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In this section two competing hypotheses about what features are initially missed during the acquisition of spatial adjectives will be reviewed. Following this review, the missing-feature theory itself will be put to a test and will be found wanting. In the next section a revision of the missingfeature theory will be developed. 1 But there is no doubt in my mind that animals can do very many complex things of which we have not the faintest inkling, and I think even the study of vocalization is still promising for the linguist.2 Yes, my countrymen, I own to you that, after having given it an attentive consideration, I am clearly of opinion it is your interest to adopt it [the Constitution].3 The reader will be pleased to remember, that, at the beginning of the second book of this history, we gave him a hint of our intention to pass over several large periods of time, in which nothing happened worthy of being recorded in a chronicle of this kind.4 Many different answers to this question would be worth serious consideration. But I submit that these selections, written by different people at different times for very different purposes, are stylistically most similar in that they all include a significant portion of some kind or kinds of metadiscourse. Metadiscourse is a term that perhaps is new to many composition teachers. For although it and some very similar terms have some currency in linguistics