Work supported by the National Research Council of Canada, the Ministere de l'Education du Gouvernement du Quebec, and the Bell Telephone Company of Canada. (DD)

A close appositive syntagme is defined as an unhyphenated noun combination which is semantically congruent. The new type under discussion consists of a noun with a proper noun, as in die Expedition Spitzbergen'' for die Expedition fuhrt nach Spitzbergen.'' (RS)

A justification for teaching long forms instead of contracted forms, e.g., What's this?,'' as a pedagogical advantage in the intitial stages of the spoken language course. (RS)

Original Russian version appeared in Sign, Language, Culture,'' edited by A. Greimas et al., Mouton, 1970, p195-215. (RS)

Discusses the general problem of the formal correspondence between predicates and phrases, introducing the principle that the fundamental units of a lexicon are phrases rather than words. Shows that the novelty of this approach consists in an integration of lexicon and syntax and poses particular problems where the noun is concerned. (MES)

Analyzes the written syntax of a group of profoundly deaf English children aged 10 to 11 years, utilizing a controlled elicitation sampling method used earlier with a single child. Demonstrates and describes the structured nature of deaf children's syntax, which shows similarities with 2 to 2 1/2-year-old hearing children's syntax. (Author/MES)

Discusses factors governing the choice between natural and inverted word order in subject headings containing adjectival phrases. (FM)

Presents a critique of John Knowles' (1975) analysis of Spanish impersonal "se." (AM)

This paper reports an investigation into the acquisition of indirect object constructions by English children aged 5-10. Sentences having a prepositional "to" phrase containing the indirect object, and following the direct object, were acquired before sentences where the indirect object preceded the direct object. (CHK)

This paper describes various aspects of syntactic theory, including lexical, functional, and phrasal categories and how they are put together in clauses and sentences, how words are represented in the mental lexicon, and how noun phrases are assigned structural and semantic information. Language acquisition and the treatment of language disorders…

A critical analysis explores the strictly logical aspects and pragmatic claims of a presupposition and negation theory (Burton-Roberts, 1989). Other clearly relevant facts, not previously considered, are used to show that the theory preempted empirical issues on invalid a priori grounds. (23 references) (Author/CB)

A response to a critical analysis of a theory on presupposition and negation uses that critique's claims and proposed system to corroborate the original arguments and theory. (24 references) (Author/CB)