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Herrick, Earl M. – 1969
It is possible to apply Lamb's stratificational theory and analysis to English graphonomy, but additional notation devices must be used to explain particular graphemes and their characteristics. The author presents cases where Lamb's notation is inadequate. In those cases, he devises new means for performing the analysis. The result of this…
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Diagrams, English, Graphemes

Huttar, George L. – Linguistics, 1973
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Diagrams, English, Linguistic Theory

Comrie, Bernard – Studia Anglica Posnaniensia, 1973
Underlying structures in English sentences containing the verbs "order" and "tell" are compared. (Available from Studia Anglica Posnaniensia, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland) (RM)
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Descriptive Linguistics, English, Linguistic Theory
Zwicky, Arnold M. – 1973
The 25 entries in this bibliography constitute a survey of the linguistic literature related to coivs (Connection-of-Ideas Verbs). The bibliography is divided into three sections. In Part 1, the introductory remarks, coivs are described and classified; and examples of dative, parenthetical, and quotative coivs are given. Part 2 considers the…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Descriptive Linguistics, English, Linguistic Theory
Levenston, E. A. – International Review of Applied Linguistics, 1965
Syntactic differences between languages are the focus of attention in this approach to contrastive study of grammatical categories. The categories of the first language are listed in a "translation-paradigm" opposite the possible categories of the target language after translation of the corpus. Three examples which contrast the clause, verbal…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Descriptive Linguistics, English, Form Classes (Languages)

Oh, Choon-Kyu – 1970
In order to make linguistically significant generalizations in formulating transformational rules, a limited number of variables must be used. Such a limitation rule is the Complex Noun Phrase (NP) Constraint, active in English and, according to claims, universal. The fact that Korean synta, which is greatly different from English, also requires…
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Descriptive Linguistics, English, Korean

Monod, M. J. – 1970
Morphological and syntactical considerations of problems of interference which arise between the mother tongue and the target language are developed in this paper written in English and in French. Linguistically oriented, the article focuses on the identification of different linguistic elements which compose a syntagmatic form. A detailed…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Descriptive Linguistics, Diagrams, English
Varga, Laszlo – 1975
This is a contrastive analysis of British English, American English and Hungarian sentence prosody. The first part is an introduction stating the study's objective, scope and data, and briefly surveying the related literature. It outlines the study's view of prosodic features and its principles of comparison and prediction. Part Two inventories…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Descriptive Linguistics, English, Error Patterns