This bibliography of generative-based grammatical analyses of Spanish provides an enumerative supplemental listing of entries not included in two recently published annotated, critical bibliographies (Nuessel, 1978, 1979). The majority of the entries of this supplemental document cover the period of 1976-1979, but a few entries date before 1976.…

TWO WAYS OF DESCRIBING CLAUSES IN ENGLISH ARE DISCUSSED IN THIS PAPER. THE FIRST, TERMED THE "FEW-IC'S" APPROACH, IS A SEGMENTATION OF THE CLAUSE INTO A SMALL NUMBER OF IMMEDIATE CONSTITUENTS WHICH REQUIRE A LARGE NUMBER OF FURTHER SEGMENTATIONS BEFORE THE ULTIMATE CONSTITUENTS ARE REACHED. THE SECOND, "MANY-IC'S" APPROACH, IS A SEGMENTATION INTO…

A SERIES OF SUBROUTINES (READRULE, ANNOTATE, CHOOSE, STORERULE, ADD-ONE AND SUB-ONE, DOMINATE, SUBTREE, TERMINAL, AND EQUAL) WRITTEN UP IN THE "COMIT" PROGRAMING LANGUAGE TO PROVIDE A CONVENIENT WAY FOR LINGUISTS TO TEST ANY SET OF GRAMMAR RULES AND TO GENERATE SENTENCES, ARE GIVEN WITH EXPLANATIONS FOR EACH. THIS IS FOLLOWED BY COMPLETE…

A COMPREHENSIVE MODEL OF LANGUAGE SHOULD ACCOUNT FOR ENTIRE DISCOURSES. BY REGARDING THE UNDERLYING STRUCTURE OF DISCOURSE AS A COLLECTION OF TREES GENERATED BY A PREDICATE GRAMMAR AND RELATED TO EACH OTHER ON THE BASIS OF FOCUS, IT APPEARS POSSIBLE TO FIT A MODEL TO LINGUISTIC BEHAVIOR BOTH ABOVE AND BELOW THE LEVEL OF THE SENTENCE. THE BASE OF…

This book, compiled by six practicing teachers of Chinese, is designed to provide supplementary work for regular textbooks such as "Speak Chinese,""Speak Mandarin," and "Modern Chinese," and hopefully to help the teacher to avoid the monotony and boredom of much drill practice by providing a greater variety of material for drill purposes. It…

VARIOUS ASPECTS OF MANDARIN CHINESE GRAMMAR HAVE BEEN EXTENSIVELY EXPLORED WITHIN THE GENERAL FRAMEWORK OF TRANSFORMATIONAL GRAMMAR IN THE PROJECT ON LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS AT OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY. THE PROBLEMS STUDIED INCLUDE SUCH GRAMMATICAL CATEGORIES AS ASPECT MARKERS, ADJECTIVES, EXISTENTIAL AND POSSESSIVE VERBS, INDEFINITE PRONOUNS, AND…

Part 1 of this article appeared in v1 n4 of Linguistik und Didaktik''. (WB)

When a root model, a system of concepts orienting an entire discipline," loses its ability to present a provisional interpretation scheme of an entire phenomenal field," it retards development of the discipline and becomes a blinker." Discussion of Katz's model of linguistic communication shows how Chomsky's mentalism can become…

A paper presented at annual convention of National Council of Teachers of English (60th, Atlanta, November 27, 1970.) (Editor)

The experiments reported here confirmed the findings of earlier researchers that transitive verbs are more difficult to recall than intransitive ones and furthermore established a close relationship between transitive verbs and nouns. Implications for linguistic theory are discussed. (FB)

Demonstrates that the Spanish verb estar, which occurs in all stative sentences, is semantically distinct from ser" in having a contrastive semantic content, state," whereas the verb ser" is a true copula, having no semantic load and existing in the sentence as a mere inflection holder." (FWB)

Supplements Hans Basboll's state-of-the-art report on generative phonology (EJ 227 659), focusing on "abstract" v "concrete" approaches to surface data. Includes a summary of a discussion on phonology. (RL)

Defends the idea that language is a unique, genetically underwritten "module of the mind" and considers consequences such a stance holds for the psycholinguistic study of nonnative language acquisition. Supports the position that language, as conceived within the tradition of generative grammar, is unlike other types of cognition and its basis is…