The That-Complements test of the Test of Syntactic Abilities was administered to 93 deaf students (age 10-19 years) and 60 hearing students (age 8-11 years). (Author/SBH)

The rules usually taught for german word order and order of sentence elements are seen as inaccurate. A numerical system is proposed which takes from the Duden grammar the three-field system, using the predicate segments as an orientation point. (IFS/WGA)

Demonstrates through an examination of naturally occurring discourse that Wh-Clefts and It-Clefts are not interchangeable; they have highly specialized distributions and functions. (EJS)

Examines areas of Latin grammar that present difficulties to the grammarian, and shows how modern linguistics can contribute to the teaching of Latin grammar. (AM)

Proposes description of Latin syntactic structures through an analysis of their communicative functions. (AM)

Proposes the necessity of abandoning the point of view of structural linguistics for the notions of modern linguistics in order to describe Latin case. An example is made of the ablative case. (AM)

Analyzes "possessive" reflexives in French, within the framework of a generative grammar approach. A list of examples is appended. (AM)

Examines the loss of the impersonal construction in modern English and proposes an explanation based on the psychological evolution of the concept of "person." (Author/AM)

Sought to discover to what extent perceived quality differences in freshman expository writing could be measured quantitatively in terms of choice or method of utilization of syntactic structures. (DD)

Semantic information rather than syntax should be emphasized in teaching the deaf to read. (PHR)

Two explanations for the role of "se" in such constructions as "Se construyen casas" are given by grammarians; one states that it is a passive interpretation ("Houses are built"), the other advocates an impersonal interpretation ("One builds houses"). Different views are presented and analyzed. (Author/NCR)

Fundamental functional differences between preverbal and postverbal locatives in Mandarin Chinese are explored. The syntactic behaviors of the verbs are discussed in the context of compatibilities with locatives containing the element "zai." (Author/SW)

Discusses a stratificational view of the lexicon by (1) defining the transformational-generative lexicon; (2) considering some undesirable consequences of the lexicon; and (3) showing the stratificational model to be simpler and more complete than the transformational-generative version. (CHK)

The role of verbs in American Sign Language (ASL) is investigated. Verb mutations in ASL are very different from the kinds of grammatical deformations that occur in English, and are different from those that occur in spoken languages as a whole. (HP)

Considers solutions to beginning readers' problems with decoding, syntax, semantics, text organization, and differences between spoken and written language. (DD)