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Borillo, Andre – Langue Francaise, 1979
Examines the structure of negation in questions in French, in particular the interrogative form containing a negative but expecting a positive response. (AM)
Descriptors: French, Grammar, Negative Forms (Language), Sentence 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
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Prideaux, Gary D. – Glossa, 1979
Proposes an alternative to transformational grammars, based on the notion that a grammatical system should be open to psycholinguistic interpretation, and disallowing grammatical transformations, dealing instead with the information content of sentence surface structure. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, English, Grammar, Linguistic Theory
Crismore, Avon – 1982
In the writing of Matthew Arnold, integration, one great impression rather than many great individual lines, is the most important goal. In his essay, "The Function of Criticism at the Present Time," the "blocs" of his thought are in sets of two, three, or even four sentences: in effect, he writes much like a poet, in couplets,…
Descriptors: Cohesion (Written Composition), Discourse Analysis, English Literature, Paragraph Composition
Berretta, Monica – 1977
A generative semantic model for a componential analysis of prepositions in Italian sentences is described and critiqued. According to the model, a sentence is analyzed in terms of a "predicate" plus one or more "arguments." The model emphasizes the semantic role of prepositions and regards this role as the basis for a syntactic…
Descriptors: Case (Grammar), Componential Analysis, Deep Structure, Grammar
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Markels, Robin Bell – College English, 1983
Outlines how the current work in linguistics and psychology can be joined with rhetoric in the study of cohesion and suggests the ways in which this synthesis leads to both a literary and philosophical sense of form and a practical pedagogy for teachers. (MM)
Descriptors: Coherence, Cohesion (Written Composition), College English, Deep Structure