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Peer reviewedAshby, William J.; Bentivoglio, Paolo – Language Variation and Change, 1993
The quantitative methodology of GOLDVARB is used to examine the variable distribution of lexical noun phrases representing core arguments of the verb in a corpus of spoken French and Spanish. The distribution is shown to conform to a grammatically and pragmatically motivated pattern known as Preferred Argument Structure. (Contains 26 references.)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, French, Language Usage, Linguistic Theory
Peer reviewedGeisler, Christer – Language Variation and Change, 1998
Looks at infinitival relative clauses, such as "Mary is the person to ask," and their distribution in spoken English. Analyzes the correlation between the function of the antecedent in the relative clause and the function of the whole postmodified noun phrase in the matrix clause. (Author/JL)
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, English, Nouns, Oral Language
