun production may be due to their low production of these elements in the narrative task and/or to a difficulty in managing pronouns in an expressive task regardless of their ability to comprehend them. Potential implications of these results are discussed.

How semantics works in Chinese relative clause processing: insights from eye tracking.

Recent years have witnessed much research on semantic analysis and syntactic anatomy in ordinary language processing. However, it is still a matter of considerable debate about when and how the semantic integration of single word meanings works and interacts with syntax during on-line comprehension. This study, in an eye-tracking paradigm, took 38 native speakers of Mandarin Chinese as the participants and took Chinese relative clauses as stimuli to figure out the functions of semantics by investigating the conditioning semantic factors influencing and governing the word order variation of Chinese relative clauses during different processing stages. Accordingly, this study manipulated two syntactic variables, i.e., relative clause type and the position of the numeral-classifier sequence (NCL) in the relative clause, as well as a semantic variable, i.e., the abstractness of the head noun that the relative clause modified. Specifically, the study addressed two questions: (1) when semantics is activated and interacts with syntax and (2) how semantics affects syntax during the time course of Chinese relative clause processing. The results indicated that: (1) Semantics was activated and interacted with syntax during the early and late processing stages of Chinese relative clauses, which challenged the sequential order of syntactic and semantic processes, and supported the claims of the Concurrent Processing Model. (2) The syntactic order of the Chinese relative clause was affected by the semantic information of the head noun that the clause modified. Object-extraction relative clauses (ORCs) had a conjunction preference for the order "an object relative clause preceding the numeral-classifier sequence and the head noun." Instead, the subject-extraction relative clause (SRC) which modified a concrete noun (CN) had a co-occurrence preference for the order "numeral-classifier sequence preceding the subject relative clause and the head noun," while the subject-extraction relative clause which modified an abstract noun (AN) had a co-occurrence preference for the order "subject relative clause preceding the numeral-classifier sequence and the head noun." The findings of this study were evaluated in light of the perspectives of truth value semantics of the syntactic components, the semantic compatibility of numeral-classifier sequence and its modified noun as well as the discourse functions of outer modifier nominals and inner modifier nominals.

Linguistic expression of intangible cultural heritage in "Baburnama": subject, object, addressee

The intangible cultural heritage of the Great Silk Way Road has the core role in historical area. It covers various spheres of life and is reflected in traditions, customs, languages, music, dances, crafts, ceremonies, legends and historical events. In the written heritage of "Baburnama", the author provides the centuries-old Turkic identity and cross-country features that arose from Central Asia, associated with the lands of Afghanistan, India, namely geographical, biological, medical, literary, historical, political, cultural and other relations. Babur's personal experiences and observations, his philosophical reflections and assessments of various cultural and socio-political phenomena are transmitted through "Baburnama". Thus, this work serves not only as a historical documents events, but also serves as an important source for understanding the cultural context of the era. The article depicts linguistic expression of intangible cultural heritage in "Baburnama". The primary focus was on the semantic syntactic components of the propositions in Babur's sentences such as, subject, object, and addressee. The actant was noted in the scripts of that era's intangible cultural heritage, based on the sentence's syntax structure. The text's substance and its feature of utilizing the many forms of intangible cultural heritage from the Babur era in contemporary Kazakh society are decided upon based on the study examples that were gathered.

How policy designs influence the innovation performance of China's emergency industry: an institutional grammar perspective

PurposeThis study provides a configurational examination of how policy designs influence the innovation performance of the emergency industry in China.Design/methodology/approachThis study employs the Data Envelopment Analysis Malmquist index (DEA-Malmquist) to quantify the innovation performance of the emergency industry and then codes the innovation policies to calculate the syntactic components based on institutional grammar tools (IGTs). The configurations of syntactic components were determined by applying the fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA).FindingsThe results indicate that rules- and norms-oriented policy designs would improve the innovation performance of China's emergency industry. In the developed provinces, the “Deontic” and “aIm” combinations in the policy are useful for improving performance. In the developing provinces, the ambiguity of the “aIm” and “Context” conditions in the policy is leading to low performance. Additionally, a lack of strategy-oriented policy design would also result in poor performance.Originality/valueMost previous studies used substitute variables to understand policy impacts. This study contributes to identifying the impacts of the syntactic components of policy designs on the innovation performance of the emergency industry. The findings can assist policymakers in developing more effective policies to stimulate innovation development in the emergency industry.

The Parts of Speech from the Perspective of the Correlation between Lexicon and Grammar

The purpose of the article is to present an analysis of parts of speech from the point of view of the interference between semantic features and their morphosyntactic behavior. The elucidation of the established relationships between the lexical meaning of words, on the one hand, and their grammatical categories and the syntactic functions with which they are used, on the other, requires the analysis of these entities from a functional perspective. Since the relationships between the mentioned features are revealed when the lexical units function in the structure of the statement, we could say that the research addresses the problem of the correlation between the three components of the statement, namely the lexical, morphological and syntactic components. Revealing the relationships between these components would allow overcoming the artificial separation between the levels of semantic and syntactic description, but also a better understanding of how the utterance is constituted and functions.

Effects of Word Limit on Sentence Length and Clause Length in Academic Journal Article Abstracts: A Synergetic Linguistic Perspective

ABSTRACT Several studies have sought to characterize the syntactic features of research articles (RAs) and their part-genres. However, no study has examined the interrelation between different syntactic components (e.g. sentences and clauses) in the RA genre as a function of interacting internal and external factors (e.g. word limit) from a synergetic linguistic perspective. This study contributes to this line of research by investigating the effects of word limit (i.e. the restriction on the number of words used) on the length of sentences and clauses in RA abstracts. Our results show that RA abstracts contain significantly more longer sentences and clauses than the main body of RAs, but longer sentences in RA abstracts tend to have shorter constituting clauses, indicating that the Menzerath-Altmann Law is at play. Such an interrelation between sentence and clause length helps ensure a cognitively balanced system. Our findings have implications for the need to explore the interrelation between syntactic components emergent from the synergetic interactions of internal and external factors.

Speech therapy support for the development of the syntactic component of language ability in grade schoolers with severe speech disorders

Speech therapy support for the development of the syntactic component of language ability in grade schoolers with severe speech disorders

Verbs Matter: A Tutorial for Determining Verb Difficulty.

Research indicates that when teaching grammatical forms to children, the verbs used to model specific grammatical inflections matter. When learning grammatical forms, children have higher performance when they hear many unique verb forms that vary in their frequency and phonological complexity. In this tutorial, we demonstrate a method for identifying and characterizing a large number of verbs based on their frequency and complexity. We selected verbs from an open-access database of transcribed child language samples. We extracted verbs produced by 5- to 8.9-year-old children in four morphosyntactic contexts: regular past tense -ed, third person singular -s, is/are + verb+ing, and do/does questions. We ranked verbs based on their frequency of occurrence across transcripts. We also coded the phonological complexity of each verb. We coded each verb as high or low frequency and high or low phonological complexity. The synthesis yielded 129 unique verbs used in the regular past tense -ed context, 107 verbs used in the third person singular -s context, 69 verbs used in the is/are + verb+ing context, and 16 verbs used in the do/does question context. We created tables for each form that include the frequency rankings and phonological complexity scores for every verb. Clinicians may use the verb lists, frequency ratings, and phonological complexity scores to help identify verbs to incorporate into assessment and intervention sessions with children. Researchers and clinicians may use the step-by-step approach presented in the tutorial to identify verbs or other syntactic components used in different morphosyntactic contexts or produced by individuals of different demographics in different speaking contexts.

Specific Features of Operations of Semantic Syntaxing of Separate and Coherent Statements in oral and Written Speech in Younger Schoolchildren with Severe Speech Disorders

The article is devoted to the problem of formation of semantic level of syntaxing in the oral and written speech of younger schoolchildren with severe speech disorders. The purpose of the article is to present the results of the research of the semantic level of the syntactic component of the language ability of younger students with severe speech disorders. For a long time, the essence of the syntactic component of language ability was considered from the position of surface structure. In most cases, existing studies describe the external manifestations of syntactic disorders and do not reveal their mechanisms. At present, the issue of searching for the unformed mechanisms of the syntactic component of language ability has become relevant. According to T. V. Akhutina`s point of view, there are three multi-level syntax operations, that are carried out as an actualization of the frame, the slots of which are filled with the help of operations of selecting elements from the semantic-lexical paradigms of the appropriate level: meaningful, semantic and the level of formal-grammatical structuring (T. V. Akhutina, A. R. Luria, A. A. Leontiev and others). The lack of formation of one of the components prevents from successful making the syntactic component and the language ability in general. The topicality of identifying the features of the formation of the semantic level of syntax of primary school students is due, on the one hand, to the importance of its formation for the development of language ability, and on the other hand, to the insufficient development of the content and methods of speech therapy work in this direction. Errors that indicate the lack of formation of the semantic level of syntax of younger students with severe speech disorders consist in violation of the process of structuring a non-speech situation, the impossibility of calculating its components, which caused errors in the formation of the program of a separate and coherent statement in oral and written speech even at the pre-linguistic stage.

