Criticizes Stanley B. Greenfield's essay, Grammar and Meaning in Poetry" ( PMLA," vol. 82, pp. 377-87), which won the Modern Language Association's Research Activities Award in 1968. (SW)

It is proposed that literary translation is intrinsically an act of literary criticism. This theory is illustrated by discussion of specific problems in translating Sartre's "La Nausee" and Leonard Forest's "Le pays de la Sagouine," especially the use of verb tense. (MSE)

Oral reading passages are often used to elicit speech samples from clinical populations. Few objective guidelines exist, however, to guide one's selection from among the many existing passages. Therefore, this study was undertaken to describe phonetic, lexical, and structural characteristics of 15 oral reading passages. The passages differed…

In looking at the hierarchical structure of a composition, it is practical to diagram the natural text in T-units in a three-dimensional matrix based on the three hierarchical relationships between T-units: coordinate, subordinate, and superordinate. In this matrix, a coordinate relationship, which results from conjoining, elaborating, and…

Discussion of the French partitive article based on its example in the metonymic use of the proper name to describe the work of an artist, e.g., C'est de l'Eluard,'' (That's a bit of Eluard). (RS)

Some basic notions of cognitive grammar are introduced in a discussion that emphasizes the importance to linguistic semantics of the way in which we construe a perceived situation. It is concluded that developing an optimal account of semantic structure and of grammatical structure are best conceived as simultaneous, mutually informative…

Examined data for two Danish children to determine subject omission, verb usage, and sentence subjects. Found that children exhibit asymmetry in subject omission according to verb type as subjects are omitted from main verb utterances more frequently than from copula utterances. Concluded that treatment of child subject omission should involve…

This article questioned the linguistic assumptions that underlie most language teaching and suggested that a clearer recognition of the communicative function of language might result in a more realistic and effective learning experience. (Author/RK)

Strategies for the interpretation and formation of Mandarin Chinese compounds, designed for the English-speaking learner of Mandarin, as well as the linguist, make a distinction between two compound types: lexical and phrasal. While both types consist of sequences of verbs and nouns, lexical compounds are indivisible words formed in the lexicon,…

Consideration of the grammatical connections which might exist between certain structural types of substantival metaphors, e.g., You're a (greedy) pig!'' and You're as greedy as a pig!'' (RS)

Investigates the differences in syntactical structure of sentences written by school children of different ages and of different abilities within the same grade. Writing of certain adults is also studied. (MH)

Recommends teaching Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress" by using a grammatical approach to the reading. (TJ)

Verbal elements in Cairene Arabic are investigated in the light of two opposing hypotheses, one stating that the elements constitute a unit, the other stating that each element is an independent predicate. (AM)