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Role And Reference Grammar, Robert D. Van Valin Jr.

Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session

From the introduction: "Role and Reference Grammar [RRG] (Van Valin 1993a) may be termed a "structural-functionalist theory of grammar"; this locates it on a range of perspectives from extreme formalist at one end to radical functionalist at the other. RRG falls between these two extremes, differing markedly from each. In contrast to the extreme formalist view, RRG views language as a system of communicative social action, and consequently, analyzing the communicative functions of morphosyntactic structures has a vital role in grammatical description and theory from this perspective. Language is a system, and grammar is a system in the traditional structuralist …

A New Look At New Nodes: Scope Of Predication And Surface Structure Parsing In Natural Language, Lon Diehl

Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session

This paper is an attempt to point out, however sketchily, a striking distribution of order regularities in the non-argument material of strings in natural language surface structure. A tentative attempt is made to provide for this apparently diverse range of related phenomena a unitary characterization.

Space Case: Some Principles And Their Implications Concerning Linear Order In Natural Language, Lon Diehl

Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session

From the introduction: "I hope that [...] the reader will be able to follow and will find profit in this attempt to penetrate through some deep regularities of ordering in linguistic representations (deep and shallow trees and strings) to the cognitive principles which seem to underlie them."

The Dual Structural Criterion Reviewed, Thomas Bearth

Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session

From the introduction: "The dual structural criterion (referred to henceforth as DSC) is a solidly established piece of discovery procedure in tagmemic methodology. Its basic usefulness and empirical adequacy is reflected in a great number of tagmemic descriptions, whether the authors explicitly refer to it or not.

"There are, however, two major limitations to the usefulness of the dual structural criterion: the first pertains to its application as a practical tool of analysis, the second, to its theoretical status. I shall try to show that the two weaknesses are interrelated."

A Note On Deep (Emic) Structure In Linguistics, David D. Thomas

Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session

No abstract provided.

Basic Tenets Of Tagmemics, David D. Thomas

Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session

No abstract provided.

Worksheets For A First Course In Transformational Syntax, Austin Hale

Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session

From the introduction, "The worksheets collected here were written in answer to a need for short exercises that could be easily worked in class and that would illustrate and allow for the application of material presented to the Area Linguistics course of the Summer Institute of Linguistics held at the University of North Dakota during the summer of 1965. With the exception of the introductory worksheets, which were designed to provide a bridge for he approach of transformational syntax by students who had some acquaintance with the Tagmemic view of grammar, these materials were intended as pedagogical aids for the …

A Discovery Procedure For Transformational Paradigms, David D. Thomas

Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session

No abstract provided.

Review Of: Co-Occurrence And Transformation In Linguistic Structure By Z. S. Harris, David Thomas

Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session

No abstract provided.