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Direct linkMarinellie, Sally A. – Journal of Communication Disorders, 2004
The present study is an investigation of complex sentence structures produced by school-age children in ordinary 100-utterance language samples. A total of 15 children with specific language impairment (SLI) and 15 of their classmates with typical language (TL) were the participants. Each child's conversational sample was coded for several types…
Descriptors: Children, Language Impairments, Sentence Structure, Syntax
Peer reviewedAzevedo, Milton M. – Linguistics, 1974
Sentences containing "estar" + participle are analyzed in order to highlight their semantic characteristics. (RM)
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Grammar, Language Patterns, Linguistic Theory
Download full textWiddowson, H. G. – 1990
Among the features characterizing human language is creativity, the ability to produce an infinite number of sentences with a finite number of rules. What is expected of creativity is non-conformity, violation of rules, and challenges to accepted convention. Words may be used to activate possible contexts. Most textbook sentence examples do not…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Context Clues, Creative Writing, Discourse Analysis
Lee, Thomas Hun-Tak – 1986
An investigation of how Mandarin-speaking children aged three to eight interpret sentences involving the universal quantifier "mei" ("every") and the quantificational adverbs "dou" ("all") and "quan" ("all") focused on how and when the child acquires adult interpretations of the…
Descriptors: Child Language, Children, Grammar, Language Acquisition
Mann, William C.; Matthiessen, Christian M. I. M. – 1983
This three-paper report describes Nigel, a large, programmed grammar of English which has been created in the framework of systemic linguistics begun by Halliday, and which, in addition to specifying functions and structures of English, has a novel semantic stratum which specifies the situations for use of each grammatical feature. The…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Computer Programs, Discourse Analysis, Grammar
Peer reviewedJeanes, R. W. – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1974
Descriptors: Adjectives, Form Classes (Languages), French, Grammar
Visochinskaya, L. L. – Russkij Yazyk za Rubezhom, 1973
Descriptors: Language Instruction, Phrase Structure, Programed Instruction, Russian
Peer reviewedStreadbeck, Arval L.; Grimshaw, Michael N. – Linguistics, 1974
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, German, Morphology (Languages), Nouns
Blumenthal, Peter – Linguistik und Didaktik, 1974
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics, French, German
Heller, Bruno – Linguistik und Didaktik, 1974
Conclusion of an article begun in "linguistik und Didaktik," v4 n16 1973. (DD)
Descriptors: Diagrams, German, Grammar, Language Instruction
Fujita, Takemasa – Journal of the Association of Teachers of Japanese, 1975
The distribution and form of negatives in Japanese as compared to English in the simple declarative sentence, in the interrogative sentence, in different speech styles, in indefinite negatives, and in complex sentences. (SC)
Descriptors: Case (Grammar), Japanese, Language Styles, Negative Forms (Language)
Peer reviewedBabby, L. H.; Brecht, R. D. – Language, 1975
Two passive forms of verbs are discussed. One is related to its active counterpart transformationally and the other lexically. Voice is defined as the relationship between a verb's subcategorization feature and the surface form of the sentence it occurs in. (SC)
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Descriptive Linguistics, Morphemes, Morphology (Languages)
Peer reviewedCarlson, Greg N.; Martin, Larry W. – Glossa, 1975
A class of sentences is discussed in which pronominal forms and their antecedents do not have semantic identity. "One" pronominalization, in particular, is discussed. (SC)
Descriptors: Ambiguity, Descriptive Linguistics, Generative Grammar, Linguistic Theory
Francois, Denise – Linguistique, 1975
This article examines predicate structures, with special focus on the nature of predicate auxiliaries and their role in assigning predicate function to non-verbals. (Text is in French.) (AM)
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Form Classes (Languages), Grammar, Morphology (Languages)
Mahmoudian, Morteza – Linguistique, 1975
This article examines the definitions "syntagmeme" and "syntheme" and the criteria which distinguish one from the other. (Text is in French.) (AM)
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Language Usage, Morphology (Languages), Sentence Structure
