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Stovicek, Thomas William – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This study outlines the development of Portuguese and Spanish verbal morphology from Latin in the context of the Hispanic branch of Romance, with a focus on the conjugational classes, whose number has been reduced to only three in this branch of Western Romance. It is innovative in approaching the topic as a study of sequential productive grammars…
Descriptors: Verbs, Linguistic Borrowing, Romance Languages, Morphology (Languages)
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Doty, Meng Sung – Classical Outlook, 1972
Descriptors: Classical Languages, Grammar, Language Instruction, Language Role
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Dyer, Nancy Joe – Hispanic Review, 1972
Descriptors: Adverbs, Form Classes (Languages), Grammar, Language Instruction
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Sadler, J. D. – Classical Outlook, 1971
Descriptors: Case (Grammar), Classical Languages, Consonants, Contrastive Linguistics
Faingold, Eduardo D. – 1993
A study analyzed the emergence of the definite article in language history from classical Latin to vulgar Latin, Spanish, Portuguese, and Rumanian. It traces the grammaticalization of demonstratives into both nominative and accusative definite articles, both pre- and post-nominal. It is shown that based on documents from the fourth to sixth…
Descriptors: Determiners (Languages), Diachronic Linguistics, Form Classes (Languages), Grammar
Shepherd, James Franklin – 1973
The purposes of this study were to investigate the relation between knowledge of formatives and knowledge of formative derivatives and the relation between knowledge of nonformatives and knowledge of nonformative derivatives, and to determine if the first relation is greater than the second. The subjects were 178 college freshmen who were enrolled…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, English, Grammar, Higher Education
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Morgan, 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
Matthey, Marinette, Ed. – Travaux Neuchatelois de Linguistique (Tranel), 2001
Articles in this issue focus on language evolution, variation, and heterogeneity. The following are English translations of the French article titles appearing in the issue: "Irregular Phonetic Development Due to Frequency; Regional Traits in Proto-Romance"; "Linguistic Evolution and Evolution of Perspective in the Comparative…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Adults, Bilingualism, Creoles