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Niedermeier, Jerome L. – 1974
A possible application of generative-transformational (phrase-structure) grammar to the teaching of English composition at the college freshman level is described in this dissertation, which presents a potential textbook for a course on language and its relationship to culture. Topics discussed include traditional grammar, the bases of…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Doctoral Dissertations, Generative Grammar, Higher Education
Tabaian, Hessam – 1975
This study is concerned with the description of compound sentences, relative clauses, and complement clauses in Standard Persian within a generative-transformational grammar. Compound sentences are divided into conjunctive, disjunctive, and adversative types on the basis of the semantic relations they express. A conjunctive clause is either…
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Form Classes (Languages), Indo European Languages, Language Research
Ganschow, Leonore – 1974
A study was conducted to examine syntactical development in spontaneous written language of selected preschool, kindergarten and first grade children. The two major experimental questions were: (1) Will there be development towards greater complexity in the syntax of spontaneous writing and how should it be described? (2) What transformational…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Child Language, Language Acquisition, Language Research
Anuario del Seminario de Filologia Vasca "Julio de Urquijo", 1972
Ten papers resulting from the Basque linguistics seminar are collected in this volume. Following introductions by L. Michelena and William A. Douglass, the papers are: (1)"Morphological Evidence of Abstract Verbs in Basque" by Glenn Ayres, (2) "A Survey of Linguistic Variables in the Central Zone of the Deva River Valley" by Ramon M. S. Bereicua…
Descriptors: Basque, Case (Grammar), Descriptive Linguistics, Form Classes (Languages)
Duffy, Carolyn B. – 1970
Foreign language teaching is currently in a state of flux, as is natural when any discipline is undergoing basic theoretical and procedural revision. The behaviorist trends applied to the audio-lingual habit theory were a major break-through for foreign language teaching, and skills ignored by the grammar-translation method were brought to the…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Bilingualism, Interdisciplinary Approach, Language Instruction
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Yates, Warren G.; Sayasithsena, Souksomboun – 1970
This book comprises a "set of guidelines for conversational interplay between students and their native-speaking Lao instructor." A student who successfully completes the course should be able to order a simple meal, ask for a room in a hotel, ask and give street directions, tell time, handle travel requirements, and use expressions of…
Descriptors: Audiolingual Skills, Conversational Language Courses, Course Descriptions, Instructional Materials
Szymczak, M. – 1970
Noting that no clear and adequate basis for a theory of translation exists at this time, this article examines problems common to three fundamental elements of translation. Illustrative examples, taken from Slavic languages, relate to discussion of grammatical, semantic-lexical, and stylistic aspects of translation. Various contributions of…
Descriptors: Grammar, Language Styles, Language Universals, Language Usage
Robertson, Jean E. – 1970
This paper focuses on four studies of pupils' reading comprehension completed at the University of Alberta. A number of investigators have described the acquisition and use of connectives by pupils and have indicated the importance of connectives in the development of abstract logical thinking. (Teachers often consider these words too simple to…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Processes, English, Interdisciplinary Approach
Long, Ralph B. – 1968
In viewing the approach to English and other grammars in the light of linguistic universals, the author feels that the principal justification for deep structure analysis of English is that "deep structure analyses of all the languages of our multilingual world in combination can serve as a genuinely scientific basis of a defensible universal…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Deep Structure, English (Second Language), Grammar
Wilks, Yorick – 1972
This paper examines and criticizes Lakoff's notions of a natural logic and of a generative semantics described in terms of logic. The author argues that the relationship of these notions to logic as normally understood is unclear but suggests a number of possible interpretations of the thesis of generative semantics. Further, on these…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Concept Formation, Deep Structure, Linguistic Theory
Ross, John Robert – 1971
This paper investigates a type of grammatical ill-formedness in English which is traceable to the repetition, under certain specified conditions, of present participles, e.g. the verb "continue" cannot occur with participles if it is in the present progressive. The solution to generalizing about ill-formedness of this type is by means of a…
Descriptors: Ambiguity, Deep Structure, Descriptive Linguistics, English
Soga, Matsuo – Papers in Japanese Linguistics, 1972
This paper considers whether the negative transportation (NT) rule operating in English is operative also in Japanese and whether investigation of the phenomenon in Japanese may provide new insights for English research. The discussion begins with an explanation and examples of the NT rule in English. Japanese cases are then studied, and the…
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Descriptive Linguistics, English, Japanese
Taylor, Harvey M. – Papers in Japanese Linguistics, 1972
Rules of lexical derivation can be used to account for certain case-related regularities existing between Japanese non-potential verbs and the potential verbs derived from them. Lexical derivation analysis in comparison with a transformational approach is simpler; it requires less powerful rules and therefore makes a stronger claim; and it…
Descriptors: Case (Grammar), Deep Structure, Descriptive Linguistics, Japanese
Dupuis, Mary Miles – 1971
This study assesses an analytical process which seeks to describe the writing style of a student in terms of the four basic transformational operations: addition, deletion, combining, and reordering. Application of the process to writing skills of low achievers in English is evaluated. All ninth and eleventh grade students in the Falls Church,…
Descriptors: Doctoral Dissertations, English, Grade 11, Grade 9
Leon, Pierre R., Ed.; And Others – 1971
This text compiles papers treating problems in literary analysis which were read at a conference at the University of Toronto, Canada. Papers include: (1) "Elements Phonostylistiques du Texte Litteraire," (2) Some uses of the Grammar in Poetic Analysis, (3) "Morphosyntaxe et Stylistique," (4) "Le Lexique dans l'Oeuvre Litteraire," (5) "Analyse…
Descriptors: French, Grammar, Linguistics, Literary Criticism
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