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Hill, Jane H. – International Journal of American Linguistics, 1972
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Deep Structure, Diachronic Linguistics, Language Acquisition
Miro Quesada, Francisco – Lenguaje y Ciencias, 1972
This paper discusses the validity and role of linguistic theory in terms of philosophy and logic and considers the relationship among these fields of human knowledge. The main objective of linguistic science is to discover the composition laws actually used by speech communities at any given moment in history. Linguistics is therefore not…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Deep Structure, Descriptive Linguistics, Generative Grammar
Nuessel, Frank H., Jr. – 1973
A review of traditional and transformational studies on the phenomenon of sentential complementation (noun clauses) reveals many areas of agreement. Although some adherents of generative grammar may have occasionally obscured this aspect because of the offensive nature of their criticism of other modes of analysis, it is seen that, in several…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Adverbs, Form Classes (Languages), Generative Grammar