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Ganeshsundaram, P. C. – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 1976
Presents theoretical syntactic formulas for translating sentences from one language to another. (KM)
Descriptors: Language Universals, Linguistic Theory, Morphology (Languages), Sentence Structure
Bolinger, Dwight L. – 1961
Three examples are given of cases where differences between Spanish and English syntax and intonation patterns are taught best through direct translation. Grammatical difficulties caused by "gustar" are overcome through the use of translation using "appeal" rather than "please". Similarly, problems for native speakers of English arising with…
Descriptors: Intonation, Language Instruction, Language Usage, Romance Languages
Fisiak, Jacek, Ed. – 1973
This collection of papers is the first in a series resulting from the Polish-English Contrastive Project. The overall purposes of the project are to prepare a Polish-English contrastive grammar and to develop pedagogical materials. The basic model used for the research is the transformational generative one. The papers included in this volume are…
Descriptors: Adverbs, Case (Grammar), Comparative Analysis, Consonants
Corder, S. P., Ed.; Roulet, E., Ed. – 1974
Papers from the 1973 Neuchatel Colloquium in Applied Linguistics are presented. Contents are as follows: "Karttunen's Types of Implication in English and German: A Contrastive Study," W. Abraham; "The Relevance of Generative Semantics for Language Teaching," R. Dirven; "'Be' plus 'ing' Revisited," H. Adamczeski; "The So-Called Deep Structures and…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Contrastive Linguistics, Deep Structure, Discourse Analysis