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CHAFE, WALLACE L. – 1968
THIS PAPER CONSIDERS SEVERAL TYPES OF ENGLISH SENTENCES WHICH ARE UTTERED FOR THE PURPOSE OF ELICITING A LINGUISTIC RESPONSE FROM THE HEARER AND WHICH, ON THAT BASIS, CAN BE CLASSED AS QUESTIONS. A SEMANTIC UNIT "PLUS INTERROGATIVE", WHOSE MEANING IS THAT THE SPEAKER REQUESTS NEW INFORMATION FROM THE HEARER, IS SEEN TO PLAY A ROLE IN MORE THAN ONE…
Descriptors: Deep Structure, English, Generative Grammar, Language Research
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Powers, James E.; Lis, Donna J. – 1977
The influence of children's levels of field-dependence-independence on their performance with the passive transformation was investigated. Eighty 6th graders, classified as field-dependent or field-independent, were presented with sentence-question combinations, each in either the active or passive voice, and numbers of correct responses were…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Grammar, Language Acquisition, Language Research
Lyons, John – 1970
This book is designed to make the thought of Noam Chomsky, a scholar whose work has been influential not only in the field of linguistics but in psychology, philosophy, and political science as well, accessible to a wider public than is reached by Chomsky's highly technical writing. The author expresses the hope that this book will provide the…
Descriptors: Linguistic Theory, Linguistics, Philosophy, Phrase Structure
Der-Houssikian, Haig – Swahili: Journal of the Institute of Swahili Research, 1970
This article is a discussion, within the context of transformational grammar, of the formal relationships which exist between nominal, verbal, and adjectival roots in Swahili. The presentation is made with special reference to a set of subcategorizational rules which relate the given lexical categories. (Author/AMM)
Descriptors: Adjectives, Classification, Morphology (Languages), Nouns
Whitaker, Harry A. – 1970
This paper uses a discussion of experiments with aphasics' use of verbally derived nouns to illustrate how one linguistic model may be superior to another in accounting for the facts of verbal behavior. The models involved are the transformational, which relates derived nominals to their source verb and lists only the verb in the lexicon, and the…
Descriptors: Aphasia, Linguistic Theory, Models, Nouns
Friedman, Joyce; Martner, Theodore S. – 1968
In generating sentences by means of a transformational grammar, it is necessary to analyze trees, testing for the presence or absence of various structures. This analysis occurs at two stages in the generation process--during insertion of lexical items (more precisely, in testing contextual features), and during the transformation process, when…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Computational Linguistics, Linguistic Theory, Structural Analysis
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Klein, Philip W. – 1968
The author's stated purpose is to answer the questions: (1) Do auxiliary verbs exist in Spanish? If so, what are the characteristics which distinguish them as a class, and what specific verbs are included in that class? (2) Is there, in particular, a class of modal auxiliaries? If so, what are their defining characteristics, and what is the…
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Linguistic Theory, Spanish, Syntax
Sampson, Geoffrey – 1969
Chomsky has suggested that certain lexical items, which he calls "referential items," should be given integer markers (or "indices") and that the noun-phrase deletion transformation which creates reflexive pronouns should be limited to cases where the noun-phrase to be deleted is fully identical to the antecedent noun-phrase,…
Descriptors: Linguistic Theory, Nouns, Phrase Structure, Pronouns
Benson, R.A. – 1966
This paper is concerned primarily with the structure of language and how knowledge about this structure can lead to improved automated information retrieval. The paper discusses developments in linguistics and the application of linguistics to information retrieval, especially fact retrieval and indexing. For fact retrieval it is proposed that…
Descriptors: Automation, Computational Linguistics, Generative Grammar, Indexing
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Nuessel, Frank H. – 1973
One hundred sixty-eight books, articles, and dissertations written between 1960 and 1973 are listed in this bibliography of linguistic studies of the Spanish language within the grammatical theory originated by Noam Chomsky in his "Syntactic Structures" (1957). The present work is divided into two general categories: (1) phonology and (2) syntax…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Linguistic Theory, Linguistics, Phonology
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Clifton, Charles, Jr.; And Others – 1964
Generalized recognition of the kernel, passive, negative, and passive-negative transformations of a number of sentences was investigated. A significant amount of generalization was obtained within a transformationally-defined sentence family relative to the generalization obtained between sentence families when subjects were requested to register…
Descriptors: Kernel Sentences, Negative Forms (Language), Sentence Structure, Transformational Generative Grammar
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Droste, F. G. – Linguistics, 1977
Discusses the principles of linguistic deviance in terms of five sets of rules and their corresponding linguistic or para-linguistic parameters. This theoretical framework relates assimilation, grammatical, lexical, referential, and reality rules to the parameters of acceptability, grammaticality, factuality, validity, and truth respectively. (EJS)
Descriptors: Linguistic Theory, Linguistics, Morphology (Languages), Semantics
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Chaika, Elaine – College English, 1978
Describes transformational grammar and contends that it is more efficient for teaching rhetoric than traditional grammar. (DD)
Descriptors: English Instruction, Higher Education, Rhetoric, Transformational Generative Grammar
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Lance, Donald M. – English Education, 1977
Discusses four definitions of "grammar" and suggests that ignorance of any of the four harms research and teaching. (DD)
Descriptors: Definitions, English Instruction, Generative Grammar, Grammar
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Sanders, Gerald A. – Linguistics, 1977
An examination of the predicates "optional" and "obligatory" is made that suggests that they are far more appropriately viewed as derived rather than primitive notions, whose appropriate attributions follow in all cases from independent linguistic facts and principles of a much more general and more generally significant character. (Author/HP)
Descriptors: English, Linguistic Theory, Phonology, Sentence Structure
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