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Download full textPlumlee, Marilyn – 1995
This paper provides an analysis of the manual and non-manual pronouns identified in Mexican Sign Language (MSL) used by a female speaker in 1993, discusses syntactic uses of each type, and examines pronoun deletion. MSL has two distinct modes of expressing pronominal relationships: manual pronouns (including indexical, incorporated, classifiers,…
Descriptors: Deafness, Foreign Countries, Language Patterns, Pronouns
Black, Cheryl A. – 1996
Many of the Zapotecan (Mexico) languages have a unique way of signaling co-reference between the subject and the possessor of the object: the subject is null. Analysis of such a construction is problematic to current theories of anaphoric construction. In this analysis, the construction is described and the theoretical problem is underlined by…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Patterns, Language Research, Linguistic Theory
Escalante, Roberto H.; Fernandez, Zarina Estrada – 1993
This volume, entirely in Spanish and Pima, presents extensive descriptive information about the language spoken by the Pima of Mexico. An introductory chapter reviews the history of research on the language. The second and third chapters explain its phonology and morphology. In the fourth chapter, a number of oral histories and ethnographic texts…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations, Language Patterns
Bickford, J. Albert – 1989
A study of dialectal variation in Mexican Sign Language (MSL), the primary language for a large segment of Mexico's deaf community, is presented. Signs used by nine different sources representing various locations, ages, and social groups are compared. The first section reviews a number of previous informal assessments of dialectal variation in…
Descriptors: Deafness, Dialect Studies, Foreign Countries, Language Patterns
Persons, Jan A. – 1997
Analysis of the speech of the people of Santa Maria Lachixio, a Zapotec town in Mexico shows they use a high voice to show respect toward others, and that variability in the height of pitch is unimportant. No other voice quality changes occur, such as laryngealization or breathiness. Kinship, age, and authority are important determiners of high…
Descriptors: American Indians, Foreign Countries, Interlanguage, Interpersonal Communication
Dooley, Robert A., Ed.; Bickford, J. Albert, Ed. – 1989
The volume represents in microcosm the sort of faculty-trainee-student interaction that is a priority at the Summer Institute of Linguistics (SIL) at the University of North Dakota. Seven studies by faculty and students of SIL include the following: "Lexical Variation in Mexican Sign Language" (J. Albert Bickford); "Reflexives in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Greek, Language Patterns, Language Research
Stark, Thomas C. Smith; Garcia, Fermin Tapia – 1986
An analysis of Amuzgo, a language within the Otomanguean family of Mexico, suggests that it is an active-static language with patterns similar but not parallel to those of Chocho. In the report, data on the characteristics of Chocho are summarized, theory and research on active-static languages is reviewed, and the data on Amuzgo are presented.…
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Articulation (Speech), Contrastive Linguistics, Descriptive Linguistics
Bouton, Lawrence F., Ed.; Kachru, Yamuna, Ed. – Pragmatics and Language Learning, 1992
Monographs on pragmatics and language learning include: "Do We All Apologize the Same?--An Empirical Study on the Act of Apologizing by Spanish Speakers Learning English" (Montserrat Mir); "Conversational Openings in Kiswahili: The Pragmatic Performance of Native and Non-Native Speakers" (Alwiya S. Omar); "Experimental and…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Communicative Competence (Languages), Comparative Analysis, Cultural Traits
Caouette, Claudine, Ed.; Larrivee, Pierre, Ed. – 1997
English translations of articles in French in this issue include these: "Discourse Reported in the Print Media"; "Comparison of Register in Quebec and French Speakers"; "Method of Description of Specialized Verbs in View of Machine Translation Applications"; "Dialectal Areas in the Brazilian State of Rio Grande…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Biblical Literature, Braille, Contrastive Linguistics
