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De La Cruz, Juan M. – Studia Anglica Posnaniensia, 1972
Transformational analysis of verb phrases in English is discussed. More than 150 transformations are classified arising from 10 basic kernel strings. See FL 508 197 for availability. (RM)
Descriptors: Deep Structure, English, Phrase Structure, Semantics
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Foster, 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
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Lee, Chungmin – Language Sciences, 1973
Why Not V?'' refers to the grammatical structure Why Not (plus) Verb?'' (RS)
Descriptors: Deep Structure, English, Sentence Structure, Structural Grammar
Babcock, Sandra Scharff – 1967
This paper is concerned with the grammar of cognate constructions, which are defined as those in which the object and verb have the same meaning ("I drank a drink of water"). In the transformational process of dissimilation the verb is replaced by "have" or "do," so that verb and object are less alike. The model used…
Descriptors: Deep Structure, English, Grammar, Linguistic Theory
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Helke, Michael – Linguistics, 1973
Descriptors: Deep Structure, English, Linguistic Theory, Phrase Structure
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Sehnert, James; Sharwood-Smith, Michael – Studia Anglica Posnaniensia, 1973
A study is made of the derivation of English verbs from instrumental prepositional phrases, and their morphology and semantic categories are discussed. (Available from: See FL 508 214.) (RM)
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Descriptive Linguistics, English, Language Patterns
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Napoli, D. J. – Journal of Linguistics, 1985
Compares two analyses of a verb phrase deletion in a particular English sentence with a third analysis and shows that the analysis that takes the word "would" in the sentence as a proform has significant advantages over the analysis that posits a deletion site after "would." (SED)
Descriptors: Deep Structure, English, Language Research, Sentence Structure
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Tai, James H-Y. – Journal of Chinese Linguistics, 1973
Expanded version of a paper presented at the Annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, St. Louis, Missouri, December 28, 1971; research supported by a grant from the Graduate School, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. (DD)
Descriptors: Adverbs, Comparative Analysis, English, Grammar
Grosu, Alexander; Lee, Gregory – 1971
This volume of working papers includes two papers concerned with syntactic analysis in English. The first paper deals with a number of problems that arise in conjunction with the necessary, allowed, or disallowed coreferentiality of a complement sentence subject with some noun-phrase in a higher sentence. The author seeks to prove that the…
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, English, Language Research, Linguistic Theory
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Ikegami, Yoshihiko – Linguistics, 1973
Descriptors: Deep Structure, English, Japanese, Language Patterns
Filipovic, Rudolf – 1976
The tenth volume in this series contains five articles dealing with various aspects of Serbo-Croatian-English contrastive analysis. They are: "The Infinitive as Subject in English and Serbo-Croatian," by Ljiljana Bibovic; "The Contrastive Analysis of Collocations: Collocational Ranges of "Make" and "Take" with…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Descriptive Linguistics, Determiners (Languages), English
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Brakel, C. Arthur – Linguistics, 1976
The purpose of this paper is to examine process- and agent-oriented sentences from the point of view of two theories of grammatical description: case grammar after Fillmore and tranformational grammar with modifications introduced by Chomsky. Subject and object functions are reflected in the initial structures of sentence derivation, regardless of…
Descriptors: Case (Grammar), Deep Structure, English, Portuguese
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Comrie, Bernard – Studia Anglica Posnaniensia, 1973
Underlying structures in English sentences containing the verbs "order" and "tell" are compared. (Available from Studia Anglica Posnaniensia, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland) (RM)
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Descriptive Linguistics, English, Linguistic Theory
Chapin, Paul G.; Norton, Lewis M. – 1968
A procedure, designated "MORPH," has been developed for the automatic morphological analysis of complex English words. Each word is reduced to a stem in canonical or dictionary form, plus affixes, inflectional and derivational, represented as morphemes or as syntactic features of the stem. The procedure includes the task of analyzing as…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Computer Programs, English, Language Patterns
Fillmore, C.J.; Lehiste, Ilse – 1968
There are four articles in this report; the first three were written by Charles J. Fillmore: "Lexical Entries for Verbs,""Review of 'Componential Analysis of General Vocabulary--The Semantic Structure of a Set of Verbs in English, Hindi, and Japanese, Part II' by Edward Herman Bendix," and "Types of Lexical…
Descriptors: Case (Grammar), Componential Analysis, Deep Structure, English
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