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Gardner, Thomas J. – Linguistics, 1973
Consideration of the grammatical connections which might exist between certain structural types of substantival metaphors, e.g., You're a (greedy) pig!'' and You're as greedy as a pig!'' (RS)
Descriptors: Deep Structure, English, Generative Grammar, Metaphors
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Gasparov, 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
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Bergen, John J. – Hispania, 1978
This article presents recent representative structural, eclectic, transformational, and semantic analyses of the subjunctive. A different theory is presented that states that there is but a single common rule for the use of the subjunctive and the indicative in all of their occurrences, both in independent and main clauses. (Author/NCR)
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Grammar, Linguistic Theory, Morphology (Languages)
Taylor, Daniel J. – Studies in the Linguistic Sciences, 1972
Traditional grammars are criticized as having obscured or omitted many significant features of negation patterns in classical Greek. The author demonstrates that negation in Greek extensively involves semantic and syntactic factors. Certain of the factors are thoroughly embedded in the traditional approach to grammar, while others are derived from…
Descriptors: Classical Languages, Deep Structure, Descriptive Linguistics, Greek
Fong, Eugene A. – 1978
There is a set of French verbs which admits both indicative and subjunctive sentential complements. The indicative complement is correlated with a positive assertion about the truth of the complement; the subjunctive implies a neutral attitude or a non-assertion. When various sentential complement constructions are considered both in the…
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Form Classes (Languages), French, Grammar