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Peer reviewedWestphal, German F. – Language Sciences, 1979
Presents a critique of John Knowles' (1975) analysis of Spanish impersonal "se." (AM)
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Grammar, Phrase Structure, Pronouns
Peer reviewedGaatone, David – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 1976
This article draws attention to a number of syntactic peculiarities of the so-called pronominal adverbs "en" and "y" in French, and maintains that these adverbs differ quite markedly in syntactic behavior. (Text is in French.) (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Adverbs, Descriptive Linguistics, French, Grammar
Reichstein, A. D. – Deutsch als Fremdsprache, 1973
Descriptors: German, Grammar, Idioms, Lexicology
Peer reviewedGray, Bennison – Language Sciences, 1974
Final chapter of "The Grammatical Foundations of Rhetoric", to be published by Mouton, The Hague, Netherlands. (DD)
Descriptors: English, Language Universals, Phrase Structure, Semantics
Bernazkaja, A. – Deutsch als Fremdsprache, 1971
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), German, Morphology (Languages), Phrase Structure
Bernard, G. – Linguistique, 1974
This article attempts to find a systematic structure behind French verbal idiomatic expressions, specifically the opposition between the verb, article, noun sequence and the sequence verb, noun. (Text is in French.) (AM)
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Determiners (Languages), Grammar, Idioms
Peer reviewedLucas, Michael A. – Linguistics, 1974
This article attempts to show that a more rigorous approach to surface structure analysis can reveal distinctions just as subtle as those discovered through analyzing deep structures or transformations. Relative clauses are examined in relation to nominal constructions, and alternatives to restrictive and non-restrictive classifications are…
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Linguistic Theory, Nouns, Phrase Structure
Peer reviewedPizzini, Quentin A. – Oceanic Linguistics, 1971
Descriptors: Diagrams, Kernel Sentences, Morphology (Languages), Nouns
Peer reviewedWest, Anne – Linguistics, 1973
Field work conducted under the auspices of the Summer Institute of Linguistics; research supported in part by a grant from the National Science Foundation. (DD)
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Distinctive Features (Language), Malayo Polynesian Languages, Phrase Structure
Peer reviewedGivon, Talmy – Language, 1973
Preliminary paper on this subject read at the Mid-Summer Linguistics Conference, University of California, Santa Cruz, July 1971. (DD)
Descriptors: Diachronic Linguistics, Language Typology, Language Usage, Phrase Structure
Peer reviewedHetzron, Robert – Linguistics, 1974
Most linguistic theory is analytic in that it begins with a complex unit and breaks it down into components. Criticisms of analytic linguistics are made, and a synthetic approach is proposed which begins with atomic components of language and rules for grouping them into more complex units. (RM)
Descriptors: Case (Grammar), Componential Analysis, Deep Structure, Linguistic Theory
Peer reviewedLozano, Anthony G.; Somero, Dale R. – Language Sciences, 1979
Proposes an analysis of Spanish indefinite "se" which takes into consideration regional variations. (AM)
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Grammar, Language Variation, Phrase Structure
Broch, Tom – Acta Linguistica Hafniensia, 1973
Part II of a continued article. (DD)
Descriptors: Algebra, Case (Grammar), Form Classes (Languages), Grammar
Peer reviewedFonagy, I. – Lingua, 1975
The syntax of adult expressive language is compared to that of child pre-language. This "syntactical regression" is considered part of the dynamic and evolutionary character of human language. (Text is in French.) (AM)
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Child Language, Language Acquisition, Language Research
Download full textvon Glasersfeld, Ernst; Notarmarco, Brunella – 1968
The paper demonstrates the possibility of deriving, from the Correlational Grammar developed solely for the purpose of automatic sentence analysis, a classification of words that could be useful in language analysis and language teaching. A group of some 90 frequent English adjectives serves as example; they are sorted into ten classes according…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Discourse Analysis, English, Grammar
