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87 Faces Of The English Clause, Richard S. Pittman, David D. Thomas
87 Faces Of The English Clause, Richard S. Pittman, David D. Thomas
Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session
From the introduction, "Nguyen Dang Liem, in his "Contrastive Analysis of English and Vietnamese," Vol. 1 (Canberra, 1966), gives a very useful table (page 47) of 87 English clause types. This is a review and commentary on that chart, with two proposals: 1) that all of the types be derived from one sentence -- "They gave him the presidency" -- rather than from several, as in Liem's original formulation; and 2) that the relationships between the major types be described by means of a two-branched tree."
An Analysis By Levels, David D. Thomas
An Analysis By Levels, David D. Thomas
Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session
Hierarchical analysis of a short English text, illustrating levels of analysis from discourse down to word level in a grammatical hierarchy, and from utterance down to phoneme in a phonological hierarchy.
Quantification And The English Comparative, Austin Hale
Quantification And The English Comparative, Austin Hale
Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session
From the introduction: "The work which led to this paper was provoked by the publication of two sharply divergent approaches to the English comparative construction, one by Robert B. Lees, the other by Carlota S. Smith. Since each of these approaches represents the work of a competent linguist who heartily rejects the possibility that there might ultimately be more than one correct analysis of the English comparative, it appeared to be of some interest to review and evaluate these two rival views. It soon became apparent, however, that neither of these views was entirely adequate. This paper accordingly represents an …