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Huddleston, Rodney – Lingua, 1972
Based in part on work supported by the Nuffield Programme in Linguistics and Language Teaching, University College, London, England. (DD)
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, Morphology (Languages), Phonology

Sampson, Geoffrey – Lingua, 1975
Argues that the generative-phonological view of linguistic competence is a highly speculative theory supported by a limited number of disparate arguments. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, Generative Phonology, Linguistic Competence

Bowers, John S. – Lingua, 1975
This paper concludes that there is evidence in favor of handling the derived nominals of Predicate AP's with a lexicalist theory, in conjunction with a base schema of the form (1)-(2). The transformation NP-Postposing is proposed to explain variations. (Available from North-Holland Publishing Co., P. O. Box 211, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.) (CHK)
Descriptors: Adjectives, Deep Structure, Descriptive Linguistics, Linguistic Theory

Bouma, Lowell – Lingua, 1975
The modal auxiliary system in both German and English is seen as a grammatical category (relative assertion) which stands in specific opposition to the absence of a modal in a sentence (factual assertion). (Available from North-Holland Publishing Co., P. O. Box 211, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.) (CHK)
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Descriptive Linguistics, English, Form Classes (Languages)

Pak, Ty – Lingua, 1971
Descriptors: Connected Discourse, Descriptive Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Linguistic Theory