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Longacre, Robert E. – 1968
Volume II of "Discourse, Paragraph, and Sentence Structure in Selected Philippine Languages" begins with an explanation of certain assumptions and postulates regarding sentence structure. A detailed treatment of systems of sentence structure and the parameters of such systems follows. Data in the various indigenous languages are…
Descriptors: Connected Discourse, Linguistic Theory, Malayo Polynesian Languages, Sentence Structure
Longacre, Robert E. – 1968
Twenty-five Philippine languages and dialects were studied to determine the manner in which words, clauses, sounds, and sentences group together to make up units larger than the sentence. Data obtained were analyzed according to tagmemic theory. The introduction to this volume (see also AL 002 032 and AL 002 033) gives a brief orientation to the…
Descriptors: Connected Discourse, Discourse Analysis, Language Patterns, Malayo Polynesian Languages