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Spanish Noun Suffixes: A Synchronic Perspective on Methodological Problems, Characteristic Patterns, and Usage Data
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Kvavik, Karen H. – Linguistics, 1975
The corpus of the study is presented and discussed, problems of Spanish suffix analysis are presented, and then noun usage--suffixed versus unsuffixed nouns, the gender marker in the corpus, the most frequently used suffixes, and general characteristics and trends of usage-are discussed. (SCC)
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Language Research, Language Usage, Morphemes
Closed Systems with Complex Restrictions.
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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