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Download full textZoerner, Ed – Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 1996
This paper proposes that resultative verb-particle constructions (VPCs) have an underlyingly different structure from idiomatic VPCs; both structures differ from the Small Clause analysis of R. Kayne (1985) et al and the verb-particle complex analysis of K. Johnson (1991). Empirical support for the new proposal comes from anaphor deletion facts…
Descriptors: English, Idioms, Sentence Structure, Structural Grammar
Peer reviewedMegenney, William W. – Hispania, 1973
Descriptors: Dialects, Idioms, Spanish, Verbs
Peer reviewedKempen, Gerard – Cognition, 1995
Discusses a 1993 study by Frazier, d'Arcais, and Coolen intended to test Schreuder's (1990) Morphological Integration model concerning the processing of separable and inseparable verbs. Suggests that the logic of the experiment is flawed and that the data do not warrant the author's conclusions. (DR)
Descriptors: Dutch, Grammar, Idioms, Research Design
Peer reviewedFrazier, Lyn – Cognition, 1995
Discusses a 1993 study by Frazier, d'Arcais, and Coolen intended to test Schreuder's (1990) Morphological Integration model concerning the processing of separable and inseparable verbs, and attempts to refute Kempen's objections to their interpretation of the experimental results in this issue. (DR)
Descriptors: Dutch, Grammar, Idioms, Research Design
Buyssens, Eric – Yelmo, 1973
Continuing series on English grammar. (DS)
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, English, English Instruction, Grammar
Haensch, Gunther – Yelmo, 1972
Continuing series on teaching Spanish. (DS)
Descriptors: Adjectives, Grammar, Idioms, Language Instruction
Peer reviewedGandour, Jack – Anthropological Linguistics, 1978
Expands on Clark's (1974) hypothesis regarding non-literal uses of the English verbs of motion "come" and "go," by positing the notions of marked and unmarked relative states, and comparative deixis, in Thai verbs of motion. (AM)
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Grammar, Idioms, Linguistic Theory
Buyssens, Eric – Yelmo, 1973
Conclusion of a two-part article on the verb in English. Reprinted from Belgian journal Equivalences,'' n1 1972. (DS)
Descriptors: English, English Instruction, Idioms, Language Instruction
Thompson, J. Charles – J Chin Lang Teachers Assn, 1970
Asserts that there is no such part of speech in Chinese as the "co-verb" and demonstrates that such forms are simply transitive verbs which, in addition to several other Chinese structures, are used to translate English sentences with prepositional phrases. (FWB)
Descriptors: Adverbs, Chinese, Contrastive Linguistics, Idioms
Reichstein, A. D. – Deutsch als Fremdsprache, 1973
Descriptors: German, Grammar, Idioms, Lexicology
Combe-McBride, Nicole; Le Goffic, Pierre – Francais dans le Monde, 1973
Descriptors: Adjectives, Dictionaries, French, Grammar
Peer reviewedMonod, P.; Queyrane, M. – French Review, 1973
Statistics on errors in written French by students in first- and second-year language courses. (DD)
Descriptors: Adjectives, Error Patterns, French, Grammar
Peer reviewedJeanes, R. W. – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1972
Continuing series on French grammar. (DS)
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), French, Grammar, Idioms
Peer reviewedLiontas, John I. – Hispania, 2003
Describes the results of a study conducted with 28 adult third-year learners of Spanish to investigate the degree to which idiom type affects the speed and ease of idiom comprehension and interpretation, and the effect that context exerts on idiom understanding. Findings are discussed. (VWL)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Idioms, Phrase Structure, Second Language Instruction
George, K. E. M. – Mod Lang, 1970
Descriptors: Foreign Language Periodicals, French, Idioms, Journalism
