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Lebedeva, N. V. – Linguistics, 1974
Discusses syntax and the use of syntagma in English poetry. (CK)
Descriptors: English, Language Usage, Morphology (Languages), Poetry
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Sopher, H. – Linguistics, 1974
Discusses three different patterns of restrictive and non-restrictive prepositional relative clauses--their functions, variations and permitted uses. (CK)
Descriptors: Grammar, Language Patterns, Language Usage, Linguistic Theory
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Reiter, N. – Linguistics, 1977
Presents some examples of differences of meaning, as well as "secondary effects," in noun phrases using or omitting the articles, definite and indefinite, in German, e.g.: "Die Kinder machen Krach,""Die Kinder machen den Krach," and "Die Kinder machen einen Krach!" The question is seen as needing much more research. (WGA)
Descriptors: Determiners (Languages), Function Words, German, Language Usage
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Greenbaum, Sidney – Linguistics, 1977
To ensure reliable language data for research there is a need for experiments eliciting acceptability judgments. Experimental data are discussed to show that evaluation of a sentence may be affected by the sentence with which it is paired. Sentences with similar deviances should be presented as a set for evaluation. (CHK)
Descriptors: Context Clues, Language Research, Language Tests, Language Usage
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Kvavik, Karen H. – Linguistics, 1975
The corpus of the study is presented and discussed, problems of Spanish suffix analysis are presented, and then noun usage--suffixed versus unsuffixed nouns, the gender marker in the corpus, the most frequently used suffixes, and general characteristics and trends of usage-are discussed. (SCC)
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Language Research, Language Usage, Morphemes
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Liston, Jerry L. – Linguistics, 1973
Contributory data derived in part from a computer-generated concordance of Motovilova et al. (1964), prepared under URI Grant SRF 282, University of Texas at Austin, 1967-68. (DD)
Descriptors: Case (Grammar), Descriptive Linguistics, Form Classes (Languages), Language Usage
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Cofer, Thomas M. – Linguistics, 1975
A data-based study done in Philadelphia examined the constraints on relative pronoun deletion and looked for a possible correlation to social stratification or stylistic variation. Restrictive relative clauses only are examined. Constraints appear to be due to performance factors related to sentence processing. (SCC)
Descriptors: Language Processing, Language Styles, Language Usage, Language Variation
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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