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Peer reviewedChomsky, Carol – Language Arts, 1981
The value of teaching children to look objectively at language as they make the transition from reality-bound sentences to linguistically correct sentences is examined. (HTH)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Language Arts, Language Skills, Linguistics
Peer reviewedCheng, Robert L. – Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association, 1980
Divides Taiwanese modals into: (1) authority, where a deep structure agent exercises authority; (2) contigency, which concerns the speaker's judgment of the possibility or logical necessity df the occurrence of an event; and (3) volition, which expresses the subject's desires. The constructions in which these modals appear are examined. (PJM)
Descriptors: Chinese, Deep Structure, Semantics, Sentence Structure
