Presents a critique of John Knowles' (1975) analysis of Spanish impersonal "se." (AM)

A discussion of the use of the preposition "de" in Spanish, based on the distinction "Calle Carniceria" or "Calle de Carniceria." A simplification of usage under several headings is presented. Regarding "Calle de,""de" is preferred if a proper noun follows it. (Text is in Spanish.) (AMH)

This article draws attention to a number of syntactic peculiarities of the so-called pronominal adverbs "en" and "y" in French, and maintains that these adverbs differ quite markedly in syntactic behavior. (Text is in French.) (Author/AM)

Field work conducted under the auspices of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, 1957-1971; research partially supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation. (DD)

A MANUAL WAS PREPARED FOR EXPANSION OF PHRASE STRUCTURE RULES AND SINGLE-BASE TRANSFORMATIONS IN EIGHTH-GRADE LANGUAGE CURRICULUM. THE MANUAL INCREASED THE 18 PHRASE STRUCTURE RULES PREVIOUSLY REPORTED (ED 010 146, ED 010 148, AND ED 010 152). BACKGROUND INFORMATION AND GUIDES FOR THE TEACHER WERE PRESENTED FOR UNITS OF STUDY ON PHRASE STRUCTURE…

Examines the distribution of the French "ne" in order to determine the difference between the expletive "ne" and the negative "ne." (AM)

This article attempts to find a systematic structure behind French verbal idiomatic expressions, specifically the opposition between the verb, article, noun sequence and the sequence verb, noun. (Text is in French.) (AM)

Argues that verbal prefixes in Hungarian should not be assigned to a specific category of their own, but should be analyzed as belonging to the category of postpositions. (Author/AM)

Proposes an analysis of Spanish indefinite "se" which takes into consideration regional variations. (AM)

Part II of a continued article. (DD)

The paper demonstrates the possibility of deriving, from the Correlational Grammar developed solely for the purpose of automatic sentence analysis, a classification of words that could be useful in language analysis and language teaching. A group of some 90 frequent English adjectives serves as example; they are sorted into ten classes according…

Two widely used first-grade reading series, Ginn and Scott-Foresman, were analyzed in terms of six phrase-structure grammars in an attempt to discover frequencies for sentence types. The six grammars were noun phrase, verb phrase, verbal modifier, statements without verbs, interrogative, and statements with verbs. Categorial grammars were written…

After teaching the basic suprasegmental patterns, an ESL (English as a Second Language) teacher can profitably continue with those other patterns which are useful in distinguishing meanings and whose absence on the printed page will sometimes result in double meaning. (Author/JM)