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Direct linkPietro Pesce – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The present dissertation intends to investigate the syntactic nature and L2-acquisition of passive sentence structure in two Romance varieties, Italian and Spanish. First, I will present an analytic proposal couched within the Generative Approach (Chomsky, 1957, and subsequent work); from there, and following Perlmutter and Postal's (1977)…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Italian, Syntax, Spanish
Pearl, Lisa – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2017
Generative approaches to language have long recognized the natural link between theories of knowledge representation and theories of knowledge acquisition. The basic idea is that the knowledge representations provided by Universal Grammar enable children to acquire language as reliably as they do because these representations highlight the…
Descriptors: Generative Grammar, Language Acquisition, Linguistic Theory, Computational Linguistics
Mowarin, Macaulay – Indian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2011
This paper analyzes "wh"-questions in the English Language based mainly on Chomsky's Minimalist Programme of transformational grammar as the theoretical model. The four main objectives of this paper are as follows: first, it undertakes a cross linguistic typological analysis of "wh"-questions and it then discusses the derivation of…
Descriptors: Transformational Generative Grammar, English, Linguistic Theory, Contrastive Linguistics
Berent, Gerald P.; Kelly, Ronald R.; Albertini, John A.; Toscano, Rose Marie – American Annals of the Deaf, 2013
Deaf Learners' Acquisition of fundamental lexical properties of high-frequency English verbs related to transitivity and intransitivity was examined, including the subtle distinction between unergative and unaccusative verbs. A 140-item sentence acceptability rating scale was used to assess this lexical knowledge in deaf college students at two…
Descriptors: Deafness, Language Proficiency, Verbs, English
Peer reviewedMowarin, Macaulay – Indian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2009
This paper undertakes a detailed analysis of sentential negation in the English language with Chomsky's Government-Binding theory of Transformational Grammar as theoretical model. It distinguishes between constituent and sentential negation in English. The essay identifies the exact position of Negation phrase in an English clause structure. It…
Descriptors: Transformational Generative Grammar, Verbs, Morphemes, English
Lopez-Serena, Araceli – Language Sciences, 2009
Riemer (2009) complains that a large number of sentences, despite appearing to be acceptable to many native speakers of English--including himself--are treated as ungrammatical in recent works that subscribe to the generative approach to (the English) language. In his opinion, this need not be considered "as evidence of an overly narrow…
Descriptors: Sentences, Grammar, Intuition, Native Speakers
