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Peer reviewedGilbert, Pierre – Langue Francaise, 1973
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Idioms, Language Usage, Lexicology
Peer reviewedHarweg, Roland – Zeitschrift fur Dialektologie und Linguistik, 1973
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, German, Language Patterns, Language Usage
Peer reviewedGuilbert, Louis – Langue Francaise, 1973
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Descriptive Linguistics, Language Usage, Lexicology
PDF pending restorationTanaka, Shichiro – 1976
To express that a degree of one event is conditioned by (or paralleled by) a degree of another, the "the...the..." construction with a comparative after each "the" is used. Examples include sentences such as: (1) the more dangerous mountains are to climb, the more challenging they are; (2) the more often a man has been in…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Adverbs, Descriptive Linguistics, English
Peer reviewedAuthier, J.; Meunier, A. – Langue Francaise, 1972
Special issue devoted to the topic of standard spoken usage. (VM)
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Generative Grammar, Individual Characteristics, Language
Peer reviewedRandall, Geoff – English in Australia, 1972
Discusses what grammar is, what language is, recent studies in language research, and relates these to classroom teaching. (MB)
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Descriptive Linguistics, English Instruction, Grammar
Download full textBailey, Charles-James N. – 1973
This volume presents principles and models for describing language variation, and introduces a time-based, dynamic framework for linguistic description. The book first summarizes some of the problems of grammatical description encountered from Saussure through the present and then outlines possibilities for new descriptions of language which take…
Descriptors: Creoles, Descriptive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, Dialect Studies
Martin, Charles B.; Rulon, Curt M. – 1973
This book is a selected distillation of linguistic scholarship which describes from both a historical (diachronic) and a contemporary (synchronic) viewpoint that conglomerate set of dialects and idiolects called English. The emphasis is on contemporary American English. But foreign language examples are also given in an attempt to demonstrate the…
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, Grammar, Higher Education
MARCKWARDT, ALBERT H. – 1963
TO DISPEL THE MYSTERIES SURROUNDING LINGUISTICS, ENGLISH TEACHERS SHOULD UNDERSTAND CERTAIN FEATURES OF THE LANGUAGE AS THEY ARE PERCEIVED BY THE LINGUIST. THE LINGUIST SEES LANGUAGE AS "A SYSTEM OF PATTERNED VOCAL BEHAVIOR BY MEANS OF WHICH MEN COOPERATE IN SOCIETY." BY USING RIGOROUS SCIENTIFIC METHODS, HE STUDIES REPRESENTATIVE AND AUTHENTIC…
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, English Instruction, Function Words, Language
James, Carl – 1980
Contrastive analysis is viewed as an interlinguistic, bidirectional phenomenon which is concerned with both the form and function of language. As such, contrastive analysis must view language psycholinguistically and sociolinguistically as a system to be both described and acquired. Due to the need for a psychological component in the analysis,…
Descriptors: Case (Grammar), Contrastive Linguistics, Descriptive Linguistics, Discourse Analysis
EMIG, JANET ANN – 1967
THE TEACHING OF THE NATIVE LANGUAGE CAN BE DIVIDED INTO THREE MAJOR MODES--THE PRESCRIPTIVE, THE DESCRIPTIVE, AND THE PRODUCTIVE. PRESCRIPTIVE TEACHING PROCEEDS FROM TWO (SUSPECT) ASSUMPTIONS--(1) THAT THERE ARE ABSOLUTE STANDARDS UNANIMOUSLY KNOWN AND SHARED BY EDUCATED ADULTS, TO WHICH A STUDENT'S LANGUAGE SHOULD ATTAIN, AND (2) THAT…
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Elementary Education, English Instruction, Grammar