Linguistic anomalies observed in the Sentence Completion Test in patients with schizophrenia

ABSTRACT Background Schizophrenia is a chronic, debilitating disorder characterised by distorted thinking, perceptions, behaviours, and even language impairments. We investigated the linguistic anomalies in Korean schizophrenia patients compared to non-psychotic psychiatric controls to determine whether the linguistic anomalies in English speakers with schizophrenia were replicated in Korean speakers. Methods Thirty-four schizophrenia patients and 70 non-psychotic psychiatric controls were included in this study. The SCT was utilised as the text data for analysis. For linguistic analysis, we evaluated texts regarding semantics and syntax. We separately counted the number of semantic or syntactic errors in the written texts of study participants and compared them between patients and controls. Results Schizophrenia patients showed significantly more semantic errors (p < .001) and syntactic errors (p < .001) per 1,000 characters than non-psychotic psychiatric controls. Specifically, inappropriate word or syntactic component selection is noticeable in schizophrenia patients. These differences were still significant after adjusting for general intelligence measured by the K-WAIS-IV. Conclusion Schizophrenia patients showed both semantic and syntactic errors in written language. Moreover, these errors seemed to be partly independent of general intelligence. Notably, patients showed a noticeable number of syntactic errors. Further investigation into the language of patients with schizophrenia and schizophrenia-spectrum disorders is required.

The pathogenesis of formal thought disorder – towards an integrative view

IntroductionFormal Thought Disorder (FTD) is a cluster of symptoms and signs, and can be summarized as a multidimensional construct, reflecting idiosyncrasies in thought, language, and communication in general. The inquiry into its etiology is complicated by the ambiguity of the construct itself, and many theories regarding its pathogenesis have been put forward. Two main neurocognitive models, however, have been garnering attention in mainstream FTD research: the “dyssemantic” and the “dysexecutive” hypotheses. These concepts have been classically pitted out against each other as mutually exclusive, but recent studies have proposed a more integrative view.ObjectivesIn this presentation, we aim to explore the two main models for explaining FTD pathogenesis, and to show how an integrative model which accounts for both the dyssemantic and dysexecutive deficits seen in patients with FTD might be better at explaining its etiology.MethodsWe conducted a systematic review of the available literature according the PRISMA 2020 statement. We began by researching the Pubmed and Cochrane databases using the following search string: ((“Formal thought disorder*”[Title/Abstract]) AND (dysexecutive[Title/Abstract])) OR ((“Formal thought disorder*”[Title/Abstract]) AND (dyssemantic[Title/Abstract])) OR ((“Formal thought disorder*”[Title/Abstract]) AND (pathogenesis[Title/Abstract])) OR ((“Formal thought disorder*”[Title/Abstract]) AND (etiology[Title/Abstract])). 20 articles were retrieved, along with 2 ongoing trials. We screen for a total of 12 included articles. We also included 17 articles from citation searching, resulting in a final count of 29 included articles. We then summarized the main findings.ResultsTwo influential hypotheses explaining the neurocognitive pathogenesis of different FTD symptom are the “dyssemantic” and “dysexecutive” hypotheses. The “dyssemantic” model emphasizes abnormalities in language-processing related brain regions and functional networks. Some studies suggest that the dysfunctions might involve higher-order semantics and the syntactic component. The “dysexecutive” hypothesis suggests that impaired planning and monitoring might lead to poorly formulated or prone-to-error speech. Recent studies, however, have suggested that FTD might be related to a combination of both executive dysfunction and impaired semantic processing, which would then combine in different proportions and yield the different FTD manifestations.ConclusionsWhile disfunctions in both semantic and executive cognitive faculties have been independently explored as potential explanations for the pathogenesis of FTD, a more integrative picture has surfaced in recent research. It proposes that FTD might actually be the reflections of a combination of different proportions of disfunctions in the executive and/or linguistic processes. More research is needed, with better defined FTD dimensions, in order to further explore this model.Disclosure of InterestNone Declared

