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Hoffer, Bates – Journal-Newsletter of the Association of Teachers of Japanese, 1970
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Diagrams, English, Generative Grammar
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Foster, David William – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 1977
Describes a study using transformational generative grammar to demonstrate that the frequently used structure "verb a verb" in Spanish is to be interpreted in three ways. Conclusions are drawn for the teaching of Spanish as a foreign language. (AMH)
Descriptors: Generative Grammar, Language Instruction, Language Patterns, Sentence Structure
Mayer, Edgar N. – 1978
This paper attempts to give a unified view of the workings of noun clauses. These are considered according to three main types corresponding to three different kinds of source sentences. All three types can be used in any usual noun-phrase function, especially subject, direct object, and prepositional object. Four factors which complicate the…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, French, Generative Grammar, Kernel Sentences