Contrastive Transformational Grammar : Arabic and English.

Intro -- A CONTRASTIVE TRANSFORMATIONAL GRAMMAR: Arabic and English -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- I. Introduction -- 1. The Purposes -- 2. The Advantage -- 3. The Procedure -- 4. Content -- 5. Complexity -- II. The Underlying Transformational Theory -- 1. The Need for a Theory -- 2. A Definition of Transformational Grammar -- 3. Generative Grammar and its Relation to the T-Grammar -- 4. Reasons for Using the T-Theory -- 5. Phrase-Structure Rules -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Base Universality -- 3. The Sentence in Phrase-Structure Rules -- 4. The Types of PS-rules -- 5. Further Terminology in PS-rules -- 6. The Lexicon -- 7. Transformational Rules -- 1. The Nature of T-rules -- Introduction -- The Function of T-rules -- The Condition of T-rules -- The Order of T-rules -- 2. The Types of T-rules -- 8. Morphophonemic Rules -- 9. The Criteria for Evaluating a T-grammar -- 10. Further Remarks on the T-theory -- III. The Corpus -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Method of Sampling -- 3. The Representativeness of the Sample -- 1. Types of Sentences -- 2. Types of Verbs -- 3. Types of Nouns -- 4. Types of Objects -- 5. Types of Particles -- 6. Miscellaneous Types -- 4. The Sentences of the Corpus -- IV. Phrase-Structure Rules (PS-Rules) -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Chosen PS-model -- 3. The Modification of Fillmore's Model -- 4. The Justification for Choosing Fillmore's Model -- 1. Chomsky's Model -- 2. Other Chomskian Modified Models -- 3. The Advantages of Fillmore's Model -- 5. Describing the Corpus according to Fillmore's Model -- V. Lexical Rules (L-Rules) -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Plus Noun Words -- 3. Plus Verbal Words -- 4. Plus Determiners -- 5. Plus Prepositions -- 6. Plus Interrogatives -- 7. Plus Negatives -- 8. Plus Auxiliaries -- 9. Plus Time Adverbials -- VI. Transformational Rules (T-Rules) -- 1. Subject Preposition Deletion.

2. Object Preposition Deletion -- 3. yaku:n¹ Deletion -- 4. Ergative-Dative Permutation -- 5. Ergative or Agent Fronting -- 6. Ergative-Agent Permutation -- 7. Ergative Deletion -- 8. Instrument-Agent Permutation -- 9. Locative Copying -- 10. Locative Pronominalization -- 11. Ergative-Locative Permutation -- 12. Passive Transformation -- 13. Verbal Agreement -- 14. Noun Copying -- 15. Void -- 16. Case Introduction -- 17. Reflexive Transformation -- 18. Determiner Transformation -- 19. mubtada? Deletion -- 20. Void -- 21. Special Verb Transformation -- 22. Relative Transformation -- 23. Emphatic Transformation -- 24. Identical Element Deletion -- 25. Complement Transformation -- 26. Manner Transformation -- 27. Purpose Transformation -- 28. Adjective Transformation -- 29. mubtada? Copying -- 30. Interrogative Transformation -- 31. Time Transformation -- 32. Separation Transformation -- 33. Ergative-Instrument Permutation -- 34. Condition Transformation -- 35. Instrument or Locative Fronting -- 36. mawǰu:d Deletion -- VII. Testing the Grammar Efficiency -- VIII. Conclusions and Suggestions -- Appendix I: Phonemic Symbols -- Appendix II: Non-Phonemic Symbols -- Appendix III: Abbreviations -- Appendix IV: Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index.

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