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Oregon Univ., Eugene. Oregon Elementary English Project. – 1971
Developed by the Oregon Elementary English Project, this curriculum unit introduces fifth and sixth graders to sentence structure. Based on transformational grammar, the unit (1) demonstrates to students their built-in knowledge of English grammar which enables them to produce and recognize sentences although they are not consciously aware of…
Descriptors: Curriculum Guides, English Curriculum, Grade 5, Grade 6
Slakta, Denis – Etudes de Linguistique Appliquee, 1975
This article outlines a model of the two basic components of a text, namely, the system of formal linguistic rules, and the realization of these rules into concrete discourse, by means of particular transformations. (Text is in French.) (CLK)
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Grammar, Language Patterns, Language Research

Hochster, Anita – Glossa, 1978
This article hypothesizes that causative constructions among the languages of the world share some fundamental characteristics, even though they have different ordering restrictions and varying degrees of fusion. (Author/NCR)
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Language Patterns, Lexicology, Linguistic Theory

Radford, Andrew – Journal of Linguistics, 1978
All modern Romance languages except Rumanian have a class of causative + infinitive construction in which the infinitive subject surfaces as an agentive. This article investigates the question of how agentivization of the infinitive subject is to be handled in these languages. (DS)
Descriptors: French, Grammar, Italian, Language Patterns

Lyons, Christopher – Journal of Linguistics, 1986
Discusses the possessive constructions in English, in particular, the postponed construction. (An example of the postponed construction is "a book of John's," contrasted with "John's book," the preposed construction.) The study contrasts the possessive "of" with the "of" in other constructions and concludes…
Descriptors: Case (Grammar), Contrastive Linguistics, English, Language Patterns

Sastri, M. I. – Language Sciences, 1973
Descriptors: Creativity, Expressive Language, Figurative Language, Language Patterns

Burgschmidt, Ernst; Gotz, Dieter – Zielsprache Englisch, 1971
Descriptors: Case (Grammar), English (Second Language), Grammar, Language Instruction
Grimm, Hans-Jurgen – Deutsch als Fremdsprache, 1972
Descriptors: Deep Structure, German, Language Patterns, Phrase Structure

Cazden, Courtney B. – Young Children, 1970
Discusses current research in child language to help teachers understand how young children acquire language skills. (DR)
Descriptors: Child Language, Curriculum Development, Dialects, Language Acquisition
KITZHABER, ALBERT R.
THESE FOUR TESTS--"MORE ABOUT QUESTIONS,""THE NEGATIVE,""EXPANSION OF TRANSITIVE VERBS," AND "DETERMINERS"--WERE DESIGNED BY THE OREGON CURRICULUM STUDY CENTER FOR A NINTH-GRADE LANGUAGE CURRICULUM. THEY ARE INTENDED TO ACCOMPANY CURRICULUM UNITS AVAILABLE AS ED 010 829 AND ED 010 830. (MM)
Descriptors: Determiners (Languages), English Curriculum, English Instruction, Grade 9

Nuessel, Frank H., Jr. – 1977
This is an annotated bibliography of generative-based grammatical analyses of Spanish, with emphasis on studies in phonology and morphology. The 116 entries, arranged by author, include books, journal articles, dissertations and relevant research papers both in English and in Spanish. A list of abbreviations and a list of related bibliographies…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Grammar, Language Patterns, Language Research
Berdan, Robert – 1973
The use of "have,""got,""have got," and alternate forms was investigated in the speech of Anglo and black grade-school children from lower and middle income neighborhoods in Los Angeles. Techniques were devised to elicit multiple occurrences of the construction, including questions and negatives. One technique used was a convergent communication…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Child Language, Elementary Education, Language Patterns
Rodman, Robert – 1972
A number of grammatical transformations are studied which often, but not always, involve the movement of constituents. Data from English, Japanese, Kannada, Korean, Mandarin Chinese and Thai are investigated in an attempt to discover a principle (of potentially universal scope) that governs certain constraints that must be imposed on these…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Deep Structure, English, Grammar
O'Donnell, Roy C. – 1974
This essay discusses a theory of grammar which incorporated Chomsky's distinction between deep and surface structure and accepts Fillmore's proposal to exclude such subject and concepts as direct object from the base structure. While recognizing the need for specifying an underlying set of caselike relations, it is proposed that this need can best…
Descriptors: Case (Grammar), Deep Structure, Grammar, Language Patterns

Harris, J. W. – Journal of Linguistics, 1987
The Spanish feminine article /el/, ordinarily the singular masculine definite article, has been used as evidence of the need for obligatory disagreement rules. Others explain the anamoly by means of referral rules. A third solution is suggested: an allomorphy rule which can be interpreted syntactically or phonologically. (LMO)
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Determiners (Languages), Function Words, Language Patterns