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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
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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
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Klausenburger, Jurgen – Language, 1978
An analysis of some of the historical rules of consonant deletion, vowel deletion, nasalization, and initial h-deletion--all recapitulated synchronically within the transformational generative accounts of French linking--showing that they have undergone morphologization in the form of inversion, and that h-aspire words have been assigned the…
Descriptors: French, Generative Grammar, Generative Phonology, Grammar
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Babby, Leonard H. – Language, 1973
Descriptors: Adjectives, Case (Grammar), Deep Structure, Diagrams
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Cattell, Ray – Language, 1978
An analysis of the derivation of "why" and other interrogative adverbs shows that they do not involve the movement of NP's, and therefore do not present counter-examples to the NP Ecology Constraint. (Author/HP)
Descriptors: Adverbs, Generative Grammar, Linguistic Theory, Morphology (Languages)
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Freidin, Robert – Language, 1975
The assumption that the active/passive relation is structural in nature and therefore best expressed by a transformation is debated. The relation can be captured in the lexicon without a passive transformation. An interpretive rule is proposed to handle the problem. Passives are shown as generated by phrase structure rules. (SC)
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Generative Grammar, Linguistic Theory, Nouns
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Smith, Donald L. – Language, 1978
Mirror images in constituent order are found in a wide range of parallel clause types in Japanese and English. Three detailed explanations for linear orderings are provided. (Author/HP)
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Deep Structure, English, Generative Grammar
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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
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Langacker, Ronald W. – Language, 1978
Introduces selected concepts from the Space Grammar theory of linguistic structure. It is argued that the form of the auxiliary, apart from certain morphological adjustments, reflects each step of the conceptual path leading from the speaker to the objective situation described by the main verb. (Author/EJS)
Descriptors: Grammar, Linguistic Theory, Morphology (Languages), Semantics
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Josephs, Lewis S. – Language, 1972
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Grammar, Japanese, Semantics
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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
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Klein, Wolfgang – Language, 2000
Shows that the German "perfekt" has a uniform temporal meaning that results systematically from the interaction of its three components--finiteness marking, auxiliary, and past participle--and that the two readings are the consequence of a structural ambiguity. This analysis also predicts the properties of other participle constructions, in…
Descriptors: German, Sentence Structure, Structural Analysis (Linguistics), Tenses (Grammar)
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Klein, Wolfgang – Language, 1995
Discusses the characterization of the meaning of the Russian perfective-imperfective opposition and concludes that these characterizations fail. The article maintains that aspects are temporal relations between the time at which some situation obtains and the time for which an assertion is made by the utterance that describes the situation. (33…
Descriptors: Russian, Semantics, Speech Communication, Tenses (Grammar)
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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
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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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