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Sikogukira, Matutin – Edinburgh Working Papers in Applied Linguistics, 1994
This paper discusses the sense relation of synonymy, taking the view that this phenomenon should be understood as a gradual concept, a cline along which there are different degrees of synonymy. This view is consistent with the widely held opinion among semanticists that strict or absolute synonymy is rare in human language. A further step is taken…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics, Cross Cultural Studies, Definitions

Carter, Robin M. – International Journal of American Linguistics, 1976
Verb stems are classified according to the particular group of nouns they appear with. The system reflects a taxonomy of situations involving concrete objects. A verb is chosen according to the shape and number of the object, if it is sitting, falling, etc., and according to the speaker's intention. (SCC)
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Athapascan Languages, Descriptive Linguistics, Language Classification

Kelly, M.; Philp, H. – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 1975
Analysis of results of tests of cognitive development in Papua New Guinea children indicated that membership of different language/culture groups was an important source of variance. (Editor)
Descriptors: Children, Cognitive Development, Educational Psychology, Language Classification

Hancock, Ian F. – Anthropological Linguistics, 1975
Explores the possible origins of Malacca Creole Portuguese, and compares and contrasts Papia Kristang with other related creoles. (AM)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Creoles, Diachronic Linguistics, Indonesian Languages

Hoskison, James – Linguistics, 1974
This paper considers morphophonemic changes that take place in verbal stem formation in Gude, a Chadic language of Nigeria. It is necessary to assign the classificatory features of the phonology to syllables rather than to single segments. (CK)
Descriptors: Afro Asiatic Languages, Chad Languages, Descriptive Linguistics, Language Classification

Heine, Bernd – Linguistics, 1975
Attempts to show that the comparison of language structures may be relevant to diachronic linguistics, and in particular to areal linguistics. The article is based on an ongoing comparative study aimed at devising a typology of African languages. (Author/RM)
Descriptors: African Languages, Comparative Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics
Grayshon, Matthew C. – 1980
Different languages code messages in different ways and use different channels for sending messages; thus there are many places for misinterpreting and mishearing messages in an intercultural context. To move from one language to another requires a description of the total language communication system, one that has its universals in social and…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Cultural Differences, Language Classification, Language Research
Cornyn, William S. – Language, 1948
An introduction to the Russian phonemic system leads to a model classification of verb forms derived from the infinitive and present stems of selected verbs. Correspondences between the two sets of verb forms are listed. A brief history of attempts at verb classification concentrates on the theory of Meyer, Berneker, and Bloomfield. A complete…
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Form Classes (Languages), Language Classification, Language Patterns

Ervin-Tripp, Susan – Language in Society, 1976
The variety of syntactic forms for expression of directives is commented on. Data has been collected investigating the empirical distribution of formal variants across social features and predictability of the form of a directive if social features of its context are known. (Author/RM)
Descriptors: Language Classification, Language Research, Language Usage, Language Variation

Irvine, Judith T. – Language in Society, 1978
Ongoing change in Wolof noun classification is traced by comparing nineteenth-century linguistic evidence with modern sociolinguistic data. Upwardly mobile middle-aged men of high caste tend to reduce the noun class system, whereas other speakers tend to elaborate it. (Author/RM)
Descriptors: African Languages, Language Classification, Language Variation, Nouns
Nolting, Louvan E. – Federal Linguist, 1973
Descriptors: Artificial Languages, Communication (Thought Transfer), Form Classes (Languages), Grammar

Li, Fang-Kuei – Journal of Chinese Linguistics, 1973
Condensed, slightly revised version of an article which appeared in the Chinese Year Book, Shanghai, in 1937. (VM)
Descriptors: Chinese, Diachronic Linguistics, Dialects, Language Classification
Burgoyne, Julie – Linguistic Reporter, 1971
Conference held August 1-8, 1970 at Burg Wartenstein, Austria, with support from the Wenner-Gren Anthropological Foundation. (VM)
Descriptors: Conference Reports, Contrastive Linguistics, Descriptive Linguistics, Language Classification
Bulatkin, Eleanor Webster – Bulletin of the Association of Departments of Foreign Languages, 1971
Paper delivered at the Annual Meeting of the Modern Language Association of America, December 29, 1970, in New York City. (DS)
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Departments, Intellectual Disciplines, Language Classification

Levine, Robert D. – International Journal of American Linguistics, 1979
Summarizes findings of recent studies which suggest that there is no evidence for including Haida in the Na-Dene grouping. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Comparative Analysis, Descriptive Linguistics, Form Classes (Languages)