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Maratsos, Michael P.; Kuczaj, Stan A., II – 1976
From the standpoint of transformational grammar, this experimental work evaluates the extent to which children choose or fail to generalize their rules for the placement of the negative particles "not" and "n't." The subjects were eight three- and four-year-olds of middle-class background who had been producing sentences with…
Descriptors: Child Language, Concept Formation, Generalization, Language Acquisition
Hamel, Patricia, Ed.; Schaefer, Ronald, Ed. – 1980
These papers deal with a variety of topics bearing on modality in a variety of languages and language families. While all languages have ways of expressing modality, that is, such notions as possibility, necessity, and contingency, this phenomenon has been the object of little systematic linguistic analysis. These papers are presented with the…
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, English, Hebrew, Higher Education
Redden, James E., Ed. – 1976
The papers in this volume represent revised versions of presentations made at the First Workshop on Yuman Languages held at the University of California, San Diego, June 17-21, 1975. The focus was on the area of syntax, where the least amount of published information had previously been available. Papers presented were: "Syntactic Diversity…
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Case (Grammar), Componential Analysis, Dialect Studies
Niyekawa-Howard, Agnes M. – 1968
In the translation part of this study, 22 Japanese short stories were translated into English by native speakers of English and 20 English short stories were translated into Japanese by Japanese. The passive passages in the Japanese version were classified into either adversative or non-adversative passive. (See related documents AL 001 564 and AL…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cultural Background, Cultural Differences, Cultural Influences
Sauer, Keith – 1972
This paper explores the syntactic properties, in Romanian, of one kind of subordination, namely Sentential Predicate Complementation. Some generalizations are offered concerning the relationship between the meaning and the syntactic properties of these constructions. The complement structures are isolated into groups according to verb selection:…
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Descriptive Linguistics, Language Universals, Romance Languages
Larochette, Joe – 1974
This book begins with a consideration of the relation between language as representation and the reality that is represented. The object of this study is the semantic function of syntactical relations in French and Spanish, but other languages are also used for purposes of comparison. Three principal diatheses are revealed: objective, subjective,…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Deep Structure, Descriptive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics
Bowen, J. Donald – 1974
This paper presents a morphophonemic analysis of the characteristics that distinguish verb structure in New Mexican Spanish from that of Standard Spanish. Verb structure and classification are discussed, and verbs are analyzed as being composed of four components: stem, thematic vowel, tense-aspect, and person-number. Verbs are classified as…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Componential Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics, Descriptive Linguistics
Kypriotaki, Lyn – 1974
This report examines the question of whether grammatical rules are globally learned and applied. It also attempts to determine the underlying word order in English as well as the developmental sequence of the acquisition of Aux. A sentence-repetition test using positive statements, positive questions, and negative questions was administered to 30…
Descriptors: Child Language, Deep Structure, Language Acquisition, Language Patterns
Benguerel, Andre-Pierre; Grundstrom, Allan W. – 1968
The monograph contains two papers. The first presents a generative grammar for verbal forms in French. It consists of an ordered set of rewrite rules and a set of tables. It generates all existing verbal forms without generating any non-existing ones. The departure from an ordinary generative grammar lies in the use of a tabular form for…
Descriptors: Acoustic Phonetics, Acoustics, Articulation (Speech), Descriptive Linguistics
Stevens, Alan M. – 1969
This paper presents evidence from Philippine languages which suggests a number of modifications in the theory of case grammar. Philippine languages and adjacent related languages mark the case relationship between the verb and one noun phrase in the sentence by a particle on the noun phrase and an affix on the verb, a phenomenon which in recent…
Descriptors: Bikol, Case (Grammar), Deep Structure, English
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Defense Language Inst., Washington, DC. – 1971
This is the first of two volumes dealing with a comprehensive review of structural patterns in the "Advanced Preparatory Course." All essential grammatical structures introduced in the "Basic Course" are included. The textual material in the 20 lessons is designed to stimulate recall and reinforce previously learned grammatical patterns. The…
Descriptors: Audiolingual Methods, Cyrillic Alphabet, Form Classes (Languages), Grammar
Emans, Robert – 1971
The need for preparing materials which are comprehensible to disadvantaged children led to this study in which verbs were simplified in an effort to determine whether such simplification might increase the likelihood of passages being understood by disadvantaged black students. The hypothesis was based on a 1927 study which found that 18 verbs,…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Cloze Procedure, High School Students, Language Research
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Hoge, Henry W., Comp. – 1970
This section of a four-part research project investigating the syntax of Brazilian Portuguese presents data concerning tense usage in verb distribution. The data are derived from the analysis of selected literary samples from representative and contemporary writers. The selection of authors and tabulation of data are also described. Materials…
Descriptors: Dialect Studies, Form Classes (Languages), Language Research, Latin American Culture
Stevick, Earl W.; Kamoga, Frederick Katabazi – 1970
This self-instructional text is an adjunct to the Foreign Service Institute's "Luganda Basic Course." The time required for mastery of the tonal system is normally 20 hours. Essential to the program is the series of tape recordings that accompanies this book. Contents include material on: (1) long and short vowels and consonants, (2)…
Descriptors: African Languages, Autoinstructional Aids, Consonants, Function Words
Chiu, Rosaline K. – 1972
The study of registers in language is the study of language as it varies according to "use." The situation in which language is used imposes certain constraints on the structure and lexical ingredients of the language. In this report, the author investigates the use of verbs in two different registers in English. The frequency of verbs in both…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, English, English (Second Language), Instructional Materials
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