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Krupatkin, Ja. B. – Linguistics, 1974
Original Russian version appeared in "Voprosy jazykoznanija" 3, 1971. (DD)
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, Language Patterns, Modern Languages
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Bennett, William A. – Linguistics, 1975
Clitics are explained through the interplay of different levels of language in performance. It is shown that clitic movement can be blocked on phonological ground, and accusative marked by "shwa" follows, rather than precedes, a clitic segment containing a back vowel--"vous le" or "nous le". (SCC)
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, French, Language Patterns, Linguistic Performance
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Saukkonen, Pauli – Linguistics, 1973
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Diagrams, Form Classes (Languages), Grammar
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Paunonen, Heikki – Linguistics, 1976
Describes a study showing how a linguistic pattern of alternation affecting an entire speech community is realized in individual idiolects; an example representative of colloquial Helsinki speech is used. Results support observations already presented by Labov, according to which linguistic change is linguistically structured to a very high…
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, Dialects, Finnish
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Dickerson, Wayne B. – Linguistics, 1975
Spelling patterns in English and their underlying unity are described. A direction for research in the area of Anglo-Saxon and Old English words in present-day English is suggested. (RM)
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, English, Graphemes
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Huisman, Ronald D. – Linguistics, 1973
Paper written at a field workshop conducted by Joseph E. Grimes; research conducted under the auspices of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, July 1968-January 1971, and partially supported by the National Science Foundation. (DD)
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Distinctive Features (Language), Language Patterns, Language Usage
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Galton, Herbert – Linguistics, 1973
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Determiners (Languages), English, French
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Hirst, D. J.; Ginesy, M. – Linguistics, 1974
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Descriptive Linguistics, Distinctive Features (Language), English
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Levickij, Ju. – Linguistics, 1975
Attempts a preliminary typological study of sub-languages constituting one national language. Three types of sub-languages are distinguished: natural language, language of science, and informational language. They are compared to the three levels of language analysis, speech, norm and system. (RM)
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Grammar, Language Patterns
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Law, Howard W. – Linguistics, 1971
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Descriptive Linguistics, Language Patterns, Language Research
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Gaatone, David – Linguistics, 1976
This article discusses prepositive expressions, expressions whose meaning is equivalent to that of one single preposition, and preposition groups in French. (Text is in French.) (CLK)
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Form Classes (Languages), French, Function Words