End of ADS-L Digest - 9 Feb 1994 to 10 Feb 1994
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1. An English Grammar Text (6) 2. blue laws, monkeys (3) 3. List
Mail Oddities 4. A rara avis 5. SPARROW-COUGH, ETC. 6. Monkeys
7. terms of venery, primate order 8. Monkeys & blue laws 9.
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------------ Date: Fri, 11 Feb 1994 00:13:36 -0700 From: Rudy
Troike Subject: Re: An English Grammar Text Tim, Here at the
University of Arizona, we give students a pure diet of 1963-era
Transformational-Generative grammar, building that on a required
course in the History of English. We do try to show them how
tree diagrams relate to Reed-Kellogg diagrams, and try to
disabuse them of simplistic elementary-school notional
definitions of sentence, subject, and parts of speech, etc.
(including debunking the notions that gender is a matter of sex
and that "possessives" are really that --genitive