On Tagmemes and TransformsTagmemic analysis is a form of grammatical analysis developed by the Summer Institute of Linguistics (SIL), founded in 1934 by W. Cameron Townsend, and designed for missionaries. The SIL uses this system to record and analyze languages, to facilitate the translation of the Bible. Linguists trained in this method, therefore, work around the world collecting vast amounts of data which have been used to refine the system. Tagmemic analysis is a theory of grammar that utilizes the grammatical unit, or tagmeme, and the construction or syntagmeme, as the basis of the analytic system to arrive at a representation of the structure of a language. This book presents a primer on the development of these concepts by SIL trained linguists, and explains their usage. |
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INTRODUCTION | 1 |
ON TAGMEMES | 4 |
The tagmeme of Leonard Bloomfield | 5 |
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abstracted allomorphs allophones applied Bloomfield Chomsky clause level clause type combinations consists defined distribution mode elements Elson and Pickett emic units etic feature mode filler class form-class function word function-form functional slot Grammar Discovery Procedures grammatical form grammatical hierarchy grammatical meaning grammatical unit grouped hypermorpheme hypertagmeme Ibid initial strings intonation Kenneth L Kenneth Pike language Leonard Bloomfield lexical form lexical meaning lexicon Longacre Longacre's manifestation mode marker Moroccan Arabic morpheme class morpheme sequence morphophonemic rules NOAM CHOMSKY non-kernel sentences noun phrase nuclear tagmemes occur particle patterns pheme phoneme phonological hierarchy phonology phrase level phrase structure rules Pike relation rewrite rules Sememe sentence level signalled slot filled slot-class correlative String Constituent Analysis structural difference sub-sets subject slot Syntactic Structures syntagmeme tagmas tagmemes and transforms tagmemic analysis tagmemic grammar tagmemic school tagmemic-transformational model taxeme terminal strings theory tion total set transform grammar transform potential transitive verb unity universal utterances word level