Examination of two works by Per Aage Brandt, "Pour une chromatique. Note sur des prepositions francaises" in "Lingua e Stile," 1971, and "L'analyse phrastique: reflexions pour une grammatique;" both of which discuss the need to develop a grammar superior to transformational grammar or Chomsky's surface structure-deep structure option. (DD)

Attempts to show that phrase-structure diagrams (commonly called trees) are inadequate for the representation of meaning, particularly for that variety of meaning called descriptive content. (RS)

Excerpted from a text dealing with narrative semiotics now in preparation. (DD)

The right roof constraint'' is the assumption that rightward-movement rules are always upward-bounded; see J.R. Ross' dissertation, Constraints on Variables in Syntax'' (MIT, 1967). (RS)

Response to J.D. McCawley's Interpretive Semantics Meets Frankenstein'' of 1971; research supported by a grant from the National Institute of Mental Health. (DD)

Supports the theory that phonic units cannot be delimited without reference to conceptual units, and that there must be a mutual dependence of sound and meaning in language. (DS)

Study carried out as part of the research project Linguistics and Artificial Intelligence'', subsidized by the Council of the Arts of Canada and the University of Montreal; paper presented at the Second International Conference on Linguistics and Translation, October 4-7, 1972, Montreal, Canada. (RS)