Children in grades one to four completed two sentence construction tasks: (a) Write one complete sentence about a topic prompt (sentence integrity, Study 1); and (b) Integrate two sentences into one complete sentence without changing meaning (sentence combining, Study 2). Most, but not all, children in first through fourth grade could write just…

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

Where the lexical item is a body part, the lexical suffix substitutes for its entire content. (MSE)

THE PROBLEM OF THE NATURE OF LANGUAGE STRUCTURE IS CONSIDERED AND THE FORM WHICH ANY LINGUISTIC DESCRIPTION SHOULD TAKE. THE AUTHOR EXAMINES THE INFLUENCE OF THE SWISS LINGUIST, FERDINAND DE SAUSSURE, ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF AMERICAN LINGUISTICS. THE QUESTION OF "MENTALISM" IN LINGUISTICS IS REDUCED TO THE PROBLEM OF WHETHER LINGUISTIC…

Attempts to show that the reduplication of indefinite direct objects is not necessarily ungrammatical but that there are two kinds of indefinite direct objects, specified and non-specified. The former may undergo reduplication, the latter may not. (Author/RM)

Urges that a distinction between "grammatical knowledge" and "grammatical description" be maintained in every aspect of language instruction and in preparation of instructional materials. (RL)

Revised and corrected version of an earlier paper. (DD)

Original Russian version appeared in Sign, Language, Culture,'' edited by A. Greimas et al., Mouton, 1970, p195-215. (RS)

Special issue devoted to the study of generative grammar in German-speaking countries. (VM)

A discussion of the derivation of the reflexive "se" in Spanish yields the generalization that the reflexive pronouns are always generated by the same reflexive rule. (CK)

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