2007CLINT-LIN-FEATSTR1 Computational Linguistics for Linguists Feature Structures.
Is Linguistics Just for Linguists?
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ETAI INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE, JERUSALEM 14/7/2010 ,ע"אב תש' גIS LINGUISTICS JUST FOR LINGUISTS?
Tali Rubovitz-Mann, Hemdat Hadarom Academic College, Netivot [email protected]
☺ META-LINGUISTIC AWARENESS: awareness of the nature and structure of language.
• Note: Sentences marked with are ungrammatical/unacceptable.
A. Letters vs. Sounds
1. There is an university in the city
2. France is an European country
3. They live in a old building.
4. an umbrella VS. a union; an hour VS. a hat
B. Time, Tense and Aspect
5. I’m going to school every day.
6. I wear a blue dress today.
7. If it will rain tomorrow, we will not go to the beach.
8. When she will come here, I will tell her the news.
9. I will open the door; Be careful – it's going to fall; She is leaving tomorrow;
The bus leaves at 8:00 tonight.
10. I can help you tomorrow; You should speak to him this evening; She must call her
teacher tomorrow morning; I might join you.
11. I know him for 20 years.
12. She has seen this man; Elle a vue cet homme hier.
C. The Verb BE
13. She clever; He policeman;
14. Hebrew: הוא שוטר, היא חכמה ; but: שוטריהיההוא , חכמההייתההיא
(Based on Levy, 2006)
D. Lexical Categories (Word Classes)
15. Jill glonks every morning, but right now she is not glonking.
16. Tronks are very cheap these days, so I bought a beautiful tronk last week.
17. He is a nurgy boy. He often speaks nurgily.
18. It's depend on the weather; It's belong to me; It's mean that it's important.
19. You late to school every day.
20. This man is a Jewish.
21. The cat was died.
22. I'm used to swim a lot.
23. The girls are beautifuls; The government said that she will change her policy.
24. He go to work every day; She call me every morning.
E. Modals
25. I can to swim.
26. He cans (to) do it.
27. Modals do not display the following grammatical properties: He has to go; He had to
go; He doesn’t have to go; He didn’t have to go; He will have to go; He won’t have
to go.
28. ? There is no possibility for me to accept it; ? Now it's possible to see it.
(Inappropriate or excessive use of possible as a translation of Hebrew אפשר, based on
Levenston, 1970)
F. Passive vs. Impersonal Subject-less Sentences in Hebrew
29. Their car has been stolen; I was asked/invited to give a lecture;
The errors must/can be corrected.
G. Syntactic Differences between Languages – Word Order
30. I saw yesterday your brother.
. נשבר לי את הכוס/ ואב לי את הבטן כ .31
MAYBE, BY TAKING A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE, WE COULD CHANGE AT LEAST SOME OF THE FACES INTO BIG ☺ FACES AMONG OUR
STUDENTS AND US? ☺
Selected Bibliography Ellis, Nick (2006) “Cognitive Perspectives on SLA – The Associative-Cognitive CREED”. AILA Review, 19. Levenston, E. A. (1970) English for Israelis. A Guide for Teachers. Israel Universities Press. Levy, Tali (2006) “Language Transfer as a High Order Thinking Tool for Learning in SLA”. The Hebrew University of Jeruslaem Seminar Paper. Rosenstein, David (1993) Ta'ita? Tikanta! Eric Cohen Books. Ziv, Yael and Tali Rubovitz-Mann (2008) "Hotting about HOTS in Language Teaching". Lecture at the Annual Study Day of the Forum of English Department Heads, Mofet Institute