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Kaufer, David S.; Steinberg, Erwin R. – 1985
Many influential style guides endorse the stylistic prescription that writers, particularly technical writers, should revise noun compounds into phrasal or clausal paraphrases. While the prescription is well-intentioned, it fails to take into account that a reader's comprehension of compounds, whether long or short, is a complex process dependent…
Descriptors: Audience Analysis, English, Evaluation Criteria, Language Styles
Erbaugh, Mary S. – 1984
While all languages use shape to classify unfamiliar objects, some languages as diverse as Mandarin, Thai, Japanese, Mohawk, and American Sign Language lexicalize these and other types of description as noun classifiers. Classification does not develop from a fixed set of features in the object, but is discourse-sensitive and invoked when it would…
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, American Sign Language, Child Language, Classification
Teller, Virginia, Ed.; White, Sheila J., Ed. – 1980
This compilation contains the following research reports on child language: (1) "Nouns: Love 'Em or Leave 'Em" by Dianne Horgan; (2) "Logic in Early Child Language" by Roy D. Pea; and (3) "Theories of the Child's Acquisition of Syntax: A Look at Rare Events and at Necessary, Catalytic, and Irrelevant Components of…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adults, American Indian Languages, Bilingualism
Baginski, Geraldine J. – 1978
Areas of interference between English and the Spanish of some Puerto Ricans and Cubans in Chicago is the subject of this study. Fifty-nine informants were provided with a list of everyday expressions in English, which they were to express in Spanish. The informants were classified according to education, degree of knowledge of English, and degree…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Adverbs, Bilingualism, Cubans
Mayer, Edgar N. – 1978
This paper attempts to give a unified view of the workings of noun clauses. These are considered according to three main types corresponding to three different kinds of source sentences. All three types can be used in any usual noun-phrase function, especially subject, direct object, and prepositional object. Four factors which complicate the…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, French, Generative Grammar, Kernel Sentences
Stanley, Julia Penelope – 1978
Drawing on recent research on sexism in English and the ways in which social forces affect language structure, this paper shows how prescriptive statements about English have been incorporated into linguistic grammars as descriptions of language. It is claimed that Chomsky's "universal grammar" is masculinist and that it is contradicted…
Descriptors: Cultural Influences, Descriptive Linguistics, English, Grammar
Ree, Joe J. – 1975
The purpose of this paper is to show that: (1) language universals have much to offer to students of contrastive linguistics, and (2) in order to make contrastive analysis more meaningful, one ought to go beyond cataloguing mere contrastive structure statements and capture underlying structural tendencies. Some characteristics of word order in…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Adverbs, Applied Linguistics, Comparative Analysis
Sjoberg, Andree F. – 1971
This report presents a general study of the structure of Dravidian languages, nothing predominant and significant patterns and similarities among the languages in the areas of phonology, morphology, and syntax. There is also a discussion of the main differences of various subgroups or particular languages from the typical patterns. Background…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Descriptive Linguistics, Dravidian Languages, Form Classes (Languages)
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Ulsh, Jack L. – 1971
This text is designed for native speakers of American English who have a good command of Spanish and want to acquire a knowledge of Portuguese. The manual focuses on features of Portuguese pronunciation, grammar, and vocabulary that have similar but not always identical counterparts in Spanish. Correspondences which often create interference for…
Descriptors: Consonants, Distinctive Features (Language), Grammar, Instructional Materials
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Watanabe, Kilyong – 1972
This paper is concerned with the syntactic problems raised by the grammatical phenomenon in Japanese that is called here the "complementizer." In the types of sentences under consideration here, S2 is a nominal clause. Such a clause acts as a noun phrase adjunct to the verb in S1. The noun clauses in question are often followed by a…
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Descriptive Linguistics, Generative Grammar, Grammar
Debyser, Amina; And Others – Francais dans le Monde, 1987
Techniques and class activities for French instruction are presented, including a press conference simulation, a game using noun families, a college-level contemporary fiction curriculum, and speed-reading techniques for beginning students. (MSE)
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Class Activities, French, French Literature
Evens, Martha; And Others – 1986
Advanced learners of second languages and natural language processing systems both demand much more detailed lexical information than conventional dictionaries provide. Text composition, whether by humans or machines, requires a thorough understanding of relationships between words, such as selectional restrictions, case patterns, factives, and…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Computational Linguistics, Dictionaries, Difficulty Level
Kamoga, Frederick K. – 1969
This Luganda textbook for Peace Corps Luganda students follows the first book (1968). The fifteen lessons alternate between conversations on various subjects, to enable students to improve their speaking ability, and notes on grammar, to enable students to gain more confidence in their use of the language. A few lines extracted from the local…
Descriptors: Adjectives, African Languages, Bantu Languages, Ganda
Hyman, Larry M.; Magaji, Daniel J. – 1971
This book is intended as a practical introduction to the study of the Gwari language. Therefore, the descriptive analysis of the grammar of Gwari is made without recourse to technical language. The book is divided into 5 sections, dealing with: (1) phonology; (2) the noun phrase; (3) the verb phrase; (4) the sentence; and (5) vocabulary, in the…
Descriptors: African Languages, Descriptive Linguistics, Form Classes (Languages), Glossaries
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Defense Language Inst., Monterey, CA. – 1976
The tenth of 20 volumes of lessons designed for use in a full-time, intensive training program in Arabic is presented. Each lesson deals with grammatical patterns and vocabulary through explanations, vocabulary lists, dialogues, audiolingual drills, question-answer and free oral expression exercises. A review lesson is included after every four…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Arabic, Audiolingual Methods, Dialogs (Language)
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