Descriptor
| Contrastive Linguistics | 2 |
| Language Classification | 2 |
| Structural Analysis… | 2 |
| Dialects | 1 |
| English | 1 |
| Eskimo Aleut Languages | 1 |
| Foreign Countries | 1 |
| Form Classes (Languages) | 1 |
| Grammar | 1 |
| Japanese | 1 |
| Language Patterns | 1 |
| More ▼ | |
Author
| Fortescue, Michael | 1 |
| Moore, Harumi | 1 |
Publication Type
| Journal Articles | 2 |
| Reports - Descriptive | 2 |
Education Level
Audience
Location
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Peer reviewedFortescue, Michael – Journal of Linguistics, 1993
Although Eskimo languages are commonly characterized as displaying rather "free" word order compared to major western European languages, West Greenlandic (WG) has a clearly dominant, pragmatically neutral ordering pattern. It is argued that WG behaves more like Slavic languages. (Contains 36 references.) (LB)
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Dialects, Eskimo Aleut Languages, Foreign Countries
Direct linkMoore, Harumi – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2004
How would translators approach a process in which they have to make decisions on mapping the grammatically enforced regular number mechanism of a language such as English onto a system like Japanese, where there is no regular coding of number in a noun phrase? Utilizing the concepts of motivation for representation of number, and of "formal-shift"…
Descriptors: Semantics, Phrase Structure, Nouns, Motivation
