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Huddleston, Rodney – Journal of Linguistics, 1994
Explores the relation between interrogative, a category of grammatical form, and question, a category of meaning. Mismatches between interrogative phrases and questioned elements are also investigated. Two kinds of interrogative and three kinds of question are distinguished. (47 references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: Grammar, Phrase Structure, Questioning Techniques, Semantics
Lucas, Michael A. – IRAL, 1991
Argues that publishers of simplified versions of literary texts accessible to the language learner give inadequate guidance to their simplifiers regarding grammatical simplification, leaving them to rely on their intuitive feel. The article outlines and demonstrates a system of grammatical simplification based on fundamental syntactic…
Descriptors: Grammar, Phrase Structure, Reading Materials, Second Language Instruction
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Fox, Barbara A.; Thompson, Sandra A. – Language, 1990
In communicating, conversationalists constantly make decisions about their interlocutors' state of knowledge and on the basis of these decisions make lexical, grammatical, and intonational choices about how to manage the "flow" of information. This paper focuses on how such decision making affects choices in relative clause constructions…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Grammar, Language Research, North American English
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Williams, John N. – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2005
Two experiments examined the learning of form-meaning connections under conditions where the relevant forms were noticed but the critical aspects of meaning were not. Miniature noun class systems were employed, and the participants were told that the choice of determiner in noun phrases depended on whether the object was "near" or "far" from the…
Descriptors: Nouns, Grammar, Generalization, Word Recognition
Warner, Anthony R. – 1992
In a study of English auxiliary verb usage, it is proposed that this category of verbs share a characteristic that explains some idiosyncracies: they do not show morphosyntactic inflectional irregularities. According to this account, the relationship between auxiliaries and full verbs is distant, and the morphosyntactic categories that auxiliaries…
Descriptors: English, Foreign Countries, Grammar, Language Patterns
Braine, Martin D. S. – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1974
Two claims about early stages of language development--that of a limitation on length of utterance and that of reduction rules which delete major constituents from simple sentences--are questioned. Supporting arguments are reviewed, and alternative explanations offered. (RM)
Descriptors: Child Language, Deep Structure, Generative Grammar, Grammar
Bernard, G. – Linguistique, 1974
This article attempts to find a systematic structure behind French verbal idiomatic expressions, specifically the opposition between the verb, article, noun sequence and the sequence verb, noun. (Text is in French.) (AM)
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Determiners (Languages), Grammar, Idioms
Lee, Thomas Hun-Tak – 1986
An investigation of how Mandarin-speaking children aged three to eight interpret sentences involving the universal quantifier "mei" ("every") and the quantificational adverbs "dou" ("all") and "quan" ("all") focused on how and when the child acquires adult interpretations of the…
Descriptors: Child Language, Children, Grammar, Language Acquisition
Heller, Bruno – Linguistik und Didaktik, 1974
Conclusion of an article begun in "linguistik und Didaktik," v4 n16 1973. (DD)
Descriptors: Diagrams, German, Grammar, Language Instruction
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Partee, Barbara – Linguistic Inquiry, 1975
Describes and partially presents a theory of grammar combining the most essential features of Montague's theory of syntax and semantics and the transformational approach to syntax. Appendices include examples of truth definitions, derivations according to Montague's theory and illustrations of types of intentional logic. A list of references…
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Grammar, Linguistic Theory, Phrase Structure
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Foster, David William – Hispania, 1969
Descriptors: Adjectives, Contrastive Linguistics, English, Grammar
GROSS, MAURICE – 1967
A TRANSFORMATIONAL ANALYSIS OF MODERN FRENCH GRAMMAR IS SIMILAR TO THE "RULE OF CACAPHONY" PROPOSED BY PORT-ROYAL GRAMMARIANS TO AVOID BAD PRONUNCIATION. BY MEANS OF CERTAIN REWRITE RULES, THE CORRECT USAGE OF THE PARTITIVE (DE) CAN BE TAUGHT AND EXPLAINED MORE SIMPLY THAN WAS POSSIBLE USING THE TRADITIONAL METHOD. THE RULE OF CACAPHONY…
Descriptors: Determiners (Languages), French, Grammar, Language Patterns
Thompson, Charles Lamar – 1970
This "new English grammar" textbook blends four systems of grammar: (1) the traditional, providing most of the terminology; (2) the historical, providing the historical background; (3) the structural, providing the sentence patterns; and (4) the transformational, providing the variations of the sentence patterns. The author points out the…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Grammar, Instructional Materials, Linguistic Theory
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Horvath, Julia – Glossa, 1978
Argues that verbal prefixes in Hungarian should not be assigned to a specific category of their own, but should be analyzed as belonging to the category of postpositions. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Grammar, Hungarian, Linguistic Theory
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Belasco, Simon – French Review, 1978
Pronominalization of certain phrases in French is undergoing change. Anticipation that the newer forms will become dominant means that the rules governing /le/, /y/ and /en/ as substitutes for infinitive phrases must be rewritten. (MLA)
Descriptors: French, Grammar, Language Instruction, Language Usage
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