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Peer reviewedLazarus, L. M. – Linguistics, 1973
Descriptors: Adjectives, Deep Structure, Diagrams, English
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
Peer reviewedScott, Robert Ian – Linguistics, 1973
Descriptors: Deep Structure, English, Expressive Language, Grammar
Download full textLong, Ralph B. – The Journal of the Conference on College Composition and Communication, 1964
Strengths and weaknesses of generative grammar are examined by an apologist for the traditionalists. Criticism is directed toward difficulties encountered by the layman in comprehending texts on linguistic theories, linguists' use of jargon and pet formulas, and unwieldy amounts of terminology constantly being developed. Special attention is…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, English, Grammar, Kernel Sentences
Peer reviewedGeens, Dirk – ITL Review of Applied Linguistics, 1974
A corpus of 10,000 sentences extracted from British theatrical texts was used to construct a frequency list of kernel sentence structures. Thirty-one charts illustrate the analyzed results. The procedures used and an interpretation of the frequencies are given. Such lists might aid foreign language teachers in course organization. Available from…
Descriptors: Course Content, Data Collection, English, Kernel Sentences
Johnson, Jeannette – 1968
This paper proposes a set of hypotheses on the nature of interrogration as a possible language universal. Examples and phrase structure rules and diagrams are given. Examining Tamazight and English, genetically unrelated languages with almost no contact, the author distinguishes two types of interrogation: (1) general, querying acceptability to…
Descriptors: Berber Languages, Contrastive Linguistics, English, Kernel Sentences
Szamosi, Michael – 1971
This study presents a preliminary analysis of Hungarian complement constructions and the syntactic operations needed to account for them. The expository framework (and the implicit framework of the research itself) is based upon that of Rosenbaum (1967). The aim of the paper is to arrive at a rough picture of the kinds of structures and syntactic…
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Descriptive Linguistics, English, Grammar
BARATZ, JOAN C.; POVICH, EDNA – 1968
LANGUAGE SAMPLES OF 20 NEGRO HEAD START CHILDREN IN WASHINGTON, D.C., WERE ANALYZED USING LEE'S (1966) DEVELOPMENTAL SENTENCE TYPES MODEL. THE TRANSFORMATIONS AND RESTRICTED FORMS OF THESE CHILDREN WERE THEN COMPARED WITH THE RESULTS THAT MENYUK (1964) OBTAINED FOR MIDDLE CLASS PRESCHOOLERS. RESULTS INDICATE THAT THE ECONOMICALLY DEPRIVED CHILD IS…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Blacks, Disadvantaged, Economically Disadvantaged
PDF pending restorationNew York Univ., NY. Linguistic String Project. – 1970
This work reports on an initial study of the possibility of providing a suitable framework for the teaching of a foreign language grammar through string analysis, using French as the target language. Analysis of a string word list (word-class sequences) yields an overall view of the grammar. Details are furnished in a set of restrictions which…
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Distinctive Features (Language), English, French
