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Patterson, William T. – Linguistics, 1973
Genealogical properties refer to those etymological properties which underlie such classifications as inherited, borrowed, on internally created words. (DD)
Descriptors: Etymology, Language Usage, Spanish, Statistical Data
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Strange, David – Linguistics, 1973
Paper prepared during a workshop conducted by Joseph E. Grimes, January-April 1971, at Ukarumpa, Territory of New Guinea, and partially supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation. (DD)
Descriptors: Case (Grammar), Distinctive Features (Language), Semantics, Sentence Structure
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Oswalt, Robert L. – Linguistics, 1973
Descriptors: Consonants, English, Letters (Alphabet), Morphophonemics
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Friedrich, Paul – Linguistics, 1972
Discussion of phenomenon of shape-differentiation as it appears in the numerical classifiers, classificatory verbs, and body-part suffixes of the Tarascan language. (RS)
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Classification, Descriptive Linguistics, Function Words
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Davis, Donald R. – Linguistics, 1973
Research conducted under the auspices of the Summer Institute of Linguistics and partially supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation. (DD)
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Morphology (Languages), Nouns
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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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Kooyers, Orneal – Linguistics, 1975
Deals with clause chaining in Washkuk, a language spoken by about 2500 people in northeastern New Guinea. Four clause types are ranked from lowest to highest. Any clause subordinates all preceding clauses of lower order. (TL)
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Malayo Polynesian Languages, Morphology (Languages), Nouns