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Download full textDorgeloh, Heidrun – 1994
Locative inversion, one aspect of word order in English discourse in which the positions of verb and noun phrase are inverted (e.g., "in front of the house is a tree"), is examined. It is argued that inversions after deictic adverbs and those after non-deictic, locative constituents are related, both representing devices: (1) expressing point of…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, English, Foreign Countries, Language Patterns
Szwedek, Aleksander – 1977
An important feature of the sentence in any language is its thematic structure, new/given information organization. It has been found that in English, where word order is grammatically determined, the thematic structure is signalled by the place of the sentence stress. If an indefinite noun (new information) is present in the sentence, it bears…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, English, Grammar
Adamson, H. D. – 1987
This paper attempts to show the relationship between variable rules and more widely used psycholinguistic constructs such as amalgams and schemas, and to point out how variationists' methods can be useful in the study of language acquisition. The traditional rule, the rule for forming the past tense of regular verbs in English, is discussed as it…
Descriptors: Child Language, Comparative Analysis, Developmental Stages, English
Enkvist, Nils Erik; Kohonen, Viljo – 1976
This volume contains papers presented in connection with a symposium held in 1975 and sponsored by Abo Akademi, for the purpose of discussing ongoing research in word-order studies. Papers include: (1) a prolegomena by N.E. Enkvist; (2) "On the Ordering of Sister Constituents in Swedish," by E. Andersson; (3) "What is New…
Descriptors: Adverbs, Conferences, Connected Discourse, Discourse Analysis
Seymour, Deborah Mandelbaum – 1995
An analysis of the structure of possessive-adjective phrases (e.g., "women's new suitcases, new women's suitcases") in English looks at some data that appear to conflict with the intuitive order of S-structure possessives preceding adjectives. A solution to this apparent anomaly is proposed: it is not the compounding of possessive-noun…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Comparative Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics, English
Ree, Joe J. – 1975
The purpose of this paper is to show that: (1) language universals have much to offer to students of contrastive linguistics, and (2) in order to make contrastive analysis more meaningful, one ought to go beyond cataloguing mere contrastive structure statements and capture underlying structural tendencies. Some characteristics of word order in…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Adverbs, Applied Linguistics, Comparative Analysis
