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Viktor Krupa, The Polynesian Languages: A Guide (Book Review), Niko Besnier

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.

Directionality And The Processing Of Contracted Auxiliaries, Gregory Stump

Linguistics Faculty Publications

In a recent paper on the status of morphology in a generative theory of grammar, Zwicky (1982a) has argued “that processes of cliticization and readjustment together constitute a component of grammatical description in any language, a component related to others by strict principles of precedence…that syntactic rules, as a set, can feed or bleed rules of cliticization/readjustment (but not vice versa)” (Zwicky 1982b:51). Here, I shall consider the question of whether such an assumption of strict directionality can be maintained in a theory of language processing, in which generative rules of syntax and cliticization are replaced with rules of parsing …

Paul L. Garvin's Review Of Kenneth L. Rehg And Damian G. Sohl's Ponapean Reference Grammar, Paul L. Garvin

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.

Teaching English Vocabulary From Latin Roots In The Esl Classroom, Barbara Ashley Goldhor

MA TESOL Collection

The following material has been developed for classroom use with an advanced (400+ TOEFL) ESL class. The material is based on five Latin roots, nineteen prefixes, and several suffixes, resulting in seventy-seven derivatives. The primary goal of this project is not to teach these specific seventy-seven vocabulary items but to provide the student, through his work with these seventy-seven words, vocabulary acqusition and discernment skills.

The order of the exercises is based on the concept of moving from the known to the unknown. The definition exercise asks the student to compose a short definition based on his knowledge of Latin …