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Cardona de Gibert, Angeles – Yelmo, 1972
Part three of a continuing series on transformational generative grammar as it applies to Spanish. (DS)
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Diagrams, Grammar, Kernel Sentences
Arndt, Horst – Linguistik und Didaktik, 1972
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Deep Structure, Kernel Sentences, Language Instruction
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Geens, Dirk – ITL Review of Applied Linguistics, 1974
A corpus of 10,000 sentences extracted from British theatrical texts was used to construct a frequency list of kernel sentence structures. Thirty-one charts illustrate the analyzed results. The procedures used and an interpretation of the frequencies are given. Such lists might aid foreign language teachers in course organization. Available from…
Descriptors: Course Content, Data Collection, English, Kernel Sentences
Jacobs, Roderick A. – 1968
A review of the background of transformational grammar and a discussion of Chomsky's "Syntactic Structures" begin this introduction to the "new" grammar. Following discussions are on the components of a theoretically complete grammar, the main deep structure components (noun phrase, auxiliary, and verb phrase), grammatical relationships,…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Deep Structure, English Instruction, Grammar
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BELASCO, SIMON – 1966
TRUE FOREIGN LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY CAN BE ACHIEVED ONLY BY THE INTERNALIZATION OF THE ENTIRE GRAMMAR OF THE TARGET LANGUAGE PLUS THE DEVELOPMENT OF SKILL IN SEMANTIC INTERPRETATION. ADHERENCE TO EITHER OF THE METHODOLOGICAL ASSUMPTIONS THAT UNDERLIE TODAY'S AUDIOLINGUALLY-ORIENTED PROGRAMS WILL LEAD STUDENTS TO NOTHING MORE THAN A LEARNING PLATEAU.…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Audiolingual Methods, Audiolingual Skills, Deep Structure
Nilsen, Don L. F. – 1971
The use of case frames of verbs as a control for the teaching of vocabulary items has a number of distinct advantages over other controls. The case frame associated with a particular vocabulary item, or with a particular semantic class, would be the same in the native and the target language (English). This would have the advantage of allowing the…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Adverbs, Applied Linguistics, Case (Grammar)