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Bondzio, Wilhelm – Deutsch als Fremdsprache, 1973
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, German, Language Styles, Phrase Structure
Levenston, E. A. – International Review of Applied Linguistics, 1965
Syntactic differences between languages are the focus of attention in this approach to contrastive study of grammatical categories. The categories of the first language are listed in a "translation-paradigm" opposite the possible categories of the target language after translation of the corpus. Three examples which contrast the clause, verbal…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Descriptive Linguistics, English, Form Classes (Languages)
Hale, Austin – 1973
This volume, the first in a series of four on the languages of Nepal, contains the following papers: "Toward the Systematization of Display Grammar,""Clause Patterns in Kham,""Tentative Systemic Organization of Nepali Sentences,""Maithili Sentences,""Notation for Simultaneous Representation of…
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Descriptive Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Language Typology
Aristar, Anthony – 1987
A discussion of the sources of certain language universals argues that adjective/noun constructions pattern similarly to genitive/noun and relative-noun constructions because they are typical diachronic sources for adjectivals, and that relatives and genitives have the same diachronic source and thus the same set of synchronic behavior. It is also…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Descriptive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, Form Classes (Languages)

Swartz, Stephen M., Ed. – 1982
Five papers on the grammar of Warlpiri, an Australian Aboriginal language, include: "A Tentative Description of Ngardilpa (Warlpiri) Verbs" (Lothar H. Jagst); "Syntactic Structure of Warlpiri Clauses" (Stephen M. Swartz); "A Preliminary Description of Propositional Particles in Warlpiri" (Mary Laughren);…
Descriptors: Aboriginal Australians, Creoles, Descriptive Linguistics, Ethnic Groups

Glass, Amee – 1983
A descriptive study of Ngaanyatjarra, an Australian Aboriginal language, examines two major areas of sentence structure. First, it describes the grammatical structure of the sentence, beginning with the simplest sentence and moving into verb clusters, complex sentences, and juncture strategies. Second, it outlines the meaning and usage of various…
Descriptors: Aboriginal Australians, Creoles, Descriptive Linguistics, Ethnic Groups