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Ordem, Eser; Bada, Erdogan – Online Submission, 2016
The dominance of syntactic studies in linguistics has caused lexis and grammar to be perceived as two distinct categories. With introduction of the paradigm of cognitive linguistics, the studies in syntax have been replaced by those in lexis and concepts. Semantics has come to the fore through the studies in cognitive linguistics, and there has…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Grammar, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Campos-Dintrans, Gonzalo; Pires, Acrisio; Rothman, Jason – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2014
This paper investigates the acquisition of syntax in L2 grammars. We tested adult L2 speakers of Spanish (English L1) on the feature specification of T(ense), which is different in English and Spanish in so-called subject-to-subject raising structures. We present experimental results with the verb parecer "to seem/to appear" in different…
Descriptors: Syntax, Morphemes, Grammar, Second Language Learning
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Ono, Tsuyoshi; Thompson, Sandra A.; Sasaki, Yumi – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2012
This article focuses on the grammar of Japanese "kara" "because/so" and "kedo" "but", traditionally understood as conjunctive particles whose function is to mark a "subordinate" clause and connect it to a following "main" clause. This article shows that, in conversation, these forms are often used turn-finally without an apparent main clause and…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Japanese, Persuasive Discourse, Grammar
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Connolly, John H. – Language Sciences, 2012
An essential task for the morphosyntactic level within the grammatical component of Functional Discourse Grammar (FDG) is the handling of constituent ordering. This area of grammar, which is known as positional syntax, constitutes the subject of the present paper, in which the ordering of constituents is examined within the framework of a dynamic…
Descriptors: Syntax, Grammar, Structural Analysis (Linguistics), Linguistic Theory
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Hengeveld, Kees – Language Sciences, 2012
It follows from the ordering principles that are applied in Functional Discourse Grammar that the positional possibilities of markers of agreement and those of cross-reference are different. Markers of cross reference are predicted to occur closer to the verb stem, while markers of agreement would occupy peripheral positions. This paper tests…
Descriptors: Nouns, Prediction, Grammar, Discourse Analysis
Applebaum, Ayla Ayda Bozkurt – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This study provides a systematic phonetic analysis of the basic entities of Kabardian prosodic units above the word and investigates the predictability of prosodic units from grammatical and discourse factors. This dissertation is the first extensive description of Kabardian prosody and grammar based on natural data. This study proposes that…
Descriptors: Grammar, Intonation, Suprasegmentals, Language Research
Nagai, Miho – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This dissertation examines the syntactic positions of nominal arguments in Turkish, looking at Turkish clausal structure based on Aktionsart (aspectual) properties (e.g. Vendler 1967) of (dynamic) predicates from the perspective of Antisymmetry (Kayne 1994). It has been argued that indefinite/non-specific arguments appear syntactically in lower…
Descriptors: Syntax, Turkish, Language Research, Nouns
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Fries, Marie-Hélène – Research-publishing.net, 2017
The objective of this chapter is to explore the relevance of cognitive linguistics for teaching [noun] + [noun] constructions to French learners of English for Specific Purposes (ESP), and more specifically, for process engineering. After a review of research on Compound Nouns (CNs) and explicit versus implicit learning, three basic tenets of…
Descriptors: Grammar, Morphology (Languages), Syntax, English for Special Purposes
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Qian, Li – English Language Teaching, 2015
Formulaic sequences are found to be processed faster than their matched novel phrases in previous studies. Given the variety of formulaic types, few studies have compared processing on different types of formulaic sequences. The present study explored the processing among idioms, speech formulae and written formulae. It has been found that in…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Hilliard, Amanda – English Teaching Forum, 2014
This article addresses key issues and considerations for teachers wanting to incorporate spoken grammar activities into their own teaching and also focuses on six common features of spoken grammar, with practical activities and suggestions for teaching them in the language classroom. The hope is that this discussion of spoken grammar and its place…
Descriptors: Grammar, Oral Language, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Reali, Florencia – Language Learning, 2014
The processing difficulty of nested grammatical structure has been explained by different psycholinguistic theories. Here I provide corpus and behavioral evidence in favor of usage-based models, focusing on the case of object relative clauses in Spanish as a first language. A corpus analysis of spoken Spanish reveals that, as in English, the…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Grammar, Psycholinguistics, Linguistic Theory
Baker, C. M. Kaliko – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This dissertation explores genitive class selection of genitive case subjects in nominalizations and relative clauses in Hawaiian. The amount of research in the area of Hawaiian's "a"- and "o"-class is far from sufficient. Since Wilson (1976a), there has been minimal critical new inquiry to "a"- and…
Descriptors: Malayo Polynesian Languages, Phrase Structure, Semantics, Syntax
Poornima, Shakthi – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The goal of this dissertation is to explore Hindi verbal complex predicates at the syntax/semantics interface using the lexicalist framework of HPSG. The enduring theoretical interest in complex predicates is undoubtedly due to the fact that in some aspects they pattern with prototypical words, whereas in other aspects they pattern with…
Descriptors: Indo European Languages, Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Theory
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Van de Velde, Freek – Language Sciences, 2012
This article inquires into the nature of "attributive" prepositional phrases from a Functional Discourse Grammar (FDG) perspective. On the basis of the observation that such prepositional phrases can easily be separated from their host noun phrases by extraposition or extraction, it is argued that they do not belong to the noun phrase…
Descriptors: Semantics, Phrase Structure, Nouns, Grammar
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Benavides, Carlos – Foreign Language Annals, 2015
The present study examined the use and effectiveness of a large corpus--the Corpus del Español (Davies, 2002)--in a 300-level Spanish grammar university course. Students conducted hands-on corpus searches with the goal of finding concordances containing particular types of collocations (combinations of words that tend to co-occur) and tokens (any…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Grammar, Spanish, Language Teachers
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