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Peer reviewedLee, Chungmin – Language Sciences, 1996
Examines negative polarity items in English and Korean and argues that a consistent explanation emerges if certain assumptions are entertained about indefiniteness and concession by arbitrary choice. The article maintains that the logical consequences of monotone decreasingness is transparent with strong negatives but less so with weaker ones. (18…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, English, Korean, Negative Forms (Language)
Peer reviewedvan Voorst, Jan – Language Sciences, 1996
Presents a comparative semantic analysis of English, French, and Dutch transitive constructions that takes into account the entity that sets the event in motion, the object it affects, and the process that links both. (18 references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Dutch, English, French
Peer reviewedCornelis, Louise – Language Sciences, 1996
Investigates the differences in form and meaning between the Dutch and English passives, attributing the differences to the passive auxiliaries that signal a process and a state for Dutch and English. The article is aided by the framework of Langacker's (1991) cognitive grammar. (30 references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Contrastive Linguistics, Deep Structure, Dutch
Peer reviewedMcClure, William – Language Sciences, 1996
States the differences between the classes of structures that admit a progressive interpretation in English and Japanese and discusses progressive aspect in these two languages on the basis of proposed universally valid definitions. It is concluded that the contrastive behavior of the English "be-ing" construction and the Japanese…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Dutch, English, Italian
Peer reviewedMills, Jon – Language Sciences, 1996
Presents a corpus-based analysis of two lexical items: Modern English "hand" and "fist" and their Middle Cornish equivalents, resulting in discovering semantic and collocational differences between the corresponding lexemes in these two languages. The article argues that grammatical meaning may form part of the lexical meaning…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Case (Grammar), Contrastive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics
Peer reviewedKliffer, Michael D. – Language Sciences, 1996
Examines inalienable possession in French and Mandarin with the aim of bringing out typological affinities. In particular, two unresolved issues are re-examined: Haiman's Iconicity Hypothesis and the question of the protypical semantic categories of iposs. (32 references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, French, Hypothesis Testing, Language Typology
Peer reviewedKent, Stuart; Pitt, Jeremy – Language Sciences, 1996
Discusses the relative merits of feature versus model based semantics for the interpretation of verb phrases in English, French, and German. The article concludes that the simplicity afforded by features is offset by the depth of analysis achieved with event models that are additionally able to support a sophisticated approach to machine…
Descriptors: Context Effect, Contrastive Linguistics, English, French
