Discusses the fact that the basic tendency of structural grammar theory has been to emphasize the principle of formality of description, rather than formality of content. (CK)

A detailed analysis of the oral vowels in the French phoentic system and their nasal equivalents. (Text is in French.) (PMP)

A structural-functional basis for the construction of an English tense system is proposed. It is asserted that such a system will facilitate the teaching of English tense usage. (Author/RM)

This article is a follow-up to the author's "Developments in the Teaching of the Russian Verbal System," in which determination of the "basic stem" is discussed. Here, the morphological behavior of Russian verbs is outlined, according to a classification system grounded on this basic stem. (Text is in Russian.) (DH)

Traces the development of Saussure's synchronic/diachronic distinction, and investigates this distinction from the point of view of methodology and theory. (AM)

Proposes the necessity of abandoning the point of view of structural linguistics for the notions of modern linguistics in order to describe Latin case. An example is made of the ablative case. (AM)

The article traces the history of comparative linguistics, noting a continual increase in the breadth of such studies. It then considers the related fields of typological-comparative linguistics and confrontative linguistics, their differences and similarities in methodology and application. (Text is in German.) (DH)

Recommends a "gapless" scheme for organizing phonemes into patterns in writing descriptions of specific languages. It is the distinctive function rather than the distinctive feature which provides symmetry. (MLA)

Based in part on work supported by the Nuffield Programme in Linguistics and Language Teaching, University College, London, England. (DD)

This paper is a syntactic analysis of standard French negation. The following expressions are described in detail: (1)ne...pas(point), (2)nullement (aucunement), (3)plus, (4)jamais, (5)pas encore, (6)guere, (7)rien, (8)personne, (9)aucun(e), (10)nul(le), (11)ni...ni..., (12)nulle part, (13)que, (14)pas un(e), (15)nul. The negative expressions are…