Based in part on work supported by the Nuffield Programme in Linguistics and Language Teaching, University College, London, England. (DD)

Article to be continued. (DS)

This book is an attempt to argue that transformational grammar, as a theory of language, is misconceived. (Author)

First appeared in the British publication Didaskalos", v2 p141-159 1967. (DS)

The syntactic nonconversational features of monologue speech were analyzed in nine normal Ss (ages 2 and 3 years), three at each of R.Brown's three language developmental stages. (Author/PHR)

Examines a representative text corpus to gain insights into language structure and use and to open new areas of linguistic inquiry. Various illustrations are presented that provide a glimpse into the value of corpus-based investigations for increasing one's understanding of language use and imparting insights important for designing effective…

Argues that reading research often traces the "first cause" of reading back to the "taxonomic linguistic system," a system discussed in last month's column. Asserts that although many possible first causes exist, the more important issue concerns how to apply these multiple causes in developing an approach to reading…

This article presents evidence supporting the syntactic nature of adjunct extraction in English and other languages, including the coextensiveness of adjunct and argument extraction and their parallelism with respect to strong/weak crossover effects. Also discussed is the challenge that binding domain effects pose for accounts of adjunct…

This article presents a comprehensive view of German syllable structure based on phonetic and psycholinguistic experimental results supplemented by phonological arguments. It supports a theory of syllable structure based on the arrangement of segments according to the Sonority Sequencing Principle augmented by language-specific constraints.…

Examines Pierre Bourdieu's basic theory on language and criticisms of structuralism, transformational grammar, and the speech act theory as they appear in Language and Symbolic Power. Bourdieu's theories are applied to the colonial and postcolonial language situation in Nigeria. (JP)