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  • A Semantic Analysis of Case

  • Frank R. Blake
  • Journal:
    Language / Volume 6 / Issue 4-Part2 / December 1930
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    22 April 2026, pp. 34-49

  • [Case relationship is to be distinguished from case form. Every language has approximately the same case relationships, though they differ widely in their use of case forms. In order to study case from the semantic point of view, it is necessary to set up a list of all possible case relationships. Such a semantic analysis of case may be made with the help of a knowledge of the principles of general grammar gained through the study of many languages applied in conformity with the laws of thought. Cases may be divided into independent, adnominal, adpronominal, ad-adjectival, adverbal, adadverbal, appositive, and predicative, with many subdivisions under each head. Such a semantic analysis not only makes possible a complete treatment of the relations of nouns and pronouns, but also furnishes the best basis for a comparison of languages of widely differing type.]

  • Correlation Methods of Comparing Idiolects in a Transition Area

  • David W. Reed, John L. Spicer
  • Journal:
    Language / Volume 28 / Issue 3-Part1 / September 1952
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    22 April 2026, pp. 348-359

  • The transition area as a crucial but difficult problem in American linguistic geography has been ably presented in a recent article by Alva L. Davis and Raven I. McDavid Jr. The relative lack of pattern in the data from transition areas, compared to the easily mapped patterns found in relic and focal areas, is probably responsible in part for the slight attention that has been paid to transition areas before the appearance of this article. Davis and McDavid properly conclude that transition areas will assume increased importance as research in American linguistic geography moves away from the numerous focal and relic areas of the Atlantic coast toward the increasingly heterogeneous transition areas of the western United States. Certainly the collection and analysis of dialect vocabulary in California has revealed to the present writers a situation even more varied and complex than that of northwestern Ohio.

    Davis and McDavid conclude that it will be necessary to collect much more complete information from transition areas if one is to correlate speech patterns with the historical and cultural complex. They suggest no new methods, however, by which the limited data now available from transition areas may be more adequately analyzed and understood. In the process of analyzing our own material from California, we have come to the conclusion that the speech patterns of traneition areas grow much clearer when viewed as quantitative rather than as qualitative phenomena.

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