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Martinez, Glenn A. – Language Variation and Change, 2000
Examines the reduction of syntactic options in South Texas Spanish narrative discourse during the nineteenth century. Argues that nineteenth century Texas Spanish made ample use of the absolute construction as an orientation strategy in narrative discourse. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Diachronic Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Grammar, Language Variation
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Geisler, Christer – Language Variation and Change, 1998
Looks at infinitival relative clauses, such as "Mary is the person to ask," and their distribution in spoken English. Analyzes the correlation between the function of the antecedent in the relative clause and the function of the whole postmodified noun phrase in the matrix clause. (Author/JL)
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, English, Nouns, Oral Language
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Sankoff, Gillian; Thibault, Pierrette; Nagy, Naomi; Blondeau, Helene; Fonollosa, Marie-Odile; Gagnon, Lucie – Language Variation and Change, 1997
Points out that the use of discourse markers by speakers of Anglophone Montreal French shows great variation in individual repertoires and frequency of use. Argues that mastery of the appropriate use of discourse markers reveals the speakers' integration into the local speech community. (28 references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries, Language Usage, Language Variation
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Vincent, Diane; Sankoff, David – Language Variation and Change, 1992
Analysis of the distribution of punctors, a class of markers commonly classified as nervous tics, fillers, or signs of hesitation, in one corpus of French is presented. Some aspects of their conditioning are explained in terms of the interaction of etymological, discursive, syntactic, and social constraints. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Form Classes (Languages), French, Interpersonal Communication
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Maclagan, Margaret A.; Gordon, Elizabeth – Language Variation and Change, 1996
Reports a study of the diphthongs, "EAR" and "AIR," which are merging for many New Zealand speakers. Each stage of the study involves the analysis of word lists and sentences read by over 100 14- and 15-year-old school pupils. Results indicate a trend toward a merger to the EAR diphthong. (18 references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries
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Yaeger-Dror, Malcah – Language Variation and Change, 1997
Investigates the contraction of negatives in a corpus of discourse and writing in order to permit comparison of the relative influences of various linguistic and social parameters on contraction. Argues that pragmatic and morphological interpretation of negatives entails that negative contraction and auxiliary contraction should be distinguished…
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, Discourse Analysis, Language Variation, Morphology (Languages)
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Tarallo, Fernando; Kato, Mary A. – Language Variation and Change, 1993
Results are presented on the grammar of spoken Brazilian Portuguese, with focus on the syntactic boundaries of the main constituents of an utterance. Major differences are found both in the distribution of filling by syntactic adjuncts versus discourse elements and in the susceptibility of different syntactic boundaries to be filled. (Contains 33…
Descriptors: Cultural Context, Demography, Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries
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Arroyo, Jose Luis Blas; Tricker, Deborah – Language Variation and Change, 2000
Using the variationist comparative method, the status of ambiguous lone Spanish-origin nouns in Catalan discourse is determined by analyzing their distribution and conditioning and by comparing them to their counterparts in unmixed Spanish or in multiple-word code switches. Suggests that the grammar of these nouns is Catalan, and their categorical…
Descriptors: Ambiguity, Code Switching (Language), Contrastive Linguistics, Discourse Analysis
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Biber, Douglas; Hared, Mohamed – Language Variation and Change, 1992
A multidimensional approach analyzes the linguistic characteristics of 26 Somali spoken and written registers. Somali represents a different language type, and no single dimension adequately describes the relations among registers. Findings are related to previous analyses of English, Tuvaluan, and Korean. (27 references) (Author/LB)
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries, Language Research, Language Variation
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Dubois, Sylvie – Language Variation and Change, 1992
A study of the use of phrase-terminal extension particles in Montreal (Canada) French analyzed composition, sociodemographic patterns of occurrence, and discourse functions of 76 particle types in 4 distinct classes. (MSE)
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries, Form Classes (Languages), French
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Naro, Anthony Julius; Scherre, Maria Marta Pereira – Language Variation and Change, 1996
Discusses a study of concord phenomena in spoken Brazilian Portuguese. Findings indicate the presence of disfluencies, including apparent corrections, in about 15% of the relevant tokens in the corpus of recorded speech data. It is concluded that speech is not overly laden with errors, and there is nothing in the data to mislead the language…
Descriptors: Classification, Discourse Analysis, Error Analysis (Language), Error Correction
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Cameron, Richard – Language Variation and Change, 1993
Investigated the potential correlation of agreement marking with the expression of pronominal subjects in the speech of 10 Spanish speakers from Puerto Rico and 10 from Spain. The results show not only similar patterns of pronominal expression but also similar rankings of constraints on pronominal expression in both dialects. (MDM)
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Dialects, Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries
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Paredes Silva, Vera Lucia – Language Variation and Change, 1993
Evidence from a sample of informal written language (personal correspondence) shows that the most important constraints on pronoun usage in subject position are discourse-based. The quantitative analysis supports the hypothesis that pronoun usage is "functional" since semantically relevant information is preserved in surface structure.…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries, Language Usage, Letters (Correspondence)
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Bayley, Robert; Pease-Alvarez, Lucinda – Language Variation and Change, 1997
This study tested a theory of null subject pronoun variation, based on a model of discourse connectedness, on the oral and written Spanish narratives of northern California Mexican-descent pre-adolescents. Results indicate the children with greatest depth of ties to the United States are less likely to use overt pronouns than children born in…
Descriptors: Child Language, Discourse Analysis, Language Patterns, Language Variation
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Meechan, Marjory; Poplack, Shana – Language Variation and Change, 1995
Examines the effect of categorial nonequivalence on language mixture in two corpora of spontaneous bilingual speech--Wolof-French and Fongbe-French--exhibiting different typological contrasts in adjectival modification structures. (47 references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: Adjectives, Bilingualism, Code Switching (Language), Contrastive Linguistics
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