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Goddard, Cliff – Language Sciences, 1995
Working within the natural semantic metalanguage (NSM) framework of Anna Wierzbicka, this study proposes reductive paraphrase explications for a range of first-person pronominal meanings. It is argued that NSM explications are preferable to conventional feature analysis because they are less subject to charges of arbitrariness and obscurity and…
Descriptors: Connected Discourse, Deep Structure, Discourse Analysis, Language Patterns
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Simpson, Andrew – Journal of East Asian Linguistics, 2001
Provides an account of a distributional patterning found with certain modal verbs in a number of SVO languages of Southeast Asia, the occurrence of a particular alethic modal in predicate-final position. Describes the paradigm and how it's arguably the result of borrowing and transfer among the various languages. Its relevance for Cinque's defence…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Patterns, Linguistic Borrowing, Linguistic Theory
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Yip, Moira – Phonology, 1989
Argues that contour tones in East Asian languages behave as melodic units consisting of a root node [upper] dominating a branching specification. It is also argued that, with upper as the tonal root node, no more than two rising or falling tones will contrast underlying. (49 references) (JL)
Descriptors: Chinese, Distinctive Features (Language), Intonation, Japanese