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Verma, Manindra K., Ed. – 1976
The following papers on subject in South Asian languages are compiled here: (1) "Subject in Sanskrit" by George Cardona; (2) "Is Sinhala a Subject Language? (or, How Restricted is Your PNP?)" by James W. Gair; (3) "Some Syntactic Reflexes of Sub-Categories of Agent in Hindi" by Peter Edwin Hook; (4) "The Notion…
Descriptors: Bengali, Descriptive Linguistics, Gujarati, Hindi
Tannen, Deborah, Ed. – 1981
The Georgetown Round Table on discourse analysis dealt with the following aspects of the topic: Emerson's essay on language; oral remembering and narrative structures; persuasive discourse; social construction of topical cohesion; discourse as an interactional achievement; the place of intonation; topic as the unit of analysis in a criminal law…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Descriptive Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Folk Culture
Teller, Virginia, Ed.; White, Sheila J., Ed. – 1980
This compilation contains the following research reports on child language: (1) "Nouns: Love 'Em or Leave 'Em" by Dianne Horgan; (2) "Logic in Early Child Language" by Roy D. Pea; and (3) "Theories of the Child's Acquisition of Syntax: A Look at Rare Events and at Necessary, Catalytic, and Irrelevant Components of…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adults, American Indian Languages, Bilingualism