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Charrow, Veda R. – 1981
This paper studies legal language from three perspectives. First, legal language is defined as the variety of English that lawyers, judges, and other members of the legal community use in the course of their work. In a second section, it reviews descriptions of legal language by lawyers, linguists, and social scientists. These studies indicate…
Descriptors: Courts, Diachronic Linguistics, Government Publications, Grammar
Perkins, Kyle – 1982
A formula for assessing style is described and applied to compositions written by adult students of English as a second language. Style is defined as the total effect of what is done by a writer in the composing process, including choice of words, organization, and sentence and paragraph strategies. Earlier attempts to quantify style are reviewed.…
Descriptors: Adults, English (Second Language), Evaluation Methods, Grammar
Greenbaum, Sidney – 1982
The word "grammar" can be used in many ways: a general theory of language description; a theory for describing one language; a description of a particular language, either in the form of a book (an "English grammar") or the contents of that book; an ideal as opposed to actual description of a language; the properties and processes of a language…
Descriptors: College English, Definitions, English, English Curriculum
Download full textLangacker, Ronald W. – International Journal of English Studies, 2003
Across languages, clauses expressing possession, location, and existence exhibit many similarities. To capture their evident affinity, it is often claimed that possessives derive--synclironically or diaclironically--from expressions of location/existence. This localist account obscures a basic contrast between two broad classes of possessive…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Psycholinguistics, Grammar, Verbs
Helbig, Gerhard; Kempter, Fritz – Deutsch als Fremdsprache, 1974
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), German, Grammar, Language Instruction
Muhammed-Ali, M. A. – Russkij Yazyk za Rubezhom, 1973
Descriptors: Animal Behavior, Case (Grammar), Expressive Language, Language Instruction
Rosenthal, D. E.; Telenkova, M. A. – Russkij Yazyk za Rubezhom, 1973
Descriptors: Case (Grammar), Form Classes (Languages), Language Styles, Language Usage
Peer reviewedSt. Clair, Robert – Linguistics, 1974
Discusses the theories of various linguists concerning variation and argues that genetically related languages and related dialects are manifestations of the same linguistic phenomenon. (PM)
Descriptors: Dialect Studies, Dialects, Diglossia, Language Research
Peer reviewedManuchehri, Parivash – TESOL Quarterly, 1974
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, English (Second Language), Error Patterns, Form Classes (Languages)
Peer reviewedWolf, Jurgen – Zielsprache Franzosisch, 1974
Descriptors: Cultural Education, French, Grammar, Language Instruction
Jager, Gert – Deutsch als Fremdsprache, 1974
Paper presented May 1973, Dresden, East Germany. (DD)
Descriptors: Grammar, Instructional Materials, Language Instruction, Linguistic Competence
Admoni, W. G. – Deutsch als Fremdsprache, 1974
Descriptors: Case (Grammar), Form Classes (Languages), Language Instruction, Linguistic Theory
Peer reviewedMeisel, Jurgen M. – Linguistics, 1974
Expanded version of a paper presented at the 7th Linguistics Colloquium, Nijmegen, Netherlands, September 27-30, 1972; presented at the University of California, San Diego. (DD)
Descriptors: Cultural Influences, Descriptive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, Language Universals
Shuy, Roger W., Ed. – 1977
The ten essays in this collection are concerned with linguistic theory and with the inferences which can be drawn from it and applied to the field of reading. Major sections deal with grammar, phonology, sociolinguistics, pragmatics, and the ethnography of speaking. In each case there is an attempt both to discuss recent developments within the…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Grammar, Language Acquisition, Linguistic Theory
McCaffrey, Judith Perry – 1976
This study looked at the period when language development overlaps the early years of reading, to see how children read and comprehend complex syntactic structures. Thirty-six second, third, and fourth graders, who were considered average readers, were tested in the first experiment using a reading test to determine comprehension of individual…
Descriptors: Doctoral Dissertations, Elementary Education, Grammar, Language Acquisition
