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The Transformations of Transformations.
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Lin, Francis Y. – Language & Communication, 2000
Harris's original idea of transformations has been changed several times in Chomsky's work. This article explicates these transformations, arguing that though their motivations are highly understandable, these transformations are not necessary for understanding the workings of natural languages. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Grammar, Language Universals, Linguistic Theory, Transformational Generative Grammar
De-Infinitiv oder reiner Infinitiv im Franzoesischen. Ein Beispiel fuer die Verwertung von Ergebnissen der linguistischen Grammatik in einer didaktischen Grammatik. ("De-" Infinitive or Pure Infinitive in French. An Example of the Utilization of Findings of Linguistic Grammar in a Teaching Grammar).
Seelbach, Dieter – Linguistik und Didaktik, 1978
Recommends the "distributional" and transformational grammar approach as especially suitable for developing a teaching grammar for dealing with the French simple infinitive and infinitive with "de". (IFS/WGA)
Descriptors: French, Grammar, Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
A Few Notes Concerning VP Identity and the Mechanisms of VP Substitution.
Michiels, A. – Revue des Langues Vivantes, 1978
Examines "do so" and "so do" constructions, with reference to the questions of verb phrase constituency and ambiguity. (AM)
Descriptors: Ambiguity, Grammar, Linguistic Theory, Phrase Structure
A Note on Noun Modification in Japanese.
Soga, Matsuo; Fujimura, Taiji – Journal of the Association of Teachers of Japanese, 1978
Discusses the construction "Sentence + no + Noun" in contemporary Japanese. (AM)
Descriptors: Adjectives, Deep Structure, Grammar, Japanese
Variation: A New Kind of Linguistic Data.
Michiels, A. – Revue des Langues Vivantes, 1978
Analyzes a selection of papers centered around the idea that it is possible to consider the evidence of language variation in linguistic analysis. The papers were presented at the 1972 colloquium on "New Ways of Analyzing Variation in English," Georgetown University. (AM)
Descriptors: Conference Reports, Grammar, Language Variation, Linguistic Competence
Francais langue etrangere: Quelle theorie pour quelle grammaire (French as a Foreign Language: Which Theory for Which Grammar)?
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Monnerie, Annie – Langue Francaise, 1979
Examines the positive and negative features of traditional, transformational, and notional grammar as they relate to the teaching of French as a foreign language. (AM)
Descriptors: French, Grammar, Language Instruction, Linguistic Theory
A Psycholinguistic Perspective on English Grammar.
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Prideaux, Gary D. – Glossa, 1979
Proposes an alternative to transformational grammars, based on the notion that a grammatical system should be open to psycholinguistic interpretation, and disallowing grammatical transformations, dealing instead with the information content of sentence surface structure. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, English, Grammar, Linguistic Theory
A Brief History of Processing Approaches to SLA: Reply to Mellow.
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Pienemann, Manfred; Johnston, Malcolm – Second Language Research, 1996
Replies to Mellow's (1996) criticism of the authors' second language acquisition model. The article argues that this model is based on the psychological concept of exchange of linguistic information and that Mellow's evaluation of various types of transformational analysis is irrelevant. The article also addresses several points of detail in…
Descriptors: Grammar, Language Processing, Linguistic Theory, Models
Linguistics and Language Teaching.
Lehmann, Winfred P. – Bulletin of the Association of Departments of Foreign Languages, 1979
Traces the history of linguistic theory as it has affected the field of second language instruction. (AM)
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Grammar, Language Instruction, Linguistic Theory
English Grammar--Can We Afford Not to Teach It?
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Bassett, Patrick F. – NASSP Bulletin, 1980
The author makes a case for teaching traditional prescriptive grammar for 10 weeks at the beginning of the tenth grade. (JM)
Descriptors: English Instruction, Grammar, Kernel Sentences, Secondary Education
On the Form of Bilingual Grammars: The Phonological Component.
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Elerick, Charles – 1979
This research is based on the assumption that a Spanish/English bilingual is aware of the phonological and semantic relatedness of the many hundreds of pairs of transparently cognate items in the two languages. This awareness is linguistically significant in that it is reflected in the internalized grammar of the bilingual. The bilingual speaker…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Cognitive Processes, Contrastive Linguistics, Deep Structure