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Weber-Fox, Christine; Hart, Laura J.; Spruill, John E., III – Brain and Language, 2006
This study examined how school-aged children process different grammatical categories. Event-related brain potentials elicited by words in visually presented sentences were analyzed according to seven grammatical categories with naturally varying characteristics of linguistic functions, semantic features, and quantitative attributes of length and…
Descriptors: Structural Grammar, Form Classes (Languages), Children, Language Acquisition
Fong, Eugene A. – 1978
There is a set of French verbs which admits both indicative and subjunctive sentential complements. The indicative complement is correlated with a positive assertion about the truth of the complement; the subjunctive implies a neutral attitude or a non-assertion. When various sentential complement constructions are considered both in the…
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Form Classes (Languages), French, Grammar
Lecerf, Yves – Langages, 1979
It is proposed that the notion of "address" is neither meaning nor form but that it designates the form which designates meaning. It is therefore in a position underlying both form and meaning. (AMH)
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Form Classes (Languages), French, Language Research