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Download full textLaird, Charlton; And Others – Baltimore Bulletin of Education, A Journal of the Public Schools, 1967
This bulletin reports on condensations of tape-recorded lectures and discussions from a workshop which trained a nucleus of Baltimore City Public School personnel in new approaches to the study of the English language. Designed to serve as an orientation, it is made up of six major sections: (1) Charlton Laird discusses the history, nature, and…
Descriptors: Diachronic Linguistics, Dialect Studies, Language Arts, Language Usage
Pennanen, Esko – 1984
Conversion, the deliberate transfer of a word from one part of speech to another without any change in its form, is a typically English phenomenon, conditioned but not caused by the extensive wearing-off of word endings and weakening of inflections. It has typically been treated as a syntactic matter, since no new words are produced, and its…
Descriptors: Case (Grammar), Diachronic Linguistics, English, Form Classes (Languages)
