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Peer reviewedFoster, 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
Sintactica esiva del ingles y espanol (Syntactic Contrasts of the Main Verbs in Spanish and English)
Peer reviewedFoster, David William – Hispania, 1969
Descriptors: Adjectives, Contrastive Linguistics, English, Grammar
Foster, David William – Lenguas Vivas, 1971
Descriptors: Case (Grammar), Deep Structure, Diagrams, English
Peer reviewedFoster, David William – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 1977
Describes a study using transformational generative grammar to demonstrate that the frequently used structure "verb a verb" in Spanish is to be interpreted in three ways. Conclusions are drawn for the teaching of Spanish as a foreign language. (AMH)
Descriptors: Generative Grammar, Language Instruction, Language Patterns, Sentence Structure
