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Transformational grammar

Index of SIL publications on Transformational grammar listed by country.

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General works

• Hale, Austin. 1970. "Conditions on English comparative clause pairings."
• Roberts, John R. 1992. Review of: Modern transformational grammar, by Bent Jacobsen.

Works specific to particular countries

Africa

Ethiopia

• Bliese, Loren F. 1981. A generative grammar of Afar.  

Nigeria

• Burquest, Donald A. 1973. A grammar of Angas.
• Wedekind, Klaus. 1972. An outline of the grammar of Busa (Nigeria).

Americas

Brazil

• Everett, Daniel L. 1984. "Sobre a interpretação da referência na teoria de regência e vinculação."
• Fortune, David L. 1973. "Gramática karajá: Um estudo preliminar em forma transformacional."
• Harrison, Carl H. 1971. "The morphophonology of Asurini words."  
• Harrison, Carl H. 1975. Gramática asuriní: Aspectos de uma gramática transformacional e discursos monologados da língua asuriní, família tupi guaraní.
• Kakumasu, James Y. 1976. "Gramática gerativa preliminar da língua urubú."

Canada

• Frantz, Donald G. 1968. "Translation and underlying structure I: Relations."
• Frantz, Donald G. 1970. Toward a generative grammar of Blackfoot (with particular attention to selected stem formation processes).
• Frantz, Donald G. 1971. Toward a generative grammar of Blackfoot (with particular attention to selected stem formation processes).  
• Frantz, Donald G. 1973. "Three incompatible hypotheses: Evidence from Blackfoot."

Colombia

• Maffla B., Alonso. 1976. "Estructura fonológica, y estructura del ‘Vbl’ del inga (lengua del Putumayo)."

Mexico

• Gudschinsky, Sarah C. 1959. "Mazatec kernel constructions and transformations."
• Hollenbach, Barbara E. 1983. "Apposition and X-bar rules."
• Marlett, Stephen A. 1976. Copy-raising in Koine Greek.
• Merrifield, William R. 1967. "On the form of rules in a generative grammar."

Peru

• Landerman, Peter N. and Donald G. Frantz. 1972. Notes on grammatical theory.
• Russell, Robert L. 1965. A transformational grammar of Amahuaca (Pano).  
• Russell, Robert L. 1975. Estudios panos 4. Una gramática transformacional del amahuaca.  
• Scott, Eugene and Donald G. Frantz. 1973. "La pregunta en sharanahua y constreñimientos propuestos sobre la permutación de la pregunta."  
• Weber, David J. 1976. Suffix-as-operator analysis and the grammar of successive encoding in Llacón (Huánuco) Quechua.  
• Weber, David J. 1976. Bases para el estudio de la relativización con referencia al quechua.  

Asia

Indonesia

• Miehle, Helen L. 1984. Review of: Modern linguistics: the results of Chomsky’s revolution, by Neil Smith and Deirdre Wilson.

Nepal

• Hale, Austin. 1965. Worksheets for a first course in transformational syntax.
• Hale, Austin. 1967. Eleven lessons in transformational grammar.
• Hale, Austin. 1969. "An introduction to transformational studies of the English comparative."
• Hale, Austin. 1973. "On the form of verbal bases in Newari."
• Hale, Austin. 1976. "The relationship of tagmemic theory to rules, derivation, and transformational grammar."

Philippines

• Thomas, David D. 1964. "Transformational paradigms from clause roots."

Viet Nam

• Thomas, David D. 1969. "A discovery procedure for transformational paradigms."  

Pacific

Australia

• Hudson, Joyce. 1976. "Walmatjari: Nominative-ergative or nominative-accusative?."
• Sommer, Bruce A. 1970. Kunjen syntax: a generative view.
• Sommer, Bruce A. 1972. Kunjen syntax: a generative view.

Papua New Guinea

• Conrad, Robert J. 1971. Some batteries of transformations in Iwam.
• Conrad, Robert J. 1976. "Batteries of transformations in May River Iwam."
• Hooley, Bruce A. 1962. "Transformations in Neomelanesian."
• James, Dorothy J. 1970. "Embedding and coordinating transforms in Siane."
• Olson, Michael L. 1974. Barai syntax: a comparative study of tagmemic and transformational analyses.