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Peer reviewedWard, Gregory; Birner, Betty – Language, 1995
Presents an account of existential "there"-sentences in which the postverbal negative phrase (NP) is required to represent a "hearer-new" entity. The article identifies five types of formally definite yet hearer-new NPs that may occur in "there"-sentences. The restriction against definite NPs in "there"-sentences results from a mismatch in…
Descriptors: Context Effect, Data Analysis, Discourse Analysis, Negative Forms (Language)
Pepinsky, Harold B. – 1978
A Computer-Assisted Language Analysis System (CALAS) was developed as a syntactic and semantic analyzer of machine readable text in English. CALAS includes a set of computer programs, an algorithm for implementation, and human editors who assist the computer and its programmer in the processing of data. Data analysis is accomplished in three…
Descriptors: Case (Grammar), Componential Analysis, Computational Linguistics, Computer Programs
Peer reviewedLafford, Barbara A.; Ryan, John M. – Hispania, 1995
Examination of the development of form/function relations of the prepositions "por" and "para" at different levels of proficiency in the interlanguage of study-abroad students in Granada, Spain, revealed "noncanonical" as well as "canonical" uses of these prepositions. The most common noncanonical uses were…
Descriptors: College Students, Data Analysis, Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedBrennan, Susan E. – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1995
Examines what linguistic devices speakers use to make an entity salient in a discourse and how they re-refer to discourse entities moving in and out of focus. Speakers' center of attention was manipulated via a videotaped basketball game. Speakers referred to prominent entities as subjects; when they referred to them as objects, they repeated the…
Descriptors: Attention Control, Audiotape Recordings, Auditory Stimuli, College Students
