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Wright, Laura – International Journal of English Studies, 2020
This paper is about identifying a nuance of social meaning which, I demonstrate, was conveyed in the Early and Late Modern period by the suffix "-oon." The history of non-native suffix "-oon" is presented by means of assembling non-native suffix "-oon" vocabulary in date order and sorting according to etymology. It…
Descriptors: Modern Languages, English, Suffixes, Etymology
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Saunders, Ross; David, Philip W. – Anthropological Linguistics, 1975
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Descriptive Linguistics, Lexicology, Morphemes
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Friedrich, Paul – Linguistics, 1972
Discussion of phenomenon of shape-differentiation as it appears in the numerical classifiers, classificatory verbs, and body-part suffixes of the Tarascan language. (RS)
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Classification, Descriptive Linguistics, Function Words
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Sadler, J. D. – Classical Journal, 1972
Descriptors: Classical Languages, Descriptive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, Lexicology
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Grimes, Joseph E.; And Others – Anthropological Linguistics, 1978
Presents an heuristic procedure, based on cooccurrence of forms, for identifying the closed systems of a language and to show how the systems interlock, differ in meaning, and manifest themselves. (AM)
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Function Words, Grammar, Language Patterns
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Dunn, John A. – International Journal of American Linguistics, 1979
Describes the connective suffixes used in Coast Tsimshian and Southern Tsimshian. (AM)
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Descriptive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, Dialect Studies
Pupier, Paul; And Others – 1975
This study relates the suffix "-age" to "-able,""-eux,""-ment,""-Xtion," and "-ure" in Quebec French. Morphologically, some "-age" suffixals which can be denominal in Quebec French can only be deverbal in European French. Semantically, "-age" deverbals are subdivided…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Descriptive Linguistics, Form Classes (Languages), French
Backus, Robert L. – Papers in Japanese Linguistics, 1972
This paper seeks to formulate a principle that explains the working of the Japanese number system with respect to Japanese nouns and that defines the kinds of nouns and contexts that condition the forms of number expressions. It is the author's theory that in applying numbers to nouns, the Japanese make a formal distinction between things they…
Descriptors: Chinese, Criteria, Descriptive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics
Kazazis, Kostas – 1972
Many speakers of Modern Greek have an exaggerated notion of the superiority of their language vis-a-vis Turkish and the languages of Southeastern Europe. It would therefore come as a surprise to some Greeks that Modern Greek lexical elements in Romanian have undergone a substantial stylistic demotion during the past century or so. In this paper…
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, Greek, Language Styles
Patterson, Betty Soon Ju – 1974
This paper proposes that some but not all "I" causatives in Korean are analyzable, and argues that case markers in Korean are not merely surface phenomena, but are semantically and syntactically significant. The types of Korean causatives are introduced, as well as the major problems involved in their analysis. Previous generative works…
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Descriptive Linguistics, Form Classes (Languages), Grammar