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Chapin, Paul G.; And Others – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1972
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Experiments, Information Processing, Language Research
Download full textO'Donnell, Roy C. – 1974
This essay discusses a theory of grammar which incorporated Chomsky's distinction between deep and surface structure and accepts Fillmore's proposal to exclude such subject and concepts as direct object from the base structure. While recognizing the need for specifying an underlying set of caselike relations, it is proposed that this need can best…
Descriptors: Case (Grammar), Deep Structure, Grammar, Language Patterns
Grosu, Alexander – 1972
This dissertation seeks to provide an improved syntactic analysis of the phenomena known as "island constraints" and to offer a natural explanation for these and other phenomena in behavioral terms. The author approaches the problem using the notions of "nucleus" and "satellite," and shows that these concepts are a necessary part of a…
Descriptors: Behavioral Sciences, Descriptive Linguistics, Doctoral Dissertations, English
Peer reviewedChomsky, Noam – College English, 1966
Two traditions are distinguishable in modern linguistic theory: the tradition of "universal grammar" which flourished in the 17th and 18th centuries, and the tradition of structural or descriptive linguistics which reached its peak 15 or 20 years ago. Universal grammar was concerned with (1) the relation of deep structure to surface forms and to…
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Descriptive Linguistics, English Instruction, Grammar
