Publication Date
In 2025 | 0 |
Since 2024 | 0 |
Since 2021 (last 5 years) | 0 |
Since 2016 (last 10 years) | 0 |
Since 2006 (last 20 years) | 3 |
Descriptor
Author
Battye, Adrian C. | 1 |
Ben-Barka, Alba C. | 1 |
Borsley, Robert D. | 1 |
Calder, Jonathan | 1 |
Culicover, P. | 1 |
Davila, Sonia I. | 1 |
Donaldson, Weber D., Jr. | 1 |
Gao, Chun-mei | 1 |
Gazdar, Gerald | 1 |
Griffiths, Patrick | 1 |
Harlow, Steve | 1 |
More ▼ |
Publication Type
Reports - Evaluative | 18 |
Speeches/Meeting Papers | 4 |
Journal Articles | 3 |
Information Analyses | 2 |
Opinion Papers | 2 |
Collected Works - General | 1 |
Education Level
Audience
Practitioners | 2 |
Teachers | 1 |
Location
Puerto Rico | 1 |
United Kingdom (Scotland) | 1 |
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Mowarin, Macaulay – Indian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2011
This paper analyzes "wh"-questions in the English Language based mainly on Chomsky's Minimalist Programme of transformational grammar as the theoretical model. The four main objectives of this paper are as follows: first, it undertakes a cross linguistic typological analysis of "wh"-questions and it then discusses the derivation of…
Descriptors: Transformational Generative Grammar, English, Linguistic Theory, Contrastive Linguistics
Joan Forbes – Educational Review, 2008
Speech and language therapist and teacher practitioners need particular knowledge to work effectively together to support the needs of individual learners. Using the frame of modes of knowledge (Gibbon, Limoges, Nowotny, Schwartzmann, Scott, and Trow, "The new production of knowledge", London, Sage Publications, 1994), the necessary…
Descriptors: Language Impairments, Professional Education, Linguistic Theory, Transformational Generative Grammar
Gao, Chun-mei – Online Submission, 2007
In vocabulary testing, whether to adopt context is a heat-debated topic. In the article, an experiment is designed to investigate what is the effect of zero context and sentence context on the vocabulary testing? And how do the different kinds of context in vocabulary affect the subjects' performance? The experimental result demonstrates that…
Descriptors: Sentences, Testing, Vocabulary Skills, Experiments
Qvarnstrom, Bengt-Olof – 1978
This examination of Richard Montague's grammar as it is manifested in his study, "The Proper Treatment of Quantification in Ordinary English" (PTQ) proposes that the theory contains significant flaws and raises fundamental methodological questions about the aims of logic and linguistics. The first part of this discussion presents the…
Descriptors: Deep Structure, English, Linguistic Theory, Logic
Rochemont, M.; Culicover, P. – 1987
An analysis of English sentences containing noun phrases (NPs) with extraposed complements argues that the extraposition (EX) is base-generated and not derived by any applications of the Move-alpha principle. A Move-alpha analysis is subject to substantial technical difficulties, and there exist cases of EX for which there is no plausible source…
Descriptors: English, Linguistic Theory, Phrase Structure, Semantics
Gazdar, Gerald; Pullum, Geoffrey K. – 1986
The authors of a previous paper on aspects of generalized phrase structure grammar respond to criticism of that paper and clarify elements in the discussion. The original paper addressed the problem of expressing relevant generalizations about the order of complements that a lexical item subcategorizes for. (MSE)
Descriptors: Classification, Foreign Countries, Grammatical Acceptability, Linguistic Theory
Harlow, Steve – 1986
Since its inception, proponents of Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar (GPSG) have claimed the superiority of the analyses that the theory makes available for certain problematic constructions in English. Two examples of such constructions are (1) rightward unbounded dependencies (including right node raising) and (2) parasitic gaps. However, as…
Descriptors: English, Foreign Countries, Grammatical Acceptability, Linguistic Theory
Davila, Sonia I. – 1983
This paper provides an overview of recent developments in the science of linguistics, and considers their relevance to the teaching of Spanish in Puerto Rico. First, three significant trends are explained and summarized: (1) structuralism, which emphasizes phonetics, pattern, and distribution, and rejects meaning as a tool of analysis; (2)…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Language Acquisition, Linguistic Theory, Native Language Instruction
Donaldson, Weber D., Jr. – 1970
On the basis of evidence from general linguistic theory and psycholinguistic research, it is argued that the working hypotheses of the audiolingual habit theory are inconsistent with studies of human verbal learning tasks, and that transformation grammarians have shown convincingly that structuralist views of language are too narrow in scope. It…
Descriptors: Audiolingual Methods, Instructional Effectiveness, Learning Processes, Learning Theories
Zwicky, Arnold M. – 1986
The papers collected here concern the interfaces between various components of grammar (semantics, syntax, morphology, and phonology) and between grammar itself and various extragrammatical domains. They include: "The OSU Random, Unorganized Collection of Speech Act Examples"; "In and Out in Phonology"; "Forestress and…
Descriptors: English, Linguistic Theory, Morphology (Languages), Morphophonemics
Battye, Adrian C. – 1986
A discussion of Italian comparatives of inequality examines the use of "che" and "di" in introducing the comparison. It begins by looking at and discounting the semantic explanation for the different structures and then outlines the comparative rules for use of "che" and "di." It examines regular and…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Foreign Countries, Function Words, Grammatical Acceptability
Warner, Anthony R. – 1986
A discussion of constraints on ellipsis after auxiliaries in English focuses on a particular analytic problem concerning nonfinite verb phrases using "be", which has a historical dimension. A solution involving the morphological claim about the copula and its incorporation of tense-distinctions is proposed and discussed in the context of…
Descriptors: Diachronic Linguistics, Dialects, English, Foreign Countries
Borsley, Robert D. – 1986
A discussion of passives in the context of generalized phrase structure grammar (GPSG) looks at two problems associated with a lexical rule that derives passive participles from active verbs. The first occurs with sentences whose main verb takes an NP and does not have a passive counterpart. This situation requires a more restrictive metarule, and…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, English, Foreign Countries, Grammatical Acceptability
Olabode, Afolabi – 1995
The process of embedding, a term used in generative grammar to refer to a construction in which a sentence is included within another sentence, is examined as it occurs in Yoruba literature. Examples are drawn from Yoruba praise poetry, in both written and oral form and within Yoruba novels. Forms of embedding identified include those to draw…
Descriptors: African Languages, Discourse Analysis, Fiction, Foreign Countries
Ben-Barka, Alba C. – 1981
A study investigated some theoretical bases of two language-learning approaches, the audiolingual method and transformational grammar. Additionally, the study looked at the concept of language socialization and some anthropological concepts as they pertain to the teaching of English to speakers of other languages (TESOL). A brief historical and…
Descriptors: Anthropological Linguistics, Audiolingual Methods, Communicative Competence (Languages), Educational Strategies
Previous Page | Next Page ยป
Pages: 1 | 2