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Peer reviewedvan Hout, Roeland; Muysken, Pieter – Language Variation and Change, 1994
Develops analytical techniques to determine "borrowability," the ease with which a lexical item or category of lexical items can be borrowed by one language from another. These techniques are then applied to Spanish borrowings in Bolivian Quechua on the basis of a set of bilingual texts. (29 references) (MDM)
Descriptors: Databases, Descriptive Linguistics, Foreign Countries, Language Patterns
Hook, Peter Edwin – 1987
An unusual construction in Shina grammar is examined, particularly as it has been observed in the language form spoken in the Skardu region of Pakistan. The construction occurs in the use of the dative case with certain verbs. The patterns of occurrence and the origins of this phenomenon are analyzed through examples from Shina. (MSE)
Descriptors: Case (Grammar), Foreign Countries, Form Classes (Languages), Language Patterns
Peer reviewedKirk, John M. – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1987
Detailed analysis of frequencies of the primary auxiliary verb "be" in Scots dramatic texts leads to consideration of the typological relationship said to exist between different varieties of Scots and between them and standard English. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Correlation, Dialects, Discourse Analysis
Peer reviewedMuljani, D.; Koda, Keiko; Moates, Danny R. – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1998
A study investigated differences in English word recognition in native speakers of Indonesian (an alphabetic language) and Chinese (a logographic languages) learning English as a Second Language. Results largely confirmed the hypothesis that an alphabetic first language would predict better word recognition in speakers of an alphabetic language,…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Chinese, Contrastive Linguistics, English
PDF pending restorationMatson, Dan M.; Mahapatra, B. P. – 1970
This volume, the fourth in a series of textbooks on the Oriya language, is a glossary for each of the stories found in the "Graded Readings in Oriya" in the Oriya Language Textbook Series. The glosses are arranged in the order in which the stories are placed within the series. Words are glossed in the story in the order of their first…
Descriptors: Glossaries, Indo European Languages, Language Instruction, Language Patterns
PDF pending restorationMatson, Dan M.; Mahapatra, B. P. – 1970
This glossary to the text "Oriya Short Stories" in the Oriya Language Textbook Series is intended to serve as a stimulus to the student to help him further develop his vocabulary range. The serial arrangement of the glosses provides vocabulary clues for each of the stories in the order in which the stories are arranged in the series.…
Descriptors: Glossaries, Indo European Languages, Instructional Materials, Language Instruction
PDF pending restorationMatson, Dan M.; Mahapatra, B. P. – 1970
This glossary to the text "Three Oriya Novels" in the Oriya Language Textbook Series is intended to serve as a stimulus to the student to help him further develop his vocabulary range. The serial arrangement of the glosses provides vocabulary clues for each of the stories in the order in which the stories are presented. Within each of…
Descriptors: Glossaries, Indo European Languages, Language Instruction, Language Patterns
