We respond to critical comments and consider alternative statistical and syntactic analyses of our target paper which analyzed comprehension scores of Broca's aphasic patients from multiple sentence types in many languages, and showed that Movement but not Complexity or Mood are factors in the receptive deficit of these patients. Specifically, we…

Grammatical theories that rely exclusively on the categorical nature of constituents to determine their syntactic behavior encounter problems when dealing with cleft construction. The ungrammaticality of such constructions is indeed syntactic in nature and can be shown to derive from a general principle of universal grammar (UG), restricting the…

This dissertation analyzes two derived Biblical Hebrew verbal forms, the Niphal and the Hitpael. Present scholarship on Biblical Hebrew does not agree on the definition or relationship of these two stems. In chapter 1 I outline the two major problems for the Niphal and Hitpael: (1) unified definitions for each, and (2) their functional overlap. An…

Language is a product of both biological and cultural evolution. Clues to the origins of key structural properties of language can be found in the process of cultural transmission between learners. Recent experiments have shown that iterated learning by human participants in the laboratory transforms an initially unstructured artificial language…

This study aims to investigate the cultural identity of Korean English and to make the intercultural communications among non-native speakers successful. The purposes of this study can be summarized as follows: 1) to recognize the concept of English as an International Language (EIL), 2) to emphasize cross-cultural understanding in the globalized…

Uses the stratificational model of the American linguist S. M. Lamb to analyze a Volkswagen advertisement. (Text is in French.) (PMP)

This article is a follow-up to the author's "Developments in the Teaching of the Russian Verbal System," in which determination of the "basic stem" is discussed. Here, the morphological behavior of Russian verbs is outlined, according to a classification system grounded on this basic stem. (Text is in Russian.) (DH)

Cited are 573 U.S. and foreign articles, reports, and books particularly relevant to the field of computational linguistics with selective coverage in the fields of computation and programming, and social science uses of computers as language processors. In the area of linguistics, a fairly broad view of structural theory and semantics is taken…

This document is designed to aid the teacher in bridging the gap created by apparently divergent approaches to the study of language. It attempts to identify certain basic assumptions prerequisite to the study of language and to give the teacher an overview of the traditional, structural, and transformational-generative approaches to the study of…

The structure of any and all written discourse can be described using four basic relationships (those implied by "therefore,""but,""and then," and "and") and three combined relations between sentences and clusters of sentences. (DD)

Traces the development of Saussure's synchronic/diachronic distinction, and investigates this distinction from the point of view of methodology and theory. (AM)

Proposes the necessity of abandoning the point of view of structural linguistics for the notions of modern linguistics in order to describe Latin case. An example is made of the ablative case. (AM)

Describes tagmemic theory and examines its value to the teaching of composition, concluding that it is most useful in helping students learn how to edit. (DD)

Part of Lexicography and Dialect Geography, Festgabe for Hans Kurath''. (DD)

Elucidates J. Warland's Predicative Theory'' to the effect that German has a unique predicative sentence structure which transforms ordinary semantic relationships, such as case usage. (RS)