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Goldstein, Melvyn C. Comp.; Narkyid, Ngawangthondup, Comp. – 1984
This English-Tibetan dictionary contains 16,000 main entries and subentries, a total of 45,000 lexical items. The dictionary is primarily oriented to spoken communication and was designed to be semantically sensitive, bridging the semantic gap between Tibetan and English. Tibetan terms corresponding to submeanings of English subterms are…
Descriptors: Dictionaries, English, Grammar, Orthographic Symbols
Fenn, Peter – Neusprachliche Mitteilungen, 1978
Discusses the semantic functions of the English future formations: "will/shall,""to be going to," and the present tense. Points out that these all have modal as well as temporal significance, making the traditional teaching of the English future imprecise and misleading. (IFS/WGA)
Descriptors: English, English (Second Language), Language Instruction, Semantics
Wilss, Wolfram – Meta, 1979
Discusses the noun-plus-adjective construction in contemporary German and problems in translating this pattern into English. (AM)
Descriptors: Adjectives, English, German, Grammar
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Ramsey, Robert M. – TESOL Quarterly, 1981
Addresses the issue of vocabulary in the English as a Foreign Language classroom and introduces a technique for interlingual lexico-semantic comparison: the lexigram. This technique is based on restricted word-association data gathered from native speakers of English and Spanish and gives insights into vocabulary development. (Author/PJM)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Contrastive Linguistics, Discovery Learning, English
Kalogjera, Damir; Vilke, Mirjana – 1982
Part of a 20-year Yugoslav Serbocroatian-English Contrastive Project, this study is intended to make students, teachers, textbook writers, and scholars aware of elements in the system of English modals that might cause difficulties to the native Serbocroatian-speaking learner of English. An eclectic method of contrastive analysis consisting of…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, English, Generative Grammar, Grammar