“…Topic Marking (Fischer 1974(Fischer , 1975Kegl, 1976;Friedman 1976) Left Dislocation (Fischer 1975) NP Fronting (Fischer 1974) Auxiliary Hopping (Fischer 1974) Passive, Object Incorporation, Advancement Rules, Deletion Rules, Agreement Marking (Kegl 1976) Our leanings differ from past research in that we reduce the focus on word order and concern ourselves primarily with cases of verb inflection. Furthermore, in keeping with the methodology of Fischer (1974) we strive not only to describe syntactic processes, but to formally represent them.…”