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Mittwoch, Anita – Journal of Linguistics, 1977
The performative analysis claims that every sentence we utter refers to our utterance of it, and has a higher performative clause of the form "I plus Verb plus You." This paper deals with data that have been used to support this analysis, and shows that they do not confirm it. (CHK)
Descriptors: Adverbs, Form Classes (Languages), Pragmatics, Sentence Structure
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Anderson, John – Journal of Linguistics, 1990
An examination of the syntactic consequences of a notionalist grammar assumption supports the differentiation of major word classes in terms of combinations of notional features and predication or nominality components. (35 references) (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Language Patterns, Lexicology, Linguistic Theory
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Hudson, R. A. – Journal of Linguistics, 1973
Descriptors: Adverbs, Deep Structure, Form Classes (Languages), Nouns
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Hudson, R. A. – Journal of Linguistics, 1987
Zwicky's analysis of syntactic notions as possible candidates for "head," based on constituent-structure theory, is discussed in detail. This analysis is contrasted with the results gained form one provided in a dependency-based theory in which "head" is the name of a grammatical relation category. (Author/LMO)
Descriptors: English, Form Classes (Languages), Linguistic Theory, Morphology (Languages)
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Zwicky, A. M. – Journal of Linguistics, 1987
In the frameword of generalized phrase-structure grammar, possessive clitics (POSS), bound words (BWs), and phrasal affixes (PAs) are analyzed. It is argued that English POSS should be treated as an edge-located inflectional affix, since POSS is suppressed in the presence of other Z affixes (plural, other possessives). (Author/LMO)
Descriptors: English, Form Classes (Languages), Function Words, Grammar
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Borsley, R. D. – Journal of Linguistics, 1987
Responds to criticism of an earlier (1984) paper in which it was argued that the complements of Welsh control and raising verbs should be analyzed as verb phrases (VPs) and not as clauses with empty subjects. The l984 position is defended against the traditional analysis in the three critiqued areas.
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Linguistic Theory, Morphology (Languages), Phrase Structure
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Horrocks, G.; Stavrou, M. – Journal of Linguistics, 1987
Given that the principal bounding nodes, or barriers, for subjacency are noun phrase (NP), S, and S-bar, with S optionally a barrier, NP and S-bar obligatorily barriers, differences between Greek and English WH-movement are discussed. The contrasts are derived from independently motivated differences in NP structure between the two languages.…
Descriptors: Case (Grammar), Comparative Analysis, Deep Structure, English