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Rowlett, Paul – Language Sciences, 2007
This article focuses on the syntax of a number of subcategories of verb in French which are compatible with a following bare infinitive and which express various kinds of grammatical tense, mood, modality, aspect and voice, as well as such (more lexical?) notions as perception, causation and locomotion. The article starts by cataloguing a number…
Descriptors: Sentence Structure, Verbs, French, Grammar
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Onozuka, Hiromi – Language Sciences, 2007
Rappaport Hovav and Levin [Rappaport Hovav, M., Levin, B., 1998. "Building verb meanings." In: Butt, M., Geuder, W. (Eds.), "The Projection of Arguments: Lexical and Compositional Factors." CSLI Publications, Stanford, pp. 97-134] contend that result verbs disallow object deletion because of their lexical semantic properties. Their point is that…
Descriptors: Semantics, Verbs, English, Language Research
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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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Steinberg, Danny D. – Language Sciences, 1972
Concerns the analytic-synthetic sentence classification dichotomy. (VM)
Descriptors: Classification, Descriptive Linguistics, Experiments, Language Research
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Al-Haq, Fawwaz Al-Abed – Language Sciences, 1992
Discusses functional and anaphoric control in complex sentences (sentences with more than one verb) in Jordanian Arabic within the framework of Lexical-Functional Grammar. It is argued that Jordanian Arabic utilizes anaphoric rather that functional control. (18 references) (JL)
Descriptors: Arabic, Foreign Countries, Grammar, Linguistic Theory
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Singh, Bahadur – Language Sciences, 1975
The use of rhetorical questions to express the negative poses some problems in Hindi; this article attempts to deal with these. (CK)
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Grammar, Hindi, Linguistic Theory
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Stevens, W. J. – Language Sciences, 1972
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Descriptive Linguistics, English, Linguistic Theory
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Knowles, John – Language Sciences, 1975
This paper presents two types of Spanish sentences and contradicts theories which relate the two with identical deep structures. Criteria presented appear to show the two differ in deep structure and are related lexically rather than transformationally. (CK)
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Linguistic Theory, Sentence Structure, Spanish
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Ruhl, Charles – Language Sciences, 1973
Original version of this paper was read at the Fifth Meeting of the Southeastern Conference on Linguistics, University of Maryland, May 1971. Argues that accounting for coherence in discourse should be one of the goals of linguistic theory; making coherent discourse, not the isolated sentence, the domain of linguistic explanation also throws…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Linguistic Theory, Psycholinguistics, Semantics
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Rugaleva, Anelja – Language Sciences, 1977
Nominalization of possessive sentences in Russian is discussed. It is maintained that all lexical surface items originate as terms in a situation model, and that their actualization as different parts of speech is language-specific. Language data are used to support a locative interpretation of the semantic model. (CHK)
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Linguistic Theory, Nouns, Phrase Structure
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Bergen, John J. – Language Sciences, 1977
A significant discovery of generative theory is that the features present in a lexical entry in a sentence's deep structure influence choice and arrangement of words in the surface structure. The systemic and nonsystemic functions of Spanish count and measure entity nouns are elaborated and analyzed. (CHK)
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Language Patterns, Linguistic Theory, Nouns
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Peterson, Thomas H. – Language Sciences, 1974
Descriptors: Deep Structure, English, Form Classes (Languages), Linguistic Theory
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Carston, Robyn; Noh, Eun-Ju – Language Sciences, 1996
Argues that essential property of metalinguistic negation is that it involves the echoic use of material falling within the scope of negation operator. This analysis receives support from an investigation of data from Korean. (25 references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: Ambiguity, Contrastive Linguistics, Inferences, Korean
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Fretheim, Thorstein; Vasko, Ildiko – Language Sciences, 1996
Compares the meanings of the English adverb "then," that is, at that time and after that, to their lexical equivalents in Hungarian and Norwegian, drawing conclusions in the spirit of Sperber and Wilson's relevance theory. Neither Hungarian nor Norwegian has a word that, like the English "then," neutralizes the distinction…
Descriptors: Adverbs, Bulgarian, Cognitive Processes, Contrastive Linguistics