Author: Andreas Koutsoudas
Publisher:
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Category : Generative grammar
Languages : en
Pages : 392

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Author: Mark Lester
Publisher: Holt McDougal
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 376

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This book is an accurate, updated, and substantially revised presentation of transformational grammar for students with little or no background in linguistic theory. After finishing this book, the reader should be equipped to do the following: read and understand the applications of transformational grammar that appear in the language arts journals; evaluate and teach the commercial grammar programs now available in a thorough and professional way; modify and supplement existing language programs with confidence; use quite different types of reference works on English grammar, such as Jespersen's Essentials of English Grammar and Quirk, Greenbaum, Leech and Svartvik's A Grammar of Contemporary English; and, most important of all, look at nearly any English sentence with a fair amount of insight about how it is put together. - Publisher.

Author: Ruth First
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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Author: Marianna W. Davis
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110908611
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 84

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No detailed description available for "Transformational Grammar and Written Sentences".

Author: Diane Bornstein
Publisher: University Press of America
ISBN: 9780819139054
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 276

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This volume, originally published by Winthrop Publishers in 1977, discusses transformational grammar in relation to traditional and structural grammar, enabling students to relate the theory to what they already know about grammar. Although all important technical terms and processes are presented, non-technical language is used as much as possible. Examples from literature and from actual language usage are employed throughout the book, and one section is devoted to practical applications to writing, reading, and literary criticism, and the understanding of dialects. A comprehensive glossary is provided.

Author: Noam Chomsky
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3112316002
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 120

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No detailed description available for "Syntactic Structures".

Author: Andreas Koutsoudas
Publisher:
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Category : Generative grammar
Languages : en
Pages : 97

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Author: Donald R. Bateman
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Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 60

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Author: Bruce L. Liles
Publisher: Prentice Hall
ISBN: 9780135022863
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 180

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Author: Richard A. Hudson
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226357997
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 228

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For the past decade, the dominant transformational theory of syntax has produced the most interesting insights into syntactic properties. Over the same period another theory, systemic grammar, has been developed very quietly as an alternative to the transformational model. In this work Richard A. Hudson outlines "daughter-dependency theory," which is derived from systemic grammar, and offers empirical reasons for preferring it to any version of transformational grammar. The goal of daughter-dependency theory is the same as that of Chomskyan transformational grammar—to generate syntactic structures for all (and only) syntactically well-formed sentences that would relate to both the phonological and the semantic structures of the sentences. However, unlike transformational grammars, those based on daughter-dependency theory generate a single syntactic structure for each sentence. This structure incorporates all the kinds of information that are spread, in a transformational grammar, over to a series of structures (deep, surface, and intermediate). Instead of the combination of phrase-structure rules and transformations found in transformational grammars, daughter-dependency grammars contain rules with the following functions: classification, dependency-marking, or ordering. Hudson's strong arguments for a non-transformational grammar stress the capacity of daughter-dependency theory to reflect the facts of language structure and to capture generalizations that transformational models miss. An important attraction of Hudson's theory is that the syntax is more concrete, with no abstract underlying elements. In the appendixes, the author outlines a partial grammar for English and a small lexicon and distinguishes his theory from standard dependency theory. Hudson's provocative thesis is supported by his thorough knowledge of transformational grammar.