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Downing, Pamela – Language, 1977
A number of experimental tasks were conducted in which subjects were asked to interpret and create novel noun-noun compounds. Results indicate that semantic relationships that hold between members of these compounds cannot be characterized in terms of a finite list of appropriate compounding relationships. (CHK)
Descriptors: Deep Structure, English, Language Research, Language Usage
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Silverstein, Michael – Language, 1972
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Deep Structure, Diachronic Linguistics, English
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Berman, Arlene; Szamosi, Michael – Language, 1972
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Descriptive Linguistics, English, Intonation
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Anderson, Stephen R. – Language, 1972
Work supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation to Harvard University and by the Language Research Foundation. Considers the properties and use of the word even'' in English. (VM)
Descriptors: Adverbs, Deep Structure, Descriptive Linguistics, English
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Lakoff, George – Language, 1972
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Descriptive Linguistics, English, Environmental Influences
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Bresnan, Joan W. – Language, 1972
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Descriptive Linguistics, English, Intonation
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Smith, Donald L. – Language, 1978
Mirror images in constituent order are found in a wide range of parallel clause types in Japanese and English. Three detailed explanations for linear orderings are provided. (Author/HP)
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Deep Structure, English, Generative Grammar