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O'Neal, Cothburn – Linguistics, 1973
Descriptors: Adverbs, Diagrams, Form Classes (Languages), Idioms

DeCamp, David – Linguistics, 1971
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Language Patterns, Mathematical Linguistics, Mathematical Models

Ingram, D. E. – Babel, 1971
Descriptors: Audiolingual Methods, Grammar, Language Patterns, Modern Languages
Takahashi, George – Journal-Newsletter of the Association of Teachers of Japanese, 1970
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Grammar, Japanese, Language Instruction

Chafe, Wallace L. – Language, 1971
Supports the theory that phonic units cannot be delimited without reference to conceptual units, and that there must be a mutual dependence of sound and meaning in language. (DS)
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Diagrams, Grammar, Language Patterns

Bergen, John J. – Language Sciences, 1977
A significant discovery of generative theory is that the features present in a lexical entry in a sentence's deep structure influence choice and arrangement of words in the surface structure. The systemic and nonsystemic functions of Spanish count and measure entity nouns are elaborated and analyzed. (CHK)
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Language Patterns, Linguistic Theory, Nouns
St. Clair, Robert N. – 1978
In this essay, the cross cultural conflicts associated with linguistic problems are explored in terms of the development of linguistic theory from 1933 to the present. The linguistic code, positivism, the existential approach to sociolinguistics, linguistic solidarity, defining the situation, language and culture, and cross-cultural conflicts in…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Differences, Language Patterns
SLOBIN, DAN I.; WELSH, CHARLES A. – 1967
THE AUTHORS HAVE CONCERNED THEMSELVES IN THIS STUDY WITH IMITATION AS A DEVICE BY WHICH THE INVESTIGATOR CAN LEARN ABOUT CHILD LANGUAGE. THE DATA EXAMINED ARE PART OF A LONGITUDINAL THREE-MONTH STUDY OF LINGUISTIC DEVELOPMENT IN A TWO-YEAR-OLD CHILD. THE REPORT IS BASED ON 1,000 ELICITED IMITATIONS. CERTAIN PHENOMONA WERE OBSERVED GENERALLY WHEN…
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Child Development, Language Acquisition, Language Patterns

Tanaka, Shichiro – 1976
To express that a degree of one event is conditioned by (or paralleled by) a degree of another, the "the...the..." construction with a comparative after each "the" is used. Examples include sentences such as: (1) the more dangerous mountains are to climb, the more challenging they are; (2) the more often a man has been in…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Adverbs, Descriptive Linguistics, English

Foster, David William – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 1977
Describes a study using transformational generative grammar to demonstrate that the frequently used structure "verb a verb" in Spanish is to be interpreted in three ways. Conclusions are drawn for the teaching of Spanish as a foreign language. (AMH)
Descriptors: Generative Grammar, Language Instruction, Language Patterns, Sentence Structure
Hupet, M.; Costermans, J. – Linguistique, 1976
This article discusses the relationship in languages between passive forms and active forms from a psycholinguistic point of view. (Text is in French.) (CLK)
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Language Patterns, Language Research, Language Usage
Henry, Paul – Langages, 1975
Contrasts classical grammar, which concerned itself with the causal relationships of thought, universal order, and language, with modern linguistics, which tends to entirely absorb the matter of discourse. (Text is in French.) (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: Determiners (Languages), Discourse Analysis, Form Classes (Languages), Language Patterns
Bourbeau, Laurent – 1976
The linguistic literature contains many studies of the structure of the noun phrase. Syntactic structures that occupy NP position but which don't have the internal characteristics of a substantive (infinitives and THAT clauses, for example) are distinguished from lexical structures that occupy NP position and do have the internal characteristics…
Descriptors: French, Language Patterns, Language Research, Linguistic Theory
Delisle, Gilles L. – 1973
In this paper, non-standard types of agreement are examined. Such agreement types are those in which two or more supposedly agreeing categories show discord rather than concord. For example, if a language has noun-adjective agreement, there may, under limited circumstances, be non-standard agreement where the subject is plural and the agreeing…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Language Patterns, Language Research, Language Universals
Harries, Helga – 1973
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the process of coordination reduction in various languages and to propose a universal set of rules that will account for all types of coordination reduction. In a brief discussion of some of the more recent proposals on coordination reduction it will be shown that these proposals fail to account for the…
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Language Patterns, Language Research, Language Universals