Charles C Fries
Biographic Data
| ID | 713273 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Charles C Fries |
| GIVEN NAMES | Charles C |
| FAMILY NAME | Fries |
| SIGNATURE | FRIES C C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Michigan |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1927 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1967 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Teaching and Learning English as a Foreign Language
Linguistics and Reading
An Intensive Course in English
Preparation of Teaching Materials, Practical Grammars, and Dictionaries, Especially for Foreign Languages
Offprint: Language learning 9(1-2):43-50 [reprinted from Proceedings of the Eighth International Congress of Linguists, Oslo Univ. Press, p. 738-746]
Reprinting Important Articles
Peer Reviewed
The Periphrastic Use of Shall and Will in Modern English
Peer Reviewed
The Expression of the Future
The concept of time in relation to action finds expression in the verbal forms of a great many, although not all, languages. ‘In English we have made up our minds that all action must be conceived of in reference to three standard times’,—the present, the past, and the future. Of these three, the devices for the expression of the future—their origin, development, and present use—receive from our grammarians the least satisfactory treatment
American Linguistics and the Teaching of English
Summarizing points made in Professor Fries' talks to teachers of English during his recent t r i p to Germany, it reviews certain aspects of structural linguistics as recently developed in the United States that have special significance for the teaching of English a s a foreign language.' We are grateful for the opportunity of presenting it here.)I.American Structural Linguistics 1.In general the scientific study of language as practiced in the …
Meaning and Linguistic Analysis
Many who have read the materials of present-day American linguists and have listened to their discussions have gained the impression that these linguists have cast out ‘meaning’ altogether. The two statements following are typical. Certain leading linguists especially in America find it possible to exclude the study of what they call ‘meaning’ from scientific linguistics, but only by deliberately excluding anything, in the nature of mind, thought…
The Chicago Investigation
Peer Reviewed
Coexistent Phonemic Systems
The speech of monolingual natives of some languages is comprised of more than one phonemic system; the simultaneously existing systems operate partly in harmony and partly in conflict. No rigidly descriptive statement of the facts about such a language accounts for all the pertinent structural data without leading to apparent contradictions. These are caused by the conflict of statements about one phonemic system with statements about another sys…
Have as a Function Word
Peer Reviewed
As We See It
Peer Reviewed
Implications of modern linguistic science
LET me begin with something like a confession. In the early days of my graduate study I suddenly came upon what was to me a new world, a discovery that eventually changed my whole view of language and grammar. This discovery-this new world to me-was linguistic science, that is, the principles and the techniques first used in western Europe at the beginning of the nineteenth century for the study of linguistic relationships and then developed and …
Word, Volume 1, Number 1
A Meaningful Pattern
On the Development of the Structural Use of Word-Order in Modern English
[In the actor-action-goal construction and in the character-substance (or modifier-noun) construction, Old English used taxemes of selection (inflected forms) to distinguish between actor (subject) and goal (object), and to indicate the direction of modification. The development of English has been away from the use of taxemes of selection with non-distinctive and connotative word-order, toward the use of taxemes of order operating practically wi…
Some Notes on the Inflected Genitive in Present-Day English
The particular materials examined as a basis for the notes presented in this paper consisted of some three thousand personal letters copied from those in the files of one of the government bureaus in Washington. These letters were made available several years ago through the efforts of the Modern Language Association with the support of the Linguistic Society, and their collecting and copying financed by the National Council of Teachers of Englis…
The Teaching of the English Language
Meaning and Linguistic Analysis
Many who have read the materials of present-day American linguists and have listened to their discussions have gained the impression that these linguists have cast out ‘meaning’ altogether. The two statements following are typical. Certain leading linguists especially in America find it possible to exclude the study of what they call ‘meaning’ from scientific linguistics, but only by deliberately excluding anything, in the nature of mind, thought…
Coexistent Phonemic Systems
The speech of monolingual natives of some languages is comprised of more than one phonemic system; the simultaneously existing systems operate partly in harmony and partly in conflict. No rigidly descriptive statement of the facts about such a language accounts for all the pertinent structural data without leading to apparent contradictions. These are caused by the conflict of statements about one phonemic system with statements about another sys…
