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Beach, Matthew David – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This dissertation addresses a number of issues about the grammar of Eastern Canadian Inuktitut. Inuktitut is a dialect within the Inuit dialect continuum which is a group of languages/dialects within the Eskimo-Aleut language family. (Eastern Canadian Inuktitut has an ISO 693-3 language code of "ike".) Typologically, it is an ergative…
Descriptors: Dialects, Eskimo Aleut Languages, Semantics, Foreign Countries
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Meunier, Fanny; Longtin, Catherine-Marie – Journal of Memory and Language, 2007
In the present study, we looked at cross-modal priming effects produced by auditory presentation of morphologically complex pseudowords in order to investigate semantic integration during the processing of French morphologically complex items. In Experiment 1, we used as primes pseudowords consisting of a non-interpretable combination of roots and…
Descriptors: Morphemes, Word Recognition, French, Semantics
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Dee, James H. – Classical Outlook, 1984
Provides suggestions for ways of exploring the varied contributions of the classical languages to our vocabulary, as well as advice for those who are involved in the area of classical teaching. Reviews several books, dealing with such topics as Latin and Greek prefixes and suffixes, word bases, and other parallel phenomena of the classical…
Descriptors: Classical Languages, Etymology, Greek, Language Research
De Bruyne, Jacques – Espanol Actual, 1975
This article discusses the words formed by the addition of the suffix "-oide" in Spanish. (Text is in Spanish.) (CLK)
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Language Research, Language Usage, Morphology (Languages)
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Barker, Chris – Language, 1998
Offers a detailed analysis of the English suffix "-ee" (employee, refugee, etc.) based on 1,500 naturally occurring tokens of 500 word types. Argues that certain semantic constraints, taken together, amount to a special-purpose thematic role that actively constrains productive use of derivational morphology. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: English, Language Patterns, Language Research, Linguistic Theory
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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
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Oliphant, Katrina – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1998
This study investigated sensitivity to morphological, semantic, and syntactic cues to grammatical gender among 64 students of college-level Italian. Results showed sensitivity to cues in word-final phonemes, but low awareness of gender associations of derivational suffixes. Students had more difficulty dealing with multiple cues, particularly when…
Descriptors: Context Clues, Grammar, Higher Education, Italian