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Peer reviewedLipski, John M. – Hispania, 1978
Discusses the issue of the use of the Spanish subjunctive in clauses that express neither doubt nor emotion, but appear to deal with strictly factual material. Such uses of the subjunctive are accommodated within the generally accepted one- or two-subjunctive models. (EJS)
Descriptors: Grammar, Language Usage, Sentence Structure, Spanish
Peer reviewedKaufmann, Gerhard – Zielsprache Deutsch, 1973
Descriptors: Function Words, German, Illustrations, Morphology (Languages)
Peer reviewedStrange, David – Linguistics, 1973
Paper prepared during a workshop conducted by Joseph E. Grimes, January-April 1971, at Ukarumpa, Territory of New Guinea, and partially supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation. (DD)
Descriptors: Case (Grammar), Distinctive Features (Language), Semantics, Sentence Structure
Peer reviewedKooyers, Orneal – Linguistics, 1975
Deals with clause chaining in Washkuk, a language spoken by about 2500 people in northeastern New Guinea. Four clause types are ranked from lowest to highest. Any clause subordinates all preceding clauses of lower order. (TL)
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Malayo Polynesian Languages, Morphology (Languages), Nouns
Download full textSzamosi, Michael – 1972
This second volume of a three-part language research report presents a sketch of Hungarian syntax with emphasis on several particular aspects of grammar. The first section considers the noun phrase and covers such issues as internal word order, number, demonstratives, cases and postpositions, genitive constructions, pronominal forms of cases and…
Descriptors: Case (Grammar), Deep Structure, Grammar, Hungarian
Patterson, Betty Soon Ju – 1974
This paper proposes that some but not all "I" causatives in Korean are analyzable, and argues that case markers in Korean are not merely surface phenomena, but are semantically and syntactically significant. The types of Korean causatives are introduced, as well as the major problems involved in their analysis. Previous generative works…
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Descriptive Linguistics, Form Classes (Languages), Grammar
Defense Language Inst., Monterey, CA. – 1974
This contrastive analysis of English and Mandarin Chinese is designed to introduce ESL teachers to many of the fundamental differences between Chinese and English. This material is intended to assist the teacher in defining the problems that Chinese speakers are likely to have in learning English. The introduction includes information on the…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Adverbs, Contrastive Linguistics, Descriptive Linguistics
Corum, Claudia W. – 1978
This is an introductory text for the Swazi language, siSwati. Spoken by nearly a half million people in Swaziland, siSwati is one of the Nguni languages of the southeastern branch of the Bantu languages. Each of the 25 lessons in this text covers one or more basic grammatical structures. The first five lessons present the sound system in detail,…
Descriptors: African Languages, Bantu Languages, Dialogs (Language), Form Classes (Languages)
