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Chu, Chauncey C. – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 1978
Proposes an approach to contrastive linguistics which takes into account syntax and semantics, and discusses the role of such an approach in explaining surface structure differences between English and Chinese sentences of the type: "He is a good pianist" and "I have a bad knee." (AM)
Descriptors: Chinese, Contrastive Linguistics, Deep Structure, English
Stuttgart Univ. (Germany). Inst. for Linguistics. – 1970
This report, the sixth in a series of working papers issued by the Project on Applied Contrastive Linguistics (PAKS) at the University of Stuttgart, contains theoretical and practical discussions relevant to contrastive linguistics in general and to German-English contrastive linguistics in particular. Papers are: Karl Heinz Wagner, "The…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Deep Structure, English, English (Second Language)
Costello, D. P. – Slavic and East European Journal, 1962
A detailed view of the various uses in Russian of the conjunction "poka" is developed in this article. Frequent examples illustrate clausal relationships, negative constructions, aspect, and tense in typical "poka" constructions. The principal function of "poka" is related to the linguistic concept of simultaneity, and the standard dictionary…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics, Etymology, Form Classes (Languages)
Nickel, Gerhard – Neusprachliche Mitteilungen, 1972
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Deep Structure, Descriptive Linguistics, Language Ability
Sajavaara, Kari; Lehtonen, Jaakko – 1978
A project designed to gather information about similarities and differences that may be important for teaching English to Finnish learners, and, to a certain extent, for teaching Finnish through English, was conducted through a systematic comparison of the two languages and an analysis of instances where the two languages come into contact. In the…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language)

Karttunen, Kimmo – 1977
Both English and Finnish make use of a category called the passive voice. In most cases these passives correspond to each other, but both are subject to restrictions. This paper attempts to determine how English passives overlap with the semantic area covered by the Finnish passive and what the choices are which face a speaker of Finnish in…
Descriptors: Case (Grammar), Contrastive Linguistics, Deep Structure, English
Kessler, Carolyn – 1972
A Language-research experiment designed to examine the linguistic competence of bilingual Italian-American children demonstrates that structures shared by Italian and English are acquired in approximately the same order and at the same rate, and that the sequencing of specific structures reflects linguistic complexity. Structures appearing in both…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingualism, Child Language, Children
Politzer, Robert L. – 1972
This book discusses the relevance of applied linguistics to foreign language teaching and supports the point of view that linguistics is relevant as the source of assumptions rather than as the source of conclusions. In foreign language teaching, the assumptions based on linguistics must ultimately be evaluated on their ability to explain the…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Comparative Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics, Deep Structure