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Anderson, Alison A. – Linguistics, 1974
This paper uses paraphrastic analysis to clarify several concepts related to the syntax of the plural in English sentences. (CK)
Descriptors: English, Linguistic Theory, Plurals, Sentence Structure
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Cooper, William E. – Linguistics, 1974
Focuses on syntactic differences extending across two or more sensory processes, and finds that the referents of the vision modality are more flexible that those of other senses. (CK)
Descriptors: English, Grammar, Linguistic Theory, Sensory Experience
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Lebedeva, N. V. – Linguistics, 1974
Discusses syntax and the use of syntagma in English poetry. (CK)
Descriptors: English, Language Usage, Morphology (Languages), Poetry
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Cooper, William E. – Linguistics, 1974
It is argued that among English sensation referents there is a primacy of vision referents for syntactic, semantic and morphological phenomena. (RM)
Descriptors: English, Etymology, Linguistic Theory, Morphology (Languages)
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Sanders, Gerald A. – Linguistics, 1977
An examination of the predicates "optional" and "obligatory" is made that suggests that they are far more appropriately viewed as derived rather than primitive notions, whose appropriate attributions follow in all cases from independent linguistic facts and principles of a much more general and more generally significant character. (Author/HP)
Descriptors: English, Linguistic Theory, Phonology, Sentence Structure
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Hirst, D. J. – Linguistics, 1976
This article presents a description of intonation in English in terms of the relationship between the syntactic surface structure of a given sentence and certain distinctive intonative features.
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Distinctive Features (Language), English, Intonation
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Rivara, Rene – Linguistics, 1975
The theory is presented that there are in Indo-European languages only two comparative morphemes and correspondingly two degrees of the comparative, superiority and equality. (RM)
Descriptors: English, Form Classes (Languages), Indo European Languages, Linguistic Theory
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Scott, Robert Ian – Linguistics, 1973
Descriptors: Deep Structure, English, Expressive Language, Grammar
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Hirst, D. J.; Ginesy, M. – Linguistics, 1974
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Descriptive Linguistics, Distinctive Features (Language), English
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Spangler, Wayne E. – Linguistics, 1975
The 'determiner' category was originally set up by structuralists for identifying nouns. The rewrite rule for 'determiners' in transformational generative grammar is inadequate for showing correspondences between type and token. An appraisal of quantity terms might eliminate the concept of the 'determiner,' and replace that category with one of…
Descriptors: Determiners (Languages), English, Form Classes (Languages), Function Words