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What Are National Languages Good for? Papers presented at a Workshop of the Linguistics Society of America Institute (Washington, DC, July 17, 1985).

Coulmas, Florian, Ed. – 1985

Papers from a workshop on the role and development of national languages include: "What Is a National Language Good for?" (Florian Coulmas); "To the Language Born: Thoughts on the Problem of National and International Languages" (Jacob Mey); "Swahili as a National Language in East Africa" (Marilyn Merritt, Mohamed…

Descriptors: Arabic, Developing Nations, Diachronic Linguistics, Ethnicity

When Verbs Collide: Papers from the Ohio State Mini-Conference on Serial Verbs (Columbus, Ohio, May 26-27, 1990). Working Papers in Linguistics No. 39.

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Joseph, Brian D., Ed.; Zwicky, Arnold M., Ed. – 1990

Papers from the conference on the occurrence of verbal constituents in series in certain languages, particularly pidgins and creoles, include the following: "What Are We Talking About When We Talk About Serial Verbs?" (Arnold M. Zwicky); "Serial Verb Constructions" (Pieter Seuren); "On the Definition and Distribution of…

Descriptors: Arabic, Chinese, Creoles, Definitions

Actes des Journees de linguistique (Proceedings of the Linguistics Conference) (7th, March 1993).

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Drouin, Patrick, Ed.; And Others – 1993

Papers from a 1993 conference on linguistics, all in French, include essays on the following: Yoruba morphophonology; literary Arabic morphophonology; grammatical cohesion in Burushaski; phonological and lexical variation in French Canadian dialects, including Acadian; insults in Madrid Spanish; discourse analysis; maintenance of meaning in…

Descriptors: African Languages, American Indians, Arabic, Berber Languages