Second part of a continuing series on generative grammar. (DS)

Author offers suggestions to simplify the teaching of grammar. (MB)

Structural grammars are seen to have a definite place in child development research aimed at the development of tests and language programs designed to alleviate child language problems. (Author/KW)

Paper presented at Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, on March 11, 1971. (VM)

The use of mathematical ideas in linguistics is illustrated by a discussion of a transformational grammar. (MM)

The psycholinguistic experiments reported here lead the author to the conclusion that there is a definite interdependence between semantic values and syntactic functions in the construction of sentences and that a satisfactory interpretation of syntactic encoding demands a consideration of the personality structure of the individual speaker.…

Investigates the differences in syntactical structure of sentences written by school children of different ages and of different abilities within the same grade. Writing of certain adults is also studied. (MH)

Two experiments involving four and seven normal children four- to eight-years-old examined processes responsible for generative language acquisition and conditions likely to facilitate recombinative generalization. All children learned new syntactic rules to generate three word utterances, regardless of the orderings of agent, action, and object…

Discusses trends and developments in generative phonology; metatheory and evidence in phonology; and segments, features, and marking. (RL)

Examines the claim that transformational rules are psychologically real, and applies this claim to all aspects of transformational grammar. (AM)

Examines "do so" and "so do" constructions, with reference to the questions of verb phrase constituency and ambiguity. (AM)

This is a study of linguistic variability among social levels in West Germany and of the problems associated with doing such an analysis. The data, ordered according to sex and social levels, were collected from young children retelling narratives heard on tapes. The report represents a comprehensive study of the children's syntactic performance…

This collection of articles written over a period of 10 years concerning the transformational syntax of English has been divided into six sections. The articles in the first section provide background material for the reader with no specialized linguistic preparation. They present the fundamental questions that linguists are now asking, some of…

That "will" and "shall" are modal, not temporal, verbs is shown by their syntactic similarity to the modals and by the fact that they follow the same transformational rules as the modals. This example demonstrates the usefulness of transformational grammar in explaining grammatical relationships to students. (Text is in…