Alan M. Perlman

List of John Benjamins publications for which Alan M. Perlman plays a role.

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Perlman, Alan M. 1976 Samuel Greene: The First Transformationalist? Historiographia Linguistica 3:3, pp. 293–314 | Article
In his studies of the structure of the English language, Samuel Green, a 19th-century grammarian and educator, made extensive use of paraphrase as a descriptive device. This paper argues that in doing so, Greene anticipated some of the methods and concepts of early transformational theory — and… read more