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Talmy, Leonard – 1972
A putatively-universal, deep-semantic and -syntactic representation of motion and location is presented. The most characteristic patterns for deriving this representation to the surface in English on the one hand and in Atsugewi (a Hokan Indian language) on the other are then presented and compared. (Author)
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Deep Structure, Language Patterns, Linguistic Theory
Schlegel, Jean-Louis – Pedagogie, 1972
Article to be continued. (DS)
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Grammar, Language Patterns, Linguistic Theory
Geis, Michael L. – 1988
A new theory of speech acts is proposed that draws a fundamental distinction between speech acts proper--declaratives, interrogatives, and directives--and the myriad social actions that are performed using language such as making promises, making offers, issuing invitations, and asking questions. The theory states that sentences are usally meant…
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Discourse Analysis, Language Patterns, Language Research
Babcock, Sandra Scharff – 1969
The author begins this paper with, "Let us recognize as axiomatic the statement that sentences in natural languages have the properties of structured, organic wholes." She feels that this statement has several important theoretical consequences, the most interesting (in so far as the current controversy over "surfacism" is…
Descriptors: Case (Grammar), Deep Structure, Language Patterns, Linguistic Theory

Sehnert, James; Sharwood-Smith, Michael – Studia Anglica Posnaniensia, 1973
A study is made of the derivation of English verbs from instrumental prepositional phrases, and their morphology and semantic categories are discussed. (Available from: See FL 508 214.) (RM)
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Descriptive Linguistics, English, Language Patterns

Azevedo, Milton M. – Linguistics, 1974
Sentences containing "estar" + participle are analyzed in order to highlight their semantic characteristics. (RM)
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Grammar, Language Patterns, Linguistic Theory
Krohn, Robert – 1970
When considering vowel alternations in English, it is possible to develop a less abstract vowel system than the one developed by Chomsky and Halle by using their laxing rule as the input for a restrictive vowel-shift rule which accounts for the relative height of alternating vowels in alternations such as divine-divinity, extreme-extremity,…
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Descriptive Linguistics, English, Language Patterns

Schachter, Paul – Language, 1973
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Descriptive Linguistics, Language Patterns, Languages

Langacker, Ronald W. – Language, 1974
This paper offers a functional explanation for the existence and for the special properties of movement rules in natural languages. The hypothesis is advanced that raising, lowering, and fronting rules all serve the function of increasing the prominence of objective content in surface structure. (CK)
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Generative Grammar, Language Patterns, Linguistic Theory

Tai, James H-Y – Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association, 1973
Revised version of a paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Chinese Language Teachers Association, Atlanta, Georgia, November 24, 1972; research supported by a Summer Research Grant, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Ill. (DD)
Descriptors: Chinese, Contrastive Linguistics, Deep Structure, English

Berman, Arlene; Szamosi, Michael – Language, 1972
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Descriptive Linguistics, English, Intonation

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

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
Bjurlof, Thomas; Jamieson, Dale – 1978
It has long been said that there are an infinite number of English sentences. "This is the cat that caught the rat" is an Enqlish sentence. So is "This is the cat that caught the rat that stole the cheese.""This is the cat with white paws that caught the rat that stole the cheese" is unobjectionable as well. Since a…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Deep Structure, English, Grammar
Blaubergs, Maija S. – 1972
The question of whether word meanings have internal structure identical in kind to the syntax of sentences is examined. Evidence is sought for the structural aspects of word meaning and the issue of whether judgements of similarity between words is based on meaning content or on meaning structure is raised. Four hypotheses were tested: (1)…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Deep Structure, Language Patterns, Language Research