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Peer reviewedDimroth, Christine; Watorek, Marzena – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2000
Presents the results of a cross-linguistic study of the role of scope phenomena in untutored second language acquisition, or how adult learners in different source and target language settings acquire the means to express which part of an utterance is semantically affected by scope-bearing elements such scope particles or negation. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Adults, Contrastive Linguistics, Language Research, Language Variation
Peer reviewedBernini, Giuliano – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2000
Acquisition of negation in Italian as a second language (L2) is investigated on the basis of the longitudinal data of five learners with different first languages in the framework of a functional approach focusing on the semantic and pragmatic principles governing the organization of learner varieties and the process of their complexification.…
Descriptors: Italian, Language Research, Language Variation, Longitudinal Studies
Peer reviewedGoetze, Lutz – Zielsprache Deutsch, 1976
Discusses the semantics and structure of sentence adverbs, with particular reference to negation of the declarative sentence. "Nicht" is found to be not properly reckoned with sentence adverbs. By means of examples, suggestions are given about teaching foreigners the use of German adverbs. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)
Descriptors: Adverbs, German, Language Instruction, Language Usage
Ricken, Helga – Deutsch als Fremdsprache, 1974
Descriptors: German, Interference (Language), Language Instruction, Morphology (Languages)
Peer reviewedRogers, Carmen Villegas – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1995
Illustrates one approach to presenting language as a reflection of culture, taking as a topic the marked tendency in French to use negative terms to express positive concepts. Negation in French becomes a fertile source of pedagogical activities since it allows reflection upon at least three points to help students go beyond the grammatical…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Concept Formation, Cultural Context, Cultural Influences
Download full textChitoran, Dumitru, Ed. – 1974
The sixth volume of this series contains eight contrastive studies in the syntax and semantics of English and Romanian. They are: "Criteria for the Contrastive Analysis of English Nouns," by Andrei Bantas; "Adjectives as Noun Modifiers in Post-Verbal Position," by Ioana Poenaru; "Towards a Semantic Description of 'Tense'…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Adverbs, Applied Linguistics, Contrastive Linguistics
PDF pending restorationFisiak, Jacek, Ed. – 1976
This collection includes twenty-one papers, a book review, and a bibliography of English-Polish contrastive studies in Poland, and is the fifth volume resulting from the Polish-English Contrastive Project. The overall purpose of the project is to prepare a Polish-English contrastive grammar and to develop pedagogical materials. Topics covered in…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, English, Grammar, Interference (Language)
Peer reviewedSchacter, Jacquelyn – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1986
Analyzes the results of a 1975 study of a 12-year-old Spanish speaker with regard to his acquisition of negation in English. The hypothesis of formulating/testing second language learning is reaffirmed with an alternate explanation of variation in syntactic forms. Results show that free variation is functionally determined. (LMO)
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Error Analysis (Language), Interlanguage, Junior High School Students
Payne, David, Ed. – Notes on Linguistics, 1999
The 1999 issues of "Notes on Linguistics," published quarterly, include the following articles, review articles, reviews, book notices, and reports: "A New Program for Doing Morphology: Hermit Crab"; "Lingualinks CD-ROM: Field Guide to Recording Language Data"; "'Unruly' Phonology: An Introduction to Optimality Theory"; "Borrowing vs. Code…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Arabic, Canada Natives, Code Switching (Language)
