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Alam, Samsul – 1998
A study analyzed the structure of negative sentences in the Thai language, based on data gathered from two native speakers. It is shown that the Thai negative marker generally occurs between the noun phrase (subject) and the verb phrase in simple active sentences and in passive sentences. Negation of noun phrases is also allowed in Thai, with a…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Language Research, Linguistic Theory, Native Speakers
Alam, Samsul – 1998
This report discusses the stress patterns of Bengali as spoken in Bangladesh. One of the findings indicate that every word has stress in the first syllable, with additional stress in the first syllable of the first word of the phrase. The Bengali language does not have penultimate and antepenultimate stress. Because there is no rule for changing…
Descriptors: Bengali, Descriptive Linguistics, Foreign Countries, Language Patterns