Data obtained from seventh graders does not support Chomsky's hierarchy of language rules, whereby degrees of sentence grammaticality can be assigned to ungrammatical sentences. (RB)

Examines the problems of constructing tests and shows how the rules of transformation generative grammar can be used to produce easily understood test questions. (RB)

Examines the way in which Darwin employed conventional language and conventional religious categories of popular thought to explain and lend credibility to the ideas he advanced in "The Orgin of Species." (MH)

Dissects a student-written interview story to point out weaknesses resulting from the interviewer's failure to ask good questions and to evaluate and interpret the information given. (GT)

Several contradictions in the Committee on Public Doublespeak's approach to its work could be resolved if the Committee would adopt George Orwell's views on language. (DD)

A sample is given of some common misuses of words in mathematics textbooks. (MP)

This is a grammatical and semantic analysis of verb usage in French. The occurrence of verb stems and endings with associated adverbs is described, defined and diagrammed. (MLA)

Surveys, creative language lessons, and games can help students examine English usage as a function of appropriateness. (DD)

Discusses the writings of Fred Newton Scott in the first quarter of the twentieth century, pointing out their applicability to English teaching today. (DD)

More and more Americans are under pressure to improve their writing and speaking--but extra work may be needed to halt erosion of language. (Editor)

A set of five noun features proposed by Chomsky for characterizing the selectional restriction of English verbs are examined. Examples are presented to show how the "small" set of features is both "too broad" and "too narrow" at once. (SW)

This article describes the work of the Royal Academy of Science and the Royal Academy of Spanish in developing current scientific and technical vocabulary. (NCR)

Discusses Bernstein's "language deficit" theory ("restricted code" of the lower social class versus the "elaborated code" of upper-class speakers) and Labov's "language difference" theory. The former is rejected, and the latter is favored. Sociolinguistics should consider more than mere social-class language differences. (Text is in German.)…

Lists competing forms in written French selected on the basis of three criteria: (1) expressions which can be written in two equally acceptable ways, (2) those in which the two forms differ slightly in meaning, and (3) those in which one form is considered correct but is now questioned. (MLA)

Attempts to refine the concept of indirect communication by distinguishing a number of different forms of indirect communication such as hinting, suggesting and insinuating. (MH)