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PDF pending restorationLarrivee, Pierre – 1993
In Quebec French, unlike standard French, sentence negation "pas" ("not") can occur in the same clause as a negative quantifier like "personne" ("nobody"), for instance. This paper proposes that "pas" in these contexts marks negative association in the same way that "ne" does in standard…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, French, French Canadians, Language Patterns
Makoni, S. B. – IRAL, 1996
Examines the variable realization of the third person singular present tense by learners of English as a Second Language at elementary and intermediate levels of proficiency in unplanned discourse in South Africa. (35 references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: Context Effect, Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries, Interlanguage
Peer reviewedCarstairs-McCarthy, Andrew – Language, 1994
Clark's 1987 Principle of Contrast seems inconsistent with the synonymy exhibited by inflectional affixes in languages with inflection classes. But if inflection class membership identifies the inflection class of the lexemes to which it attaches, then inflection affixation complies with this principle. Grammatical implications are suggested. (76…
Descriptors: Afrikaans, Caucasian Languages, Contrastive Linguistics, Data Analysis
