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Liles, Bruce L. – 1971
The present volume is directed toward the reader wanting to begin a study of linguistics but who is "overwhelmed by the amount of material available, much of it too technical for him to understand." The author has attempted to provide both theory and applications and has limited the scope to English transformational grammar. Exercises at the end…
Descriptors: English, Instructional Materials, Linguistic Theory, Phonology
Gross, Louis N. – 1968
This paper describes a computer system which is intended to aid the linguist in building a transformational grammar. The program operates as a rule tester, performing three services for the user through sets of functions which allow the user to--specify, change, and print base trees (to which transformations would apply); define transformations…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Programs, Tests
Babcock, Sandra Scharff – 1968
This paper presents, within the framework of case grammar, an analysis of object pronominalization in Spanish. It begins with a discussion of the derivation of pronouns in general, and proceeds with observations on the structure of object pronouns in Spanish, and with rules for their derivation. Reasons are given for excluding many so-called…
Descriptors: Case (Grammar), Deep Structure, Generative Grammar, Pronouns
MEYERS, L.F.; YANG, J. – 1965
SAMPLE OUTPUT SENTENCES OF VARIOUS COMIT AND SNOBOL PROGRAMS FOR TESTING A CHINESE GENERATIVE GRAMMAR ARE PRESENTED. THE GRAMMAR CHOSEN FOR EXPERIMENTATION IS A PRELIMINARY VERSION OF A TRANSFORMATIONAL GRAMMAR. ALL OF THE COMIT PROGRAMS AND ONE OF THE SNOBOL PROGRAMS USE A LINEARIZED REPRESENTATION OF TREE STRUCTURES, WITH ADDITIONAL NUMERICAL…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Grammar, Linguistic Theory, Mandarin Chinese
LU, JOHN H.T. – 1965
AN ATTEMPT IS MADE, WITHIN THE GENERAL FRAMEWORK OF A TRANSFORMATIONAL GRAMMAR, TO ACCOUNT FOR THE PREDICTABILITY OF STRESS IN TERMS OF ITS UNDERLYING PHRASE STRUCTURES, TO PROVIDE SOME EXPLANATION FOR THE CONSTRUCTIONAL HOMONYMITY OF CONTRASTIVE STRESS IN SOME CASES, AND TO ILLUSTRATE WITH EXAMPLES FROM AMERICAN ENGLISH AND MANDARIN CHINESE…
Descriptors: English, Grammar, Linguistic Theory, Mandarin Chinese
Seelbach, Dieter – Linguistik und Didaktik, 1978
Recommends the "distributional" and transformational grammar approach as especially suitable for developing a teaching grammar for dealing with the French simple infinitive and infinitive with "de". (IFS/WGA)
Descriptors: French, Grammar, Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Milner, Jean-Claude – Langages, 1978
Proposes a theory, based on transformational grammar, that categorizes French reflexive pronouns as being either "free" or "bound," and attempts to apply this theory to Latin reflexive pronouns. (AM)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, French, Grammar, Latin
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Elgin, Suzette Haden – College English, 1978
Describes a series of problems based on transformational grammar which are helpful in teaching students how to write. (DD)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Teaching Methods, Transformational Generative Grammar, Writing (Composition)
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Luthy, Melvin J. – College Composition and Communication, 1977
The greatest benefit of transformational grammar lies in helping students to understand and appreciate language but not to use it. (DD)
Descriptors: Grammar, Higher Education, Language, Language Attitudes
Sanchez, Rosaura – Aztlan, 1976
The range of Spanish varieties found among Chicanos is broad and can be expressed in terms of a linguistic continuum where particular varieties or rules are triggered by the presence of social and economic factors which permeate the relationships among speakers involved in a locutionary act. (Author/NQ)
Descriptors: Generative Grammar, Language Variation, Pragmatics, Regional Dialects
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Haas, W. – Language, 1973
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Linguistic Theory, Semantics, Surface Structure
Friedmann, L. – Deutsch als Fremdsprache, 1972
Descriptors: Generative Grammar, Paragraphs, Semantics, Sentence Structure
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Gardner, Thomas J. – Linguistics, 1973
Consideration of the grammatical connections which might exist between certain structural types of substantival metaphors, e.g., You're a (greedy) pig!'' and You're as greedy as a pig!'' (RS)
Descriptors: Deep Structure, English, Generative Grammar, Metaphors
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Starosta, Stanley – Language Sciences, 1973
Based on a lecture given in Charles Fillmore's syntax class at the 1970 Linguistic Society of America Summer Linguistic Institute at Ohio State University. (RS)
Descriptors: Case (Grammar), Deep Structure, Generative Grammar, Linguistic Theory
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Sanders, Robert E. – Linguistics, 1973
Descriptors: Evaluation, Figurative Language, Generative Grammar, Research
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