Word: syntax
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lunt and Wall are not kidding about the seminar, however. They intend to conduct a rigorous linguistic analysis of Ga, its phonology, morphology, and syntax...
...proofread the 500-word composition of today's high school student with his orally acquired vocabulary and sense of syntax requires 20 to 30 frustrating minutes; to read it for meaning of any kind, other than rudimentary structural coherence, is to undertake a task that itself has no meaning...
Died. Edward Estlin (e.e.) Cummings, 67, popular American poet who scattered syntax to collect bright images; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in North Conway, N.H. (see page...
...syntax of things...
This summer Rinker & Co. set up "institutes" at 20 universities from Cornell to California, gave 900 teachers a stiff dose of everything from satire to syntax. Supposedly the nation's best English teachers, they are expected to go home as "germ carriers" after a graduate-level summer tour of literature, linguistics and composition. Rinker is pleased-but not nearly as pleased as he hoped...