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Elgin, Suzette Haden – 1975
This booklet is intended to enable the beginner in the field of transformational grammar to read and gain information about much of the contemporary scholarly literature on grammar (of foreign languages as well as of English). Sections in the book discuss phrase structure grammar; transformational rules--movement rules, insertion rules,…
Descriptors: Generative Grammar, Generative Phonology, Linguistic Theory, Phonology
Roos, Eckhard – 1978
Contrastive analysis can help solve certain problems in translation, for example, that of idioms. A contrastive analysis of source language (SL) and target language (TL) might have as its theoretical framework a contrastive lexical analysis based on generative semantics. In this approach both SL and TL idioms are broken down into their semantic…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, English, Form Classes (Languages), Generative Grammar