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Peer reviewedWiese, Richard – Journal of Linguistics, 1996
Addresses the relationship between phonology and morphology, using the vowel alternations of Standard German Umlaut and Ablaut as relevant examples. The article analyzes Umlaut as a completely unified process of vowel fronting, whereas it argues that Ablaut is synchronically a totally unpredictable vowel change found in the paradigms of strong…
Descriptors: Classification, Context Clues, Contrastive Linguistics, German
Peer reviewedLyons, Christopher – Journal of Linguistics, 1986
Discusses the possessive constructions in English, in particular, the postponed construction. (An example of the postponed construction is "a book of John's," contrasted with "John's book," the preposed construction.) The study contrasts the possessive "of" with the "of" in other constructions and concludes…
Descriptors: Case (Grammar), Contrastive Linguistics, English, Language Patterns
Peer reviewedFortescue, Michael – Journal of Linguistics, 1993
Although Eskimo languages are commonly characterized as displaying rather "free" word order compared to major western European languages, West Greenlandic (WG) has a clearly dominant, pragmatically neutral ordering pattern. It is argued that WG behaves more like Slavic languages. (Contains 36 references.) (LB)
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Dialects, Eskimo Aleut Languages, Foreign Countries
