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Meier, Gerhard E. H. – IRAL, 1989
Analysis of the structural, semantic, and textual aspects of a corpus of 330 English examples of the postpositive conjunctions "though,""as," and "that" focuses on concessive clauses, clauses of reason, clauses of manner, and clauses with postpositive conjunctions and normal clauses. (CB)
Descriptors: Conjunctions, Distinctive Features (Language), English, Language Patterns
Kakouriotis, A. – IRAL, 1987
Examines Modern Greek verbs which seem to be negative-raisers, including consideration of data that offer syntactic justification for negative-raisers and an examination of the semantics and pragmatics of the negative-raisers. (CB)
Descriptors: Distinctive Features (Language), Greek, Language Usage, Negative Forms (Language)
Sopher, H. – IRAL, 1987
Compares the use of the English verbs "say" and "tell" and the Hebrew verbs "amar" and "siper" and then examines the degree of correspondence between "say" and "amar" and between "tell" and "siper." (CB)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Distinctive Features (Language), English, Hebrew