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Download full textMoravcsik, Edith A. – 1971
Four hypotheses concerning the linguistic structure of yes-no questions and their answers are considered as hypotheses relating to the abstract structure of yes-no questions and to this abstract structure in all human languages. The universal base hypotheses are the following: (1) The abstract representation of all yes-no questions includes two…
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Language Universals, Linguistic Theory, Questioning Techniques
Peer reviewedSchreiber, Peter A.; Anshen, Frank – Language Sciences, 1974
Descriptors: Arabic, Deep Structure, Diagrams, Language Universals
Peer reviewedBracken, Harry M. – Language Sciences, 1972
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Deep Structure, Language Universals, Linguistic Competence
Bolles, Edmund Blair – Saturday Review (New York 1952), 1972
An analysis of the speech of infants gives a clue to the evolution of language. (DR)
Descriptors: Generative Grammar, Infant Behavior, Language Acquisition, Language Universals
Peer reviewedZwicky, Arnold M. – Journal of Linguistics, 1972
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Descriptive Linguistics, Language Universals, Linguistic Theory
Peer reviewedArutjunova, N. D. – Linguistics, 1975
Treats the general linguistic aspect of Fillmore's theories. (RM)
Descriptors: Case (Grammar), Deep Structure, Generative Grammar, Language Universals
Peer reviewedPolanski, Kazimierz – Studia Anglica Posnaniensia, 1972
An argument is made for a theory of deep structure which does not neglect surface structure analysis. See FL 508 197 for availability. (RM)
Descriptors: Deep Structure, English, Language Universals, Linguistic Theory
Kessler, Ann Carolyn – Lang Learning, 1969
Descriptors: Charts, Contrastive Linguistics, Deep Structure, English
FILLMORE, CHARLES J. – 1967
IN THIS PAPER, PREPARED FOR THE APRIL 1967 TEXAS SYMPOSIUM ON LINGUISTIC UNIVERSALS, IT IS PROPOSED THAT THE GRAMMATICAL NOTION "CASE" DESERVES A PLACE IN THE BASE COMPONENT OF THE GRAMMAR OF EVERY LANGUAGE. IT IS ARGUED THAT PAST RESEARCH HAS NOT LED TO VALID INSIGHTS ON CASE RELATIONSHIPS AND THAT WHAT IS NEEDED IS A CONCEPTION OF BASE…
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Grammar, Language Typology, Language Universals
Cherubim, Dieter; And Others – Deutsche Sprache, 1973
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Language Universals, Linguistic Theory, Sentence Diagraming
Peer reviewedAarsleff, Hans – Language Sciences, 1971
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Processes, Grammar, Language Universals
Rutherford, William E. – TESOL Quart, 1969
A somewhat modified version of a paper presented at the annual conference of the National Association for Foreign Student Affairs, May 1969. (FWB)
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, English (Second Language), Language Instruction, Language Universals
Loos, Eugene Emil – 1969
This generative-transformational model of Capanahua phonology aims (1) to make available to linguistic science data analyzed from the point of view of an explanatory, unified theory of language; and (2) to test some conclusions suggested by those data, with respect to language universals. Chapters treat phrase structure rules, transformational…
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Distinctive Features (Language), Language Universals, Morphology (Languages)
Peer reviewedDroste, F. G. – Linguistics, 1973
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Function Words, Kernel Sentences, Language Universals
Peer reviewedPark, Byung-Soo – Linguistics, 1973
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Descriptive Linguistics, Diagrams, Korean
