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patterns of regularity
and grammar, 210
Patterson, 18
Peck, 252
Perani, et al, 193
perfect verb forms, 71, 133
personal experience writing, 43
personal pronouns, 61
Petrosky, 227
phonetic form, 263
phrasal modifiers, 94
phrase, 97
phrase-structure grammar
and rules, 101, 218
pidgins, 236
Pinker, 22, 36, 37, 185, 203, 207, 208,
210, 217
and language acquisition, 37
Pinker & Prince, 210n
Plato, xi, 3, 4, 5, 162, 195
and transcendentalism, 99
pleonasm
in Chicano English, 246
politics of education, 240, 241
Poor Man’s Bible,10n
population growth
effects of, 12, 13
populism, 236
possessive pronouns, 66
possessives
and phrase structure, 133, 134
postmodernism, 240
postpostional languages, 185
postvocalicr, 223
poverty of input, 186, 194
poverty in America, 234n
predicate adjectives, 78
preposition
ending a sentence with, 90
prepositional languages, 185
prepositional phrases, 89, 113
prestige dialects, 230
Prince & Smolensky, 38n, 207
principles and parameters theory, 183
Priscian, 6, 8
probabilistic errors, 213, 216

progressive verb form, 71, 130

and predicate adjectives, 131

pronouns, 60, 61

proper nouns, 60

prosess pedagogy, 45

and dialect, 355

prosody, 216, 217

Protagoras, 3

Protestant Reformation, 10

proximity principle, 80

Pullum, 194

Pulvermuller, 203

punctuation

as a matter of convention, 113

Q

quadrivium, 7, 8

Quintilian, 6, 35n

R

Ramus, 14

rationalism

and traditional grammar, 99

reading instruction, 336

reciprocal pronouns, 65

Rector & Johnson, 234n

recursion, 103

Reed, 226

Reed-Kellogg diagrams, 107

reflexive pronouns, 68

relative clause transformation, 174, 175

problems with, 179

relative clauses

and phrase structure, 147

and punctuation, 146

relative pronoun shift, 143, 144

relative pronouns, 69, 70, 142

relative clauses, 69, 142

Research Triangle, 238

resistance, 354

restricted code, 232, 233

restrictive and nonrestrictive modifica-

tion, 134, 135

Reyes, 226

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