Rejects assimilationist ideology as a way of legitimizing the educational experience of language minority groups, and proposes the adoption of a pluralist position that views the teaching of standard English as a second dialect as "additive bidialectalism" rather than remediation. (91 references) (Author/CB)

This volume presents principles and models for describing language variation, and introduces a time-based, dynamic framework for linguistic description. The book first summarizes some of the problems of grammatical description encountered from Saussure through the present and then outlines possibilities for new descriptions of language which take…

This document consists of the four 1989 issues of the quarterly journal "Notes on Linguistics." These issues include the following significant articles: "The Production of a Linguistic Bibliography" (Pete Unseth); "How to Write a Grammatical Sketch (Without Putting Your Readers to Sleep)" (Thomas E. Payne); "The…