The article examines issues in the narrative evaluation of language disordered children. First, it is pointed out that the many types of stories and contexts affect narrative form and, second, that structural systems which contribute to narrative meaning are found both within and across utterance boundaries. (Author/DB)

Examines the historical changes affecting the Cantonese "finals." These changes fall into four broad categories: (1) vowel shift, (2) the realignment of Middle Chinese "inner" and "outer" rimes, (3) the genesis of the Cantonese syllable structure restraint, and (4) an assortment of fairly low-level allophonic…

A guide to the teaching of grammar as a process of inquiry into the ways meaning is conveyed. (DD)

Contends that "would of" is not a new grammatical marker in English. (DD)

Argues that psycholinguists should become aware of the information available to readers at levels beyond the individual sentence. (RB)

The purpose of this book is to set forth the elements of English grammar in their relation to thought and the expression of thought. This object has been the guiding principle in the selection of material, in the treatment of forms and constructions, and in the fashioning of the very numerous illustrative exercises. The Introduction explains in…

Suggests that grammar is not something into which words are plugged but is rather a mechanism by which words are served and that linguistics scientists must begin to devote a major part of their attention to lexicology. (TO)

Through an analogy, article outlines the basic structures underlying a complex sentence. (MB)

This article is third in a series on various aspects of style in written communications. (Editor)

In a crash program to prepare ghetto residents to take the Civil Service Clerical Examination and the High School Equivalency Examination, an unorthodox method of instruction has been developed which is based on the kind of grammatical problems that appear in the tests, how the examination materials are presented, and which of those problems…

Lists five areas of grammar teaching/learning that can help beginning writers consciously avoid errors. (RL)

Examines the distribution and function of the French conjunctions "ou,""soit," and "tantot." (AM)