That are ill-formed with respect to the grammar will be received, both because p e o p l e regularly form ungra=cmatical utterances and because there are a variety of forms that cannot be readily included in current grammatical models and are hence "extra-grammatical". These might be rejected, but as Wilks stresses, ".understanding requires, at the very least, . some attempt to interpret, rather than merely reject, what seem to be ill-formed utterances." [WIL76] This paper i n v e s t i g a t e s several language phenomena commonly considered ungrammatical