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Su, Yi-Ching – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2020
This study reports findings from two truth value judgment experiments to address two research questions on Mandarin: (i) whether children and adults have the knowledge of the structural constraint Principle C in their pronoun resolution; and (ii) whether adults and children show the prohibition effect of the cyclic-c-command constraint or the QR…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Phrase Structure, Mandarin Chinese, Decision Making
Shirtz, Shahar Baruch – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This is a study of processes of structural and functional diversification of the uses of three cognate verbs across the Indo-Iranian language family: "do/make", "be/become", and "give". First, this study identifies over sixty distinct construction types in which these verbs are used, including complex predicate…
Descriptors: Indo European Languages, Language Patterns, Morphology (Languages), Syntax
Agnihotri, Rama Kant – Contemporary Education Dialogue, 2013
The basic questions that a scholar interested in the study of language asks are concerned with language structure, acquisition, and change. William Labov is a linguist who has deeply influenced the linguistic scene in the past 60 years. It is to Labov's credit that he showed, backed by solid evidence, that the questions concerning language change,…
Descriptors: Language Variation, Linguistic Theory, Ghettos, Disadvantaged
Park, Grace Jeongyeon – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The so-called compound use of ki 'im has been interpreted mainly either with exceptive ("except" or "unless") or adversative meaning ("but" or "rather"), although it has sometimes also been interpreted in other ways such as "only" or "surely". These various meanings have been applied…
Descriptors: Biblical Literature, Semitic Languages, Language Patterns, Language Research
Escamilla, Ramon Matthew, Jr. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Taking up analytical issues raised primarily in Dixon (2000) and Dixon & Aikhenvald (2000), this dissertation combines descriptive work with a medium-sized (50-language) typological study. Chapter 1 situates the dissertation against a concise survey of typological-functional work on causative constructions from the last few decades, and…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Semantics, Language Classification, American Indian Languages

Turley, Jeffrey S. – Language Sciences, 1998
Discussion of the Spanish indeterminate reflexive construction, the impersonal reflexive, finds that prototype theory allows this subjectless Spanish construction to be included within the category of generally subject-bearing indeterminates in Romance languages. (MSE)
Descriptors: Grammar, Language Patterns, Language Research, Linguistic Theory

Schelstraete, M. A.; Degand, L. – Language Sciences, 1998
Reports three studies of comprehension of French subject relative clauses and two forms of object relative clauses. The first tested the hypothesis that competition between noun phrases, memory load, and perspective maintenance determine difficulty of role assignment in reversible relative clauses; others compared subject relatives and inverted…
Descriptors: French, Grammar, Language Patterns, Language Research
Pinson, Thomas M. – 1990
A study of Dakota Sioux presents evidence for Possessor Ascension. In this construction, a nominal that is semantically a possessor is syntactically not a constituent of the noun phrase but a constituent of the clause. The report first discusses the universal characterization of Possessor Ascension in the framework of relational grammar, and…
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Grammar, Language Patterns, Language Research

Posner, Roland – Discourse Processes, 1980
Contends that the organization of comments made by one discourse participant on the contributions of another reveals a hierarchy of relevance and informativity. Illustrates this with discourse samples subjected to a particular method of analysis. (FL)
Descriptors: Dialogs (Language), Discourse Analysis, Language Patterns, Language Research
Coleman, John; Local, John – 1989
A discussion of autosegmental phonology (AP), a theory of phonological representation that uses graphs rather than strings as the central data structure, considers its principal constraint, the "No Crossing Constraint" (NCC). The NCC is the statement that in a well-formed autosegmental diagram, lines of association may not cross. After…
Descriptors: Graphs, Language Patterns, Language Research, Linguistic Theory
Warner, A. R. – 1989
Full verbs and auxiliaries are subject to gapping. In the simplest cases, this construction type involves apparent ellipsis within one or more clausal conjuncts under identity with the finite verb or auxiliary of a preceding conjunct. It has often been suggested that the apparent ellipsis must involve at least a verb. Some researchers see in the…
Descriptors: Grammar, Language Patterns, Language Research, Linguistic Theory

Hall, Tracy Alan – Phonology, 1989
Analyzes the near-complementary distribution of the German palatal fricative [c] and velar fricative [x] as a counterexample to Structural Preservation because the rule of Fricative Assimilation (FA) introduces the nondistinctive feature [back] lexically. The analysis presented derives both [x] and [c] from the archiphoneme /X/ via FA and a…
Descriptors: German, Language Patterns, Language Research, Lexicology

Berg, Thomas – Language Sciences, 1990
Demonstrates that both syllables and vowels are carriers of word stress. With the postulation of stronger activation flow between syllables and V-units and weaker activation between syllables and C-units, it is possible to unambiguously associate stress with the syllable and to explain the differential sensitivity of consonants and vowels to…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Language Research, Linguistic Theory, Stress (Phonology)

Hutton, Christopher – Language Sciences, 1998
Rejects the "etymological fallacy" theory, which seeks to minimize the role of etymology in the study of semantics, arguing that etymology represents a perfectly coherent philosophy of language, given that linguistic change is a legitimate source of anxiety for any culture founded on laws or sacred texts, whether oral or written. (MSE)
Descriptors: Diachronic Linguistics, Etymology, Language Patterns, Language Research

Honeybone, Patrick – Language Sciences, 1999
Examines claims and assumptions of theory of "government phonology," using as a starting point a monograph on phonological government in Japanese, in which the theory is applied to a range of phonological and morphological data. Main theoretical concepts in the theory are introduced and critically discussed, and connections to other theories of…
Descriptors: Japanese, Language Patterns, Language Research, Linguistic Theory