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Peer reviewedHess, Thom – International Journal of American Linguistics, 1973
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Descriptive Linguistics, Morphemes, Nouns
Peer reviewedLive, Anna H. – Linguistics, 1973
Descriptors: English, Language Patterns, Morphology (Languages), Phrase Structure
Andresen, Helga – Deutsche Sprache, 1973
Based on a paper presented at a Conference of the Institute for the German Language (Institut fur deutsche Sprache) December 3, 1971, in Freiburg/Breisgau, West Germany. (RS)
Descriptors: Case (Grammar), Linguistic Theory, Phrase Structure, Sentence Structure
Peer reviewedvan Voorst, Jan – Language Sciences, 1996
Presents a comparative semantic analysis of English, French, and Dutch transitive constructions that takes into account the entity that sets the event in motion, the object it affects, and the process that links both. (18 references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Dutch, English, French
Peer reviewedKliffer, Michael D. – Language Sciences, 1996
Examines inalienable possession in French and Mandarin with the aim of bringing out typological affinities. In particular, two unresolved issues are re-examined: Haiman's Iconicity Hypothesis and the question of the protypical semantic categories of iposs. (32 references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, French, Hypothesis Testing, Language Typology
Peer reviewedWoodbury, Hanni – International Journal of American Linguistics, 1975
In Onondaga and all northern Iroquoian languages, nouns can be incorporated into verbs. The function of this is semantic as well as syntactic. It is semantic in that the sense of an incorporated noun will be narrower than its unincorporated counterpart regardless of modifiers. Incorporation changes the transformational structure of the sentence.…
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Morphology (Languages), Nouns, Phrase Structure
Fong, Eugene A. – 1978
There is a set of French verbs which admits both indicative and subjunctive sentential complements. The indicative complement is correlated with a positive assertion about the truth of the complement; the subjunctive implies a neutral attitude or a non-assertion. When various sentential complement constructions are considered both in the…
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Form Classes (Languages), French, Grammar
Peer reviewedKent, Stuart; Pitt, Jeremy – Language Sciences, 1996
Discusses the relative merits of feature versus model based semantics for the interpretation of verb phrases in English, French, and German. The article concludes that the simplicity afforded by features is offset by the depth of analysis achieved with event models that are additionally able to support a sophisticated approach to machine…
Descriptors: Context Effect, Contrastive Linguistics, English, French
Download full textKeiler, Allan – 1969
In an attempt to apply recent developments in transformational grammar to Latin syntax, this report analyzes first English, then Latin sentences for both deep and surface structures through transformational and phrase structure grammar methods. Auxiliary nodes, problems of Latin verb complimentation, and the gerund and gerundive constructions are…
Descriptors: Deep Structure, English, Instructional Innovation, Language Research
