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Charles Patrick O'Hara – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This dissertation investigates the soft typology of phonological patterns. By studying the types of patterns observed in the world's languages, we can do more than determine what is attested and what is unattested, or what is possible and what is impossible, but discover a wide range of more gradient phenomena. Phonological patterns range from…
Descriptors: Bias, Phonology, Grammar, Language Classification
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Hendriks, Henriette; Hickmann, Maya – Modern Language Journal, 2015
Languages vary considerably in how they represent motion. One major source of variation (Talmy, 2000) depends on whether linguistic systems lexicalize path in the verb (verb-framed languages) or in satellites (satellite-framed languages). This typological difference involves more than different verb types in that it also affects elements outside…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, French, Language Classification, English