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)

Describes tagmemic theory and examines its value to the teaching of composition, concluding that it is most useful in helping students learn how to edit. (DD)

Part of Lexicography and Dialect Geography, Festgabe for Hans Kurath''. (DD)

Elucidates J. Warland's Predicative Theory'' to the effect that German has a unique predicative sentence structure which transforms ordinary semantic relationships, such as case usage. (RS)

Describes linguistic model known as British Contextualism in the Federal Republic of Germany as a basis for the practical language component in second language teacher training programs. Concept goes beyond orthodox structuralism by adding a level of context. (Author/BK)

Noam Chomsky proposed that when children learn a language they do not learn to imitate given sentences; rather, they learn rules by which an infinite number of sentences can be produced and understood. This essay discusses the impact which this has had on the way educators view language and learning. (KC)

The structural linguist's techniques for measuring stress, juncture, and gradations of pitch permit a closer study of a poem's movement than conventional scansion allows. (RL)

This paper examines the syntax of imperative sentences in languages in which imperative verbs have distinctive morphology. Imperative verbs with distinctive morphology either have a distinctive syntax (Modern Greek, Spanish) or distribute like other verbs (Serbo-Croatian, Ancient Greek). The contrast follows from properties of the root…

An important question in the study of language production is the nature of the semantic information that speakers use to create syntactic structures. A common answer to this question assumes that thematic roles help to mediate the mapping from messages to syntax. However, research using structural priming has suggested that the construction of…

A preliminary investigation was conducted to determine the extent of linguistic borrowing in Chicano literature. The findings indicate the use of loanwords, loanblends, and loanshifts, but no examples of hybrid creation and grammatical borrowing. The use of loans correlates with characters marked by negative social qualities, which expresses a…

This paper examines the role of movable adverbs in Mandarin Chinese. In terms of their position within a sentence, most Mandarin adverbs can be classified as movable or non-movable. While identification of either class may be based on their semantic categories or on the number of syllables, the motivation for placing a movable adverb in front of…

Further evidence is offered to support the argument that ko-type o-ending syllables may have been secondary in nature in Old Japanese. Pre-Old Japanese indicates the */uwa/ sequence was manifested as /uwe/ and /uwu/ endings of o-ending syllable verbs. (SCC)

Theories about language functions, the ways in which language is used, are discussed. (Text is in French.) (PMP)