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Predicates and Pronominal Arguments in Straits Salish.

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Jelinek, Eloise; Demers, Richard A. – Language, 1994

Provides an analysis of the syntax of Straits Salish. Main clauses consist of an initial predicate followed by a second position clitic string of inflectional elements, the subject pronoun and tense. Evidence is provided against copular verb analysis as further proof of the lack of the noun/verb distinction at the lexical level. (52 references)…

Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Language Variation, Lexicology

Syntactic Variation and Change in Progress: Loss of the Verbal Coda in Topic-Restricting as Far as Constructions.

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Rickford, John.; And Others – Language, 1995

This article examines the variable absence of the verb in "as far as" constructions, which serve as qualifiers or topic restrictors in English. (46 references) (Author/CK)

Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Computational Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, Discourse Analysis