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Peer reviewedJacobs, Roderick A. – English Journal, 1971
A paper presented at annual convention of National Council of Teachers of English (60th, Atlanta, November 27, 1970.) (Editor)
Descriptors: Semantics, Sentence Structure, Syntax, Transformational Generative Grammar
Jacobs, Roderick A. – TESOL Quart, 1969
"Deletion is posited as a universal process in language, and "identity and "indefiniteness are suggested as universal conditions under which deletion takes place. Usefulness of exploiting language similarities in language teaching is stressed. This paper was presented at the TESOL Convention, Chicago, March 1969. (FWB)
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Deep Structure, English (Second Language), Language Universals
Download full textJacobs, Roderick A. – The English Record, 1969
In the years following the appearance of Noam Chomsky's book, "Syntactic Structures," in 1957, transformational grammarians modified and improved his initial model of language. The notion of a deep structure of meaning underlying a sentence's surface structure was revised to embody elements representing negation, command, and interrogation, and to…
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Distinctive Features (Language), English, Grammar
