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Hagen, Anton M.; Munstermann, Henk – 1989
A study investigated dialect change in a southern Netherlands city, where the dialect spoken is distant from Dutch in phonology, morphology, and lexicon. The dialect is commonly spoken in the city of Maastricht, and is not restricted to one social class. Subjects were 64 native inhabitants of Maastricht from three generations: older (over 55…
Descriptors: Diachronic Linguistics, Dialect Studies, Dialects, Diglossia
Battye, Adrian – 1989
An examination of some surface differences between quantifier phrases (QP) in standard Italian, Genoese dialect, and French is reported. The analysis makes specific reference to the distribution of empty noun phrase and adjectival phrase categories in SpecN, and uses the concept of inflectional rules. Although details have not yet been worked out,…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Dialect Studies, French, Italian
Breen, Walter – 1988
An analysis of Korean case marking proposes an explanation for several aspects of marking, especially stacking and spreading, from a lexical perspective. The explanation has advantages over previous theories in that (1) it explains the morphology of Korean case marking without reference to several levels of syntactic derivation, including…
Descriptors: Case (Grammar), Dialect Studies, Grammar, Korean
Download full textBickford, J. Albert – 1989
A study of dialectal variation in Mexican Sign Language (MSL), the primary language for a large segment of Mexico's deaf community, is presented. Signs used by nine different sources representing various locations, ages, and social groups are compared. The first section reviews a number of previous informal assessments of dialectal variation in…
Descriptors: Deafness, Dialect Studies, Foreign Countries, Language Patterns
Weber, David – 1989
The computerized morphological parser, AMPLE, grew out of work in computer assisted dialect adaptation. AMPLE contains no language-specific code, but is controlled entirely through external, user-written files, the notations of which were designed for linguists. AMPLE's constructs are linguistic: e.g., allomorph, morpheme, conditioning…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Computational Linguistics, Computer Oriented Programs, Computer Software
Wikberg, Kay – 1984
Some aspects of the field of lexicology in general, and of English lexicology in particular, are examined in light of current linguistic theory. Definitions of lexicology, its role in linguistics, the concept and nature of lexical competence, the relationship of grammar and lexicon, and the process of lexicalization are reviewed. Conversion and…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Data Collection, Definitions, Diachronic Linguistics
