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Matthey, Marinette, Ed. – Bulletin suisse de linguistique appliquee, 2002
This special issue, written in French, is dedicated to highlighting the past 74 issues of the journal since its inception 35 years ago. The first article reflects on the journal's history and evolution, in particular with regard to volume, the distribution of languages (French, German Italian, and Raeto-Roman), the distribution of articles written…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Arabic, Arabs, Dictionaries
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Kinder, John J. – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2004
The use of BE as an auxiliary verb with intransitive verbs has declined in all the Romance languages over the past five centuries. Today, Spanish and Portuguese use only HAVE, in Catalan and Romanian BE occurs in marginal contexts, and in French, BE is used with approximately 40 verbs. Italian is a notable exception, since BE is still used as the…
Descriptors: Semantics, Verbs, Monolingualism, Dictionaries