Modal "Auxiliaries" in Generative Grammar--Some Pedagogic Implications.

Lee, D. A.

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Modal "Auxiliaries" in Generative Grammar--Some Pedagogic Implications

Lee, D. A.

International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 13, 4, 263-274, Nov 75

A comparison is made of two different approaches to the treatment of modals in the framework of a transformational grammar--that of Seuren, who analyzes modals as "operators," and that of the generative semanticists who take them to be "higher verbs." Implications for language teaching are discussed. (Author/RM)

Descriptors: Deep Structure, Language Instruction, Linguistic Theory, Semantics, Sentence Structure, Syntax, Transformational Generative Grammar, Verbs

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