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Peer reviewedDeMiller, Anna L. – Al-Arabiyya, 1988
Examines the syntactic and semantic relationship between verb forms I and II in modern standard Arabic. The main function of form II verbs was causative/factitive, with the core elements of the causative including (1) agent-subject, (2) action-process verb, and (3) patient-object. (CB)
Descriptors: Arabic, Distinctive Features (Language), Language Patterns, Semantics
Peer reviewedWedel, Alfred R. – Linguistics, 1974
Descriptors: Dialect Studies, Distinctive Features (Language), Language Patterns, Language Usage
Peer reviewedStrange, David – Linguistics, 1973
Paper prepared during a workshop conducted by Joseph E. Grimes, January-April 1971, at Ukarumpa, Territory of New Guinea, and partially supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation. (DD)
Descriptors: Case (Grammar), Distinctive Features (Language), Semantics, Sentence Structure
Peer reviewedDillon, George L. – Journal of Linguistics, 1973
Descriptors: Adverbs, Case (Grammar), Descriptive Linguistics, Distinctive Features (Language)
Harris, Richard J.; Brewer, William F. – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1973
Based in part on an M.A. thesis presented to the University of Illinois by Mr. Harris; deixis refers to those words which have a demonstrative or pointing function, e.g., the pronouns this'' or that''. (DD)
Descriptors: Adverbs, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Distinctive Features (Language)
Peer reviewedDurbin, Marshall; Micklin, Michael – Linguistics, 1973
Research supported by a Faculty Research Grant from the Social Science Research Council. (DD)
Descriptors: Distinctive Features (Language), Experiments, Phrase Structure, Semantics
Peer reviewedFagan, Sarah M. B. – Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German, 1991
Presents basic rules governing the use of German predicates that are interpreted as but not synonymous with "be" or "put" in English, focusing on the verbs' special characteristics and correct usage in authentic German sentences. (12 references) (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Distinctive Features (Language), English, German, Language Patterns
Makino, Seiichi – Journal of the Association of Teachers of Japanese, 1974
Revised version of a paper read at the Annual Conference of Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast, June 14, 1973, Vancouver, Canada. (DD)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Distinctive Features (Language), English, Japanese
Peer reviewedStout, Carol – International Journal of American Linguistics, 1973
Discusses phrase structure and marking rules (for number and case) in Zuni transitive and intransitive verbs. (DD)
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Distinctive Features (Language), Morphology (Languages), Phonology
Peer reviewedWest, Anne – Linguistics, 1973
Field work conducted under the auspices of the Summer Institute of Linguistics; research supported in part by a grant from the National Science Foundation. (DD)
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Distinctive Features (Language), Malayo Polynesian Languages, Phrase Structure
Peer reviewedHer, One-Soon – Language Sciences, 1991
Discusses the possessive, existential, and locational usages of the Mandarin Chinese verb "you3," arguing for the formulation of a single lexical entry of the verb within lexical-functional grammar and demonstrating the similarities between English idiom chunks and you3 expressions. (20 references) (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Distinctive Features (Language), English, Idioms
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
Peer reviewedBangerter, Lowell A. – Unterrichtspraxis, 1973
Descriptors: Distinctive Features (Language), German, Language Instruction, Semantics
Download full textPasanen, Maija-Liisa – 1978
Finnish visual verbs and the corresponding terms in English are examined to reveal similarities and dissimilarities in the two semantic fields on the basis of translation equivalence. The contrastive analysis describes how the vocabularies of two genetically unrelated languages interpret the visual activity of seeing and looking, and what kind of…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Componential Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics, Distinctive Features (Language)
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