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Studeros, Leonard H. – Hispania, 1981
Explores the interrelationships among mood usage, syntactic contrast and past temporal reference in Spanish. Describes specific effects of varying temporal reference on mood and syntactic signaling, and employs an inventory of five subjunctive determining matrices to show that such effects are best explained by means of a…
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Language Usage, Models, Spanish
Veciana, R. – Yelmo, 1980
Analyzes the uses of "quien" as an interrogative and a relative pronoun with numerous examples from standard spoken Spanish. Emphasizes syntactic and contextual factors, as well as stylistic variations, and explains the contrast between "quien" and "que" as subjects of a relative clause. (MES)
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Language Styles, Pronouns, Semantics
Veciana, R. – Yelmo, 1981
Illustrates with numerous examples and analyses the various uses of "quien." Discusses alternation between "quien" and the groups "el cual"/"el que," variation in the verb agreement, the function of "quien" as an indefinite pronoun, as well as questions of stylistic preference and correctness. (MES)
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Grammar, Language Styles, Language Usage
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Gorog, Ralph de – Hispania, 1981
Examines the syntactic characteristics of Spanish verbs of motion dividing them into two classes, those that designate movement and those that designate both movement and change of place. Analyzes the differences between the two classes by contrasting Spanish and English usage. (MES)
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Descriptive Linguistics, English, Semantics
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Roca, Iggy – Journal of Linguistics, 1990
Reexamines the issue of Spanish nonverbal word stress, illustrates two basic generalizations about primary word stress, develops the conclusion that penultimate stress is unmarked, examines the relationship between Latin stress and its Spanish descendant, and contrasts the stress systems of Latin and Spanish. (32 references) (GLR)
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Descriptive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, Language Variation
Van Lier, Henri – Francais dans le Monde, 1989
The fifth in a series of articles comparing modern languages to cultural or practical objects relates Spanish to a grill or grid, rigid and confining. (MSE)
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Language Patterns, Language Role, Second Language Instruction
Perez Botero, Luis – Yelmo, 1979
Discusses an analysis of grammar that systematizes knowledge about language according to new parameters but continues to view traditional grammar as the backbone of language structure. (NCR)
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, Grammar, Morphology (Languages)
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Ozete, Oscar – Hispania, 1981
Examines variations in current usage that pose problems in teaching Spanish relative pronouns. Discusses their treatment in first-year college textbooks, in the professional literature and in newspapers and magazines prose. Attempts to provide a description of the use of these pronouns applicable to classroom presentation. (MES)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Descriptive Linguistics, Higher Education, Language Styles
Blansitt, Edward L., Jr., Ed.; Teschner, Richard V., Ed. – 1980
Among the 29 articles collected here are the following: (1) "On Markedness and Sociolinguistic Variation" (Amastae); (2) "On the Form of Bilingual Grammars: The Phonological Component" (Elerick); (3) "On Negation in Comparative Constructions" (Fries); (4) "Class by Value System: Implications for Bilingual…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingualism, Code Switching (Language), Contrastive Linguistics