The major portion of this paper is devoted to delineate the types of errors made by Arab learners of English in the area of the article system. By so doing, the paper classifies learners' errors according to the Surface Structure Taxonomies of errors, and illustrates the possible sources of these errors. In order to overcome learners' difficulties…

Attempts to show that phrase-structure diagrams (commonly called trees) are inadequate for the representation of meaning, particularly for that variety of meaning called descriptive content. (RS)

Quantifiers are discussed and evidence presented for their existential character in some cases. Their relation to surface and underlying structure is discussed. (RM)

It is argued that too much attention to deep structure has led to neglect of surface realizations. Case relations and case forms are studied as well as the relationships between the two. (Text is in French.) (AM)

Examines single centered, multicentered, and noncentered phrases in a tagmemic framework. (MSE)

Attempts to define the limitations of linguistic theory, and the possibilities of access at the discursive level, based on the hypothesis that there are two types of relatives. Examples are given in German; reference is made to the principles of machine discourse analysis. (Text is in French.) (Author/MSE)

A set of rules is given generating those temporal clauses in English whose sources are sentences embedded in the adverbial position by means of relativization. See FL 508 197 for availability. (Author/RM)

This study demonstrates that a property of verbs, implicit causality, is important in determining coreference of potentially ambiguous anaphoric pronouns in a timed comprehension task. Verbs were classified according to bias toward a noun phrase; pairs of sentences were constructed for each. Response time was faster for congruent sentences. (CHK)

Translated from the English; research supported by the Delegation generale a la Recherche scientifique et technique, CNRS, Paris, France; special issue on "Changing Linguistics." (DD)

Study completed with the support of the Pontificia Universidade Catolica de Sao Paulo, Brazil, in 1970-71. (VM)

This article discusses the notion of the scope of quantifiers in natural language. Previous studies are reviewed, and three factors essential to understanding scope are isolated: inherent characteristics of the quantifier, its grammatical function in a sentence, and serial distribution of predominance. (Text is in French.) (CLK)

Translated from the English; special issue on "Changing Linguistics." (DD)

Translation of the original Russian article which appeared in Voprosy jazykoznanija'' 1, 1970. (DD)