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Viau, Joshua; Lidz, Jeffrey – Language, 2011
In this article we offer up a particular linguistic phenomenon, quantifier-variable binding in Kannada ditransitives, as a proving ground upon which competing claims about learnability can be evaluated with respect to the relative abstractness of children's grammatical knowledge. We first identify one aspect of syntactic representation that…
Descriptors: Semantics, Verbs, Grammar, Language Acquisition
Cacoullos, Rena Torres; Walker, James A. – Language, 2009
We use the variationist method to elucidate the expression of future time in English, examining multiple grammaticalization in the same domain ("will" and "going to"). Usage patterns show that the choice of form is not determined by invariant semantic readings such as proximity, certainty, willingness, or intention. Rather, particular instances of…
Descriptors: Language Variation, Semantics, Language Usage, English
Tagliamonte, Sali A.; D'Arcy, Alexandra – Language, 2009
What is the mechanism by which a linguistic change advances across successive generations of speakers? We explore this question by using the model of incrementation provided in Labov 2001 and analyzing six current changes in English. Extending Labov's focus on recent and vigorous phonological changes, we target ongoing morphosyntactic(-semantic)…
Descriptors: Language Variation, Phonology, Semantics, Grammar

Langacker, Ronald W. – Language, 1982
Discusses alternatives to a number of assumptions fundamental to established linguistic theory which lead to a coherent view of linguistic structure that treats grammar as a symbolic phenomenon and emphasizes importance of analyzability to grammatical structure. Outlines descriptive framework called Space Grammar and its approach to semantic…
Descriptors: English, Grammar, Linguistics, Semantics

Sag, Ivan A.; Pollard, Carl – Language, 1991
Presents an integrated theory of the syntactic and semantic representation of complements where the unexpressed subjects of the embedded verb-phrase complement are subject to certain interpretation restrictions. It is argued that the grammar of English controlled complements can be derived from the interaction of semantically based principles of…
Descriptors: English, Linguistic Theory, Pronouns, Semantics

Wolfson, Nessa – Language, 1979
Introduces the theory that the conversational historical present (CHP) in itself has no significance. It is the switching between CHP and the past tenses that is the relevant feature. (Author/CFM)
Descriptors: English, Language Patterns, Language Usage, Linguistic Theory

Lee, Chungmin – Language, 1975
English has two classes of modal deference expressions that may be superordinate to performative verbs. Verbs representing the illocutionary force of a sentence are sometimes embedded in modal constructions whose function is auxiliary to the central illocutionary act. This phenomenon is discussed in this paper. (CK)
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, English, Grammar, Linguistic Theory

Portner, Paul – Language, 1998
Presents a semantic analysis of English progressive as an intentional operator within the framework of modal semantics. The treatment allows a combination of the central idea that the progressive's meaning has a major modal component with insights of other theories. Using a more sophisticated background theory of modality allows natural solutions…
Descriptors: English, Language Patterns, Language Research, Linguistic Theory

Barker, Chris – Language, 1998
Offers a detailed analysis of the English suffix "-ee" (employee, refugee, etc.) based on 1,500 naturally occurring tokens of 500 word types. Argues that certain semantic constraints, taken together, amount to a special-purpose thematic role that actively constrains productive use of derivational morphology. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: English, Language Patterns, Language Research, Linguistic Theory

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

Philip, William – Language, 2000
Presents psycholinguistic evidence from adult speakers of English, Norwegian, and Dutch, and from child speakers of Dutch and Norwegian that supports Dalrymple's (1995) proposal that the reciprocal pronoun has a flexible semantic value defining a range of readings of varying logical strength and that a semantic principle determines the reading…
Descriptors: Adults, Dutch, English, Norwegian

Downing, Pamela – Language, 1977
A number of experimental tasks were conducted in which subjects were asked to interpret and create novel noun-noun compounds. Results indicate that semantic relationships that hold between members of these compounds cannot be characterized in terms of a finite list of appropriate compounding relationships. (CHK)
Descriptors: Deep Structure, English, Language Research, Language Usage

Osgood, Charles E.; Richards, Meredith Martin – Language, 1973
Descriptors: Cognitive Tests, Diagrams, English, Experiments

Seiler, Hansjakob – Language, 1971
Collitz lecture delivered at the meeting of the Linguistic Society of America in Columbus, Ohio, July 1970. (DS)
Descriptors: Classical Languages, Contrastive Linguistics, English, Grammar

Carlson, Greg N. – Language, 1977
It is argued here that English contains a distinct class of relative clauses called amount relatives. On the surface, these are much like restrictive relative clauses, but they have a syntax and semantics that align them more with comparatives than with restrictive relatives. (Author/KM)
Descriptors: English, Language Patterns, Linguistic Theory, Nouns
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