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Download full textLevenston, E. A. – International Review of Applied Linguistics, 1965
Syntactic differences between languages are the focus of attention in this approach to contrastive study of grammatical categories. The categories of the first language are listed in a "translation-paradigm" opposite the possible categories of the target language after translation of the corpus. Three examples which contrast the clause, verbal…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Descriptive Linguistics, English, Form Classes (Languages)
PDF pending restorationNew York Univ., NY. Linguistic String Project. – 1970
This work reports on an initial study of the possibility of providing a suitable framework for the teaching of a foreign language grammar through string analysis, using French as the target language. Analysis of a string word list (word-class sequences) yields an overall view of the grammar. Details are furnished in a set of restrictions which…
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Distinctive Features (Language), English, French
