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Cysouw, Michael; Forker, Diana – Language, 2009
The reconstruction of genealogical relationships between languages is traditionally performed through lexical comparison and the establishment of regular sound changes. The historical analysis of other aspects of linguistic structure, like syntactic patterns or the function of grammatical elements, is normally understood to depend on a previously…
Descriptors: Semantics, Visualization, Linguistic Theory, Morphology (Languages)
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Clark, Herbert H.; Gerrig, Richard J. – Language, 1990
Discusses a theory that quotations are demonstrations that are component parts of language use. Demonstrations are described as unlike descriptions in two main ways: they are serious rather than nonserious, and they depict rather than describe their referents. (69 references) (JL)
Descriptors: Language Research, Language Usage, Linguistic Theory, Oral Language
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Davis, Philip W.; Saunders, Ross – Language, 1975
The principal nominal deictic affixes of Bella Coola, a Salishan language of British Columbia, are examined. (Author/RM)
Descriptors: Grammar, Language Usage, Linguistic Theory, Salish
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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
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Odden, David – Language, 1994
Presents a theory of phonological adjacency requirements. Locality theory is defined by a universal locality condition, which requires elements to be within a plane, the adjacency parameter, which in turn allows rules to impose further constraints on the maximal distance between interacting segments, and by transplanar locality, which bans certain…
Descriptors: Language Research, Language Usage, Linguistic Theory, Phonology
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Kay, Paul; Fillmore, Charles J. – Language, 1999
Uses a detailed analysis of a single grammatical problem to present the principal commitments and mechanisms of a grammatical theory that assigns a central role to the notion of grammatical construction. The grammatical phenomenon used to introduce construction grammar is the construction that licenses the surprising syntactic and semantic…
Descriptors: Grammar, Language Usage, Linguistic Theory, Semantics
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Newton, Brian – Language, 1979
One important function of the imperfective aspect in Modern Greek is to indicate indefinite repetition; when a modal element is present, however, the perfective may be selected instead. (Author/CFM)
Descriptors: Grammar, Greek, Language Patterns, Language Usage
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Prince, Ellen F. – Language, 1978
Demonstrates through an examination of naturally occurring discourse that Wh-Clefts and It-Clefts are not interchangeable; they have highly specialized distributions and functions. (EJS)
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Grammar, Language Usage, Linguistic Theory
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Gamkrelidze, Thomas V. – Language, 1974
The Saussurean thesis of arbitrariness of the sign is considered incomplete since it specifies only vertical and not horizontal relations. (DD)
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Language, Language Usage, Linguistic Theory
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Ladd, D. Robert, Jr. – Language, 1978
This articles discusses intonation in terms of different kinds of contours and demonstrates the inadequacy of any approach to English intonation which treats contours as sequences of significant pitch levels. (NCR)
Descriptors: Intonation, Language Patterns, Language Usage, Linguistic Theory
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Beard, Robert – Language, 1976
A context-sensitive, generative lexical rule model is developed that is capable of overcoming the insufficiencies of both the transformationalist and the lexicalist approaches to work formation, e.g., semantic-syntactic asymmetry, metaphoric usage, and restricted rule productivity. (DB)
Descriptors: Adjectives, Form Classes (Languages), Language Usage, Linguistic Theory
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Sankoff, Gillian; Brown, Penelope – Language, 1976
This article discusses the discourse functions of relativization. Relativization is seen as an instance of the application of "bracketing" devices used in the organization of information. Syntactic structure is thus seen as a component of, and derivative from, discourse structure. (CLK)
Descriptors: Creoles, Discourse Analysis, Form Classes (Languages), Language Patterns
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Sankoff, David; Cedergren, Henrietta J. – Language, 1976
Computer-based multidimensional scaling techniques are used to determine the dimensionality of grammatical variation in three large sets of data: Ross' (1973) Noun Phrase and fake Noun Phrase data; Sankoff's (1974) complementizer "que"-deletion (Montreal French) data; and Cedergren's (1973) syllable-final S-reduction (Panamanian Spanish) data. (DB)
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Grammar, Language Patterns, Language Usage