중국어와 일본어의 상대절 마커의 특성 및 관련 통사론적 문제에 관한 연구 - 언어 유형학의 관점에서 -

본 연구의 목적은 언어유형학의 시야에 있다 다음은 중국어 일본어 관계절의 표기 유형, 출현 위치 및 표기 기능의 유사점과 차이점을 비교하고 관계절의 표기에 따른 구문 및 의미론적 문제를 논의한다. 현대 일본어는 연체형을 관계절의 표기로 하고, 중국어는 구조조사 "의"로 한다. 일본어 관계절은 속격 등 명사 수식어의 표기와는 달리 언어 공통성에 더 부합하며, 중국어의 경우 명사·대명사·관계절에 상관없이 명사를 수식하기 위해 통일된 표기를 사용하는 경우는 흔치 않다. 관계절 표기의 기능과 관련하여 중·일 양 언어의 관계절 표기는 모두 중심어가 절 서술어에서 작용하는 구문 성분을 나타내는 데 사용할 수 없지만, 일본어 관계절 표기는 관계절 표기를 표시하는 것 외에도 시체를 나타내는 데 사용되며 중국어 관계절 표기의 기능은 비교적 단순하다. 중·일 양 언어 관계절 표기에도 공통성이 있다. 중국어·일본어의 관계절은 모두 중심어 앞에 위치하기 때문에 표기가 중심어와 관계절 서술어 사이의 구문 관계를 식별할 수 없기 때문에 관계절의 관할을 결정할 수 없고 동위 어절과 동일한 구조를 채택하는 등의 문제가 발생한다. The purpose of this study is to compare the similarities and differences between Chinese and Japanese relative clauses in terms of the types, positions and functions of markers, and to explore the syntactic and semantic issues arising from the markers of relative clauses in the context of linguistic typology. In modern Japanese, the marker of the relative clause is the conjunctive form, while in Chinese, it is the structural auxiliary "de". In Japanese, the marker for the relative clause is different from that for noun modifiers such as the genitive case, which is more in line with linguistic commonality; in Chinese, the marker "de" is used uniformly for nouns, pronouns, and relative clauses to modify nouns, which is not uncommon in such languages. In terms of the function of relative clause markers, both Chinese and Japanese relative clause markers cannot be used to indicate the syntactic component of the central clause in the subordinate predicate, but Japanese relative clause markers are used to indicate the tense and aspect in addition to the relative clause, while Chinese relative clause markers have a single function. There are also commonalities between Chinese and Japanese in relative clause markers. Since the markers are located in front of the central clause, they cannot identify the syntactic relationship between the central clause and the predicate of the relative clause, which makes it impossible to determine the domain of the relative clause and adopt the same structure as the appositive clause, etc.

МОВОЗНАВЧІ ПОГЛЯДИ ІВАНА ОГІЄНКА НА ПОНЯТТЯ «ПОРЯДОК СЛІВ» КРІЗЬ ПРИЗМУ ФОРМАЛЬНО-ГРАМАТИЧНОЇ ТА КОМУНІКАТИВНОЇ ПАРАДИГМИ

The article grounds the relevance of the regularities of the construction of sentence structure in accordance with the peculiarities of word order with the help of intonation, the speaker’s communicative intent, and the grammatical laws of the Ukrainian language. The main attention is focused on the fact that the interpretation of the sen-tence order of the Ukrainian language as fl uent seems to be incorrect. It is ap-propriate to use the concept of «direct word order» and «indirect word order» (inverse word order»). The origins of the formation and development of the outlined concepts date back to the birth of the formal-grammatical paradigm of language research (Ivan Ohiienko’s reasoning), which later received a broader interpretation in the communicative paradigm (the modern stage of the develop-ment of the Ukrainian language).The following conceptual provisions regarding the given issue are high-lighted in Ivan Ohiienko’s linguistic legacy: all syntactic components of a sen-tence are assigned a certain place in a sentence, the position of sentence compo-nents is caused by the intonation of the speaker and the grammatical laws of the Ukrainian language, inversion is a stylistic aspect of using an unusual word or-der. In addition, the linguist points out such grammatical categories and concepts as valence («words are paired»), semantic approach («the meaning of a word in a sentence»), the identifi cation of grammatical features of the Ukrainian language (the change in the semantic and syntactic meaning of a word according to its place in a sentence). All these testify to the linguistic talent of Ivan Ohiienko and the fact that the linguist was ahead of his time.The linguist pointed out the melodiousness of the Ukrainian language. In the linguist’s opinion, inversion is ordinary and unusual. Ivan Ohiienko believes that ordinary inversion is used only in artistic speech, while unusual inversion should be eradicated from speech. The linguist proved the limited possibilities of a logical approach to the analysis of syntactic units, and thus substantiated the formal-grammatical paradigm

한국어 복합 서술어 구성의 형성 원리와 변화 요인

Korean complex predicate constructions(henceforth CPCs) can be cross-classified with various types, according to case marker/particle realization, expandability of CPCs’ constituents, polysemy of CPCs’ noun, semantic bleaching degree of CPCs’ verbs/adjectives, etc. The wordhood of Korean CPCs vary depending on the types of CPCs. I accounted for the differences observed on the wordhood of Korean CPCs from the perspective of word-formation and described the synchronic formation and change of Korean CPCs. Korean CPCs are formed synchronically through the concatenative process that occurs when clauses are formed in the syntactic component or the substitutional process and concatenative process in the mental lexicon. Korean CPCs which are formed in the mental lexicon are more likely to be word-like, while CPCs which are formed in the syntactic component are more likely to phrase-like. Korean CPCs that are formed synchronically are used in the syntactic component and experiences formal, semantic, and categorial changes. The formal and semantic change of Korean CPCs are related to the realization of the case-marker/particle and metaphor/metonymy, respectively, and the categorial change of Korean CPCs is due to reanalysis. Because of these changes, I pointed out that the wordhood of the Korean CPCs may decrease or increase.

