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De Smet, Hendrik – Language, 2012
Actualization is traditionally seen as the process following syntactic reanalysis whereby an item's new syntactic status manifests itself in new syntactic behavior. The process is gradual in that some new uses of the reanalyzed item appear earlier or more readily than others. This article accounts for the order in which new uses appear during…
Descriptors: Nouns, Syntax, Computational Linguistics, Indo European Languages
Hofmeister, Philip; Sag, Ivan A. – Language, 2010
Competence-based theories of island effects play a central role in generative grammar, yet the graded nature of many syntactic islands has never been properly accounted for. Categorical syntactic accounts of island effects have persisted in spite of a wealth of data suggesting that island effects are not categorical in nature and that…
Descriptors: Generative Grammar, Phrase Structure, Role, Syntax
Kiparsky, Paul – Language, 2010
The oldest form of Sanskrit has a class of expressions that are in some respects like asyndetically coordinated syntactic phrases, in other respects like single compound words. I propose to resolve the conflicting evidence by drawing on prosodic phonology, stratal optimality theory, and the lexicalist approach to morphological blocking. I then…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Phonology, Semantics, Classical Languages
Kapatsinski, Vsevolod – Language, 2009
This article proposes and tests an experimental method to assess the psychological reality of hierarchical theories of constituent structure in particular domains. I show that a hierarchical theory of constituent structure necessarily makes the prediction that an association between constituents should be easier to learn than an association…
Descriptors: Syllables, Syntax, Linguistics, Rhyme

Simpson, Andrew; Wu, Zoe – Language, 2002
Reconsiders development and licensing of agreement as a syntactic projection and argues for a productive developmental relation between agreement and the category of focus. Suggests that focus projections are initially selected by a variety of functional heads with real semantic content, then, over time decays into a simple concord shell. Upon…
Descriptors: Semantics, Structural Analysis (Linguistics), Syntax

Shi, Dingxu – Language, 2000
Attempts to provide a precise definition for topic and to derive most of the properties of topic from this definition. The main assumption is that the topic-comment construction is a syntactic device employed to fulfill certain discourse functions. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Grammar, Mandarin Chinese, Structural Analysis (Linguistics), Syntax

Hedberg, Nancy – Language, 2000
Shows how the subject pronoun in a cleft sentence together with the cleft clause function pragmatically as a discontinuous definite description. Presents a new syntactic analysis of clefts, which treats the cleft clause as an extraposed complement of the cleft subject pronoun, adjoined to the clefted constituent. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Pragmatics, Pronouns, Sentence Structure, Structural Analysis (Linguistics)

Kishimoto, Hideki – Language, 1996
Using data from Japanese, this article shows that the distinction between unergatives and unaccusatives is fully determined on the basis of the verb's inherent lexical meanings. (55 references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Grammar, Japanese, Linguistic Theory

Snyder, William – Language, 2001
Provides evidence from child language acquisition and comparative syntax for existence of a syntactic parameter in the classical sense of Chomsky (1981), with simultaneous effects on syntactic argument structure. Implications are that syntax is subject to points of substantive parametric variation as envisioned in Chomsky, and the time course of…
Descriptors: Child Language, Language Acquisition, Language Variation, Linguistic Theory

Wolfram, Walt – Language, 2003
Examines several longstanding, isolated biracial sociolinguistic situations in the coastal and Appalachian regions of North Carolina: a core community of African Americans and two case studies of isolated speakers. Compares diagnostic phonological and morphosyntactic variables for speakers representing different generations of African American and…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Case Studies, Comparative Analysis, Morphology (Languages)

Spears, Arthur K. – Language, 1982
The Black English semi-auxiliary "come" is used to express speaker indignation, as opposed to the motion verb "come." Examines the history of the semi-auxiliary and why it has remained undetected for so long. (EKN)
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Language Patterns, Language Research, Language Usage

Wierzbicka, Anna – Language, 1982
Argues that sentences in the "have a V" frame are not idiosyncratic, but exhibit orderly and systematic behavior and are governed by strict semantic rules. Discusses 10 subtypes, each with a slightly different semantic formula. (EKN)
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Generative Grammar, Language Patterns, Language Research

Bayer, Samuel – Language, 1996
Argues that the account of coordination of unlike categories ought to be unified with the account of feature neutralization under phonological identity. Further argues that this unified account ought not be couched in terms of string of features, but rather in terms of the logic of categories. Study concludes with a discussion of the interactions…
Descriptors: Cluster Grouping, Codification, Grammar, Language Typology

Birner, Betty J. – Language, 1994
Presents a discourse-functional account of English inversion, based on an examination of a large corpus of naturally occurring tokens. It is argued that inversion serves an information-packaging function and that felicitous inversion depends on the relative discourse-familiarity of the information represented by the preposed and postposed…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, English, Language Research, Language Usage

Bright, William – Language, 1990
Texts in Classical Nahuatl from 1524, in the genre of formal oratory, reveal extensive use of lines showing parallel morphosyntactic and semantic structure. Analysis and translation of a passage point to the applicability of structural analysis to "expressive" as well as "referential" texts; and the importance of understanding…
Descriptors: Literature, Morphology (Languages), Oral Language, Semantics
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