The modally unmarked verb forms may be constructed individually, according to a set of familiar principles, from grammatical elements within each inflectional order. A distinction between semological and grammatical units is important to such description and prediction. (MSE)

Where the lexical item is a body part, the lexical suffix substitutes for its entire content. (MSE)

Paper based on data gathered on the Crow reservation during a total residence of 32 months from 1967 - 1970 under the auspices of the Summer Institute of Linguistics. (VM)

Discusses phrase structure and marking rules (for number and case) in Zuni transitive and intransitive verbs. (DD)

Work supported by a National Institutes of Mental Health Grant. (DD)

This article discusses Nass-Gitksan, a native language of northern British Columbia. The basic syntactic structures of the language are presented, along with arguments to show that Nass-Gitskan is an ergative language both at the deep and the surface syntactic levels. (CLK)

In Onondaga and all northern Iroquoian languages, nouns can be incorporated into verbs. The function of this is semantic as well as syntactic. It is semantic in that the sense of an incorporated noun will be narrower than its unincorporated counterpart regardless of modifiers. Incorporation changes the transformational structure of the sentence.…

Revised version of a doctoral dissertation (Princeton University), partially subsidized by a grant from the Research Council of the University of North Carolina. (VM)