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DeArmond, Richard C. – 1978
The aim of this paper is to determine whether the first predicate noun (NP) after the verb in sentences such as "Kelly gave Rose a piano" is the direct object or the indirect object in the surface structure of English. An analysis reveals that the direct object in English is not marked by its position immediately after a (transitive)…
Descriptors: Case (Grammar), Descriptive Linguistics, English, Structural Analysis (Linguistics)
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Sehnert, 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
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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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Haden, Ernest F. – Linguistics, 1973
Expanded version of a paper presented before the Applied Linguistics Section of the South Central Modern Language Association Convention, Memphis, Tennessee, 1970. (DD)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Deep Structure, Descriptive Linguistics, Determiners (Languages)
Grosu, Alexander; Lee, Gregory – 1971
This volume of working papers includes two papers concerned with syntactic analysis in English. The first paper deals with a number of problems that arise in conjunction with the necessary, allowed, or disallowed coreferentiality of a complement sentence subject with some noun-phrase in a higher sentence. The author seeks to prove that the…
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, English, Language Research, Linguistic Theory
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Berman, Arlene; Szamosi, Michael – Language, 1972
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Descriptive Linguistics, English, Intonation
Filipovic, Rudolf – 1976
The tenth volume in this series contains five articles dealing with various aspects of Serbo-Croatian-English contrastive analysis. They are: "The Infinitive as Subject in English and Serbo-Croatian," by Ljiljana Bibovic; "The Contrastive Analysis of Collocations: Collocational Ranges of "Make" and "Take" with…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Descriptive Linguistics, Determiners (Languages), English
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Hirst, D. J.; Ginesy, M. – Linguistics, 1974
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Descriptive Linguistics, Distinctive Features (Language), English
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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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Prideaux, Gary D. – Glossa, 1979
Proposes an alternative to transformational grammars, based on the notion that a grammatical system should be open to psycholinguistic interpretation, and disallowing grammatical transformations, dealing instead with the information content of sentence surface structure. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, English, Grammar, Linguistic Theory
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Comrie, Bernard – Studia Anglica Posnaniensia, 1973
Underlying structures in English sentences containing the verbs "order" and "tell" are compared. (Available from Studia Anglica Posnaniensia, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland) (RM)
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Descriptive Linguistics, English, Linguistic Theory
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Fodor, Janet Dean – Journal of Linguistics, 1974
Descriptors: Case (Grammar), Deep Structure, Descriptive Linguistics, English
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Chapin, Paul G. – Journal of Linguistics, 1973
Revised version of a paper read at the summer meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Buffalo, New York, July 31, 1973. Preparation of the paper was supported by a National Science Foundation grant. (VM)
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Descriptive Linguistics, English, Language Research
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