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Oraciones condicionales en el castellano actual (Conditional Sentences in Contemporary Castilian)
Piantini, Miguel A. – Yelmo, 1974
Descriptors: Function Words, Grammar, Language Arts, Sentence Structure
Zum Problem der Differenzierung von praepositionalem Objekt und praepositionaler Adverbailbestimmung in der deutschen Gegenwartssprache (On the Problem of Distinguishing Prepositional Object from Prepositional Adverbial in Contemporary German)
Hambarzumjan, Rusanna – Deutsch als Fremdsprache, 1974
Making this distinction is difficult because German here deals in prepositional phrases. More precise criteria for distinguishing may be expected from dependence grammar, and from application of the concepts of governance ("Rektion") and valence. Reference is made to experiments by J. D. Apresjan. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)
Descriptors: Adverbs, Function Words, German, Grammar
Focus-Marking in Akan
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Boadi, L. A. – Linguistics, 1974
This paper examines form and meaning of a class of simple sentences in which various constituents are brought into focus by the speaker. The Akan language is used, and the syntactic processes, or focus-marking, required to derive surface structures of the sentences are examined. (CK)
Descriptors: Akan, Function Words, Generative Grammar, Linguistic Theory
Zum Bedingungsgefuge: Untersuchungen anhand von Texten der heutigen geschriebenen deutschen Standardsprache (On Conditional Structure: Investigations Based on Texts of Current Written Standard German)
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Kaufmann, Gerhard – Zielsprache Deutsch, 1973
Descriptors: Function Words, German, Illustrations, Morphology (Languages)
Kak "haben" po-russki (The Auxiliary Verb "To Have" in Russian)
Elsner, Siegfried – Russisch, 1973
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Function Words, Grammar, Language Instruction
A STUDY OF HAUSA SYNTAX. VOLUME II, FUNCTION WORDS. HARTFORD STUDIES IN LINGUISTICS, NUMBER 9.
KRAFT, CHARLES H. – 1963
IN THIS SECOND VOLUME (CHAPTER V) OF A THREE-PART SERIES ON HAUSA SYNTAX, THE EMPHASIS IS ON THE FUNCTION RATHER THAN THE FORM OF WORDS. (THE FIRST VOLUME DISCUSSES SYNTAX AND THE THIRD DEALS WITH SPECIFIC TEXTS.) IN ADDITION TO THOROUGH TREATMENT OF THE PARTICULAR HAUSA FUNCTION WORDS, A SMALL GROUP OF WORDS WITH FREQUENT OCCURRENCE AND HIGHLY…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Function Words, Hausa, Morphology (Languages)
Problems of French Grammar and Usage: No. 14
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Jeanes, R. W. – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1972
Descriptors: Determiners (Languages), Form Classes (Languages), French, Function Words
Les Fonctions Grammaticales (Grammatical Functions)
Martinet, Andre – Linguistique, 1977
An attempt to clarify terms and to better describe certain elements in the author's own theory in view of a more exact interpretation of functional grammar. A grammatical function is defined; relationships within a sentence and possible choices among relationships are discussed. (Text is in French.) (AMH)
Descriptors: French, Function Words, Grammar, Linguistic Theory
Conjunction Reduction in Child Language
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Lust, Barbara – Journal of Child Language, 1977
In four studies, 60 two- and three-year-olds were studied in an elicited imitation task wherein the linguistic form of sentences was varied according to conjunction structure and pattern of redundancy deletion in conjunction reduction. Both factors were found to affect imitation. (Author/RM)
Descriptors: Child Language, Function Words, Imitation, Language Acquisition
Schwierigkeiten der deutsch lernenden Rumanen beim Gebrauch der Prapositionen (Difficulties in the Use of Prepositions for Rumanians Learning German)
Viorel, Elena – Deutsch als Fremdsprache, 1973
Descriptors: Function Words, German, Interference (Language), Language Instruction
Zur "konzessiven" Beziehung: Untersuchungen anhand von Texten der gerschriebenen deutschen Gegenwartssprache (The Concessive Relation: Research on Written Texts of Modern German)
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Kaufmann, Gerhard – Zielsprache Deutsch, 1974
Descriptors: Function Words, German, Grammar, Morphology (Languages)
Comparatives in Early Child Language
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Feider, H. – Glossa, 1973
Revised version of a paper presented to the Canadian Linguistic Association Annual Meeting, Montreal, Quebec, 1972; research partially supported by the Canada Council. (DD)
Descriptors: Adjectives, Charts, Child Language, Distinctive Features (Language)
L'ordre des mots (Word Order)
Sauvageot, Aurelien – Francais dans le Monde, 1972
Descriptors: French, Function Words, Grammar, Language Instruction
Preposition-Usage from a Notional Perspective.
Ruffin, Patrick S. J. – 1983
Prepositions are usually presented as prepositions of time or place, and prepositions associated with certain verbs and adjectives. However, this type of presentation overlooks the bases for preposition usage and in turn fails to convey those bases to learners. An alternative approach to the analysis of prepositions from a notional perspective is…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Function Words, Higher Education, Language Patterns
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