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PDF pending restorationEastlack, Charles L. – 1970
This paper makes observations on verb classification which are considered relevant to the understanding of Swahili syntax. Three different syntactically relevant approaches are discussed: (1) establishing a set of "basic sentence types" and then classifying verbs according to their occurrence or non-occurrence in sentences of these…
Descriptors: Classification, Language Instruction, Language Universals, Morphology (Languages)
PDF pending restorationDalbor, John B. – 1974
Spanish verbs pose contextual problems for the non-native speaker in his use of the subjunctive, reflexives, and pronouns. The semantic range and syntactic contexts of many common verbs are usually treated and learned very unsystematically. One ordinarily seeks answers to contextual questions from a dictionary, but dictionaries do not provide…
Descriptors: Dictionaries, Grammar, Language Instruction, Language Usage
Peer reviewedBangerter, Lowell A. – Unterrichtspraxis, 1973
Descriptors: Distinctive Features (Language), German, Language Instruction, Semantics
Peer reviewedSmith, Michael Sharwood – Studia Anglica Posnaniensia, 1972
A method is proposed for formalizing the basic meanings underlying the forms of verbs which contain future reference. The method proposed is intended as a contribution to pedagogical grammar rather than theoretical linguistics. See FL 508 197 for availability. (Author/RM)
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Deep Structure, English (Second Language), Grammar
Peer reviewedFoster, 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
Peer reviewedNilsen, Don L. F. – TESOL Quarterly, 1971
Paper presented at the TESOL Convention in New Orleans, Louisiana, March 1971. (VM)
Descriptors: Case (Grammar), Deep Structure, English (Second Language), Grammar
Peer reviewedLeduc-Adine, Jean-Pierre – Langue Francaise, 1977
This study has as its point of departure the nature of the passive and the linguistic point of view on it taken by textbooks. Topics treated are; passive voice or sentence; surface and deep structure; passive transformation; its relationship to the message; textbooks and their function. (Text is in French.) (AMH)
Descriptors: Deep Structure, French, Language Instruction, Linguistic Theory
PDF pending restorationKarttunen, Kimmo – 1977
Both English and Finnish make use of a category called the passive voice. In most cases these passives correspond to each other, but both are subject to restrictions. This paper attempts to determine how English passives overlap with the semantic area covered by the Finnish passive and what the choices are which face a speaker of Finnish in…
Descriptors: Case (Grammar), Contrastive Linguistics, Deep Structure, English
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)
