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Peer reviewedGreenbaum, Sidney – World Englishes, 1986
Considers the frequently indefinable distinctions between descriptive and prescriptive English grammars, using examples of standard English and dialects to illustrate the uses of each. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Dialects, English, Grammar
Peer reviewedFichtner, Edward G. – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 1972
Revised version of a paper delivered at the Second Southeastern Conference on Linguistics, Gainesville, Florida, October 30 - November 1, 1969. (VM)
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, English, Intonation, Language Patterns
Crystal, David – 1969
Presented is a systematic linguistic description of such features as intonation and stress, usually summed up in the phrase "tone of voice." Paying special attention to English, the author has aimed to present as complete a description as possible, and to clarify the theoretical concepts needed to talk precisely about these phenomena. Following…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Descriptive Linguistics, English, Grammar
Radford, Andrew – 1997
The textbook is designed as a self-contained introduction to English syntax, providing an overview of key theoretical concepts and descriptive devices used in contemporary linguistic work rather than a historical perspective and using varieties of English from around the world rather than other languages for illustration. Chapter topics include:…
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, English, Grammar, Language Patterns
Download full textFilipovic, Rudolf, Ed. – 1971
The fourth volume in this series contains nine articles dealing with various aspects of Serbo-Croatian-English contrastive analysis. They are: "Adverbial Clauses of Cause, Place and Manner in English and Serbo-Croatian," by Gordana Gavrilovic; "Intransitive Verbs+Adverbials or Complements Containing Non-Finite Verb Forms," by…
Descriptors: Adverbs, Contrastive Linguistics, Descriptive Linguistics, English
Peer reviewedStevens, W. J. – Language Sciences, 1973
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Descriptive Linguistics, English, Kernel Sentences
Peer reviewedHoard, James E.; Sloat, Clarence – Language, 1973
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, English, Language Patterns, Linguistic Theory
Direct linkDubuc, Robert – Meta, 1975
This article discusses the equivalency in meaning of synonyms in one language, and the problems encountered in attempting to translate synonyms. (Text is in French.) (CLK)
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Descriptive Linguistics, English, French
Peer reviewedSehnert, James; Sharwood-Smith, Michael – Studia Anglica Posnaniensia, 1973
A study is made of the derivation of English verbs from instrumental prepositional phrases, and their morphology and semantic categories are discussed. (Available from: See FL 508 214.) (RM)
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Descriptive Linguistics, English, Language Patterns
Filipovic, Rudolf, Ed. – 1971
The third volume in this series on Serbo-Croatian-English contrastive analysis contains three articles. They are: "Recent Approaches to Grammar and Their Significance for Contrastive Structure Studies," by Rolf Berndt; "Some Remarks on the Factive and Non-Factive Complements in English and Serbo-Croatian," by Ljiljana Bibovic; and "On Conjoined…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Descriptive Linguistics, English, Grammar
Krohn, Robert – 1970
When considering vowel alternations in English, it is possible to develop a less abstract vowel system than the one developed by Chomsky and Halle by using their laxing rule as the input for a restrictive vowel-shift rule which accounts for the relative height of alternating vowels in alternations such as divine-divinity, extreme-extremity,…
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Descriptive Linguistics, English, Language Patterns
Peer reviewedZamora, Juan Clemente – Bilingual Review, 1975
This article discusses the problem of assigning gender to Spanish calques and loan words borrowed from English. (Text is in Spanish.) (CLK)
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Descriptive Linguistics, English, Language Patterns
Michiels, A. – Revue des Langues Vivantes, 1976
This article is an attempt to distinguish verb complements from sentence complements in English by examining the extent to which verb phrases can be pronominalized with "do so" and "so" constructions. (CDSH/CLK)
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, English, Form Classes (Languages), Language Patterns
Radford, Andrew – 1997
The textbook provides an intensive introduction to recent work in syntactic theory within the minimalist framework. The approach taken is to presuppose no background knowledge of syntactic theory or historical linguistics. Rather than compare English with other languages, illustrations are drawn from varieties of English from around the world.…
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, English, Foreign Countries, Grammar
Filipovic, Rudolf – 1970
The third volume in this series contains nine articles dealing with various aspects of Serbo-Croatian-English contrastive analysis. They are: "Composition in Serbo-Croatian and English," by Zeljko Bujas; "The English Present Perfect Tense and Its Serbo-Croatian Equivalents," by Maja Dubravcic; "Linking Be+Predicative…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Descriptive Linguistics, English, Language Patterns
