Discusses the code-switching in English and Spanish of adjectives or nouns inside a noun phrase containing both. Proposes that the device that prevents switched prenominal Spanish adjectives is the same one that prevents the same classes of adjectives from normally appearing in prenominal position in Spanish. (SED)

Presents data that suggest that three factors--social variables, speech register, and linguistic variables--influence the choice of grammatical structure in Brazilian Portuguese where options exist to express the same idea. Examines the range of options used in responses that indicate general patterns of linguistic structures related to particular…

This paper focuses on tonal alternations in the Urhobo noun phrase. Urhobo is an Edoid language spoken extensively in Delta State, Nigeria. The language has two basic tones, high and low, plus a phenomenon of downstep, both automatic and non-automatic. The noun phrases examined include the noun + noun associative construction, the noun + relative…

Work supported by the National Research Council of Canada, the Ministere de l'Education du Gouvernement du Quebec, and the Bell Telephone Company of Canada. (DD)

A close appositive syntagme is defined as an unhyphenated noun combination which is semantically congruent. The new type under discussion consists of a noun with a proper noun, as in die Expedition Spitzbergen'' for die Expedition fuhrt nach Spitzbergen.'' (RS)

A justification for teaching long forms instead of contracted forms, e.g., What's this?,'' as a pedagogical advantage in the intitial stages of the spoken language course. (RS)

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

Discusses the general problem of the formal correspondence between predicates and phrases, introducing the principle that the fundamental units of a lexicon are phrases rather than words. Shows that the novelty of this approach consists in an integration of lexicon and syntax and poses particular problems where the noun is concerned. (MES)

Analyzes the written syntax of a group of profoundly deaf English children aged 10 to 11 years, utilizing a controlled elicitation sampling method used earlier with a single child. Demonstrates and describes the structured nature of deaf children's syntax, which shows similarities with 2 to 2 1/2-year-old hearing children's syntax. (Author/MES)

Discusses factors governing the choice between natural and inverted word order in subject headings containing adjectival phrases. (FM)

Presents a critique of John Knowles' (1975) analysis of Spanish impersonal "se." (AM)