The Transformational-Generative Grammar of American English Kinship Terminology: A Revision of Bock's 1968 Analysis.

Straight, H. Stephen

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The Transformational-Generative Grammar of American English Kinship Terminology: A Revision of Bock's 1968 Analysis

Straight, H. Stephen

Anthropological Linguistics, 18, 4, 157-167, 76

The primary aim of the paper is to increase the number of intuitions accounted for by Bock's rules. The revised set of rules accounts mainly for intuitions in the area of step-, half-, and -in-law relationships. (CFM)

Descriptors: Family (Sociological Unit), Language Usage, Linguistic Theory, North American English, Semantics, Transformational Generative Grammar, Vocabulary

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