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Peer reviewedGivon, Talmy – Language, 1973
Preliminary paper on this subject read at the Mid-Summer Linguistics Conference, University of California, Santa Cruz, July 1971. (DD)
Descriptors: Diachronic Linguistics, Language Typology, Language Usage, Phrase Structure
Peer reviewedBickerton, Derek – Language, 1973
Revised version of a paper presented at the Caribbean Linguistics Conference, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica, April 1971; research assisted by a grant from the Ford Foundation for the Dialect Survey of Guyana. (DD)
Descriptors: Creoles, Descriptive Linguistics, Form Classes (Languages), Language Classification
Peer reviewedCarlson, Greg N. – Language, 1977
It is argued here that English contains a distinct class of relative clauses called amount relatives. On the surface, these are much like restrictive relative clauses, but they have a syntax and semantics that align them more with comparatives than with restrictive relatives. (Author/KM)
Descriptors: English, Language Patterns, Linguistic Theory, Nouns
