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Cook, Walter A. – Georgetown Journal of Languages and Linguistics, 1990
Examines the idiomatic meaning carried in a sentence through the syntactic idiom. The infinitive of negative result is used to examine the understanding of the meaning carried in a sentence by its syntactic structure. (GLR)
Descriptors: Idioms, Negative Forms (Language), Sentence Structure, Surface Structure
Rosemblat, Graciela – Georgetown Journal of Languages and Linguistics, 1990
Discusses the complement and predicate (or adjunct) short clauses (SCs) in active transitive verb structures. Published Spanish literature is reviewed and evaluated, Spanish SC surface structure (SS) is described, an argument is presented against SS restructuring in Spanish, and analyses of several hypotheses are provided. (GLR)
Descriptors: Hypothesis Testing, Linguistic Theory, Sentence Structure, Spanish
