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Carnicer, Ramon – Yelmo, 1976
This article discusses three Spanish suffixes used in the formation of nouns and adjectives: -al, -dad, and -cion. (Text is in Spanish.) (CLK)
Descriptors: Adjectives, Descriptive Linguistics, Language Research, Morphemes
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Levin, Maurice I. – Slavic and East European Journal, 1972
Descriptors: Consonants, Descriptive Linguistics, Language Research, Morphology (Languages)
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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
Bedell, George – 1972
This paper presents two views on the categorization of Japanese nouns, verbs, and adjectives into form classes: the traditional view and a view set forth in the writing of Suzuki Akira. The fundamental issue here is the criterion for categorization. Is it the meaning of words, or is it their grammatical behavior that determines the system of…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Classification, Criteria, Descriptive Linguistics
Hu, Jerome P. – 1972
Two linguistic propositions provide the subject matter for this discussion. The first is that all nouns can serve as locatives. This is exemplified in the locative structure of Chinese nouns, mostly with the overt markers of locative suffixes, just as English nouns are used as such in the form of prepositional phrases, or as Japanese nouns are…
Descriptors: Adverbs, Chinese, Descriptive Linguistics, Form Classes (Languages)
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Grimes, Joseph E.; And Others – Anthropological Linguistics, 1978
Presents an heuristic procedure, based on cooccurrence of forms, for identifying the closed systems of a language and to show how the systems interlock, differ in meaning, and manifest themselves. (AM)
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Function Words, Grammar, Language Patterns
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Dunn, John A. – International Journal of American Linguistics, 1979
Describes the connective suffixes used in Coast Tsimshian and Southern Tsimshian. (AM)
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Descriptive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, Dialect Studies
Pupier, Paul; And Others – 1975
This study relates the suffix "-age" to "-able,""-eux,""-ment,""-Xtion," and "-ure" in Quebec French. Morphologically, some "-age" suffixals which can be denominal in Quebec French can only be deverbal in European French. Semantically, "-age" deverbals are subdivided…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Descriptive Linguistics, Form Classes (Languages), French
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Guy, Gregory R. – 1978
A careful examination of the location of variation in the grammar is advocated as opposed to attempts to cover linguistic generalizations with a single rule. Such an examination may lead to non-deterministic solutions, since there may be two distinct possible derivations for a single surface structure. For instance, in Portuguese, the variation…
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Generative Phonology, Grammar, Language Research
Backus, Robert L. – Papers in Japanese Linguistics, 1972
This paper seeks to formulate a principle that explains the working of the Japanese number system with respect to Japanese nouns and that defines the kinds of nouns and contexts that condition the forms of number expressions. It is the author's theory that in applying numbers to nouns, the Japanese make a formal distinction between things they…
Descriptors: Chinese, Criteria, Descriptive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics