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Gelormini-Lezama, Carlos – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2018
Anaphoric expressions such as repeated names, overt pronouns, and null pronouns serve a major role in the creation and maintenance of discourse coherence. The felicitous use of an anaphoric expression is highly dependent on the discourse salience of the entity introduced by the antecedent. Gordon et al. ("Cogn Sci" 17:311-347, 1993)…
Descriptors: Spanish, Form Classes (Languages), Language Processing, Language Universals

Espinal, M. Teresa – Language, 1991
Describes the interaction between disjunct constituents and sentential structures and argues for an extension of the theoretical apparatus intially postulated in autosegmental phonology to represent complex syntactic structures containing disjunct constituents with a number of independent phrase markers that intersect at the linear axis. (66…
Descriptors: Linguistic Theory, Phonology, Sentence Structure, Structural Analysis (Linguistics)

Burzio, Luigi – Journal of Linguistics, 1991
Considers several difficulties, both empirical and conceptual, that arise from the formulation of the classical Binding Theory that states the following: (1) an anaphor must be locally bound, (2) a pronoun must not be locally bound, and (3) an R-expression must not be bound. Ways of overcoming these difficulties are presented. (39 references) (GLR)
Descriptors: Linguistic Theory, Morphology (Languages), Pronouns, Romance Languages

Al-Haq, Fawwaz Al-Abed – Language Sciences, 1992
Discusses functional and anaphoric control in complex sentences (sentences with more than one verb) in Jordanian Arabic within the framework of Lexical-Functional Grammar. It is argued that Jordanian Arabic utilizes anaphoric rather that functional control. (18 references) (JL)
Descriptors: Arabic, Foreign Countries, Grammar, Linguistic Theory

MacWhinney, B.; Bates, E. – Journal of Child Language, 1993
Thirteen papers in this book illustrate MacWhinney and Bates's Competition Model (CM), with a focus on cross-linguistic processing. Studies in this volume show that (1) the CM is useful in predicting certain gross cross-linguistic differences of comprehension, particularly in relation to actor assignment and (2) children's processing strategies…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Language Acquisition, Language Processing, Linguistic Theory
Reider, Michael – Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 1996
This paper presents an alternative analysis of tough constructions for N. Chomsky's 1981 wh-movement analysis of tough constructions. To replace Chomsky's solution and to obviate the need for generalized transformations in Government-Binding (GB) theory, an alternative analysis is proposed in which the tough subject originates as an embedded…
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Linguistic Theory, Sentence Structure, Structural Analysis (Linguistics)

Shapiro, Lewis P. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 1997
This paper describes various aspects of syntactic theory, including lexical, functional, and phrasal categories and how they are put together in clauses and sentences, how words are represented in the mental lexicon, and how noun phrases are assigned structural and semantic information. Language acquisition and the treatment of language disorders…
Descriptors: Language Impairments, Language Patterns, Linguistic Theory, Phrase Structure
Rosemblat, Graciela – Georgetown Journal of Languages and Linguistics, 1990
Discusses the complement and predicate (or adjunct) short clauses (SCs) in active transitive verb structures. Published Spanish literature is reviewed and evaluated, Spanish SC surface structure (SS) is described, an argument is presented against SS restructuring in Spanish, and analyses of several hypotheses are provided. (GLR)
Descriptors: Hypothesis Testing, Linguistic Theory, Sentence Structure, Spanish

Levinson, Stephen C. – Journal of Linguistics, 1991
Expands on an earlier article that explained how a Gricean theory of implicature might provide a systematic partial reduction of the Binding Conditions, and introduces a radical alternative that uses the same pragmatic framework but gives an account better adjusted to some languages. (113 references) (GLR)
Descriptors: Language Research, Linguistic Borrowing, Linguistic Theory, Morphology (Languages)
Mann, William C.; Matthiessen, Christian M. I. M. – 1983
This three-paper report describes Nigel, a large, programmed grammar of English which has been created in the framework of systemic linguistics begun by Halliday, and which, in addition to specifying functions and structures of English, has a novel semantic stratum which specifies the situations for use of each grammatical feature. The…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Computer Programs, Discourse Analysis, Grammar
Benjamin, Robert L. – 1981
The position taken in this paper is that the sentence adverb should be viewed not as an occurrence within a sentence but as a kind of illocutionary force marker of a speech art. Three points are argued in the paper: (1) that current linguistic analyses of sentence adverbs are inadequate even to the purposes of the analysts; (2) that treating…
Descriptors: Adverbs, Discourse Analysis, Language Research, Linguistic Theory

Beauvais, Paul J.; Parker, Frank – 1983
Interest in the application of modern linguistic theory in composition research has faded, possibly because some of the basic principles that inform linguistic study have been misunderstood. For example, a common misconception is that linguists use the term "generate" to mean "produce." However, the purpose of a generative…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Educational Researchers, Generative Grammar, Linguistic Theory
Witte, Stephen P. – 1982
Writing research has long sought to identify the internal features of written discourse that help to explain qualitative differences among student texts. Reflecting the theories of the Prague School linguists, this study used a topical structure analysis to distinguish between the sentences and T-units of 48 college freshman essays evaluated as…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Discourse Analysis, Higher Education, Linguistic Theory

Yen, Sian L. – Journal of Chinese Linguistics, 1986
A theory of the origin of the Chinese copula "shi," originally introduced into the language as a particle of affirmation, is presented. This theory also accounts for the contrastive and assertive use of the word when introduced into the language during the same period. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Case (Grammar), Chinese, Diachronic Linguistics, Etymology
Heggie, Lorie – 1986
Grammatical theories that rely exclusively on the categorical nature of constituents to determine their syntactic behavior encounter problems when dealing with cleft construction. The ungrammaticality of such constructions is indeed syntactic in nature and can be shown to derive from a general principle of universal grammar (UG), restricting the…
Descriptors: French, Grammar, Language Universals, Language Variation
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