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van Oosten, Jeanne – 1977
Criteria for defining individual members of the preposition word class are set forth. Arguments are presented against calling prepositions meaningless, yet it is conceded and explained that those which occur in wider contexts are vaguer due to their greater variability. The unitary, polysemous, and/or homonymous nature of prepositions are…
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Definitions, Form Classes (Languages), Grammar
Elgin, Suzette Haden – 1982
Proposing that the utility of formal grammar instruction has never been put to the test, this booklet first explains the heretofore negative research results and explains why all the good intentions behind them have not kept those results from being essentially useless. The remainder of the booklet describes an experiment in which there were no…
Descriptors: Educational Theories, Grammar, Grammatical Acceptability, Higher Education
Huddleston, Rodney – 1989
This report offers a critique, from a linguistic viewpoint of the approach to grammatical description and prescription found in commonly used Australian school textbooks in 1987. Attention was directed solely towards grammatical content. A review of 41 primary and secondary level texts was conducted. All texts were published in Australia, and all…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, English, Foreign Countries, Grammatical Acceptability
Pack, Alice C., Ed. – 1968
Four issues of "TESL Reporter" are presented. Contents include the following articles: ''An Approach to the [I] [i] Contrast" by William D. Conway; "Native Language Environment Is Source of Confusion" by Alice Pack; "The Origin of Language: A Puzzle With Missing Pieces"; "Terminal Behavior and Language…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Contrastive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, English (Second Language)

Hawes, Thomas; Thomas, Sarah – Research in the Teaching of English, 1997
Examines tense, aspect, and voice choices in the reporting verbs in a corpus of research articles from the "Journal of Psychosomatic Medicine." Investigates how such choices correlate with other syntactic elements in the citations, as well as with the discourse functions of the citations in their contexts. (TB)
Descriptors: Citation Analysis, Citations (References), Language Usage, Syntax

Garner, Mark – Babel: Journal of the Australian Federation of Modern Language Teacher's Association, 1979
Reports on an experiment in native speaker judgement of acceptability, designed to test the acceptability of variations on the time-manner-place order in German adverbs. Implications for teaching German are drawn. (AM)
Descriptors: Adverbs, German, Grammar, Language Instruction

Bayer, Samuel – Language, 1996
Argues that the account of coordination of unlike categories ought to be unified with the account of feature neutralization under phonological identity. Further argues that this unified account ought not be couched in terms of string of features, but rather in terms of the logic of categories. Study concludes with a discussion of the interactions…
Descriptors: Cluster Grouping, Codification, Grammar, Language Typology

Dekydtspotter, Laurent; Sprouse, Rex A.; Anderson, Bruce – Second Language Research, 1998
Argues that the null preposition phenomenon is a special case of reliance on the A-bar binding strategy, examining research on English-French interlanguage in college classrooms and suggesting that apparent categorical mismatches in A-bar chains may result from preposition incorporation. Second-language learners can appeal to the A-bar binding…
Descriptors: College Students, French, Grammar, Higher Education

Fedler, Fred; Taylor, Phillip – Journalism Educator, 1982
Discusses the effects of a grammar test on student admission to the department of communication at the University of Central Florida. (HOD)
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Grammar, Higher Education, Journalism Education

Thompsen, Philip A.; Ahn, Dong-Keun – ETC: A Review of General Semantics, 1992
Studies the efficacy of E-Prime (a form of English that eliminates all forms of the verb "to be") by looking at copula deletion and "flaming" by 214 users of electronic mail. Concludes that no relationship exists between copula deletion and flaming, which does not support the use of E-Prime. (HB)
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Electronic Mail, Grammar, Higher Education

Uziel, Sigal – Second Language Research, 1993
A test of a hypothesis about the availability of Universal Grammar principles to adult language learners involved testing predictions about acquisition patterns in Hebrew speakers learning English as a Second Language. Results supported the view that second-language acquisition is a process of parameter reassignment of principles that are indeed…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Grammar, Hebrew, Language Research

Clahsen, Harald – Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 1992
Found dissociations between regular and irregular inflectional processes in the formation of English past tenses, German noun plurals, and German participles. Children's inflectional errors include using regular patterns for irregular forms. Some linguistic processes, such as forming compound words, are sensitive to the distinction between regular…
Descriptors: Child Language, English, Error Patterns, German

Donovan, Jeanne M. – English Journal, 1990
Surveys 40 middle-school language-arts teachers in 3 local public school districts. Finds that (1) most teachers believed it was important for their students to master grammar; and (2) teachers spend considerable time teaching grammar. Argues that grammar deserves a prominent place in the middle school curriculum. (RS)
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Research, Grammar, Junior High Schools

Smith, Ernie A. – Western Journal of Black Studies, 1978
Three linguistic theories (the creolist, the transformationalist, and the ethnolinguistic) of the origin and historical development of Ebonics in America are examined. (Author/MC)
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Creoles, Diachronic Linguistics, Language Acquisition
Richardson, Ian M. – 1993
A discussion of the visual aspect of second-language reading processes proposes a theoretical model of reading and reports on research into the kinds of questions second-language students ask in class. The model of reading outlined is based on the operations of the human eye. Just as the operations of the lens (focus) change the picture at the…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Grammar, Language Research, Linguistic Theory