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Sommerfeldt, Karl-Ernst – Deutsch als Fremdsprache, 1973
Study of the linguistic means related to the occupation and non-occupation of Leerstellen'' (empty spaces) initiated by semantic and syntactic valence, as in the elliptical usage: Die Henne legt wieder. (Eier)'' (The hen is laying again. YeggsI). (RS)
Descriptors: Diagrams, German, Kernel Sentences, Linguistic Theory
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Kenyon, Roger A. – Linguistics, 1974
Descriptors: Algorithms, Deep Structure, Grammar, Linguistic Theory
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Harris, Zellig – Journal of Linguistics, 1978
A system of grammatical analysis is presented which has certain mathematical properties and which produces the sentences of a language by means of two simple processes: word-entry and entry-reduction. This system is not an alternative to descriptions of grammatical patterns, but rather a complement to them. (DS)
Descriptors: Grammar, Linguistic Theory, Mathematical Linguistics, Morphology (Languages)
Kefer, Michel – Revue des langues vivantes, 1974
Some of the new statistical research of Wladimir D. Admoni and the language typology work of Winfred P. Lehmann is presented. It is then shown that the results of the two methods can be put together to bring forth new knowledge about the present-day tendencies of German syntax. (Text is in German.) (TL)
Descriptors: Diachronic Linguistics, Form Classes (Languages), German, Language Typology
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Tesitelova, Marie – Linguistics, 1973
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Grammar, Mathematical Linguistics, Morphology (Languages)
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Geens, Dirk – ITL Review of Applied Linguistics, 1974
A corpus of 10,000 sentences extracted from British theatrical texts was used to construct a frequency list of kernel sentence structures. Thirty-one charts illustrate the analyzed results. The procedures used and an interpretation of the frequencies are given. Such lists might aid foreign language teachers in course organization. Available from…
Descriptors: Course Content, Data Collection, English, Kernel Sentences
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Kravif, Diane – Linguistics, 1973
Revised version of a paper supported by a National Science Foundation graduate fellowship. The universal base hypothesis states that all natural languages utilize the same base component in their transformational grammars. (DD)
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Diagrams, Generative Grammar, Language Universals
Brandt, Per Aage – Acta Linguistica Hafniensia, 1973
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Diagrams, Form Classes (Languages), Mathematical Linguistics
Anderson, Edmund A. – 1970
This report is an overview of the most frequently recurring grammatical structures in the speech of ten-year-old to twelve-year-old black children from lower socioeconomic neighborhoods in Baltimore. The speech sample consists of three types of speech situations: playing games with peers, talking with an older white interviewer, and telling…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Black Students, Black Youth, Disadvantaged Youth
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Essex Univ., Colchester (England). Dept. of Language and Linguistics. – 1970
This volume consists of three articles. "'Language and Society' in the B.A. Scheme," by L. M. O'Toole, is a revised version of some proposals for incorporating a "Language and Society" course in the second year of the B.A. program at the Language Centre. Ten propositions are offered as a basis for discussion. "Some Soviet…
Descriptors: Bachelors Degrees, College Language Programs, Communicative Competence (Languages), Computational Linguistics