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Download full textMinnesota Univ., Minneapolis. Center for Curriculum Development in English. – 1968
These two units of the Minnesota Project English curriculum employ transformational grammar in an attempt to make eighth-grade students aware of fundamental facts about their language. Concepts taught in the first unit are (1) that an infinite number of English sentences exists, (2) that a few basic transformations are the basis for a large number…
Descriptors: Curriculum Guides, English Curriculum, English Instruction, Generative Grammar
Harsh, Wayne – 1965
The approaches of traditional grammar, descriptive linguistics, and generative grammar are largely complementary rather than exclusive. Traditional grammar defines eight parts of speech according to meaning or function and concerns itself almost wholely with the written language. Descriptive linguistics postulates that English has a set of unique…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Descriptive Linguistics, English Instruction, Form Classes (Languages)
Gammon, Elizabeth, Ed. – 1971
This volume contains the papers presented at a workshop which brought together authorities from several different disciplines, each working in the area of natural language analysis, to participate in intensive, technical discussions of the issues involved in developing adequate grammars and semantics of natural languages. The disciplines…
Descriptors: Computers, Context Free Grammar, Deep Structure, Generative Grammar
Peer reviewedHofmann, Thomas R. – Language Sciences, 1973
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Deep Structure, Generative Grammar, Language
Fauconnier, Gilles – Langages, 1973
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Kernel Sentences, Language, Logic
Leeman, Danielle – Langages, 1973
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Form Classes (Languages), Language, Methods
Leeman, Danielle – Langages, 1973
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Form Classes (Languages), Grammar, Kernel Sentences
KITZHABER, ALBERT R.
AN EXPLANATION OF THE THEORY OF DEEP STRUCTURE AS IT SERVES TO DESCRIBE THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE SIMPLY, CONSISTENTLY, AND COMPLETELY CONSTITUTES THIS LANGUAGE UNIT FOR 11TH-GRADERS. PRESUPPOSING THE STUDENT'S KNOWLEDGE OF PHRASE STRUCTURE AND TRANSFORMATION RULES, THE CONCEPT OF DEEP STRUCTURE IS ILLUSTRATED IN THE IMPERATIVE AND PASSIVE SENTENCE…
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Descriptive Linguistics, English Curriculum, English Instruction
Thomas, Owen – 1966
This pedagogical approach to transformational grammar describes those aspects of the subject which have the greatest relevance for teachers of English. Following a definition of basic terms and a discussion of the nature and function of grammar, a description of basic English sentence patterns is used to present a model grammar based on the…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Adverbs, Applied Linguistics, English Instruction
Wisconsin Council of Teachers of English. – 1966
Six papers presented at the 1966 Workshop of the English Association of Greater Milwaukee suggest that the "new rhetoric" has been shaped by fresh professional interest in ancient rhetoric, in the creative process, in the grammar of English, and in the scholarship of such men as I.A. Richards and Kenneth Burke. The papers are concerned with (1)…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Creative Writing, Creativity, English Instruction
Winograd, Terry – 1971
This paper describes a system for the computer understanding of English. The system answers questions, executes commands, and accepts information in normal English dialogue. It uses semantic information and context to understand discourse and to disambiguate sentences. It combines a complete syntactic analysis of each sentence with a heuristic…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Computer Programs, Computers, Deep Structure
Pooley, Robert C.; Golub, Lester S. – 1969
Emphasizing the behavioral and social aspects of language as a foundation for instruction, 16 concepts for learning the structure of English in grades 7-9 are outlined in an attempt to set down in logical order the basic concepts involved in the understanding of the English language. The concepts begin with a recognition of the social purposes of…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Behavioral Objectives, Concept Teaching, English Instruction