GRAMMATICAL AND SYNTACTIC PECULIARITIES OF TRANSLATION OF ENGLISH MILITARY AND POLITICAL TEXTS INTO UKRAINIAN

The article is focused on the study of grammatical and syntactic features of the translation of English-language military and political texts. Due to the specific communicative and functional orientation, the specialized language of the military sphere operates within three functional language styles (official, journalistic and scientific). The preference for one of these styles varies according to the topic of communication. The study of the translation of military texts is relevant, considering the Russian war with Ukraine and the tense political situation in Europe. More and more linguists are investigating this kind of discourse. The purpose of the article is to analyze the use of transformations in the translation of English military-political texts at the grammatical and syntactic levels. The object of the research is textual units of English and Ukrainian texts on military and political topics. Military and political articles, books served as the research material. In the course of the study, characteristic grammatical and syntactic features of military-political texts were analyzed. Having analyzed English texts on military and political topics, we conclude that the grammatical level is characterized by the use of transformations, for example, modulation (army artillery – польова артилерія), tracing (avenue of approach), explication or descriptive translation (Air Defense Artillery anti-aircraft artillery), transliteration (NATO), generalization and specification (attack by fire). Regarding the syntactic component, it should be noted that military-political texts are distinguished by the use of simple, impersonal sentences and the use of imperative voice. Keywords: grammatical features; syntactic features; specialized language of military sphere; translation transformations; translation methods; military and political texts.

Relative construction in Hittite

SummaryThe paper proposes a novel structural analysis of Hittite determinate relative clauses on the basis of a corpus study considering a wider and fuller array of Hittite data than ever before. In Hittite, relativewh-phrases attest a wide range of linear positions: first/initial, clause-second, immediately preverbal or even postverbal. We build upon the current assumption thatwh-pronouns are clitics and thus their placement is determined by the syntax-prosody interface. As for the syntactic component, we argue against thein situconstrual ofwh-elements. Instead, we propose that what linearly appears to be clause-second, preverbal or postverbal position of thewh-pronoun is structurally associated with Spec, FinP. The prosodic component is provided by the standardly acknowledged prosodic inversion, but the prosodic domain for the placement ofwh-clitics is not clausal (CP), it is rather to be identified with a smaller domain within CP, namely, FinP. We also provide the first ever systematic treatment of splitwh-phrases which are highly problematic for existing approaches but are fully accounted for by our analysis.

Syntactic structure and rhetorical combinations of Iranian English research article titles in medicine and applied linguistics: A cross-disciplinary study

This corpus-based cross-disciplinary study investigated the syntactic structures and rhetorical combinations of 200 research article titles in two disciplines, namely, medicine (100) and applied linguistics (100). The RA titles were selected from four reputable Iranian English journals. The authors were all Iranian researchers in these two disciplines. The titles were analyzed in light of Dietz taxonomy. First, the frequencies and percentages of each syntactic and rhetorical construction occurrence have been calculated. Next, the authors performed a t-test regarding title length and the chi-square test to decide whether syntactic or rhetorical construction is a discipline-specific convention. The findings revealed thatmedical titles were longer than the linguistic ones. The frequency and percentage of both single- and multi-unit RA titles were essentially the same in both disciplines. Concerning the syntactic components of single-unit RA titles, the most frequently used structure was the nominal construction, followed by verbal and prepositional ones. The most recurrent syntactic components of the nominal structure in both disciplines were post- and pre-modified, with medical titles overtaking the linguistic titles in all nominal categories. In terms of verbal constructions, the dominant structure in medicine was the full sentence, and in applied linguistics, gerund phrases. Regarding the rhetorical components of multi-unit RA titles, medical titles took precedence over the linguistic titles in using the topic method. The topic scope and topic description organization are mostly reported in applied linguistics titles. In this study, however, two new rhetorical combinations were identified. The chi-square test results only confirmed the verbal structures of single-unit and the rhetorical combinations of multi-unit RA titles as distinctive features for each discipline.