teacher intervention, 82
television
hours watched, 235
tense
and tribal languages, 98
definition of, 70
tense revisited, 214
tenses
number in English, 70
T-G grammar
problems with, 182
thatandwhich
usage, 150, 179
theBible
first translations, 7, 10
the Church, 7
the five offices, 4
the French Revolution, 13
the reason is because
and grammaticality, 139
the Renaissance, 10
Thernstrom & Thernstrom, 241
the writer as artist, 29
theory of language, 162
theory of mind, 162
topicalization, 247
traditional grammar
and prescription, 17, 87
transformation rules, 165, 166,
elimination of, 189
transitive and intransitive verbs, 72
tree diagrams, 108
trivium, 6, 8
Trudgill, 220, 230, 251
Twitchell, 232
two-word utterances, 38
U
UC Berkeley, 239
universal grammar, 38n, 165
and the minimalist program, 184, 185
usage
definition of, 31
V
Vail, 233
Vandenbroucke, 12
Venerable Bede, 7
verbs
and tense, 70
definition of, 70
Vopat, 24
Vygotsky, 229
W
WAC, 215
Wald, 360
Weaver, 29, 42, 44, 45
Weir, 33, 226
Weiss & Schwarz, 203
Wernicke’s area, 192
Wheelock, 2
White, 27
Whitehead, 27
whoandthat
usage, 145
whoandwhom
usage, 144, 145
willandshall
usage, 128
Witte, 29
Wolfram, 42, 347
Wolfram, Adger, & Christian, 21, 220, 227
women and dialect, 220
Woody Allen, 205
Writer’s Choice, 44
writing process, 78
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