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Postal, Paul M. – 1968
This paper is a study in the grammar of coreference. A wide variety of evidence is presented which shows that the distribution of nominal expressions in English sentences if subject to previously unsuspected constraints involving coreference. Principles are suggested which explain a large number of such cases in terms of general restrictions on…
Descriptors: Pronouns, Semantics, Surface Structure, Syntax

Anderson, Shannon L. – French Review, 1975
Examines the similarity of clitic to other syntactic relationships, such as modifier plus noun, and demonstrates that the consistency of linking in each case may reflect a syntactic unity justifying obligatory liaison. (MSE)
Descriptors: French, Morphophonemics, Phonology, Surface Structure
Cantrall, William R. – Michigan Linguistic Society, 1969
Projected here is an underlying structure for successive restrictive relative clauses. Observed are the principles of pronominalization determined by "command," such structure being notably different from that for successive nonrestrictive clauses. Evidence has been seen that certain variations in surface structure arise from selection…
Descriptors: Deep Structure, English, Nouns, Pronouns

Haas, W. – Language, 1973
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Linguistic Theory, Semantics, Surface Structure

Hirst, D. J. – Linguistics, 1974
A coherent theory of intonation in relation to syntax has not yet been formulated, partly because there is no satisfactory theory of context within a transformational generative grammar, and partly because intonation studies have been concerned with phonetic descriptions of intonation contours. This article calls for an intonation theory. (CK)
Descriptors: Intonation, Linguistic Theory, Phonetics, Phonology
WALL, ROBERT – 1967
IN AGREEMENT WITH CHOMSKY, THE AUTHOR DISCUSSES SELECTIONAL RESTRICTIONS ON SUBJECTS AND OBJECTS BASED ON CRITERIA OF WHAT MUST OR CANNOT OCCUR IN THOSE SLOTS IN A SENTENCE. THROUGH AN ANALYSIS OF INTERDEPENDENCY RELATIONSHIPS, VARIOUS DEEP- AND SURFACE-STRUCTURE FEATURES ARE DISTINGUISHED CONCERNING TRANSITIVE VERBS AND THE INTERPRETATION OF…
Descriptors: Deep Structure, English, Phrase Structure, Semantics

Burton-Roberts, Noel – Language, 1976
Proposes that NPs determined by the generic indefinite article represent abstract concepts and as such are not inherently different from indefinite NPs appearing in copulative predicates. (Author/RM)
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Function Words, Linguistic Theory, Surface Structure

Green, Georgia M. – Language, 1976
A number of syntactic constructions claimed by linguists to be restricted to main clauses are shown to occur in a variety of subordinate clause types. It is shown that an adequate solution will involve a complex interaction of syntactic, semantic and pragmatic factors. (Author/RM)
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Linguistic Theory, Sentence Structure, Surface Structure

Foster, David William – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 1970
This article attempts to justify the surface presence of English split infinitives in terms of the deep structure of the language posited by current transformation theory." (FWB)
Descriptors: Adverbs, Deep Structure, English, Grammar

Knowles, John – Language Sciences, 1975
This paper presents two types of Spanish sentences and contradicts theories which relate the two with identical deep structures. Criteria presented appear to show the two differ in deep structure and are related lexically rather than transformationally. (CK)
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Linguistic Theory, Sentence Structure, Spanish
Olshanskij, I. G. – Russkij Yazyk za Rubezhom, 1973
Conference held in the Moscow Pedagogical Institute of Foreign Languages, in December 1972; discusses various papers presented at the conference. (HK)
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Grammar, Linguistics, Morphology (Languages)

Grannis, O. C. – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 1975
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Linguistic Theory, Semantics, Sentence Structure

Neeld, Ronald – Glossa, 1975
Evidence is presented that the Sentential Subject Constraint presented by Ross in "Constraints on Variables in Syntax" is a global constraint which makes reference to surface structure and to earlier stages of a derivation. (SC)
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Linguistic Theory, Nouns, Sentence Structure
Mey, Jacob – Acta Linguistica Hafniensia, 1973
Examination of two works by Per Aage Brandt, "Pour une chromatique. Note sur des prepositions francaises" in "Lingua e Stile," 1971, and "L'analyse phrastique: reflexions pour une grammatique;" both of which discuss the need to develop a grammar superior to transformational grammar or Chomsky's surface structure-deep structure option. (DD)
Descriptors: Algorithms, Deep Structure, Diagrams, Phrase Structure

Lu, John H-T. – Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association, 1980
Studies, using Mandarin Chinese as a test case: (1) the interaction of syntax and semantics when quantifiers and negatives co-occur; (2) the linear interpretation of quantifiers when the universal and existential quantifiers co-occur; (3) the logical relationship between them; and (4) the basic word order of existential sentences involving…
Descriptors: Chinese, Deep Structure, Negative Forms (Language), Semantics