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Download full textRogers, Andy, Ed.; And Others – 1977
The ten papers in this volume are largely revisions of papers presented at the Texas conference, held March 22-24, 1973. The first paper, "Against Universal Semantic Representation," by Gilbert Harman, argues against the need for (and the possibility of) a level of semantic representation in a theory of language. "Remarks on the…
Descriptors: English, Generative Grammar, Language, Language Classification
Maye, Jessica, Ed.; Miyashita, Mizuki, Ed. – 1998
This document contains the full texts of six papers that were presented at the Southwest workshop on optimality theory. Papers include the following: "Shuswap Diminutive Reduplication" (Sean Hendricks); "On Multiple Sympathy Candidates in Optimality Theory" (Hidehito Hoshi); "A Perceptually Grounded OT Analysis of…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Grammar, Hebrew
Dooley, Robert A., Ed.; Meyer, Jim, Ed. – 1993
This volume of work papers from the Summer Institute of Linguistics includes the following: "Goals and Indirect Objects in Seri" (Stephen A. Marlett); "Seri Kinship Terminology" (Mary B. Moser and Stephen A. Marlett); "Quiegolani Zapotec Phonology" (Sue Regnier); "Role and Reference Grammar" (Robert D. Van…
Descriptors: Grammar, Kinship Terminology, Linguistic Theory, Phonology
TRANEL, 1985
Three colloquium papers are presented on two fields of linguistics, dialogism (the study of dialogue content) and polyphony (the representation of different sounds by the same letter or symbol). The first paper, by J. Moeschler, examines dialogism, dialogue, and polyphony from the perspective of the pragmatics of the utterance and the pragmatics…
Descriptors: Dialogs (Language), Discourse Analysis, Fiction, Language Research
Bloor, Thomas, Ed.; Norrish, John, Ed. – 1987
Nine papers from a British conference on applied linguistics are compiled in this report. Introductory comments point out the traditional primacy of spoken language while acknowledging the demand for literacy and the importance of the written mode. Papers and authors are as follows: "An Educational Theory of (Written) Language" (Michael Stubbs);…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Dictionaries, Foreign Countries, Linguistic Theory
Travaux Neuchatelois de Linguistique (TRANEL), 1983
The nine papers in this collection include: "L'expression du feminin dans l'adjectif latin: Genese et extension de *-ih2 comme morpheme de feminin grammatical en indo-europeen" (The Expression of the Feminine in the Latin Adjective: Genesis and Extension of the -ih2' as Grammatical Feminine Morpheme in Indo-European); "Lexikalische…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Adolescents, Creativity, Diachronic Linguistics
Redden, James E., Ed. – 1976
The papers in this volume represent revised versions of presentations made at the First Workshop on Yuman Languages held at the University of California, San Diego, June 17-21, 1975. The focus was on the area of syntax, where the least amount of published information had previously been available. Papers presented were: "Syntactic Diversity…
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Case (Grammar), Componential Analysis, Dialect Studies
Lepage, Danielle, Ed.; Dominik, Annette, Ed. – 1989
Presentations by students at a colloquium on student research on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the University of Laval's Faculty of Letters, March 18-19, 1988, include: "Une enquete sur la qualite du francais ecrit au Quebec"; "Amenagement linguistique et neologie"; "Analyse syntaxique des 'arrets et retours' en…
Descriptors: Arabic, French, Grammar, Higher Education
Chitoran, Dumitru, Ed. – 1976
A collection of 32 conference papers is presented as reflecting the state of the art in contrastive linguistics studies of English and other languages. The reports cover the following topics: 5 English contrastive projects (Romanian-English, Yugoslav-Serbo-Croatian English, English-Hungarian, and Finnish-English analysis, and a project from the…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, English, Error Analysis (Language), Finnish
Rameh, Clea, Ed. – 1976
These proceedings of the 1976 Georgetown Round Table are divided into four sections that deal with: (1) synchronic and diachronic aspects of semantics; (2) semantics and linguistics; (3) semantics and other disciplines; and (4) semantics and teaching methods. More specifically the papers treat: the semantic interpretation of anaphoric expressions;…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Communicative Competence (Languages), Comprehension, Diachronic Linguistics
Westphal, German F., Ed.; And Others – 1992
Papers delivered at the conference on linguistics include: "On the Metrical Unity of Latinate Affixes"; "Epistemic Small Clauses and Null Subjects"; "Scrambling as Non-Operator A'-Movement: Variable vs. Null Epithet"; "Polarity, Inversion, and Focus in English"; "Phrasal Input to Derivational Morphology…
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Dutch, English, Foreign Countries
Duncan, Erin, Ed.; And Others – 1994
Papers on phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics from a conference on formal linguistics include: "Major Class Alternations" (Young-Mee Yu Cho, S. Inkelas); "On Defining Complex Templates (R. Kager); "Sandhi and Syllables in Classical Sanskrit" (B. Kessler); "Catalexis in Word Stress: Evidence from Spanish and…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Determiners (Languages), Dutch, French
Marlett, Stephen A., Ed.; Speck, Charles H., Ed. – 1996
Research by the staff and advanced students of the North Dakota Summer Institute of Linguistics is presented. In "Verb Agreement and Case Marking in Burushaski" (Stephen R. Willson), an overview of Burushaski morphology and syntax is presented, with special attention to verb agreement and case marking. "A Backwards Binding Construction in Zapotec"…
Descriptors: Burushaski, Chinese, Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries
Brousseau, Martin, Ed.; And Others – 1993
Papers, all in French, presented at a conference on linguistics include: "Machine Translation: Historic Aspects" (Ghada Attieh); "Translation and Conditioning" (Stephanie Bedard); "Semantic or Pre-Semantic Structures? From Perception to Causation" (Denise Belanger); "Presentation of Poetry Sung in Maroc"…
Descriptors: Folk Culture, Foreign Countries, French, Language Fluency
Hougaard, Anders, Ed.; Lund, Steffen Nordahl, Ed. – Odense Working Papers in Language and Communication, 2002
These 2 volumes include papers and abstracts of papers presented at the August 2002 "The Way We Think" conference in Denmark. Papers and abstracts of papers in the two volumes include: "Blending and Conceptual Disintegration" (Anders Hougaard); "Levels of Blending, Disintegration, and Language Evolution" (Carl Bache); "Conceptual Integration,…
Descriptors: Basque, Children, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation
