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Wirth, Jessica – Glossa, 1975
It is suggested that invited inference is a case of valid inference by saying that English "if...then" sentences are logically ambigous. The ambiguity of "if...then" sentences may be related syntactically or semantically to "or.""Or,""if...then," and "and" all invite inferences. (SC)
Descriptors: Ambiguity, Descriptive Linguistics, Linguistic Theory, Semantics
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Cowan, W. – Glossa, 1972
Descriptors: Arabic, Descriptive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, Dialects
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Ruhl, C. – Glossa, 1972
Paper presented at the 1971 Summer Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Buffalo, New York. Assesses an analysis made by Charles Fillmore on the grammar of the English verbs hit'' and break''. (VM)
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, English, Grammar, Language Usage
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Carlson, Greg N.; Martin, Larry W. – Glossa, 1975
A class of sentences is discussed in which pronominal forms and their antecedents do not have semantic identity. "One" pronominalization, in particular, is discussed. (SC)
Descriptors: Ambiguity, Descriptive Linguistics, Generative Grammar, Linguistic Theory
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Prideaux, Gary D. – Glossa, 1979
Proposes an alternative to transformational grammars, based on the notion that a grammatical system should be open to psycholinguistic interpretation, and disallowing grammatical transformations, dealing instead with the information content of sentence surface structure. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, English, Grammar, Linguistic Theory
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Emonds, J. – Glossa, 1973
Syntactic rules with structural descriptions which apply on several linguistic levels are called global derivational constraints. (DD)
Descriptors: Case (Grammar), Descriptive Linguistics, Diagrams, Phrase Structure
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Fink, Robert – Glossa, 1978
Proposes an analysis of Spanish stress patterns based on a combination of phonological and morphological surface structure, which draws evidence from psycholinguistic data as well. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Generative Phonology, Language Patterns, Linguistic Theory