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  • A Class of Complex Modifiers in English

  • Carlota S. Smith
  • Journal:
    Language / Volume 37 / Issue 3-Part1 / September 1961
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    22 April 2026, pp. 342-365

  • The linguist is concerned with meaningful generalizations about language. In writing a generative grammar, an ordered set of rules that predicts the sentences of a given language, he looks for generalizations that can be translated into economical rules. Optimally a generative grammar uses a relatively small number of general rules to predict many different structures. This paper will focus on a particular group of sentences—those containing adjectives—and construct rules to generate them. The first section will be devoted to the formulation of rules that bring adjectives into containing sentences, and the second will discuss adjectival comparisons (some of which are covered by the earlier rules) in detail.

  • Sentence stress and syntactic transformations

  • Joan W. Bresnan
  • Journal:
    Language / Volume 47 / Issue 2 / June 1971
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    22 April 2026, pp. 257-281

  • If the Nuclear Stress Rule of English is ordered within the transformational cycle after all the syntactic transformations, many apparent exceptions to Chomsky & Halle 1968 are predictable, for the stress patterns of certain syntactically complex constructions reflect those of the simple sentences embedded within them in deep structure. This preservation of basic stress pattern through the syntactic derivation provides a new method for determining underlying grammatical representations and deciding questions of syntax. The consequences for linguistic theory, in particular regarding the lexical vs. transformational hypotheses, are discussed.

  • LAN volume 37 issue 3-Part1 Cover and Front matter

  • Journal:
    Language / Volume 37 / Issue 3-Part1 / September 1961
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    22 April 2026, pp. f1-f2
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  • Comparative constructions in English

  • Herbert Pilch
  • Journal:
    Language / Volume 41 / Issue 1 / March 1965
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    22 April 2026, pp. 37-58

  • The question ‘What is syntax?‘ has been asked many times. In the framework of traditional grammar it cannot be answered by a definition. Traditional syntax, the kind of syntax upon which all of us have been brought up, is not a theory but a craft. We were taught by practical example how to find (say) the subject or the predicate of a sentence and how to recognize a given form as a 3rd-person singular verb indicative present active. These technical terms were never properly defined; but with a sufficient number of examples for practice plus some rules of thumb, we soon acquired an intuitive grasp of what they meant, and were thus able to work with them satisfactorily. Sometimes classical grammar did offer definitions, but they were invariably poor and clumsy.

  • Vedic áśvamedha- and Gaulish IIPOMIIDVOS

  • Jaan Puhvel
  • Journal:
    Language / Volume 31 / Issue 3-Part1 / September 1955
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    22 April 2026, pp. 353-354

  • This paper is intended as a short linguistic contribution to the study of an important feature of Indo-European religious history: the sacrifice of the horse. There exists a copious and valuable bibliography on the subject, and I shall refrain from needless repetition of the materials and conclusions presented there. Only features of immediate importance for my comparison will be explicitly mentioned.

  • LAN volume 15 issue 4-Part2 Cover and Front matter

  • Journal:
    Language / Volume 15 / Issue 4-Part2 / December 1939
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    22 April 2026, pp. f1-f4
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