http://hdl.handle.net/1808/617 Search the Channel search http://kuscholarworks.ku.edu/dspace/simple-search http://hdl.handle.net/1808/634 Title: The Behavior Of Non-Terms In Shaba Swahili A Relational Approach<br/><br/>Authors: Obeidat, Hussein; Kapanga, Mwamba<br/><br/>Abstract: This paper is an attempt to examine the behavior of Non-Terms in Shaba Swahili within the framework of Relational Grammar. The behavior of Non-Terms will be discussed with reference to several syntactic processes such as Passivization, Relativization, Raising, and the interaction of these processes in simple as well as complex sentences. We will argue that (1) Non-Terms in Swahili can be relativized and passivized; (2) Non-Terms, like Terms, can undergo direct Passivization and Relativization. That is they can be promoted to subject position without undergoing locative instrumental to 3 to 2 to 1 advancement; (3) Non-Terms can relativize intersentencially in complex passive and relative clauses and still control agreement in the embedded clause; (4) Passivization and Relativization of Non-Terms move the whole locative/ instrumental phrase; and (5) a resumptive pronoun is obligatorily retained only in cases that involve Relativization of instruments. http://hdl.handle.net/1808/633 Title: Social Deixis In Sinhalese: The Pronoun System<br/><br/>Authors: Tilakaratne, Sunanda<br/><br/>Abstract: Some aspects of language show a close relationship between social structure and language structure. The pronoun system in spoken Sinhalese, which encodes social relationships among the speech act participants, thus provides a fine example of social deixis. This paper shows how this pronoun system encodes proximity and social distance among the speech act participants and its agreement with the verb system in spoken Sinhalese. http://hdl.handle.net/1808/632 Title: The Path Containment Condition And Argument Structure<br/><br/>Authors: Stroik, Thomas<br/><br/>Abstract: This study investigates the internal structure of verb phrases (VPs). Using the Path Containment Condition as developed by May (1985) to establish relations between (quantified) arguments, this study draws two conclusions about the structure of argument-relations within VPs. First, arguments have binary relations with projections of the verb. And second, verbal modifiers have more proximate D-Structure relations with the verb than do the subcategorized arguments of the verb. http://hdl.handle.net/1808/631 Title: Making Sense In ESL: A Set of Three Rhetorical Structures<br/><br/>Authors: Scott, Robert Bruce<br/><br/>Abstract: This paper presents a coherent framework for syllabus design in English as a Second Language instruction. A case is given for a discourse level focus in the ESL classroom, from beginning stagesof learning through advanced levels. Then, three rhetorical modes, critical analysis of fiction, truth-searching logical conversation, and classical argumentative essay writing, are suggested as the central activities in a content-based, textbook-free, and highly individualized ESL program.