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Hsin-I, Hsieh – Language Sciences, 1974
Reports an experiment intended to assess the psychological reality of the underlying clauses in "resultative constructions" in English. (RM)
Descriptors: Deep Structure, English, Language Patterns, Language Research
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Scott, Robert Ian – Language Sciences, 1974
Reports research at the University of Saskatchewan in which experiments with variously rearranged English and French sentences showed grammatical acceptability decreasing as the disruption of the sentence producing field of subject, verb, object, qualifier increased. (RM)
Descriptors: English, French, Language Patterns, Language Research
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Makkai, Adam – Language Sciences, 1974
The verb "take" as presented by Langendoen and McCawley is examined in order to prove to the reader that transformational generative grammar suffers from a disregard of empirical fact. (Author/LG)
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Idioms, Language Patterns, Language Research
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Bergen, John J. – Language Sciences, 1977
A significant discovery of generative theory is that the features present in a lexical entry in a sentence's deep structure influence choice and arrangement of words in the surface structure. The systemic and nonsystemic functions of Spanish count and measure entity nouns are elaborated and analyzed. (CHK)
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Language Patterns, Linguistic Theory, Nouns
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Sastri, M. I. – Language Sciences, 1973
Descriptors: Creativity, Expressive Language, Figurative Language, Language Patterns