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Vedenina, L. G. – Langue Francaise, 1980
Demonstrates the role of punctuation in relation to the syntax, communicative value, and semantics of the French sentence. (AM)
Descriptors: Deep Structure, French, Grammar, Punctuation
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Sampson, Geoffrey – Journal of Linguistics, 1979
Presents arguments, based on the evidence of anaphora, against lexical decomposition. (AM)
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Grammar, Linguistic Theory, Morphology (Languages)
Foster, David William – IRAL, 1982
Gives some examples of internal contradictions in the use of the Spanish subjunctive. Details these contradictions to show there is only a tenuous relationship between surface forms and semantic features and categories. (EKN)
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Grammar, Language Patterns, Semantics
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Hasegawa, Yoko – Language and Communication, 1993
Using framework of prototype semantics, TE-constructions (type of verbal construct in Japanese), are categorized according to underlying metaphors and related to central TE-construction in which K- 1K- indicate both motion and direction in physical space. Through descriptions, discussions, and examples, it is demonstrated that no adequate…
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Japanese, Language Research, Semantics
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Cheng, Robert L. – Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association, 1980
Divides Taiwanese modals into: (1) authority, where a deep structure agent exercises authority; (2) contigency, which concerns the speaker's judgment of the possibility or logical necessity df the occurrence of an event; and (3) volition, which expresses the subject's desires. The constructions in which these modals appear are examined. (PJM)
Descriptors: Chinese, Deep Structure, Semantics, Sentence Structure
Pye, Clifton – Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 1996
K'iche' Maya divides the breaking and cutting domains into much more specific actions than either English or Spanish. K'iche' does not have a general word for breaking that can be substituted for the specialized breaking verbs in the way that English "break" can be used to describe more specific senses of picking, popping, smashing, or…
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Lexicology, Mayan Languages, Morphology (Languages)
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Wierzbicka, Anna – Language, 1982
Argues that sentences in the "have a V" frame are not idiosyncratic, but exhibit orderly and systematic behavior and are governed by strict semantic rules. Discusses 10 subtypes, each with a slightly different semantic formula. (EKN)
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Generative Grammar, Language Patterns, Language Research
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Lu, John H-T. – Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association, 1980
Studies, using Mandarin Chinese as a test case: (1) the interaction of syntax and semantics when quantifiers and negatives co-occur; (2) the linear interpretation of quantifiers when the universal and existential quantifiers co-occur; (3) the logical relationship between them; and (4) the basic word order of existential sentences involving…
Descriptors: Chinese, Deep Structure, Negative Forms (Language), Semantics
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Franco, Fabiola; Steinmetz, Donald – Hispania, 1986
Expands and develops the theory of "ser" and "estar" with predicate adjectives which was first presented in "Hispania" in May 1983. This theory holds that the selection of "ser" or "estar" in constructions with predicate adjectives expresses different types of implied comparisons. (SED)
Descriptors: Adjectives, Deep Structure, Language Usage, Linguistic Theory
Titone, Renzo – Rassegna Italiana di Linguistica Applicata, 1991
For the past 30 years, much has been written about the works of Noam Chomsky. A comparison is presented of the latest writings about Chomsky (in particular P.M.S. Hacker's 1990 work) with those written in the early 1960s. (CFM)
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Linguistic Theory, Second Language Learning, Semantics
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Goddard, Cliff – Language Sciences, 1995
Working within the natural semantic metalanguage (NSM) framework of Anna Wierzbicka, this study proposes reductive paraphrase explications for a range of first-person pronominal meanings. It is argued that NSM explications are preferable to conventional feature analysis because they are less subject to charges of arbitrariness and obscurity and…
Descriptors: Connected Discourse, Deep Structure, Discourse Analysis, Language Patterns
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Chu, Chauncey C. – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 1978
Proposes an approach to contrastive linguistics which takes into account syntax and semantics, and discusses the role of such an approach in explaining surface structure differences between English and Chinese sentences of the type: "He is a good pianist" and "I have a bad knee." (AM)
Descriptors: Chinese, Contrastive Linguistics, Deep Structure, English
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Chernov, Ghelly V. – Language and Speech, 1979
Suggests that cumulative dynamic analysis of the semantic structure of the incoming message is subconsciously performed by interpreters. (Author/RL)
Descriptors: Adults, Communication Research, Deep Structure, Interpreters
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Thalji, Abdel-Majid I. – Al-Arabiyya, 1986
Considers marked and unmarked structures in modern Arabic in terms of defending a basic unmarked structure which carries the least presuppositional background to which other surface orders can be related and a lexical treatment of number in Arabic. (CB)
Descriptors: Arabic, Deep Structure, Morphology (Languages), Nouns
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Maxwell, Madeline M. – Sign Language Studies, 1983
Chafe's theory of generative semantics, which uses spoken language for illustration, can be applied to American Sign Language in two ways: to combat the erroneous assumption that sign languages simply represent spoken language in visible form and to explain various parts of the grammar of American Sign Language. (MSE)
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Comparative Analysis, Deep Structure, Generative Grammar
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