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Peer reviewedTarallo, Fernando; Kato, Mary A. – Language Variation and Change, 1993
Results are presented on the grammar of spoken Brazilian Portuguese, with focus on the syntactic boundaries of the main constituents of an utterance. Major differences are found both in the distribution of filling by syntactic adjuncts versus discourse elements and in the susceptibility of different syntactic boundaries to be filled. (Contains 33…
Descriptors: Cultural Context, Demography, Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedDede, Keith – Language Variation and Change, 1999
Describes a morphosyntactic feature of the Xining dialect that is unique among all Chinese dialects: that is, the use of a preposition to express ablative nominal relationships. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Chinese, Databases, Dialects, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedMeechan, Marjory; Foley, Michele – Language Variation and Change, 1994
Using variationist methodology, this study analyzed natural speech data from 31 speakers of standard Canadian English and found an overwhelming preference for singular agreement in existentials. Contrary to predictions, this was not linked to a determiner-based structural distinction but rather to the form of the copula and the speaker's level of…
Descriptors: Educational Attainment, Foreign Countries, Grammar, Language Variation
