Paper read at the Annual Meeting of the Modern Language Association of America, December 29, 1968, in New York, New York. (DS)

Presents a novel approach, relying on linguistic principles of semantics, to teach grammatical usage in Spanish as a second language. (AM)

EIGHT HUNDRED AND NINE BOOKS AND ARTICLES PUBLISHED BETWEEN 1885 AND 1967 ARE LISTED IN THIS BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR STUDENTS OF APPLIED GERMAN LINGUISTICS AT THE GRADUATE AND UNDERGRADUATE LEVELS AND TEACHERS OF GERMAN IN HIGH SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES. THOUGH EMPHASIS IS ON APPLIED LINGUISTICS, SOME PUBLICATIONS ON LINGUISTIC THEORY ARE INCLUDED. THE MAJOR…

This article is intended to help teachers of German classes explain gender-number-case inflection. As a nominal is expanded from pronoun to noun phrase, inflections of the noun and adjectives relieve the burden of distinction from the determiner, increase the number of inflectional forms and provide redundancy for easy communication. (CHK)

The article explores syntactic and semantic aspects of the use of the Russian reflexive-possessive pronoun "svoj" versus the various other possessive pronouns. Examples drawn from literary texts and contemporary speech serve as the basis for comparison and analysis. (Text is in Russian.) (DH)

Develops F. de Saussure's metaphor that likens the study of linguistics to the study of mathematics, because of the complexity of both disciplines. (DS)

Earlier version of the article was read at the Third Annual Conference, Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language, held in London, December 30, 1969 to January 2, 1970. (DS)

This paper proposes that theoretical studies of the Chinese resultative construction can make it easier to teach and learn. Several varied linguistic approaches are necessary to the language teacher. Pedagogical analyses of data are valued when based on different relevant theoretical points, elucidating meaning, function, purpose and form of data.…

Discusses the importance of two Firthian themes for language teaching. The first theme, "Restricted Languages," concerns the "microlanguages" of every language (e.g., literary language, scientific, etc.). The second theme, "Collocation," shows that equivalent words in two languages rarely have the same position in…

This article consists of a practical semantic explanation of the embedding process in French and English, and outlines a methodology devised to facilitate the teaching of this process. (CLK)