Discusses for the benefit of German students of Russian the various ways of rendering in Russian the German verb "haben" (have) used in the sense of "besitzen" (own). Numerous examples are presented. (Text is in German.) (FB)

Discusses two recent Russian books designed to aid students in understanding Russian word compounding. The bulk of the article consists of examples from these books. (Text is in German and Russian.) (FB)

Discusses the importance of an understanding of word compounding for the student of Russian and presents excerpts from a new Russian book which is considered especially helpful for students having difficulties in this area of Russian grammar. (Text is in German and Russian.) (FB)

Compares and contrasts the progressive constructions in English and Japanese, concluding that whereas an English sentence of this type refers to a dynamic state, this need not be the case in Japanese. The article argues that the progressive operators in both English (be-ing) and Japanese (-teiru) can be characterized as stativizer. (18 references)…

Two experiments examined theory of mind in middle childhood by examining changes in the organization of mental verbs of knowing. Found that older children and comprehension monitors placed greater emphasis on the certainty aspects of mental activity than did younger children and comprehension nonmonitors, suggesting that important aspects of a…

This paper reports on two studies of finite verb use to determine whether children with specific language impairments, who use grammatical morphemes less than typical children matched for mean length of utterance (MLU), produce other language details more frequently. The paper concluded that offsetting effects are not necessary in principle, given…

Analysis of the French verb prefix "re-" finds its occurrence characterized not, strictly speaking, by meaning but by the variety of ways in which the verb itself and its prefixed form interact. Occurrences of "re-" are classified into five categories. Verbs not compatible with the prefix and several unusual cases are also discussed. (MSE)

Highlights the importance of conceptual and theoretical work in designing information retrieval systems. Examines two epistemological positions leading to different solutions in digital library design: the information transfer perspective and the social constructionist knowledge production perspective. Suggests that noun-based approaches can be…

Two experiments are discussed--one with normal 3 to 5-year-olds and one with language impaired 4 to 5-year-olds--that investigated the role of inflections in verb learning. Findings point to a developmental period during which children treat inflectional cues as reliable guides to verb meaning. Focuses on the rise and fall of such inflectional…

Assumes the overall frame work of Extended Standard Theory of grammar, with a focus on the lexicon. It assumes Chomsky's theory that the projection of a verb and its arguments onto syntax is determined by its lexical specifications. Emphasizes a lexical approach to Swahili verbal suffixes. (Author/VWL)

Used point-light displays (lights corresponding to the joints of the human body) to examine 3-year-olds' understanding of verbs. Found that children could extend familiar motion verbs (walking, dancing) to videotaped point-light actions shown in an intermodal preferential looking paradigm. Children watched the action matching the requested verb…

This study examined difficulties in the use of -ed as passive participle or as past tense in 12 young children with specific language impairment. Results suggest that either the surface properties of -ed are related to the difficulty or these children have a separate, non-tense- related deficit in the area of verb morphology. (Contains…

Analysis of speech data from three adult elementary Spanish students, focusing on the acquisition of noun-phrase agreement and the copulas "ser" and "estar," revealed that learners could be classified as either form based or meaning based in terms of their strategic orientation to acquisition of the target language. (CB)

Argues for the existence of a pro-prepositional phrase category whose licensing condition requires it to be theta marked by a head. This licensing condition explains the difference found regarding silent prepositional phrases between Class A and Class B prepositional verbs. (CB)