Discusses the usefulness of overt grammar teaching by explanation in language teaching, its role in a teaching course, and principles of presentation which might maximize its usefulness. (AM)

An examination of the goals of Latin teaching leads the author to conclude that its primary objective is the development of the ability to read extant Latin authors A brief review of past designs for teaching meaning leads to a discussion of phonetic, lexical, structural, and cultural meaning. Teaching techniques to help develop a mastery of the…

Assuming that hypothesized concepts of "case" and "semantic deep structure" reveal insights into the irregularities of cognitive semantic structures underlying the English language, this study attempted to probe the semantic structure of English to provide a foundation for language curriculum materials. Using the case grammar of Charles J.…

This paper suggests that traditional syntax describes a sentence's syntactic structure, and that verb valence theory describes a sentence's semantic structure. According to this theory, a verb has a certain valence, or power to attract a certain number of "adjuncts." It is further shown that a given semantic structure can be converted into…

IN THIS THIRD VOLUME OF BINI GRAMMAR, THREE CHAPTERS ARE PRESENTED ON LEXEMICS--(1) LEXEMICS, (2) LEXEME GRADES, AND (3) LEXEME CLASSES. THE AUTHOR DEFINES THE TERM "LEXEME" AS A FORM INTERMEDIATE BETWEEN A MORPHEME AND A GRAMMEME. LESS TECHNICALLY, LEXEMES ARE DEFINED AS WORDS AND WORD-LIKE FORMS. THE OTHER TWO VOLUMES ON BINI GRAMMAR…

A PHONOLOGY OF BINI GRAMMAR (A LANGUAGE OF WESTERN NIGERIA) HAS BEEN DESIGNED FOR A HIGHLY HETEROGENEOUS AUDIENCE. THE VOLUME IS AIMED AT (1) AREA SPECIALISTS INTERESTED IN LANGUAGE OR CULTURE STUDIES OF AFRICA, (2) ETHNOGRAPHERS FOCUSING ON THE SOCIAL STRUCTURE OF THE EDO-SPEAKING PEOPLES, (3) HISTORIANS WORKING ON THE BENIN PROJECT OF IBADAN…

IN THIS PUBLICATION, TWO CHAPTERS ARE PRESENTED ON THE MORPHOLOGY OF BINI GRAMMAR--(1) GRAMMATICAL PROCEDURES, WHICH INCLUDE GRAMMATICAL METHOD, GRAMMATICAL PROCESS, AND GRAMMATICAL ANALYSIS, AND (2) FORMS, WHICH INCLUDE AFFIXES AND ROOTS. (SEE ED 003 870 FOR PART ONE OF BINI GRAMMAR, PHONOLOGY, AND ED 003 872 FOR PART THREE, LEXEMICS.) (JC)

Both English and Finnish make use of a category called the passive voice. In most cases these passives correspond to each other, but both are subject to restrictions. This paper attempts to determine how English passives overlap with the semantic area covered by the Finnish passive and what the choices are which face a speaker of Finnish in…

This grammar presents a comprehensive, structural treatment of Russian. Intended primarily for students of Russian and Slavistics as a textbook or manual for use in a course on Russian linguistic structure, it also serves as a reference grammar based on the principles of structural linguistics. The three major sections consider the sound system,…