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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
Berent, Gerald P.; Kelly, Ronald R.; Albertini, John A.; Toscano, Rose Marie – American Annals of the Deaf, 2013
Deaf Learners' Acquisition of fundamental lexical properties of high-frequency English verbs related to transitivity and intransitivity was examined, including the subtle distinction between unergative and unaccusative verbs. A 140-item sentence acceptability rating scale was used to assess this lexical knowledge in deaf college students at two…
Descriptors: Deafness, Language Proficiency, Verbs, English

Mowarin, Macaulay – Indian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2009
This paper undertakes a detailed analysis of sentential negation in the English language with Chomsky's Government-Binding theory of Transformational Grammar as theoretical model. It distinguishes between constituent and sentential negation in English. The essay identifies the exact position of Negation phrase in an English clause structure. It…
Descriptors: Transformational Generative Grammar, Verbs, Morphemes, English
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
Geach, Peter – Educ Rev, 1969
Descriptors: English, Logic, Syntax, Traditional Grammar
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
FILLMORE, CHARLES J. – 1966
THE PAPER QUESTIONS THE ADEQUACY OF CHOMSKY'S PROPOSALS FOR FORMALLY RECONSTRUCTING THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN GRAMMATICAL CATEGORIES AND GRAMMATICAL FUNCTIONS. THE DEEP STRUCTURE VALIDITY OF THE NOTIONS "SUBJECT" AND "OBJECT" IS ALSO QUESTIONED. THE WRITER PROPOSES TO RECOGNIZE, INSTEAD, VARIOUS INTRODUCED NOUN PHRASES SUGGESTIVE…
Descriptors: English, Grammar, Linguistic Theory, Linguistics

Sanders, Gerald A. – Linguistics, 1977
An examination of the predicates "optional" and "obligatory" is made that suggests that they are far more appropriately viewed as derived rather than primitive notions, whose appropriate attributions follow in all cases from independent linguistic facts and principles of a much more general and more generally significant character. (Author/HP)
Descriptors: English, Linguistic Theory, Phonology, Sentence Structure

Sgall, Petr – Journal of Linguistics, 1972
Discusses certain unknown constraints" active in the use of specific quantifiers in English. (VM)
Descriptors: Deep Structure, English, Semantics, Sentence Structure
ROSENBAUM, PETER S. – 1965
A CHARACTERISTIC PROPERTY OF CERTAIN TYPES OF SENTENCE EMBEDDING IN ENGLISH IS THE DELETION OF THE INITIAL NOUN PHRASE OF THE EMBEDDED SENTENCE WHEN THE NOUN PHRASE IS IDENTICAL TO SOME NOUN PHRASE IN THE MAIN SENTENCE. EXAMPLES OF THIS PHENOMENON ARE SENTENCES LIKE "JOHN CONDESCENDED TO GO" AND "JOHN DEFIED BILL TO GO."…
Descriptors: English, Linguistic Theory, Nouns, Phrase Structure
ANNEAR, SANDRA S. – 1964
THE VARIOUS TYPES OF PRENOMINAL MODIFIERS IN ENGLISH ARE STUDIED WITHIN THE GENERAL FRAMEWORK OF A TRANSFORMATIONAL GRAMMAR. TWO DISTINCT, BUT INTERRELATED PROBLEMS ARE INVOLVED--THE DERIVATION OF EACH OF THE TYPES OF SINGLE MODIFIERS, EITHER TRANSFORMATIONALLY OR FROM CONSTITUENT STRUCTURE RULES, AND THE GRAMMATICAL IMPLICATIONS OF COMBINING THEM…
Descriptors: Adjectives, English, Grammar, Linguistic Theory
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
Michaels, David – Michigan Linguistic Society, 1969
The author notes that although Winter (1965) seems correct in finding fault with the original Chomsky-Smith analysis of adjective-noun combinations, the notion "pattern spread," which he proposes as a counter-explanation, is not properly a grammatical explanation. It is instead a speculation about the historical origin of some adjective-noun…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Diachronic Linguistics, English, Nouns
Liles, Bruce L. – 1971
The present volume is directed toward the reader wanting to begin a study of linguistics but who is "overwhelmed by the amount of material available, much of it too technical for him to understand." The author has attempted to provide both theory and applications and has limited the scope to English transformational grammar. Exercises at the end…
Descriptors: English, Instructional Materials, Linguistic Theory, Phonology
LU, JOHN H.T. – 1965
AN ATTEMPT IS MADE, WITHIN THE GENERAL FRAMEWORK OF A TRANSFORMATIONAL GRAMMAR, TO ACCOUNT FOR THE PREDICTABILITY OF STRESS IN TERMS OF ITS UNDERLYING PHRASE STRUCTURES, TO PROVIDE SOME EXPLANATION FOR THE CONSTRUCTIONAL HOMONYMITY OF CONTRASTIVE STRESS IN SOME CASES, AND TO ILLUSTRATE WITH EXAMPLES FROM AMERICAN ENGLISH AND MANDARIN CHINESE…
Descriptors: English, Grammar, Linguistic Theory, Mandarin Chinese