Paper presented at the 1971 Summer Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Buffalo, New York. Assesses an analysis made by Charles Fillmore on the grammar of the English verbs hit'' and break''. (VM)

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)

Proposes an alternative to transformational grammars, based on the notion that a grammatical system should be open to psycholinguistic interpretation, and disallowing grammatical transformations, dealing instead with the information content of sentence surface structure. (Author/AM)