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Pinchon, Jacqueline – Francais dans le Monde, 1977
Presents two systems of word derivation. (Text is in French.) (AM)
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), French, Lexicology, Linguistic Theory
Steinberg, Danny D.; Krohn, Robert K. – 1973
This paper examines the validity of aspects of Chomsky and Halle's analysis of English phonology, specifically regarding rules for vowel alternation in base and derived forms. The paper describes an aural and an orthographic experiment eliciting the production of novel forms from a base form. Results showed no vowel alternation in 90 percent of…
Descriptors: Linguistic Theory, Morphemes, Morphophonemics, Orthographic Symbols
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Grimes, Joseph E.; And Others – Anthropological Linguistics, 1978
Presents an heuristic procedure, based on cooccurrence of forms, for identifying the closed systems of a language and to show how the systems interlock, differ in meaning, and manifest themselves. (AM)
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Function Words, Grammar, Language Patterns
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Dakin, Karen – International Journal of American Linguistics, 1979
Presents hypotheses about the effects of rules of sound change on the development of part of the verb inflectional system of Proto-Nahuatl. (AM)
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Diachronic Linguistics, Grammar, Linguistic Theory