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Pohl, J. – Revue des Langues Vivantes, 1971
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, Dialects, Etymology
Peer reviewedPosner, Rebecca – Language Sciences, 1973
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Descriptive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, Dictionaries
Peer reviewedMorgan, Leslie Z. – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1992
Derivations of the term "gerund" are examined as they pertain to native English speakers learning French, Italian, and/or Spanish. The form's etymology is chronicled from Latin, and its current usage in student textbooks in the three languages is examined. A solution to the terminological confusion surrounding the term is proposed. (41…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Definitions, Diachronic Linguistics, English
Download full textPosner, R. – 1976
Sometimes descriptions of known facts about a language fail to be explanatory in a satisfying way, because they ignore parallelisms in related languages, including chronologically earlier stages of the same language. This article examines several Romance languages and dialects in terms of similarities in morphological evolutionary development.…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Descriptive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, Dialects
