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Roberts, Paul..English Sentences. NY: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1962. [R, N7] [based on work of Chomsky]

_____ . English Syntax. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1964.[R, N7] [This is his transformational grammar.]

_____ Modern Grammar. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1968. [Transformational, from what I've read about it.]

_____  Patterns of English. New York:Harper & Row, 1956. [R; Structural]

_____ . Understanding English. NY: Harper & Row. 1958. [R, N7]

_____ Understanding Grammar. New York: Harper & Row, 1954. [HR;  This is the best pedagogical, traditional grammar I have found, (and it is probably still the best book for teaching students -- with the obvious exception of mine ;)  )]

Robins, R. H. General Linguistics: An Introductory Survey. London: Longmans Green, 1964. 

_____ A Short History of Linguistics. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1970. [R, N7  A good book to start with.]

Rommetveit, R. Words, Meanings, and Messages. New York, 1968. 

Rose, *HR* Mike. "Remedial Writing Courses: A Critique and a Proposal" CE,  45 (1983), 109-128. 

Rosenblatt, L. (1978) . The reader, the text, the poem: The transactional theory of the literary work. Carbondale, Ill.: Southern Illinois University.

Sanborn, J. (1986) . Grammar: Good wine before its time. English Journal 75.3 (Mar.): 72-80.

Sapir, Edward. "Language." In his Culture, Language, Personality: Selected Essays. Ed. David G. Mandelbaum. Berkeley: Univ of Cal Press, 1956,  1-44.

Savage, John. ed. Linguistics for Teachers. Chicago: Science Research Associates. 1973. 

Schuster, Edgar H. "Reforming English Language Arts: Let's Trash the Tradition." Phi Delta Kappan. March 1999. 518 - 524.

Searle, J. R. Speech Acts, Cambridge University Press. 1969.

_____. 'What is a speech act?' in Giglioli, P. P. Language and Social Context, Harmondsworth, Penguin. 1975, 136-54.

_____. 'The logical status of fictional discourse' New Literary History, (1975) 6,319-32.

Seegers, J.C. "Form of Discourse and Sentence Structure," Elementary  English Review, 10 (March, 1933), 51-54. 

Sentence & the Paragraph, The. NCTE, 1966. [R, N7 An anthology of essays.] 

Shook, *HR* Ron. "Response to Martha Kolln," CCC, 34 (1983), 491-95. [R]

Sinclair, J.M. A Course in Spoken English: Grammar. Oxford UP, 1972. 

Small, Robert. "Why I'll Never Teach Grammar Again." English Education 17 No 3 (Oct 85), 174-79.[HR]

Smoot, W. Scott. "An Experiment in Teaching Grammar in Context." Voices from the Middle. March 2001 (8:3) 34-42. [This is a very interesting article on an attempt to integrate the teaching of writing and grammar. H,X (Voices)]

Stockwell, R. P., Foundations of Syntactic Theory, Englewood Cliffs, N. J., Prentice-Hall, 1977.

Stormzand, Michael, and M.V. O'Shea. How Much English Grammar? Baltimore:  Warwick and York, 1924. 

Stotsky, Sandra L. "Sentence-Combining as a Curricular Activity: Its Effect  on Written Language Development." RTE, 9 (1975), 30-72.

Thomas, Owen. Transformational Grammar and the Teacher of English. 1965.  [R]

Thornton, G. Language, Experience and School. Edward Arnold, 1974.

Trager, George L. and Henry Lee Smith, Jr., An Outline of English  Structure. 1957. 

Ullmann, S. Semantics: An Introduction to the Science of Meaning.  Blackwell, 1962. 

Van Dijk, T. A., Text and Context: explorations in the semantics and pragmatics of discourse, Longman, 1977.

Visser, F. Th. An Historical Syntax of the English Language. Leiden, 1963-. 

Waddell, Marie L., Robert M. Esch and Roberta R. Walker. The Art of Styling Sentences: 20 Patterns to Success. Woodbury, NY: Barron's Educational  Series, 1972. [THR; The trouble with this approach is that students get the idea that the patterns are boxes into which sentences must fit.]

Walker, E. and Wales, R., eds New Approaches to Language Mechanisms, Amsterdam, North-Holland. 1976.

Warner, A. (1993) . If the shoe no longer fits, wear it anyway? English Journal 82.5 (Sept.) 76-80. [R; anti-grammar]

Waterman, John T. Perspectives in Linguistics. 1963.

Weaver, Constance. Grammar for Teachers: Perspectives and Definitions. Urbana, Ill: NCTE, 1979. [R, N7 ; A misleading book -- its examples from students' writing are extremely simplistic compared to the sentences that students actually write.].

_____. Lessons to Share. Portsmouth, NH.: Boynton/Cook Publishers, Heinemann. 1998.

_____. Teaching grammar in context. Portsmouth, NH.: Boynton/Cook Publishers, Heinemann. 1996.

Whorf, B. L. Language, Thought and Reality, ed J. B. Carroll New York, MIT Press. 1956.

Williams, J.M. "Defining complexity." College English (1979) 40, 595-609.

_____. "The Phenomenology of Error." CCC 32 (May 81): 152-168. [HX,R]

Wold, A. H. Decoding Oral Language, Academic Press. 1978.

Yngve, V. 'The depth hypothesis' in Structure of Language and its Mathematical Aspects, Proceedings of Symposia in Applied Mathematics, (1961)  12, 130-8.