Paper to be presented at the Seventh International Congress of Slavists in Warsaw, Poland, August 1973. (DS)

A comparison is made of two different approaches to the treatment of modals in the framework of a transformational grammar--that of Seuren, who analyzes modals as "operators," and that of the generative semanticists who take them to be "higher verbs." Implications for language teaching are discussed. (Author/RM)

Develops F. de Saussure's metaphor that likens the study of linguistics to the study of mathematics, because of the complexity of both disciplines. (DS)

Revised version of a paper presented at the Second International Congress of Applied Linguistics, Cambridge, England, 1969. (DS)

It is contended that there are such things as discourse blocs, and that they are composed of discourse units glued together into a contextuated whole by bloc signals. There are three kinds of structures with which it is necessary to deal in order to discuss coherent discourse: the discourse bloc, the discourse unit, and the bloc signal.…

Continuing series on new methods of teaching languages at the larger universities. (DS)

Reviews aspects of Halliday's Systemic-Functional Grammar, emphasizing language functions, modality vs modulation, process types, transitivity, information distribution, and cohesion. Implications for language teaching are discussed. (AM)

Rules governing formulation of the embedded tense in Russian are explained and their importance to beginning students of Russian discussed. (RM)

Study sponsored by the Committee on Research and Teaching Improvement of the Council of Europe. (DS)

Presents a method for the systematic teaching of prosodic features, particularly in French, based on a general theory of intonation and on the use of a pitch visualizer. (Text is in French.) (AM)

This study reflects the author's efforts to synthesize ideas drawn from various linguistic theorists, especially Schlesinger, Chomsky, and Fillmore. The first section gives the theoretical background for the study. The second section discusses roles, relations, and constructs. The final section discusses the applications of the study to teaching…

Revised version of an address delivered July 18, 1969, under the auspices of Summer Courses for Applied Linguistics", organized by the Goethe Institute, Munich, West Germany. (RS)

Revised version of paper presented at the Internationale Hochschulferienkurse, Leipzig, East Germany, 1970. (WB)