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Chen, Rong – Language Sciences, 1991
Study of a group of logical connectors in English demonstrates how the meanings of those connectors signal the grounding of the clauses they introduce in absolute terms, unlike other linguistic means of grounding performed by tense, aspect, mood, voice, or verbal categories. (14 references) (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Connected Discourse, English, Language Patterns, Phrase Structure

Pye, Clifton – Language Sciences, 1988
Explores how an anthropological perspective provides a necessary basis for an account of several aspects of the language acquisition process. Discussion focuses on how the patterns of development in phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics appear to be profoundly influenced by the range of adult language structures. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Anthropological Linguistics, Language Acquisition, Language Patterns, Linguistic Theory

Fox, Barbara A. – Language Sciences, 1994
The goal of this paper is to explore the ramifications of a nontraditional view of cognition and social interaction for the study of grammatical structure. (Contains 77 references.) (JL)
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Grammar, Language Patterns, Linguistic Theory

Hoffer, Bates – Language Sciences, 1990
Addresses complicated categories of loanwords and their uses in Japanese, an analysis of the developing functions of loanwords; the cultural attitudes that permit borrowings in some semantic areas; and how the present process of borrowing English words has similarities to the borrowing of Chinese language and culture some 1400 years ago.…
Descriptors: Chinese, English, Japanese, Language Attitudes