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Hsiao, Chi-hua – Language Sciences, 2011
Dynamic and interactive uses of personal pronouns are usually not as neat as traditional grammar describes in that the first and second person pronoun index speakers and addressees in a speech event. Devoted to a prevalent feature of Mandarin Chinese conversation--the switch of the first person singular pronoun "wo", "I", and the second person…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Discourse Analysis, Mandarin Chinese, Traditional Grammar
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Gonzalvez-Garcia, Francisco – Language Sciences, 2009
Drawing on naturally-occurring data extracted from the British National Corpus (BNC) and the Corpus de Referencia del Espanol Actual (CREA) in conjunction with data elicited from native speakers by means of questionnaires, this paper provides a bottom-up, usage-based analysis of instances of depictive secondary predicates involving mainly verba…
Descriptors: English, Spanish, Computational Linguistics, Semantics
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Peng, Fred C. C. – Language Sciences, 1974
Revised version of a paper presented at the 11th International Congress of Linguists, Bologna, Italy, 1972. (DD)
Descriptors: Definitions, Diagrams, English, Grammar
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Rudin, Catherine – Language Sciences, 1977
Argues that the nonfuture use of "will" has exactly the same semantic structure as the future "will," and that the basic meaning of "will" is potential rather than future. (Author/HP)
Descriptors: Grammar, Language Usage, Linguistic Theory, Semantics
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Armstrong, Nigel – Language Sciences, 2002
Considers the socio-stylistic distinction of the French variable morpho-syntactic particle "ne." The interspeaker axes of variation in "ne" are summarized, and intraspeaker data deriving from a corpus of spoken French are considered. Examines intraspeaker variation in "ne" by focusing on the use of the variable by a single speaker in both speech…
Descriptors: French, Language Styles, Language Usage, Language Variation
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Shibamoto, Janet S. – Language Sciences, 1982
Reviews some problems which have risen from the neglect of actual language behavior data in favor of data comprised solely of intuitions as to sentences' grammaticality. Discusses a study of syntactic variation across sex in Japanese as an example of research using socially situated real speech. (EKN)
Descriptors: Japanese, Language Patterns, Language Research, Language Usage
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Singh, Rajendra – Language Sciences, 1977
The premise that diglossamania, which is a pressure for second language learners to produce in English the equivalent style of the mother tongue, and which in turn leads to an artificial style, is discussed. (HP)
Descriptors: Diglossia, Grammar, Language Instruction, Language Styles
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Roldan, Mercedes – Language Sciences, 1973
Study completed with the support of the Pontificia Universidade Catolica de Sao Paulo, Brazil, in 1970-71. (VM)
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Form Classes (Languages), Language Usage, Linguistic Theory
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Householder, Fred W. – Language Sciences, 1972
Paper presented before the Indiana University Linguistics Club on May 13, 1971, in Bloomington, Indiana. (VM)
Descriptors: Diachronic Linguistics, Language Acquisition, Language Patterns, Language Usage