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Direct linkZyzik, Eve – Second Language Research, 2017
The extensive literature on subject expression in Spanish makes for rich comparisons between generative (formal) and usage-based (functional) approaches to language acquisition. This article explores how the problem of subject expression has been conceptualized within each research tradition, as well as unanswered questions that both approaches…
Descriptors: Spanish, Second Language Learning, Language Usage, Syntax
Jabbarifar, Taghi – Journal of International Education Research, 2014
This study presents an overall review of the paradigms that contribute to the making and development of functional human linguistics and communication skills and the teaching of language.
Descriptors: English Instruction, Communication Skills, Linguistics, Structural Linguistics
Stabler, Edward P. – Cognitive Science, 2004
Four different kinds of grammars that can define crossing dependencies in human language are compared here: (1) "context sensitive rewrite" grammars with rules that depend on context; (2) "matching" grammars with constraints that filter the generative structure of the language; (3) "copying" grammars which can copy structures of unbounded size;…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Sentence Structure, Context Effect, Generative Grammar
