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Peer reviewedPak, Ty – Linguistics, 1977
On critique of an anthology which contains 12 papers by 11 authors. The critique is preceded by a lengthy theoretical framework for such terms as syntax and semantics, since the anthologized authors, who represent a diversity of specialities, use such simple terms in widely differing senses. (EJS)
Descriptors: Generative Grammar, Language, Linguistic Theory, Linguistics
Peer reviewedMaher, J. Peter – Language Sciences, 1977
A survey of linguistic history to demonstrate the linguistic basis of logical and mathematical formalism is presented. (HP)
Descriptors: Anthropological Linguistics, Culture, Diachronic Linguistics, Generative Grammar
Peer reviewedCook, V. J. – Linguistics, 1974
Examines the level of explanatory adequacy outlined by Chomsky's theory of transformational grammar and finds it inadequate. (CK)
Descriptors: Language, Language Research, Linguistic Theory, Syntax
Download full textMiro Quesada, Francisco – Lenguaje y Ciencias, 1972
This paper discusses the validity and role of linguistic theory in terms of philosophy and logic and considers the relationship among these fields of human knowledge. The main objective of linguistic science is to discover the composition laws actually used by speech communities at any given moment in history. Linguistics is therefore not…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Deep Structure, Descriptive Linguistics, Generative Grammar
Mayher, John Sawyer – 1968
Transformational grammar offers the most adequate system by which to meet the goal of grammar instruction, which is to increase the student's understanding of the nature of language. This grammar attempts to explain the mental processes underlying the production and understanding of sentences, to describe linguistic competence, to construct…
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Educational Objectives, English Instruction, Generative Grammar
Minnesota 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
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
Rogers, Andy, Ed.; And Others – 1977
The ten papers in this volume are largely revisions of papers presented at the Texas conference, held March 22-24, 1973. The first paper, "Against Universal Semantic Representation," by Gilbert Harman, argues against the need for (and the possibility of) a level of semantic representation in a theory of language. "Remarks on the…
Descriptors: English, Generative Grammar, Language, Language Classification
Direct linkFord, Alan J. – Meta, 1973
Paper presented at the Second International Conference on Linguistics and Translation, October 4-7, 1972, Montreal, Canada. (DD)
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Form Classes (Languages), Language, Lexicology
Peer reviewedHofmann, Thomas R. – Language Sciences, 1973
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Deep Structure, Generative Grammar, Language
Zuber, Ryszard – Langages, 1973
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Descriptive Linguistics, Language, Logic
Plett, Heinrich F. – Fremdsprachlicher Unterricht, 1971
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Language, Language Instruction, Linguistic Theory
Jacobs, 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
Peer reviewedLakoff, Robin – Language, 1972
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, English, Japanese, Language
Peer reviewedQuisenberry, Nancy Lou Forbes – Research in the Teaching of English, 1975
Descriptors: Language, Language Learning Levels, Language Research, Linguistic Performance
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