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Carreteiro, Rui Manuel; Justo, João Manuel; Figueira, Ana Paula – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2016
Home literacy environment explains between 12 and 18.5% of the variance of children's language skills. Although most authors agree that children whose parents encourage them to read tend to develop better and earlier reading skills, some authors consider that the impact of family environment in reading skills is overvalued. Probably, other…
Descriptors: Reading Processes, Parenting Styles, Language Skills, Reading Skills
Khojasteh, Laleh; Kafipour, Reza – English Language Teaching, 2012
Based on the discrepancies found in many Malaysian English language textbooks, a detailed analysis on the way modal auxiliary verb forms and their semantic functions were introduced and presented in texts and exercises in five Malaysian textbooks was done. For that to be achieved, a qualitative page-by-page content analysis was applied. From the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Textbook Content, Textbook Evaluation, Verbs
Naigles, Letitia R.; Hoff, Erika; Vear, Donna – Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 2009
Flexibility and productivity are hallmarks of human language use. Competent speakers have the capacity to use the words they know to serve a variety of communicative functions, to refer to new and varied exemplars of the categories to which words refer, and in new and varied combinations with other words. When and how children achieve this…
Descriptors: Children, Infants, Verbs, Syntax
Weber, Rose-Marie – Reading Teacher, 2008
Direct quotation can be a source of meaning in storybook texts for beginning readers. The author of this article sketches the linguistic complexity of direct quotation and offers instructional strategies. Three aspects of direct quotation are examined: the cluster of print features and syntactic characteristics that direct quotation involves, the…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Oral Reading, Semantics, Text Structure
di Stefano, B. Follkart – Metas, 1982
It is proposed that literary translation is intrinsically an act of literary criticism. This theory is illustrated by discussion of specific problems in translating Sartre's "La Nausee" and Leonard Forest's "Le pays de la Sagouine," especially the use of verb tense. (MSE)
Descriptors: Literary Criticism, Literary Styles, Semantics, Structural Grammar

Langacker, Ronald W. – Language Sciences, 1993
Some basic notions of cognitive grammar are introduced in a discussion that emphasizes the importance to linguistic semantics of the way in which we construe a perceived situation. It is concluded that developing an optimal account of semantic structure and of grammatical structure are best conceived as simultaneous, mutually informative…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Foreign Countries, Grammar, Linguistic Theory

Lee, Chungmin – Language Sciences, 1996
Examines negative polarity items in English and Korean and argues that a consistent explanation emerges if certain assumptions are entertained about indefiniteness and concession by arbitrary choice. The article maintains that the logical consequences of monotone decreasingness is transparent with strong negatives but less so with weaker ones. (18…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, English, Korean, Negative Forms (Language)

Flottum, Kjersti – International Journal of Applied Linguistics, 1996
Examines the relationship between form and use of the reformulation sequence signalled by "c'est-a-dire" in written French and describes this sequence's various functions. The article attempts to show how a modular approach consisting of structural, semantic, pragmatic, and textual components contributes to a new and accurate description of…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, French, Models, Pragmatics

Suleiman, Saleh M. – Language Sciences, 1990
Object deletion in Classical Arabic is semantically marked on two levels: ( 1) dropping the object deliberately but functionally; and (2) emptying the object slot and focusing on the verbal action. The second level of object deletion stresses the verbal action. (20 references) (GLR)
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, English, Function Words, Semantics

Hoeksema, Jacob; Napoli, Donna Jo – Journal of Linguistics, 1993
Paratactic constructions sometimes compete with coordination, sometimes with subordination, for the same semantic niche in language. The case of complex sentences in English containing the degree adverbs "so" or "such" is analyzed. (Contains 37 references.) (LB)
Descriptors: Adverbs, English, Foreign Countries, Language Research

Visconti, J. – Language Sciences, 1996
Presents a contrastive study of connectives such as "in case that,""provided that," and "unless" focusing on the semantic properties of these items and their semantic and pragmatic equivalence across English and Italian. The article emphasizes that in its approach, pragmatic equivalence is strictly related to semantic…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, English, Epistemology, Form Classes (Languages)

Losee, Robert M. – Information Processing & Management, 1996
The grammars of natural languages may be learned by using genetic algorithm systems such as LUST (Linguistics Using Sexual Techniques) that reproduce and mutate grammatical rules and parts-of-speech tags. In document retrieval or filtering systems, applying tags to the list of terms representing a document provides additional information about…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence, Expert Systems, Information Retrieval

van 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

Cornelis, Louise – Language Sciences, 1996
Investigates the differences in form and meaning between the Dutch and English passives, attributing the differences to the passive auxiliaries that signal a process and a state for Dutch and English. The article is aided by the framework of Langacker's (1991) cognitive grammar. (30 references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Contrastive Linguistics, Deep Structure, Dutch

McClure, William – Language Sciences, 1996
States the differences between the classes of structures that admit a progressive interpretation in English and Japanese and discusses progressive aspect in these two languages on the basis of proposed universally valid definitions. It is concluded that the contrastive behavior of the English "be-ing" construction and the Japanese…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Dutch, English, Italian
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