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Peer reviewedErnst, Thomas – Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association, 1991
Reviews a wide-ranging formal analysis of Chinese syntax that explores the role of case theory in the phrase structure of Chinese. (15 references) (CB)
Descriptors: Chinese, Distinctive Features (Language), Language Patterns, Language Research
Peer reviewedDeMiller, Anna L. – Al-Arabiyya, 1988
Examines the syntactic and semantic relationship between verb forms I and II in modern standard Arabic. The main function of form II verbs was causative/factitive, with the core elements of the causative including (1) agent-subject, (2) action-process verb, and (3) patient-object. (CB)
Descriptors: Arabic, Distinctive Features (Language), Language Patterns, Semantics
Hosokowa, Hirofumi – Georgetown Journal of Languages and Linguistics, 1990
Summarizes some of the syntactic differences between English and Japanese in such areas as word order, wh-movement, subject-auxiliary inversion, expletives, multiple subject constructions, scrambling, and modifiable pro-forms in Japanese. (26 references) (CB)
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Distinctive Features (Language), English, Japanese
Kakouriotis, A. – IRAL, 1987
Examines Modern Greek verbs which seem to be negative-raisers, including consideration of data that offer syntactic justification for negative-raisers and an examination of the semantics and pragmatics of the negative-raisers. (CB)
Descriptors: Distinctive Features (Language), Greek, Language Usage, Negative Forms (Language)
