In analyzing utterances whose singular property is to become true simply by being uttered, this article discusses the theory of explicit performatives and proposes an alternative explanation which focuses on meaning rather than on the fact of these utterances are speech acts. (Text is in French.) (CLK)

This article concentrates on the syntagmatic element involved in using and understanding various signalling systems. (Text is in French.) (CLK)

It is asserted that noun errors made by students of Russian show that they have not grasped the syntactic functions of the declensional desinences. A number of teaching techniques are outlined which attempt to follow the subconscious processes that speakers of Russian go through in selecting declensional desinences. (RM)

Describes a syntactic study (undertaken at the University of Nottingham) of some linguistic features of texts taken from recent German chemical journals. The study was intended to aid in the development and improvement of courses in German offered to students of chemistry. (RM)

A comparison is made of two different approaches to the treatment of modals in the framework of a transformational grammar--that of Seuren, who analyzes modals as "operators," and that of the generative semanticists who take them to be "higher verbs." Implications for language teaching are discussed. (Author/RM)

Kean (EJ 165 107) presented a linguistic model to account for the features of the syndrome of Broca's aphasia, especially their agrammatism. This paper critiques Kean's paper by describing and evaluating her five major arguments. It is concluded that Kean's phonological model cannot account for agrammatism as well as syntactic models can.…

Argues that discontinuities between sentences can often be explained in terms of syntactic relationships within individual sentences. (AA)

Describes a means of characterizing one of many semantic aspects of young children's comprehension ("necessity for linking"). This semantic aspect is then used to experimentally clarify sentence processing results that are ambiguous at the syntactic level. (HOD)

Examines the distribution of the French "ne" in order to determine the difference between the expletive "ne" and the negative "ne." (AM)

Verifying simple sentences generally involves a process wherein the meanings of individual words are combined to form the meaning of the entire sentence. Three experiments are described in which the combination process was investigated by asking subjects to decide whether S-V-Adj-O sentences were true or false. (Author/RM)

Discusses the nuances in meaning represented by the French adjective with relation to its position in a noun phrase, and by the use of the French subjunctive. (AM)

Reports on a study which sought to compare syntax acquisition in French by francophone and non-francophone children, in order to establish the order in which French grammatical elements are acquired, and in order to create a French version of the Bilingual Syntax Measure. (AM)

The development of plurals in two German-speaking children was analyzed, based on observational data. It was argued that the children were learning plurals by rote, conditioned by morphological complexity which cannot be subsumed under any general rule. (Author/NCR)

Research by Martin Joos and John J. Gumperz to develop a perspective for rhetorical analysis. Carter's final remarks in his Playboy interview are shown to reflect an ineffective sociolinguistic code shift to a stylistic level inappropriate to Carter as public personality and as presidential candidate. (JF)

The article discusses some practical considerations in the use of Blissymbols--a system of visual symbols for those who cannot communicate with speech--with multiply handicapped children. (Author/DLS)