Examines the distribution and function of the French conjunctions "ou,""soit," and "tantot." (AM)

Review of some syntactic problems concerning the use of French pronouns. (PMP)

The continuation of articles on the passive voice appearing in the "Grammaire vivante" section of the periodical. The production of the passive sentence is considered under two headings: the simple verb and the complex verbal group. (Text is in French.) (AMH)

This installment of the series on the passive considers the subject and the object of the verb under the following headings: part of speech, circumstantial objects and the relationship between clauses and sentences. (Text is in French.) (AMH)

Four categories of statements are isolated in an attempt to analyze relationships between voice, tense and use of auxiliaries in French. The deep structure theory of generative grammar is questioned and a theory of semantic distinctions operating within the forms of a language is proposed. (Text is in French.) (AMH)

A summary of problems in the study of structural complexity. Within the framework of a "morphology of utterances," the following topics are addressed: the criteria of intuition and common sense; the relationship of complexity of language and thought; and the possibility of a purely linguistic measure of complexity. (Text is in French.) (AMH)

Following an experiment which revealed that production of grammatically correct sentences and correction of grammatically problematic sentences in French are essentially different skills, a progressive training method for finding and correcting grammatical errors was developed. (MSE)

Contrasts usage of: (1) the imperfect and passe simple, (2) the imperfect and passe compose, and (3) the passe simple and passe compose. (RL)