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Gondra, Ager – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This dissertation establishes the syntactic representation and derivation of relative clause (RC) constructions in Bizkaiera Basque. Using native speaker introspection, grammaticality judgment under direct elicitation and formal experiments, I show that Bizkaiera follows the Head raising strategy in RC construction. Evidence for this comes from…
Descriptors: Languages, Language Research, Morphology (Languages), Foreign Countries
Wolfram, Walt – 1992
A construction occurring in African American Vernacular English (AAVE) is examined: NPi "call" NPi V"-ing", as in "the woman call herself working." First, a number of reasons that such a form might be overlooked or dismissed as an AAVE dialect form are outlined. Then the sociolinguistic method is applied to the…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Dialects, Grammar, Language Patterns
Warner, Anthony R. – 1986
A discussion of constraints on ellipsis after auxiliaries in English focuses on a particular analytic problem concerning nonfinite verb phrases using "be", which has a historical dimension. A solution involving the morphological claim about the copula and its incorporation of tense-distinctions is proposed and discussed in the context of…
Descriptors: Diachronic Linguistics, Dialects, English, Foreign Countries
Harlow, S. J., Ed.; Warner, A. R., Ed. – 1986
A collection of papers on linguistics includes: "Italian Comparatives of Inequality with 'Che' and 'Di'" (Adrian C. Battye); "A Note on Passives in GPSG [Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar]" (Robert D. Borsley); "Reduplicated Constructions in Chinese and Questions of Generative Power" (Jonathan Calder); "A Note on Subcategorization, Constituent…
Descriptors: Chinese, Communication Skills, Dialects, English
Harlow, S. J., Ed.; Warner, A. R., Ed. – 1989
Papers on a variety of linguistic topics include six papers from a Festschrift and nine others, as follows: "Attitudes Towards English as a Possible Lingua Franca in Switzerland" (Urs Durmuller); "Functional Stability and Structural Levelling of Dialects: The Case of Maastricht" (Anton M. Hagen, Henk Munstermann); "On the…
Descriptors: Basque, Child Language, Contrastive Linguistics, Dialects
Ringbom, Hakan, Ed.; Rissanen, Matti, Ed. – 1984
The 50 papers on English language and literature included in this compilation are grouped under the following headings: Old English (editing "Judgment Day," the syntactic types "every man" and "each of men," and continuity and variation in psalm glosses); Present-Day English (speech rate and vowel quantity as compared with Finnish): neutralization…
Descriptors: Authors, Body Language, Coherence, Cohesion (Written Composition)