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On Some Modalities of Syntactic Productivity and Choice
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Titone, Renzo – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 1970
The psycholinguistic experiments reported here lead the author to the conclusion that there is a definite interdependence between semantic values and syntactic functions in the construction of sentences and that a satisfactory interpretation of syntactic encoding demands a consideration of the personality structure of the individual speaker.…
Descriptors: Individual Psychology, Linguistic Theory, Psycholinguistics, Semantics
Some Semantic Aspects of Relative Clauses in English
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Grannis, O. C. – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 1975
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Linguistic Theory, Semantics, Sentence Structure
Bericht uber das Forschungsprojekt "Die integrierte Erzeugung zweier oder mehrerer Sprachen als grammatiktheoretisches Problem" (Report on the Research Project"The Integrated Production of Two or Several Languages as a Grammar-Theory Problem")
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Pusch, L. F. – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 1975
Summarizes author's work in developing a transformational-generative grammar which can account for concurrent production of two or several languages. (DH)
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Contrastive Linguistics, Language Research, Linguistic Theory
Modal "Auxiliaries" in Generative Grammar--Some Pedagogic Implications
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Lee, D. A. – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 1975
A comparison is made of two different approaches to the treatment of modals in the framework of a transformational grammar--that of Seuren, who analyzes modals as "operators," and that of the generative semanticists who take them to be "higher verbs." Implications for language teaching are discussed. (Author/RM)
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Language Instruction, Linguistic Theory, Semantics
Language Use and Foreign Language Learning
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Oller, John W., Jr. – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 1971
Revised version of a paper presented at the Second International Congress of Applied Linguistics, Cambridge, England, 1969. (DS)
Descriptors: Charts, Grammar, Language Instruction, Linguistic Theory
A Semanico-Syntactic Approach to Contrastive Analysis--Some 'Be' and 'Have' Sentences in English and Chinese.
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Chu, Chauncey C. – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 1978
Proposes an approach to contrastive linguistics which takes into account syntax and semantics, and discusses the role of such an approach in explaining surface structure differences between English and Chinese sentences of the type: "He is a good pianist" and "I have a bad knee." (AM)
Descriptors: Chinese, Contrastive Linguistics, Deep Structure, English