Teaching and Learning English as a Foreign Language
The Teaching of the English Language
On the Development of the Structural Use of Word-Order in Modern English
[In the actor-action-goal construction and in the character-substance (or modifier-noun) construction, Old English used taxemes of selection (inflected forms) to distinguish between actor (subject) and goal (object), and to indicate the direction of modification. The development of English has been away from the use of taxemes of selection with non-distinctive and connotative word-order, toward the use of taxemes of order operating practically wi…
The Expression of the Future
The concept of time in relation to action finds expression in the verbal forms of a great many, although not all, languages. ‘In English we have made up our minds that all action must be conceived of in reference to three standard times’,—the present, the past, and the future. Of these three, the devices for the expression of the future—their origin, development, and present use—receive from our grammarians the least satisfactory treatment
Have as a Function Word
Peer Reviewed
As We See It
Peer Reviewed
The Teaching of the English Language
Some Notes on the Inflected Genitive in Present-Day English
The particular materials examined as a basis for the notes presented in this paper consisted of some three thousand personal letters copied from those in the files of one of the government bureaus in Washington. These letters were made available several years ago through the efforts of the Modern Language Association with the support of the Linguistic Society, and their collecting and copying financed by the National Council of Teachers of Englis…
On the Development of the Structural Use of Word-Order in Modern English
[In the actor-action-goal construction and in the character-substance (or modifier-noun) construction, Old English used taxemes of selection (inflected forms) to distinguish between actor (subject) and goal (object), and to indicate the direction of modification. The development of English has been away from the use of taxemes of selection with non-distinctive and connotative word-order, toward the use of taxemes of order operating practically wi…
A Meaningful Pattern
Word, Volume 1, Number 1
Implications of modern linguistic science
LET me begin with something like a confession. In the early days of my graduate study I suddenly came upon what was to me a new world, a discovery that eventually changed my whole view of language and grammar. This discovery-this new world to me-was linguistic science, that is, the principles and the techniques first used in western Europe at the beginning of the nineteenth century for the study of linguistic relationships and then developed and …
Have as a Function Word
Peer Reviewed
As We See It
Peer Reviewed
The Chicago Investigation
Peer Reviewed
Coexistent Phonemic Systems
The speech of monolingual natives of some languages is comprised of more than one phonemic system; the simultaneously existing systems operate partly in harmony and partly in conflict. No rigidly descriptive statement of the facts about such a language accounts for all the pertinent structural data without leading to apparent contradictions. These are caused by the conflict of statements about one phonemic system with statements about another sys…
Meaning and Linguistic Analysis
Many who have read the materials of present-day American linguists and have listened to their discussions have gained the impression that these linguists have cast out ‘meaning’ altogether. The two statements following are typical. Certain leading linguists especially in America find it possible to exclude the study of what they call ‘meaning’ from scientific linguistics, but only by deliberately excluding anything, in the nature of mind, thought…
American Linguistics and the Teaching of English
Summarizing points made in Professor Fries' talks to teachers of English during his recent t r i p to Germany, it reviews certain aspects of structural linguistics as recently developed in the United States that have special significance for the teaching of English a s a foreign language.' We are grateful for the opportunity of presenting it here.)I.American Structural Linguistics 1.In general the scientific study of language as practiced in the …
Reprinting Important Articles
Peer Reviewed
The Periphrastic Use of Shall and Will in Modern English
Peer Reviewed
The Expression of the Future
The concept of time in relation to action finds expression in the verbal forms of a great many, although not all, languages. ‘In English we have made up our minds that all action must be conceived of in reference to three standard times’,—the present, the past, and the future. Of these three, the devices for the expression of the future—their origin, development, and present use—receive from our grammarians the least satisfactory treatment
An Intensive Course in English
Preparation of Teaching Materials, Practical Grammars, and Dictionaries, Especially for Foreign Languages
Offprint: Language learning 9(1-2):43-50 [reprinted from Proceedings of the Eighth International Congress of Linguists, Oslo Univ. Press, p. 738-746]
Linguistics and Reading
Teaching and Learning English as a Foreign Language
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