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Bagha, Karim Nazari – English Language Teaching, 2011
Generative semantics is (or perhaps was) a research program within linguistics, initiated by the work of George Lakoff, John R. Ross, Paul Postal and later McCawley. The approach developed out of transformational generative grammar in the mid 1960s, but stood largely in opposition to work by Noam Chomsky and his students. The nature and genesis of…
Descriptors: Transformational Generative Grammar, Semantics, Linguistic Theory, Syntax
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
CHAPIN, PAUL G. – 1967
AN IMPORTANT HYPOTHESIS OF GENERATIVE GRAMMATICAL THEORY IN RECENT YEARS HAS BEEN THAT GRAMMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS ARE MEANING-PRESERVING. THIS THESIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO SHOW THAT IF CERTAIN OTHER COMMON THEORETICAL ASSUMPTIONS ARE HELD CONSTANT, THAT HYPOTHESIS IS UNTENABLE. RULES OF WORD-DERIVATION--SUFFIXATION, PREFIXATION,…
Descriptors: Language Research, Linguistic Theory, Transformational Generative Grammar
Schlegel, Jean-Louis – Pedagogie, 1973
Concluding portion of an article begun in the December 1972 issue. (DS)
Descriptors: Grammar, Linguistic Theory, Syntax, Transformational Generative Grammar
Mountain, Lee Harrison – Elementary English, 1972
Through an analogy, article outlines the basic structures underlying a complex sentence. (MB)
Descriptors: Linguistic Theory, Sentence Structure, Transformational Generative Grammar

Heath, Jeffrey – Language, 1975
Certain types of pronominal differentiation are functionally related to certain types of transformational rules; this theory leads to a concept of a functional component within which these aspects of grammar are complementary. Their complementarity is matched by an inverse relationship in functional values from one language to another. (CK)
Descriptors: Grammar, Linguistic Theory, Pronouns, Syntax
FILLMORE, C.J. – 1965
THE SPECIFIC FAILINGS ARE DISCUSSED IN THE SEMANTIC THEORY OF KATZ AND FODOR PROPOSED WITHIN CHOMSKY'S CURRENT TRANSFORMATIONAL FRAMEWORK. THE FIRST DEALS WITH THE SO-CALLED "RELATIONAL" CONCEPTS. FOR EXAMPLE, IT IS NOT EASY TO SEE HOW ANY SLIGHT MODIFICATION OF THE NOTION OF "SEMANTIC FEATURE" CAN LEAD TO THE CORRECT INTERPRETATION OF COMPARATIVE…
Descriptors: English, Grammar, Linguistic Theory, Semantics
Pollock, J. Y. – Langages, 1976
Taking as an example the "trace theory" of movement rules developed at MIT, the article shows the conditions to which a theoretical innovation must conform in order to be considered legitimate in the context of transformational grammar's "Extended Standard Theory." (Text is in French.) (CDSH/AM)
Descriptors: Epistemology, Linguistic Theory, Scientific Methodology, Transformational Generative Grammar

Nilsen, Don L. F. – College English, 1977
Describes three types of generative rules in transformational grammar. (DD)
Descriptors: Fundamental Concepts, Generalization, Linguistic Theory, Transformational Generative Grammar

Lin, Francis Y. – Language & Communication, 2000
Harris's original idea of transformations has been changed several times in Chomsky's work. This article explicates these transformations, arguing that though their motivations are highly understandable, these transformations are not necessary for understanding the workings of natural languages. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Grammar, Language Universals, Linguistic Theory, Transformational Generative Grammar
Goeller, Alfred – Franzosisch Heute, 1974
The author defends a position previously taken against a criticism that stated that he did not use the Chomskyan model (or any closed model), but rather a general transformational grammar. Several selected examples are used to explain the ranking he assigns to this grammar in foreign language teaching. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)
Descriptors: French, Language Instruction, Linguistic Theory, Models

Cook, V. J. – Linguistics, 1974
Examines the level of explanatory adequacy outlined by Chomsky's theory of transformational grammar and finds it inadequate. (CK)
Descriptors: Language, Language Research, Linguistic Theory, Syntax
HUDSON, R.A. – 1967
TWO WAYS OF DESCRIBING CLAUSES IN ENGLISH ARE DISCUSSED IN THIS PAPER. THE FIRST, TERMED THE "FEW-IC'S" APPROACH, IS A SEGMENTATION OF THE CLAUSE INTO A SMALL NUMBER OF IMMEDIATE CONSTITUENTS WHICH REQUIRE A LARGE NUMBER OF FURTHER SEGMENTATIONS BEFORE THE ULTIMATE CONSTITUENTS ARE REACHED. THE SECOND, "MANY-IC'S" APPROACH, IS A SEGMENTATION INTO…
Descriptors: English, Linguistic Theory, Structural Analysis, Syntax