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Jenkins, Fred M. – French Review, 1980
Presents a description of the syntax of prepositional phrases and adjectives in postnominal position in French sentences. (AM)
Descriptors: Adjectives, Descriptive Linguistics, French, Grammar

Clifton, John M. – 1995
Kaki Ae is a non-Austronesian language spoken by about 300 people on the south coast of Papua New Guinea, at best distantly related to any other language in that area. A brief grammar sketch of the language is presented, including discussion of the phonology, sentences, phrases, words, and morpheme categories. Kaki Ae phonemics include 11…
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Foreign Countries, Grammar, Language Classification

Gaatone, David – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 1976
This article draws attention to a number of syntactic peculiarities of the so-called pronominal adverbs "en" and "y" in French, and maintains that these adverbs differ quite markedly in syntactic behavior. (Text is in French.) (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Adverbs, Descriptive Linguistics, French, Grammar

Baker, C. L.; Brame, Michael K. – Language, 1972
Descriptors: Case (Grammar), Descriptive Linguistics, Grammar, Linguistic Theory
Lee, Kee-dong – 1973
This paper examines the meaning and functions of the directional suffixes (adverbial expressions of direction) in Kusaiean and Ponapean. It is shown that the directional suffixes have two semantic features of direction and terminus. Depending on the different contexts in which they are used, sometimes only one semantic feature is employed and…
Descriptors: Adverbs, Descriptive Linguistics, Form Classes (Languages), Grammar
Bernard, G. – Linguistique, 1974
This article attempts to find a systematic structure behind French verbal idiomatic expressions, specifically the opposition between the verb, article, noun sequence and the sequence verb, noun. (Text is in French.) (AM)
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Determiners (Languages), Grammar, Idioms

Horvath, Julia – Glossa, 1978
Argues that verbal prefixes in Hungarian should not be assigned to a specific category of their own, but should be analyzed as belonging to the category of postpositions. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Grammar, Hungarian, Linguistic Theory

Rivero, Maria-Luisa – Language, 1975
Two aspects of definite and indefinite noun phrases in Spanish grammar are discussed here: specificity, marked by the mood of restrictive relative clauses, and existential import, deriving from the linguistic environment. Differences between referential and attributive descriptions are explained. (CK)
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Descriptive Linguistics, Grammar, Linguistic Theory
SWIFT, LLOYD B. – 1967
IN ANALYZING WAYS BY WHICH VARIOUS LANGUAGES SIGNAL THE RELATIVE IMPORTANCE OF ELEMENTS IN A SENTENCE, ONE APPROACH (THAT OF TRANSFORMATION THEORY) IS TO RELATE EMPHASIS TO A TOPIC-COMMENT RELATIONSHIP. A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF SEVERAL ENGLISH, TURKISH, AND JAPANESE SENTENCES THAT TAKE DIFFERENT PATTERNS OF EMPHASIS SUGGESTS THAT IN EACH CASE THE…
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Descriptive Linguistics, English, Grammar
Gulyga, E. W.; Sendels, E. I. – Deutsch als Fremdsprache, 1970
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Form Classes (Languages), Grammar, Language
Sandefur, John R. – 1979
A description of the creole language spoken in the Roper River area of Australia's Northern Territory, this paper is intended for the practical use of Europeans working in the area. An introductory section discusses the role and status of pidgins and creoles in modern Australia, the development of creole in the Roper River area, and the…
Descriptors: Aboriginal Australians, Creoles, Descriptive Linguistics, Dialects

Householder, Fred W.; Cheng, Robert L. – Hawaii Language Teacher, 1971
This discussion of universe-scope relations in Chinese and Japanese provides a contrastive analysis of certain features in the two languages. A striking similarity in the deep structure of the noun phrase in both languages is noted and discussed in detail. Both languages have two constituents in a noun phrase which have a semantic relationship…
Descriptors: Chinese, Comparative Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics, Deep Structure

Dean, O. C., Jr. – 1974
Recent work in word-order typology has demonstrated that the dominant order of verbs and objects (or complements) correlates well with the general ordering tendencies of languages. The work on German reported in this paper suggests, however, that certain traits, such as the order of adverbials, are influenced not only by general ordering…
Descriptors: Adverbs, Contrastive Linguistics, Descriptive Linguistics, German
Levenston, E. A. – International Review of Applied Linguistics, 1965
Syntactic differences between languages are the focus of attention in this approach to contrastive study of grammatical categories. The categories of the first language are listed in a "translation-paradigm" opposite the possible categories of the target language after translation of the corpus. Three examples which contrast the clause, verbal…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Descriptive Linguistics, English, Form Classes (Languages)
Ross, John Robert – 1971
This paper investigates a type of grammatical ill-formedness in English which is traceable to the repetition, under certain specified conditions, of present participles, e.g. the verb "continue" cannot occur with participles if it is in the present progressive. The solution to generalizing about ill-formedness of this type is by means of a…
Descriptors: Ambiguity, Deep Structure, Descriptive Linguistics, English