Word: grammars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...academic elegance is traceable to his schoolteacher parents in the Midlands, who provided him with a solid academic background. He performed brilliantly at Birmingham's King Edward's Grammar School and Cambridge's Trinity College. Classmates and buddies from his World War II army service remember Powell as a fearful grind who studied over holidays and insisted on wearing tie, jacket and Sam Browne belt during the hottest days in India. He has grown more relaxed in middle age, having traded the atheism of his schoolboy idol, Nietzsche, for High Anglicanism. He has also exchanged...
Your article on my resignation contains some quite inaccurate statements which were falsely attributed to me in quotation marks. First, I will not be a full professor at Michigan, but an associate professor. Second, I did not say that I was the only faculty member involved in doing transformational grammar; in fact, I took pains to point out to your reporter that there were others in the department doing work in this area, and that he should discuss the matter with them. Finally, I mentioned to your reporter that the department does feel it has a commitment to the teaching...
Lakoff is Harvard's only full-time specialist in the linguistics of Noam Chomsky, known as Transformational Theory. His course in transformational grammar. Linguistics 112, has the largest enrollment of any course in the department...
Mirko is a most wordlessly cloquent grammar teacher. He visits all the classes in the VAC occasionally. When he dropped in on one VES 20 section he moved a one inch black square into a big white area on a figure-ground exercise. Instantly the design improved 100 per cent -- you knew what "activating space" meant and what a square could do, although it would take ten pages to explain it in writing...
...once you decide that the Mirko (or Alcalay, or Reimann, or Neuman, etc.) language is the one you want to learn, the "grammar" seems correct. Teachers' corrections are improvements-- your eyes tell you that even while your ego rebels...