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Francais dans le Monde, 1979
Analyses the use of the French "en". (AM)
Descriptors: Adverbs, French, Grammar, Language Patterns
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Tregidgo, P. S. – English Language Teaching Journal, 1979
Tense-subordination in English, as distinct from clause-subordination, is examined. The concept means that the viewpoint of one tense-form (the subordinate tense) is based on the viewpoint of another (the governing tense). (SW)
Descriptors: English, Grammar, Language Patterns, Morphology (Languages)
Mourin, Louis – Revue des Langues Vivantes, 1978
Demonstrates the regularity of the structure of the present indicative in modern French. (AM)
Descriptors: French, Language Patterns, Morphology (Languages), Morphophonemics
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St. Clair, Robert N. – 1978
The contention that Esperanto is a natural linguistic system is discussed. Research is cited concerning universals of word order, dominant word order, polar type languages, Esperanto as a verb-subject-object language, and gapping in Esperanto. It is concluded that contrary to grammatical tradition, word order is not and cannot be completely free.…
Descriptors: Artificial Languages, Classical Languages, Comparative Analysis, Essays
Verloren van Themaat, W. A. – 1978
The liberty of deviation from the dominant word order in Esperanto and the natural languages is considered. Greenberg's classification of the languages according to four criteria, the liberty of word order in Sanskrit, and the norm of grammaticality in a constructed language are considered. Objection is made to St. Clair's argument that word order…
Descriptors: Analytical Criticism, Artificial Languages, Classical Languages, Comparative Analysis
Romens, Thomas L. – 1978
Spanish American plural formation is discussed in relation to attempts that have been made to write a set of phonological rules that would correctly predict the Spanish plural using a combination of phonological rules and word structure constraints. A brief synopsis is resented of why previous attempts to predict the plural are in error.…
Descriptors: Dialects, Form Classes (Languages), Grammar, Language Patterns
Russell, William J., Ed. – 1976
The edited transcript of an informal panel discussion about discourse conducted by the Discourse Linguistics Special Interest Group of the American Educational Research Association is presented in this pamphlet. The transcript also includes comments by the chairperson and by audience members. Among the topics covered in the discussion are the…
Descriptors: Body Language, Child Language, Communication (Thought Transfer), Cross Cultural Studies