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Peer reviewedJacobs, Roderick A. – English Journal, 1971
A paper presented at annual convention of National Council of Teachers of English (60th, Atlanta, November 27, 1970.) (Editor)
Descriptors: Semantics, Sentence Structure, Syntax, Transformational Generative Grammar
Download full textJacobs, Roderick A. – The English Record, 1969
In the years following the appearance of Noam Chomsky's book, "Syntactic Structures," in 1957, transformational grammarians modified and improved his initial model of language. The notion of a deep structure of meaning underlying a sentence's surface structure was revised to embody elements representing negation, command, and interrogation, and to…
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Distinctive Features (Language), English, Grammar
Jacobs, Roderick A. – 1968
A review of the background of transformational grammar and a discussion of Chomsky's "Syntactic Structures" begin this introduction to the "new" grammar. Following discussions are on the components of a theoretically complete grammar, the main deep structure components (noun phrase, auxiliary, and verb phrase), grammatical relationships,…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Deep Structure, English Instruction, Grammar
