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Peer reviewedGasparov, B. M. – Linguistics, 1974
The problem of determining the grammatical correctness, as opposed to semantic correctness, of the output of a generative system is discussed. (RM)
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Generative Grammar, Linguistic Theory, Semantics
Download full textZwicky, Arnold M. – 1973
The 25 entries in this bibliography constitute a survey of the linguistic literature related to coivs (Connection-of-Ideas Verbs). The bibliography is divided into three sections. In Part 1, the introductory remarks, coivs are described and classified; and examples of dative, parenthetical, and quotative coivs are given. Part 2 considers the…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Descriptive Linguistics, English, Linguistic Theory
Brown, Roger – 1973
This book focuses on the nature and development of knowledge concerning grammar and the meanings coded by grammar. This knowledge is inferred from performance, from sentences and the settings in which they are spoken, and from signs of comprehension or incomprehension of sentences by preschool children. The first two stages of linguistic…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Language Research, Language Universals, Linguistic Theory
Jackendoff, Ray S.; Cluicover, Peter – 1970
After an extensive transformational consideration of the shift of indirect objects with "to" and "for," the authors introduce a theory of perceptual strategy which could be used to supplement transformational theory. According to a concept of perceptual strategy constraints on susceptibility, the strategy for interpreting a sentence involves…
Descriptors: Case (Grammar), Deep Structure, English, Grammar
Peer reviewedHoeksema, Jacob; Napoli, Donna Jo – Journal of Linguistics, 1993
Paratactic constructions sometimes compete with coordination, sometimes with subordination, for the same semantic niche in language. The case of complex sentences in English containing the degree adverbs "so" or "such" is analyzed. (Contains 37 references.) (LB)
Descriptors: Adverbs, English, Foreign Countries, Language Research
Chebanne, Andy M. – 1992
The Setswana language possesses a verbal prefix that, according to some grammarians of the language such as D. T. Cole, is categorized as the reflexive prefix, closely allied to objectival concords. If the morphology suggests that this morpheme be characterized as a reflexive object prefix, it does not always give expected results in its semantic…
Descriptors: Bantu Languages, Foreign Countries, Morphemes, Morphology (Languages)
Kathol, Andreas, Ed.; Pollard, Carl, Ed. – Working Papers in Linguistics, 1993
This collection of working papers in syntax includes: "Null Objects in Mandarin Chinese" (Christie Block); "Toward a Linearization-Based Approach to Word Order Variation in Japanese" (Mike Calcagno); "A Lexical Approach to Inalienable Possession Constructions in Korean" (Chung, Chan); "Chinese NP Structure"…
Descriptors: German, Japanese, Korean, Language Patterns
