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Peer reviewedAshby, William J.; Bentivoglio, Paolo – Language Variation and Change, 1993
The quantitative methodology of GOLDVARB is used to examine the variable distribution of lexical noun phrases representing core arguments of the verb in a corpus of spoken French and Spanish. The distribution is shown to conform to a grammatically and pragmatically motivated pattern known as Preferred Argument Structure. (Contains 26 references.)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, French, Language Usage, Linguistic Theory
Peer reviewedParedes Silva, Vera Lucia – Language Variation and Change, 1993
Evidence from a sample of informal written language (personal correspondence) shows that the most important constraints on pronoun usage in subject position are discourse-based. The quantitative analysis supports the hypothesis that pronoun usage is "functional" since semantically relevant information is preserved in surface structure.…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries, Language Usage, Letters (Correspondence)
