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Peer reviewedChu, Chauncey C. – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 1978
Proposes an approach to contrastive linguistics which takes into account syntax and semantics, and discusses the role of such an approach in explaining surface structure differences between English and Chinese sentences of the type: "He is a good pianist" and "I have a bad knee." (AM)
Descriptors: Chinese, Contrastive Linguistics, Deep Structure, English
Peer reviewedTomayko, James E. – Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association, 1974
A method of teaching question formation in the Chinese language by use of transformational grammar is described. (RM)
Descriptors: Chinese, Deep Structure, Grammar, Language Instruction
