This bibliography of linguistic literature, including unpublished papers, contains citations on Native American and Paleosiberian languages discussing or relevant to the phenomena called incorporation (including, not only noun incorporation, but also verb incorporation, causative incorporation, passive incorporation, preposition incorporation,…

Discusses a study of the mood system in Italian, using the systemic functional model as a theoretical framework. In particular, the study focuses on subject ellipsis and explains the two conditions in which the subject must be explicitly expressed in Italian clauses. (CFM)

Discussion of Chinese information retrieval proposes a relaxed segmentation process which extracts the longest words and also the short words implied. Experiments show that information retrieval based on this segmentation gives a slightly higher effectiveness than n-grams or bigrams, and requires less time and space for document and query…

Evidence exists that the static/dynamic contrast can be established over how semantic relations link to syntax. The claim that this aspectual contrast can be derived over the linking of semantic relations in turn accounts for the failure of the English verb SEE to be marked for an aspectuality, and for the aspectual polysemy of English verbs of…

This article is a reply to Kuno et al. 1999, which claims that a structural approach to scope should be replaced by an expert system. (Author/VWL)

Constituent structure is considered to be the very foundation of linguistic competence and often considered to be innate, yet we show here that it is derivable from the domain-general processes of chunking and categorization. Using modern and diachronic corpus data, we show that the facts support a view of constituent structure as gradient (as…

This study investigated the effect of multilingual linguistic experience on the perception of Japanese durational contrast by learners of Japanese as a foreign language at the basic level. Five monolingual and five multilingual learners listened to recorded sentences containing the utterances /iken/ or /ikken/ and were asked to identify which of…

Gives a brief overview of FL teaching, from the prelinguistic to the linguistic era, and discusses the advent of an era characterized by an eclectic approach which makes full use of all linguistic data, without being subservient to any linguistic theory, and gives full importance to sociolinguistic and psycholinguistic considerations. Available…

Discusses the role of linguistics in the study of phrase structure or expressive communication. Various linguistic approaches, including transformational grammar, structural linguistics, and the sociolinguistic approach, are discussed in connection with communication instruction. (Text is in French.) (AM)

This article briefly examines structural and transformational theories and their associations with other theories, particularly learning psychology. The implications of each position for FL teaching are examined, and it is suggested that teachers enrich structurally based audiolingual techniques with experimental infusions from the…

To determine whether poor readers employ less efficient strategies in processing logical connectives than do good readers, 34 ninth grade students participated in a study. Half of the students were good readers and half were poor readers. An acquisition list consisting of 18 target sentences and 6 fillers was constructed. A list of 42 recognition…

Work documents from an international language teaching colloquy (Antwerp, April 1963) were collected for this book. Written in English, Dutch, French, and German, the papers deal with the evolution of linguistic science and audiovisual methods of teaching language skills. (TI)

This paper, based on Rosenbaum's (1967) grammar of adult English, attempts to apply ideas of deep structure and transformations to child grammar. The main rules predicated include phrase structure rules, segment structure rules, contextual features, and transformational rules. In this approach, the role of transformations is to segment and place…

The advantages and weaknesses of conventional grammar and structural linguistics are the subjects of this pamphlet. Reasons given for the widespread attack on conventional grammar are that it has resulted in repetitive and time-consuming instruction, has not improved the students' language skills, has been confused with language usage, and does…

Having divided those aspects of linguistics which have direct concern with the teaching of reading into two general types--phonology and usage (content and structure)--it was stressed that a teacher can employ both, understanding that initial recognition of sound symbols is necessary and that the point of developing reading skill is to enable…