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Peer reviewedChu, Chauncey C. – Journal of Chinese Linguistics, 1973
Revised version of a paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Atlanta, Georgia, December 1972. (DD)
Descriptors: Distinctive Features (Language), English, Function Words, Mandarin Chinese
Peer reviewedHorrocks, G.; Stavrou, M. – Journal of Linguistics, 1987
Given that the principal bounding nodes, or barriers, for subjacency are noun phrase (NP), S, and S-bar, with S optionally a barrier, NP and S-bar obligatorily barriers, differences between Greek and English WH-movement are discussed. The contrasts are derived from independently motivated differences in NP structure between the two languages.…
Descriptors: Case (Grammar), Comparative Analysis, Deep Structure, English
Download full textKoch, Monica – 1974
This paper addresses itself to the question of why the English language should have levelled almost all of its inflections, and what the relationship is between the breakdown of the case system and the rise of fixed word-order, prepositional phrases, and verb periphrases. The explanation proposed for the phenomenon of syntactic drift is considered…
Descriptors: Case (Grammar), Contrastive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, English
