Ed, I'd be glad to give you permission to include the language section of the Guidelines in Syntax, but I can't do that unilaterally. I have to ask my two colleagues who are leaders here: the liaison from NCTE and the Folio Review Chair. I expect it will be OK but will let you know soon. These guidelines have been reviewed, modified and finally approved by hundreds of individuals over a year and a half: members of NCTE and other groups. While one might disagree with parts or much of them, they do represent t he profession's overall view. The marriage of minds is composed of teacher educators, English persons, linguists, etc. The amount of detail expected of a given group of preservice teachers is probably best left to individual institutions or states, rather than a prescriptive list that might be far too long to be useful.