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Virginia Valian – Language Learning and Development, 2024
The first stage of combinatorial speech is better described as variable than uniform. Talk of variants obscures two different aspects of language (knowledge and use) and two different aspects of language development -- acquisition of the grammar (competence) and deployment of the grammar in speaking and listening (performance). Null subjects and…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Language Acquisition, Language Variation, Grammar
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Nuessel, Frank – Language Problems and Language Planning, 1993
The typology of planned languages, the number of such linguistic projects, and the most commonly used morphemes for these created languages are discussed. A total of 11 morpheme types are identified. (14 references) (Author/LB)
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Language Classification, Language Planning, Language Typology
Mizuno, Mitsuharu – Kanagawa University Studies in Language, 1993
This paper seeks to determine the essential qualities of proper nouns and to determine the differences between proper and common nouns by reviewing research and writings on the subject. Both proper and common nouns are found to connote the attributes of objects as their content. Common nouns, however, are those that identify a certain substance on…
Descriptors: Case (Grammar), Classification, Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries
Carlton, Charles M. – 1983
Romanian is characterized by a richness of surface forms that are difficult to classify and even more difficult for the learner to assimilate. There is much instructional material available in Romanian, and in a survey of fifty works published outside the country, four categories emerged: teaching materials, pedagogical grammars, grammars, and…
Descriptors: Classification, Dialogs (Language), Difficulty Level, Form Classes (Languages)