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Peer reviewedKaluza, Heryk – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 1979
Proposes a model for the description of "tense" in English verbs in the indicative mood. (AM)
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, English, Grammar, Models
Peer reviewedNehls, Dietrich – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 1975
A structural-functional basis for the construction of an English tense system is proposed. It is asserted that such a system will facilitate the teaching of English tense usage. (Author/RM)
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, English, Grammar, Language Usage
Peer reviewedGaatone, David – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 1976
This article draws attention to a number of syntactic peculiarities of the so-called pronominal adverbs "en" and "y" in French, and maintains that these adverbs differ quite markedly in syntactic behavior. (Text is in French.) (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Adverbs, Descriptive Linguistics, French, Grammar
Peer reviewedPfeffer, J. Alan; Morrison, Scott E. – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 1979
Presents a reworking of the rules of genitive singular inflection in German nouns, allowing the prediction of the distribution of "s" and "es" in a greater number of nouns than previously possible. (AM)
Descriptors: Case (Grammar), Descriptive Linguistics, German, Grammar
Peer reviewedCampbell, Stuart J. – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 1986
Investigates why graduates of Arabic courses in English-speaking countries are so few in number and why they so often compare poorly in spoken language performance with graduates of other language courses. The most important factor in this phenomenom is the gap that separates written Arabic from spoken Arabic. (SED)
Descriptors: Arabic, Communicative Competence (Languages), Descriptive Linguistics, Dialects
