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Alsubaiai, Hanan Sarhan – English Language Teaching, 2021
This study aims to assess the evidence regarding the relationship between previous and new schools of linguistics. According to Kuhn (1970), old linguistic paradigms incorporate vocabulary and apparatus from previous or traditional paradigms. In particular, this review addresses the Question: Do new paradigms in linguistic arise from old or…
Descriptors: Correlation, Generative Grammar, Linguistic Theory, Comparative Analysis
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Bagha, Karim Nazari – English Language Teaching, 2011
Generative semantics is (or perhaps was) a research program within linguistics, initiated by the work of George Lakoff, John R. Ross, Paul Postal and later McCawley. The approach developed out of transformational generative grammar in the mid 1960s, but stood largely in opposition to work by Noam Chomsky and his students. The nature and genesis of…
Descriptors: Transformational Generative Grammar, Semantics, Linguistic Theory, Syntax
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Khafaji, A. R. – English Language Teaching, 1975
The formal-functional contrastive analysis approach is suggested as an alternative to both the structural and the transformational contrastive approaches. A theoretical explanation and a practical contrastive technique for the formal-functional approach are given. (CJ)
Descriptors: Arabic, Contrastive Linguistics, Linguistic Theory, Second Language Learning
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Morris, I. – English Language Teaching, 1971
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Descriptive Linguistics, English, Linguistic Theory
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Afolayan, A. – English Language Teaching, 1971
Paper adapted from a doctoral dissertation, The Linguistic Problems of Yoruba Learners and Users of English," 1968, London University, England. (DS)
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, English (Second Language), Foreign Students, Grammar