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On the Relativity of Tones
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Cook, Eung-Do – Lingua, 1972
Descriptors: African Languages, Descriptive Linguistics, Japanese, Language Typology
A Hebrew Flip-Flop Rule and Its Historical Origins
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Malone, Joseph L. – Lingua, 1972
Revised and expanded version of a paper presented at 43rd Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, New York, N.Y., December 28, 1968. (DD)
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, Diagrams, Grammar
The Development of a Non-Process Model in American Structural Linguistics
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Huddleston, Rodney – Lingua, 1972
Based in part on work supported by the Nuffield Programme in Linguistics and Language Teaching, University College, London, England. (DD)
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, Morphology (Languages), Phonology
One Fact Needs One Explanation
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Sampson, Geoffrey – Lingua, 1975
Argues that the generative-phonological view of linguistic competence is a highly speculative theory supported by a limited number of disparate arguments. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, Generative Phonology, Linguistic Competence
Some Adjectival Nominalizations in English
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Bowers, John S. – Lingua, 1975
This paper concludes that there is evidence in favor of handling the derived nominals of Predicate AP's with a lexicalist theory, in conjunction with a base schema of the form (1)-(2). The transformation NP-Postposing is proposed to explain variations. (Available from North-Holland Publishing Co., P. O. Box 211, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.) (CHK)
Descriptors: Adjectives, Deep Structure, Descriptive Linguistics, Linguistic Theory
On Contrasting the Semantics of the Modal Auxiliaries of German and English
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Bouma, Lowell – Lingua, 1975
The modal auxiliary system in both German and English is seen as a grammatical category (relative assertion) which stands in specific opposition to the absence of a modal in a sentence (factual assertion). (Available from North-Holland Publishing Co., P. O. Box 211, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.) (CHK)
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Descriptive Linguistics, English, Form Classes (Languages)
Observations sur la phonologie des pronoms personnels du francais de Montreal (Observations on the Phonology of Personal Pronouns in the French of Montreal)
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Pupier, Paul; Pelchat, Roland – Lingua, 1972
Research reported in this article was subsidized in part through the research training program of the Quebec Ministry of Education. (VM)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics, Deep Structure, Descriptive Linguistics
Fallacy of Formal Discourse Analysis
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Pak, Ty – Lingua, 1971
Descriptors: Connected Discourse, Descriptive Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Linguistic Theory