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Peer reviewedCreswell, Thomas J. – Babel: International Journal of Translation, 1977
An editorialized report of data accumulated in a study of current American practice in the treatment of problems of usage in general purpose dictionaries. Their descriptive objectivity is characterized as "that of the blind men examining the elephant." Such practices reveal little change from that of Samuel Johnson's 1755 English…
Descriptors: Definitions, Dictionaries, Language Patterns, Language Usage
Peer reviewedDessaux, Anne-Marie – Langue Francaise, 1978
Analyzes the structure of French distributive complements, including the formal and semantic similarities and differences among them. (AM)
Descriptors: Definitions, Form Classes (Languages), French, Grammar
Palmer, F. R. – 1994
The book is a typological study of grammatical roles, such as agent, patient, beneficiary, and of grammatical relations, such as subject (direct) and indirect object. In addition it is concerned with the devices, such as the passive, that alter the identities in such roles and relations. Its objective is to suggest a consistent and reasonably…
Descriptors: Classification, Contrastive Linguistics, Definitions, Foreign Countries
Buyssens, Eric – Linguistique, 1974
An examination of various linguists' definitions of parataxis, asyndeton, and juxtaposition shows that the concepts are often varying and lack precision. The author offers new definitions which distinguish three specific cases. (Text is in French.) (AM)
Descriptors: Connected Discourse, Definitions, Function Words, Grammar
Francois, Frederic – Linguistique, 1974
This article discusses the relationship between the linguistic description of language and the speaker's acquisition and use of language, with specific reference to the role of paradigmatic and syntagmatic relationships in the acquisition of definition as a linguistic behavior. (Text is in French.) (AM)
Descriptors: Child Language, Definitions, Descriptive Linguistics, Form Classes (Languages)
PDF pending restorationWang, Fred Fangyu – 1971
This dictionary is a companion volume to the "Mandarin Chinese Dictionary (Chinese-English)" published in 1967 by Seton Hall University. The purpose of the dictionary is to help English-speaking students produce Chinese sentences in certain cultural situations by looking up the English expressions. Natural, spoken Chinese expressions within the…
Descriptors: Chinese, Definitions, Dictionaries, English
Download full textJoseph, Brian D., Ed.; Zwicky, Arnold M., Ed. – 1990
Papers from the conference on the occurrence of verbal constituents in series in certain languages, particularly pidgins and creoles, include the following: "What Are We Talking About When We Talk About Serial Verbs?" (Arnold M. Zwicky); "Serial Verb Constructions" (Pieter Seuren); "On the Definition and Distribution of…
Descriptors: Arabic, Chinese, Creoles, Definitions
