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Otanes, Fe T., Ed.; Wrigglesworth, Hazel, Ed. – Studies in Philippine Linguistics, 1990
This collection contains five papers on discourse in a variety of languages. "A Stratificational Perspective on the Discourse Structure of Limos Kalinga" by Hartmut Wiens demonstrates the value of the stratificational model in looking at language in relatively small portions at various levels while also showing how its structural aspects…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Grammar, Japanese, Language Research
Escoe, Adrienne S., Ed. – SWRL Instructional Improvement Digest, 1981
Sentence combining can teach students one of the most difficult aspects of the writing process--how to construct effective, versatile sentences. In sentence combining exercises, students take a series of short sentences and combine them into a longer and more elaborate sentence in such a way that the important information from each short sentence…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Secondary Education, Sentence Combining, Sentence Structure
Download full textFukuda, Takashi – Studies in Philippine Linguistics, 1997
The study presents a grammar of Eastern Bontoc, an Austronesian language of the northern Philippines that includes five village dialects and has about 8,000 speakers. Data are from transcribed recordings of primarily one dialect, gathered in 1977-80. The discourse-oriented grammar is outlined in six chapters: an introduction to the language, its…
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries, Grammar
Pack, Alice C., Ed. – 1970
This issue of "TESL Reporter" presents the following articles: "Language Acquisition and Dialectalism" by Patricia G. Adkins, "Supplementation of Opposites in Simple Predicate Expansion" by Yao Shen, and "Form Class Baseball: A TESL Game" by Alice C. Pack. The meaning today of dialectal speech, or "bidialectal speech," is addressed by Patricia…
Descriptors: English, English (Second Language), Form Classes (Languages), Grammar
Pack, Alice C., Ed. – 1970
This issue of "TESL Reporter" presents results of a 1970 English as a Second Language (ESL) textbook survey conducted by the English Language Institute and reported by Alice C. Pack; an article by Julene Evans entitled "Why TESL?"; and an article by Yao Shen entitled "Supplementation of Opposites in Simple Predicate Expansion." Of the 1,200 mailed…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, English, English (Second Language), Grammar
Fisiak, Jacek, Ed. – Papers and Studies in Contrastive Linguistics, 1982
This issue of the journal includes these papers on contrastive linguistics: "Some Problems of YES-NO Answers" (Aleksander Szwedek); "Danish versus Russian. A Short Analysis of the Verb" (Christian Hougaard); "Polish SIE Constructions and Their English Counterparts" (Wojciech Kubinski); "More on the Time Reference and the Analysis of Tense"…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Danish, English, Grammar
Center for Applied Linguistics, Arlington, VA. – 1979
This guide provides information on the Lao language and alphabet for teachers of English to ethnic Lao refugees. Twenty-seven English pronunciation lessons dealing with the particular problems of Lao speakers learning English are included. Lao words are written in a phonetic Roman alphabet. An annotated bibliography of resources is appended. (JB)
Descriptors: Alphabets, English (Second Language), Grammar, Indochinese
Peer reviewedLong, Maxine M., Ed.; McCleary, William J., Ed. – The English Record, 1981
The seven major articles in this journal issue are devoted to literature and to literary analysis. The articles deal with the following topics: (1) collapse and regeneration in Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself," (2) freedom and identity in "Invisible Man," (3) the character of St. John Rivers in "Jane Eyre," (4) integrating poetry study and…
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Drama, English Instruction, Literary Criticism
Maia, Marcus – Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 1997
A study of verb agreement and clause structure in Karaja, a Brazilian indigenous language of Macro-Je stock, discusses the subject and object agreement systems with relation to the Feature Specification Constraint. Implementation of the SOV order in Karaja is then analyzed and evidence is presented for the existence of a single functional phrase…
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Foreign Countries, Grammar, Indigenous Populations
Hamel, Patricia, Ed.; Schaefer, Ronald, Ed. – 1980
These papers deal with a variety of topics bearing on modality in a variety of languages and language families. While all languages have ways of expressing modality, that is, such notions as possibility, necessity, and contingency, this phenomenon has been the object of little systematic linguistic analysis. These papers are presented with the…
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, English, Hebrew, Higher Education
Fisiak, Jacek, Ed. – Papers and Studies in Contrastive Linguistics, 1985
This issue of the journal includes these papers on contrastive linguistics: "Contrastive Patholinguistics: The Acquisition of English Grammatical Morphemes by German Dyslexics in a Foreign-Language Teaching Context" (Udo O. H. Jung); "Contrastive Pragmatics" (Marie-Louise Liebe-Harkort); "On Questions in English and Swedish" (Kay Wikberg); "On…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Dyslexia, English, German
Fisiak, Jacek, Ed. – Papers and Studies in Contrastive Linguistics, 1978
This issue of the journal includes these papers on contrastive linguistics: "The Impersonal Sentence in Russian and Romanian" (Suzanne Whalen); "Differential Identity Between Languages--A Study of Assertion and Interrogation in French and English" (William A. Bennett); "The Use of the Article in English and Hungarian: A Contrastive Analysis" (Eva…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Determiners (Languages), English, French
Fisiak, Jacek, Ed. – Papers and Studies in Contrastive Linguistics, 1979
This issue of the journal includes these papers on contrastive linguistics: "Tag Questions, Transformational Grammar and Pragmatics" (Wolfram Bublitz); "Toward Contrasting Styles" (Karol Janicki); "Some More Remarks on the Pedagogical Uses of Contrastive Studies" (Waldemar Marton); "Stress in Polish--With Some Comparisons to English Stress" (James…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Classification, Contrastive Linguistics, English
Miyagawa, Shigeru, Ed.; And Others – Papers in Linguistics, 1983
A volume combining two special issues of "Papers in Linguistics" contains 10 papers concerning Japanese language use and 12 concerning languages of the U.S.S.R. The papers on Japanese include: "Intrusion in Japanese Conversation,""Japanese Use of English Loans,""Some Discourse Principles and Lengthy Sentences in…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries, Form Classes (Languages), Grammar
Pack, Alice C., Ed. – 1977
This issue of a publication devoted to providing ideas and guidance for teachers of English as a second language includes the following articles and features: (1) "Toward Interactive Modes in Guided Composition," (2) "Computer Compatibility in the Classroom," (3) "Discourse Structure in Reading," (4) "Terminal Behavior and Language," (5) "Sector…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Computer Assisted Instruction, Contrastive Linguistics, English (Second Language)
