THE PURPOSE OF THIS STUDY WAS TO ASSESS THE USE OF DIAGRAMING AS A TEACHING DEVICE IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS. QUESTIONNAIRES WERE SENT TO THE STATE ENGLISH CURRICULUM DIRECTORS OR THE STATE SUPERINTENDENTS OF EDUCATION IN ALL 50 STATES, AND THE CITY SUPERVISORS OF ENGLISH IN THE 15 LARGEST AMERICAN CITIES. IN ADDITION, PERSONAL CORRESPONDENCE WAS CARRIED…

THE INDONESIAN DESCRIBED IN THIS GRAMMAR IS THE FORMAL LANGUAGE USED IN PUBLISHED TEXTS RATHER THAN THE COLLOQUIAL LANGUAGE. ALL OF THE TEXTS USED WERE PUBLISHED BETWEEN 1945 AND 1966 AND THEY INCLUDE POLITICAL SPEECHES, LEGAL DOCUMENTS, AND TEXTBOOKS. SINCE THIS BOOK WAS DESIGNED PRIMARILY FOR GENERAL STUDENTS OF THE INDONESIAN LANGUAGE AND ONLY…

THIS BOOK CONSISTS OF TWO MAJOR PARTS, LESSONS AND DIALOGS. BOTH THE LESSONS AND THE DIALOGS ARE ACCOMPANIED THROUGHOUT WITH ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS. PRELIMINARY MATERIAL ON PRONUNCIATION, WITH DRILLS, PRECEDES THE LESSONS. APPENDED TO THE LESSONS ARE A GLOSSARY AND AN INDEX OF GRAMMATICAL POINTS COVERED. EACH LESSON CONSISTS OF FOUR PARTS--(1) TEXT,…

DESIGNED FOR LINGUISTS AND LEXICOGRAPHERS, THE COLLECT SYSTEM CAN ANALYZE THE SYNTAX AND SEMANTICS OF RUSSIAN SENTENCES BY SEARCHING A FILE OF RUSSIAN TEXT. IN A TYPICAL SEARCH ON A GIVEN SENTENCE, GRAMMATICAL RELATIONSHIPS, INDIVIDUAL WORD SPELLINGS, AND WORD OCCURRENCES CAN BE DETERMINED. SINCE THE SYSTEM INCLUDES INTERPRETERS, THE LINGUIST CAN…

THIS STUDY WAS SET UP TO DETERMINE THE EFFECTIVENESS OF USING PROGRAMED MATERIAL IN SPELLING, DICTION, AND SENTENCE ARRANGEMENT AND PARAGRAPH COHERENCE FOR (1) IMPROVEMENT IN THE LANGUAGE HABITS OF THREE TYPES OF STUDENTS AT COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY AND (2) ECONOMY IN TIME AND PERSONNEL REQUIRED FOR INSTRUCTION OF THESE STUDENTS. ONE EXPERIMENTAL…

A PHONOLOGY OF BINI GRAMMAR (A LANGUAGE OF WESTERN NIGERIA) HAS BEEN DESIGNED FOR A HIGHLY HETEROGENEOUS AUDIENCE. THE VOLUME IS AIMED AT (1) AREA SPECIALISTS INTERESTED IN LANGUAGE OR CULTURE STUDIES OF AFRICA, (2) ETHNOGRAPHERS FOCUSING ON THE SOCIAL STRUCTURE OF THE EDO-SPEAKING PEOPLES, (3) HISTORIANS WORKING ON THE BENIN PROJECT OF IBADAN…

IN THIS PUBLICATION, TWO CHAPTERS ARE PRESENTED ON THE MORPHOLOGY OF BINI GRAMMAR--(1) GRAMMATICAL PROCEDURES, WHICH INCLUDE GRAMMATICAL METHOD, GRAMMATICAL PROCESS, AND GRAMMATICAL ANALYSIS, AND (2) FORMS, WHICH INCLUDE AFFIXES AND ROOTS. (SEE ED 003 870 FOR PART ONE OF BINI GRAMMAR, PHONOLOGY, AND ED 003 872 FOR PART THREE, LEXEMICS.) (JC)

This volume is made up of 20 lessons and is part of a comprehensive course in intermediate Nepali. It explains and illustrates the basic structures of Nepali grammar through lessons which include different tense forms, postpositions, conditionals, comparatives, and other structural elements. The first lesson is devoted specifically to guiding…

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…

THIS PAPER CONSIDERS SEVERAL TYPES OF ENGLISH SENTENCES WHICH ARE UTTERED FOR THE PURPOSE OF ELICITING A LINGUISTIC RESPONSE FROM THE HEARER AND WHICH, ON THAT BASIS, CAN BE CLASSED AS QUESTIONS. A SEMANTIC UNIT "PLUS INTERROGATIVE", WHOSE MEANING IS THAT THE SPEAKER REQUESTS NEW INFORMATION FROM THE HEARER, IS SEEN TO PLAY A ROLE IN MORE THAN ONE…

This three-volume course is intended to provide a foundation in the grammar of classical Chinese on which the student who plans to specialize in classical studies can build, and to give the student of modern Chinese sufficient knowledge of literary Chinese for his purposes. It is assumed that the student can already pronounce Chinese words, use a…

It is argued that the direct output of a contrastive analysis should be a transfer grammar, a single set of rules which would serve at one and the same time for transferring from language A to language B and from B to A. It is shown that such rules can be formulated either as equations or in the form of matrices. The elements involved can either…

This book is designed to make the thought of Noam Chomsky, a scholar whose work has been influential not only in the field of linguistics but in psychology, philosophy, and political science as well, accessible to a wider public than is reached by Chomsky's highly technical writing. The author expresses the hope that this book will provide the…

This article is a discussion, within the context of transformational grammar, of the formal relationships which exist between nominal, verbal, and adjectival roots in Swahili. The presentation is made with special reference to a set of subcategorizational rules which relate the given lexical categories. (Author/AMM)

This paper uses a discussion of experiments with aphasics' use of verbally derived nouns to illustrate how one linguistic model may be superior to another in accounting for the facts of verbal behavior. The models involved are the transformational, which relates derived nominals to their source verb and lists only the verb in the lexicon, and the…