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Riviere, Claude – Journal of Linguistics, 1981
Examines use of modal auxiliary "should" when used to express probability as a weaker equivalent of "must." Study shows that in order to account for restrictions on use of "must" and "should," a theory must go beyond the syntactic and semantic characteristics and take into account semantic relations between…
Descriptors: Linguistic Theory, Semantics, Syntax, Verbs
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Fabb, Nigel – Journal of Linguistics, 1990
Describes and compares restrictive and nonrestrictive clauses and shows that, when studying their superficial differences, there is no need for construction-specific stipulations that distinguish between them. All the superficial differences between the two are derived from the single basic difference that one is a modifier and the other is not.…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, English, Semantics, Sentence Structure
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Mittwoch, Anita – Journal of Linguistics, 1990
Explores the fit between syntax and semantics by addressing the following questions: (1) To what extent is the distribution of bare infinitive complements semantically motivated? and (2) What is the function of infinitival to? (46 references) (GLR)
Descriptors: Function Words, Grammar, Language Research, Semantics
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Mallen, Enrique – Journal of Linguistics, 1991
Argues in favor of a syntactic analysis of secondary predication and against the semantic approach to predication. Most of the evidence to be adduced comes from Spanish. It is posited that secondary predicates are base-generated inside VP in Spanish, confirming Culicover and Wilken's (1984) and Robert's (1988) analysis for English. (40 references)…
Descriptors: English, Semantics, Spanish, Structural Analysis (Linguistics)
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Warburton, I.; Prabhu, N. S. – Journal of Linguistics, 1972
Descriptors: Deep Structure, English, Grammar, Pronouns
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Sgall, Petr – Journal of Linguistics, 1972
Discusses certain unknown constraints" active in the use of specific quantifiers in English. (VM)
Descriptors: Deep Structure, English, Semantics, Sentence Structure
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Allerton, D. J. – Journal of Linguistics, 1978
The results of a survey in which 50 British university students were asked to assess the acceptability of 40 indirect object sentences are analyzed, and some problems inherent in English indirect object constructions are discussed. (DS)
Descriptors: College Students, English, Grammar, Language Usage
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Lehrer, Adrienne – Journal of Linguistics, 1975
Argues that Charles Morris' division of signs into syntactics, semantics and pragmatics is too rigid. The line between pragmatics and semantics is not sharp, and a language theory is needed that can predict and explain borderline cases without forcing them into arbitrary established categories. (CHK)
Descriptors: Adverbs, Descriptive Linguistics, Language Classification, Linguistic Theory
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Dieterich, Thomas G.; Napoli, Donna Jo – Journal of Linguistics, 1982
Discusses 'rather than' sentences with tensed or untensed verb in second clause as having underlying form of comparative sentences. Concludes 'rather than' preceding a tensed clause represents the truth-functional connective 'and not' which contradicts claim that this connective cannot be represented lexically in natural language and raises…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Morphology (Languages), Semantics, Sentence Structure
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Allerton, D. J.; Cruttenden, A. – Journal of Linguistics, 1979
Argues that in an unmarked sentence the verbs will be stressed, and that in determining patterns of sentence stress the vital consideration should be the speaker's point of view. (AM)
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Language Patterns, Nouns, Semantics
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Bolinger, Dwight – Journal of Linguistics, 1973
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Language Usage, Lexicology, Phrase Structure
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Thompson, Sandra Annear – Journal of Linguistics, 1972
Earlier version of this paper entitled On the Notion 'Subjoined Clause'" was presented to the first annual meeting of the New English Linguistic Society in November 1970. (VM)
Descriptors: Adverbs, Deep Structure, Descriptive Linguistics, English
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Massam, Diane – Journal of Linguistics, 1992
Analysis middle constructions in English, accounting for their key syntactic and semantic properties. The analysis rests on the observation that there are certain similarities between middle, "tough," and recipe-context null-object constructions. (55 references) (VWL)
Descriptors: Case (Grammar), English, Haitian Creole, Linguistic Theory
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Dillon, George L. – Journal of Linguistics, 1973
Descriptors: Adverbs, Case (Grammar), Descriptive Linguistics, Distinctive Features (Language)
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Cruse, D. A. – Journal of Linguistics, 1973
Descriptors: Case (Grammar), Descriptive Linguistics, English, Language Research
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