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Direct linkFord, Alan J. – Meta, 1973
Paper presented at the Second International Conference on Linguistics and Translation, October 4-7, 1972, Montreal, Canada. (DD)
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Form Classes (Languages), Language, Lexicology
Peer reviewedLevine, Robert D. – International Journal of American Linguistics, 1979
Summarizes findings of recent studies which suggest that there is no evidence for including Haida in the Na-Dene grouping. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Comparative Analysis, Descriptive Linguistics, Form Classes (Languages)
Peer reviewedBlake, Renee – Language Variation and Change, 1997
Proposes a set of copula forms that should be set aside from variable analysis as instances of "don't count" (DC) forms to allow for systematic comparisons among studies of the English language. Reviews the major alternative descriptions of DC copula cases in the literature and analyzes the behavior of the traditional DC categories. (29…
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, English, Form Classes (Languages)
Peer reviewedWasow, Thomas – Language Variation and Change, 1997
Discusses "end-weight," long, complex phrases that tend to come at the end of clauses. Corpus data on heavy noun phrase shift, the dative alternation, and particle movement indicate that there are several structural measures of weight highly correlated with constituent ordering. (38 references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, English, Form Classes (Languages), Language Variation
Download full textPupier, Paul; And Others – 1975
This study relates the suffix "-age" to "-able,""-eux,""-ment,""-Xtion," and "-ure" in Quebec French. Morphologically, some "-age" suffixals which can be denominal in Quebec French can only be deverbal in European French. Semantically, "-age" deverbals are subdivided…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Descriptive Linguistics, Form Classes (Languages), French
Peer reviewedRouchota, Villy – Journal of Linguistics, 1994
Explores the semantics and pragmatics of indefinite descriptions. It is argued that indefinite descriptions are not semantically ambiguous and that their various interpretations may be explained on the basis of general communicative principles. He shows that his proposed analysis can account for generic and predicative interpretations. (45…
Descriptors: Ambiguity, Communication (Thought Transfer), Descriptive Linguistics, Discourse Analysis
Anuario del Seminario de Filologia Vasca "Julio de Urquijo", 1972
Ten papers resulting from the Basque linguistics seminar are collected in this volume. Following introductions by L. Michelena and William A. Douglass, the papers are: (1)"Morphological Evidence of Abstract Verbs in Basque" by Glenn Ayres, (2) "A Survey of Linguistic Variables in the Central Zone of the Deva River Valley" by Ramon M. S. Bereicua…
Descriptors: Basque, Case (Grammar), Descriptive Linguistics, Form Classes (Languages)
Bell, Alan – Anthropological Linguistics, 1970
The reflexes of the proto-Bantu noun class prefixes of the form "mu-,""mi-," and "ma-" are compared in 84 Bantu languages. The hypotheses that syllabic nasals arise preferably from sequences of m + rounded high vowel, rather than m + unrounded high vowel, are tested against the data. The approach is an example of intragenetic comparison discussed…
Descriptors: African Languages, Bantu Languages, Contrastive Linguistics, Descriptive Linguistics
