The theory is presented that there are in Indo-European languages only two comparative morphemes and correspondingly two degrees of the comparative, superiority and equality. (RM)

This article discusses the notion of the proposition in the philosophy of language. (Text is in French.) (CLK)

This article discusses the various types of expression of emphasis used for nominals in a variety of languages: raising or alteration of the voice, word order, use of a morpheme for an emphatic function, and nominalization of a part of the sentence not being emphasized. (Text is in French.) (CLK)

Discusses the various problems arising in teaching the German pronoun (and expletive) "es" ("it") to Rumanians. There is no universally usable correspondence to "es" in Rumanian, where it is sometimes lacking, with the subject absent in either the deep structure or the surface structure. (IFS/WGA)

The syntactic maturity of spontaneous speech was tested, along with imitated language, in 52 severely and profoundly hearing impaired children (ages 4-15 years) by means of two language measures designed for normal-hearing children: the Developmental Sentence Analysis and the Carrow Elicited Language Inventory. (Author)

Pronominalization of certain phrases in French is undergoing change. Anticipation that the newer forms will become dominant means that the rules governing /le/, /y/ and /en/ as substitutes for infinitive phrases must be rewritten. (MLA)

The purpose of the paper was to map the language development of children at infant school and examine spontaneous corrections made by the children of their speech. (Author/NCR)

Both in standard factors of syntactic maturity and in measures of overall writing quality, first year college students trained in sentence combining achieved significantly higher scores than students following a conventional curriculum. (DD)

The treatment group of college freshmen, which worked with the Strong-Christensen sentence-combining materials during an intensive six-week period, scored significantly higher on two factors of syntactic maturity than the control group. (DD)

Suggests some ways to overcome the problems connected with the use of the Syntactic Density Score. (DD)

Lexical differences between English and German in "there" constructions are examined. Contrastive evidence is also examined to propose analyses for certain troublesome types of "there" constructions in English. The descriptive approach attempts to show that the structuring of information in "there" sentences is dependent on lexical features of the…

By the fifth grade no differences were found between the order of adjectives in a sentence preferred by children and by adults. (ED/JD)

Analyzed syntactically were language samples of five mildly mentally retarded children (6-10 years old). (CL)

The analysis predicts the distribution of cleft-like sentence types whose introducing particle is "this" or "that" rather than "it," and asserts a correlation between judgements of grammaticality of pseudo clefts and sentences containing free relatives. (Author/NCR)

This article traces the development through Greek and Latin roots of the use of the verb "haber" in the Spanish language. (Text is in Spanish.) (NCR)