Preferred Argument Structure in Spoken French and Spanish.

Ashby, William J.; Bentivoglio, Paolo

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ERIC Number: EJ474482

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Publication Date: 1993

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Preferred Argument Structure in Spoken French and Spanish.

Ashby, William J.; Bentivoglio, Paolo

Language Variation and Change, v5 n1 p61-76 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.) (Author/LB)

Descriptors: Foreign Countries, French, Language Usage, Linguistic Theory, Nouns, Oral Language, Persuasive Discourse, Research Methodology, Spanish, Structural Linguistics

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