Sound and Grammar offers an original overall linguistic theory based on work by Edward Sapir, supplemented with ideas of Ajdukiewicz, Montague, and Selkirk, that resolves long-standing issues involving the relationship between syntax and phonology. Illustrations are offered from several languages.

Susan F. Schmerling, Ph.D. (1973), University of Illinois, is a technical editor. She has published Aspects of English Sentence Stress (University of Texas Press, 1976), articles on pragmatics, syntactic theory, and semantics, including, most recently, "On Non-Progressive ?being?" (with Diego Gabriel Krivochen) and "Rhetorical Meaning".