Morphology and Syntax

Linguistic research on morphology and on the organization of the lexicon has not initiated any great changes in practical research over the last twenty years. Applied-linguistics research on lexicography, terminology development, second language acquisition, and language teaching is still employing descriptive approaches that have been in use for some time.

Syntax

These approaches to syntax appear to have an influence on applied-linguistics research activities. Comsky's earlier approaches to syntax are still proving influential in that many introductions to syntax courses in applied-linguistics programs are modification on both past and current Comskean linguistics.

The descriptive syntax texts have been used for grammar courses and for resource references in language policy and planning- particularly in the development of language standards in schools, in second-language acquisition, in discourse analysis, in computational stylistics, and in lexicography.