Examines the teaching texts "English for Today" (Lensing/Schroedel, Dortmund, Hannover) and "Learning English" (Klett, Stuttgart) as to presentation and explanation of the modal auxiliary verbs in English. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

The communication of "person" has been a particularly elusive area of Japanese discourse. The elusive status of the person term (as distinguished from the Indo-European personal pronoun) raises the question of whether such terms, along with titles, kin terms, proper names, age-status terms, and zero forms, may all be part of a single…

Transformational analysis of three model bisegmental sentences reveals the possibility of a more practical classification of pronominal words; this is seen as a useful portion of a still-to-be-written context grammar. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

Semantic and paradigmatic analyses are employed to show that deixis of the lexical content is the differentiating factor between pre- and post-position of the attributive adjective in French. The nature of modification in general is also discussed. (DB)

A discussion of proper Latin names that can be confusing for the student. (RM)

Considers the behavior of certain classes of personal pronouns which have come to be known as clitics, covering the categories of clitic pronouns as special elements, a framework for clitics, stressed clitics, clitic doubling, Piedmontese clitic inversion, subject clitics, clitic clustering, clitic movement, and causative and perception verbs. (CB)

A classroom game modeled on a traditional "goose game" is proposed to help students of French conceptualize the use of personal pronouns in different constructions. (MSE)

Financing vocational education and training, as part of Australia's commitment to lifelong learning, will become a greater challenge as increased spending on other public services, such as health and welfare caused by an aging population, constrains government education expenditure. This report examines a range of mechanisms to encourage…

Examines the strategies young children rely on prior to learning how to assign the terms top, bottom, front, and back, and the stages they go through as they master these terms. (Author/MP)