ABSTRACT
The neurologist Arnold Pick was one of the early clinical aphasiologists to focus on disorders of sentence construction. He emphasized the appearance of agrammatism in the course of recovery, stating that the grammatical disturbance may be initially masked by other difficulties but will become more evident as recovery progresses, and in milder cases may be observed from early on. Pick's definition of agrammatism includes what we now refer to as paragrammatism. Unlike more recent approaches he considered disturbances in sentence production alone and did not examine the related issues in sentence comprehension. Pick stated 'Agrammatism is that form of pathologically changed speaking, in which the processes operating in the grammatical and syntactic construction of language are disturbed in multiple ways . . .' (p. 203, trans, in de Bleser 1987).
