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Learning Datives: The Tolerance Principle in Monolingual and Bilingual Acquisition
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Yang, Charles; Montrul, Silvina – Second Language Research, 2017
We study the learnability problem concerning the dative alternations in English (Baker, 1979; Pinker, 1989). We consider how first language learners productively apply the double-object and to-dative constructions ("give the book to library"/"give the library the book"), while excluding negative exceptions ("donate the…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Language Acquisition, Databases, Linguistic Input
Transformational Grammar--A Powerful Weapon in the Armory of the ELT Expert
Kumar, Sarat – Modern English Journal, 1975
Certain aspects of transformational grammar can be effectively applied to the ESL classroom. The use of the "there" insertion rule in explaining declarative sentence patterns is described as an example. (AG)
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, English (Second Language), Generative Grammar, Sentence Structure
Esquisse de classement des verbes causatifs anglais (Outline of Classification of English Causative Verbs)
Claude, Pierre – Langues Modernes, 1976
Attempts a sketchy classification of English causative verbs, using various linguistic theories but primarily that of generative grammar. (Text is in French.) (AM)
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, English (Second Language), Generative Grammar, Grammar
A Lexical Approach to Passive in ESL.
Marshall, Fred – 1983
Dissatisfaction with the standard transformational grammar approach to teaching passive voice sentences gave rise to the method developed. It is based on the framework of a lexical-functional grammar, which claims that both active and passive sentences are base-generated, and that both active and passive verb forms occur in the lexicon. It would…
Descriptors: Class Activities, English (Second Language), Generative Grammar, Language Usage
The Systemicness of Indian English
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Verma, Shivendra K. – ITL Review of Applied Linguistics, 1973
The following aspects of syntax in Indian English are examined: complex sentence formation, interrogative transformation, verb forms, and complementation. It is argued that a set of syntactic rules exists in all non-native second language varieties of English that will generate the non-stylistic deviant patterns discussed. (KM)
Descriptors: Dialects, English (Second Language), Generative Grammar, Indians
Zur Anwendung der Transofrmationsgrammatik im Englischunterricht (The Application of Transformational Grammar in English Instruction)
Meyer, Hans Lothar – Linguistik und Didaktik, 1970
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Deep Structure, English (Second Language), Generative Grammar
Generative Rhetoric in ESL Composition Classes.
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Mellor, Kathleen Lukens; Broadhead, Glenn J – 1982
A Francis Christensen-oriented, "generative rhetoric" 12-step approach to sentence skills was used in two English-as-a-second-language composition courses at Wichita (Kansas) State University in 1980. The classes consisted of approximately 50% Middle Eastern students, 35% Southeast Asian students, and 15% African and South American students. Two…
Descriptors: College Second Language Programs, English (Second Language), Generative Grammar, Higher Education
Order of Emergence of Control in English Grammatical Structure in Native and Non-Native English Speaking Children
Horvath, Barbara – 1975
The research reported in this paper is concerned with three questions. Are the processes of language development complete by the time children begin school? What is the order of the emergence of control of grammatical rules? And is that order similar for first and second language learners? The data used in the analysis come from a project centered…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Child Language, Children, Elementary Education