This article discusses Nass-Gitksan, a native language of northern British Columbia. The basic syntactic structures of the language are presented, along with arguments to show that Nass-Gitskan is an ergative language both at the deep and the surface syntactic levels. (CLK)

Grammar translation method, direct method, and Army and audiolingual methods used for teaching modern foreign languages in America are described. A method based on psycholinguistic research and the theory of generative grammar is described, and its implications in teaching Mandarin Chinese are discussed. (RM)

A method of teaching question formation in the Chinese language by use of transformational grammar is described. (RM)

This article discusses the use of the image in audiovisual structural exercises, on the lexical and on the grammatical level. (Text is in French.) (AM)

Analysis of the factors that make a text coherent or non-coherent suggests that total coherence requires cohesion not only on the textual surface but on the semantic level as well. Syntactic evidence of non-coherence includes lack of formal agreement blocking a potential cross-reference, anaphoric and cataphoric references that do not follow their…

The study compared linguistic analyses of 27 language disabled and 30 normal language children in grades 1-6. The first procedure, cohesive tie analysis, examined surface characteristics of a text for connections between lingustic components that contribute to coherence; the second procedure, story grammar, examined underlying story organization…

Semantic readings of genitive constructions in Akan are discussed in relation to the position that semantic operative rules operate on surface structure and that positing deep structures or semantic structures for associative (genitive) constructions is unnatural and unnecessary. (AM)

The difficulty with "le" involves some seeming inconsistencies in the formation of negatives and the identification of its functions. The suggested solution consists of explaining the use of the semantic properties of the verbs involved, co-occurrence restriction with negative markers, and the relative postion of "le" in the surface structure.…

A critical review of the development of case theory as put forth by N. Chomsky, C. J. Fillmore, J. M. Anderson, J. J. Robinson, and S. Starosta. (Text is in French.) (AM)

Discusses the development of Fillmore's case theory. (Text is in French.) (AM)

Discusses problems related to case grammar theory, including: the organizations of a case grammar; determination of semantic roles; definition and hierarchy of cases; cause-effect relations; and formalization and notation. (Text is in French.) (AM)

Contradicts Pablo Jordan's theory that certain "se" constructions in Spanish are neither passive nor reflexive. It is claimed that syntactic evidence reveals two types of impersonal structures, the impersonal active and the passive reflexive. (Text is in Spanish.) (CK)

Discusses the causative infix "dz" in Mikasuki, from the point of view of morphology and syntax, with a view to the development of an adequate linguistic description of Mikasuki grammar. (AM)

Event and factive causatives are distinguished. It is argued that ba-sentences in Mandarin Chinese are event causatives par excellence and that the ba and bei constructions, by deriving from the same underlying representation, can be shown to receive a unified account, if they are given a causative analysis. (Author/RM)

It has long been said that there are an infinite number of English sentences. "This is the cat that caught the rat" is an Enqlish sentence. So is "This is the cat that caught the rat that stole the cheese.""This is the cat with white paws that caught the rat that stole the cheese" is unobjectionable as well. Since a…