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Whitman, Randal L. – 1975
This book had two goals: to provide an introduction to transformational-generative grammar, placing it into a historical and philosophical context with other earlier linguistic traditions, and to provide a survey of the elements of English grammar from a transformational point of view. The text is intended for anyone who wishes to know the basis…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Grammar, Instructional Materials, Linguistic Theory
Green, John N. – 1973
This article attempts to refute D.M. Perlmutter's claim that the syntactic component in Spanish grammar can generate structures that are grammatical at the deep structure level but not at the surface structure level, and that it is necessary to impose a surface structure constraint (SSC) as a filter to reject the ungrammatical structures. The…
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Grammar, Linguistic Theory, Sentence Structure
Greenberg, Joseph H. – 1970
Use of "the language of observation" as a level of scientific discourse is exemplified. The formal properties of this language are characterized, and the derivability and feasibility of the axiomatic method as applied to it are considered. Also discussed are the theoretical and practical significance of this level with respect to various…
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Language Universals, Linguistic Theory, Phonology
Hammer, Katherine – 1973
Two approaches to the problem of determining the illocutionary force(s) of a sentence are examined: Gordon and Lakoff's (1971) "Conversational Postulates," and Fraser's (1973) "On Accounting for Illocutionary Forces"; their relation to Searle's conditions is discussed. It is argued that Gordon and Lakoff's analysis can be…
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Generative Grammar, Grammar, Linguistic Theory
Kuroda, S.-Y.
A history of theories of transformational generative grammar is presented, and four theories are characterized as: Chomsky's initial theory, Chomsky's standard theory, the semantically-based theory, and finally Chomsky's nonstandard theory. The main issue appears to be the question of what determines sentence meaning. Specifically, it is stated…
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Kernel Sentences, Linguistic Theory, Phrase Structure
Harries, Helga – 1973
The purpose of this paper is to investigate how languages express contrastive emphasis. It is argued that all contrastively emphasized constructions have underlying cleft sentences, independent of whether the surface structure is an equational or a nonequational one. It is furthermore argued that emphatic word orders are systematic and predictable…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Deep Structure, Descriptive Linguistics, Grammar
McNamer, Patrick F. – 1974
The syntactic relationship between the quantifier and the noun phrase (NP) and the function of the quantifier in the sentence are studied. In the first part of the paper, the theories of several linguists concerning the structure of the NP that includes a quantifier are reviewed. In parts 2 and 3 a syntactic description of the quantifier is…
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Generative Grammar, Grammar, Linguistic Theory
King, Margaret – 1976
The first section of this paper deals with the attempts within the framework of transformational grammar to make semantics a systematic part of linguistic description, and outlines the characteristics of the generative semantics position. The second section takes a critical look at generative semantics in its later manifestations, and makes a case…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Computational Linguistics, Deep Structure, Generative Grammar
Aitchison, Jean – 1976
Intended as an introduction to psycholinguistics from the linguist's point of view, this book addresses itself to three main topics: the innateness of language, the relationship of linguistic knowledge to language usage, and the comprehension and production of speech. In 12 chapters, the book discusses the nature of language development, the…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Processes, Comprehension, Language Ability
Bonney, W. L. – 1974
This paper is concerned with the treatment of anaphoric phenomena in a semantically based transformation grammar. It is argued that account of anaphora in terms of coreference are no better than accounts in terms of identical NPs; instead, it is proposed that a unified account of anaphora, which covers both quantified and unquantified NPs, may be…
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Form Classes (Languages), Generative Grammar, Linguistic Theory
Zimmer, Karl E. – 1971
The paper begins with a discussion of several recently proposed analyses of nominal compounds in English. It is then suggested that the relations which may appropriately underlie nominal compounds of the type Noun + Noun can best be defined negatively, i.e. by listing those relations between two nouns which cannot underlie compounds rather than…
Descriptors: Deep Structure, English, German, Language Universals
Lange, Michel – 1974
This paper raises questions about the significance of errors made by language learners. The discussion is divided into four parts: (1) definition of error analysis, (2) the present status of error analysis research, including an overview of the theories of Lado, Skinner, Chomsky, Corder, Nemser, and Selinker; (3) the subdivisions of error analysis…
Descriptors: Behavior Theories, Contrastive Linguistics, Error Analysis (Language), Error Patterns
Schweinhart, Lawrence J. – 1974
This paper reviews the psychological theories and research which deal with the meaning of words in the course of human psychological development. The three major premises of the review are: (1) that word meaning is conducive to empirical study, (2) that rules can be produced that apply to most word meanings, and (3) that human development has…
Descriptors: Behavior Theories, Cognitive Development, Early Childhood Education, Educational Theories
Semiloff-Zelasko, Holly – 1973
The purpose of this paper is to determine whether the sounds, ?, h, y, and w function as a natural class by investigating the following languages that have a metathesis rule affecting these sounds: Yagua, Zoque, classical Greek, Mandaic, Akkadian, Hanunoo, Tubatulabal, Twana, and Hungarian. The paper is divided into four parts. Section 1 briefly…
Descriptors: Acoustic Phonetics, American Indian Languages, Articulation (Speech), Generative Phonology
Nilsen, Don L. F.; Nilsen, Alleen Pace – 1975
This book attempts to bring linguists and language teachers up to date on the latest developments in semantics. A survey of the role of semantics in linguistics and other academic areas is followed by a historical perspective of semantics in American linguistics. Various semantic models are discussed. Anomaly, ambiguity, and discourse are…
Descriptors: Case (Grammar), Deep Structure, Generative Grammar, Grammar
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