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Record W4415493700 · doi:10.5539/ells.v15n4p1

End Word, End Space and Regeneration of a Sentence

2025· article· W4415493700 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
Lian Xiong

Bibliographic record

VenueEnglish Language and Literature Studies · 2025
Typearticle
Language
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicSwearing, Euphemism, Multilingualism
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsEnd-to-end principleSpace (punctuation)SentenceParalanguageEnd userRegeneration (biology)

Abstract

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The article calls attention to the end of a sentence. The end is interesting in that even the strongest end has to be open-ended, to end is for convenience and not to end is always potential. It puts forward three important concepts surrounding the end: the end word, the end space and the regeneration. The end word is the first content word that accomplishes the generation of a sentence; the end space is the paralinguistic space in the form of time following the end word; and the regeneration is the renewal of a sentence that has been sufficiently generated. The regeneration has to happen in the end space. The article demonstrates that great differences lie in the end between languages as exemplified by three major languages, Chinese, English and Japanese. First, one language favors one part of speech while another another part of speech as the end words; second, different languages send different agents into the end space; and third, different agents possess different power of regeneration. These differences have a lot to say about different ways of thinking in languages, and an awareness of them will help deal with cross-lingual barriers.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.007
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.005
Threshold uncertainty score0.018

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.007
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.000
Science and technology studies0.0020.005
Scholarly communication0.0030.005
Open science0.0000.002
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0050.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.010
GPT teacher head0.312
Teacher spread0.301 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2025
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