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Calderonello, Alice Heim; Klein, Thomas – English Education, 1979
Discusses who needs to know grammar, how much and what kind teachers need to know, how much students need to know, and what grammar is good for. (DD)
Descriptors: Grammar, Higher Education, Writing (Composition), Writing Skills
Krier, Fernande – Linguistique, 1979
Examines the process of formation of the "syntheme" in German, and its role in the economy of language. (AM)
Descriptors: Adjectives, German, Grammar, Nouns
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Kaluza, Heryk – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 1979
Proposes a model for the description of "tense" in English verbs in the indicative mood. (AM)
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, English, Grammar, Models
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Knickerbocker, Joan L. – Exercise Exchange, 1979
Suggests an activity that helps students see the relationship of suffixes to particular parts of speech. (TJ)
Descriptors: English Instruction, Grammar, Secondary Education, Teaching Methods
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Gribbin, Bill – English Journal, 1996
Offers middle and secondary teachers a conceptual framework to guide their explorations into language with their students. Notes that many methods have risen and fallen. Concludes that, if students learn to generalize about language, they will be more successful in their usage of rules. (RS)
Descriptors: English Instruction, Grammar, Language Usage, Secondary Education
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Skretta, John A. – English Journal, 1996
Argues that the ongoing debate about grammatical instruction in schools is a product of a reductivist, reactionary ideology that mistakes mechanics for grammar and proceeds from a deficit model, constantly punishing students for their lack of "grammatical" precision and general ignorance in matters of construction. Suggests that grammar…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Grammar, Language Usage, Secondary Education
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Heller, Stephen B. – English Journal, 1996
Spoofs grammar instruction using characters from William Faulkner's novel "As I Lay Dying." (RS)
Descriptors: Grammar, Humor, Language Usage, Novels
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Brodie, Peter – English Journal, 1996
Provides a whimsical look at issues of language and grammar usage. (RS)
Descriptors: Grammar, Language Attitudes, Language Usage, Secondary Education
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Zuidema, Leah A. – English Journal, 1996
Discusses the vocabulary of English punctuation terms, largely unchanged since the Norman conquest in 1066. Discusses the meaning of the period, colon, comma, question mark, exclamation point, slash, parenthesis, brackets, asterisk, hyphen, and ampersand. (RS)
Descriptors: Definitions, Grammar, Language Usage, Punctuation
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Rowland, Caroline F.; Pine, Julian M. – Journal of Child Language, 2003
Responds to a critique of an earlier article. Reexamines the pattern of inversion and universion in Adam's (1973) wh-question data and argues that the Role and Reference grammar explanation put forth cannot account for some of the developmental facts it was designed to explain. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Child Language, Grammar, Language Acquisition, Linguistic Theory
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Standwell, G. J. B. – British Journal of Language Teaching, 1989
Explores the use of the English phrase "I wish," focusing on the use of past and present tenses, the addition of the word "would," and both positive and negative uses of the phrase. (CB)
Descriptors: English, Language Patterns, Phrase Structure, Tenses (Grammar)
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Mittwoch, Anita – Journal of Linguistics, 1990
Explores the fit between syntax and semantics by addressing the following questions: (1) To what extent is the distribution of bare infinitive complements semantically motivated? and (2) What is the function of infinitival to? (46 references) (GLR)
Descriptors: Function Words, Grammar, Language Research, Semantics
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van der Wurff, Wim – Journal of Linguistics, 1989
Discusses the syntactic properties of participial adjuncts and the relevant general syntactic principles in Eastern Bengali, specifically those responsible for case-assignment, word order, and binding properties. (40 references) (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Bengali, Case (Grammar), Syntax, Uncommonly Taught Languages
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Lozano, Anthony G. – Hispania, 1988
Contrasts the hypothetical conditional or "modo potencial" in Spanish with the subsequence conditional. Passages from "El habla de la ciudad de Mexico" and from works by Carballido and Borges are cited as examples. Other grammatical studies of the Spanish conditional are reviewed. (LMO)
Descriptors: Pragmatics, Semantics, Spanish, Syntax
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Cowie, Claire – Language & Communication, 1995
Examines "Grammaticalization" (P. J. Hopper and E. C. Traugott), a linguistics textbook that focuses on the establishment of grammaticalization as both a process and a topic. Argues that the significance of the work is that it offers a genuine attempt to explain linguistic change in terms of a realistic conception of what is actually…
Descriptors: Diachronic Linguistics, Grammar, Language Usage, Linguistics
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