The distinction between synchronic and diachronic linguistics is criticized on the ground that both approaches eliminate the individual from consideration and are insensitive to changes in the individual and society. (Author/RM)

Describes an evolutionary compositional theory and method based on cause and effect. In Section I, the fundamentals of the theory are presented, in Section II the method of description. Section III compares the evolutionary theory and method with other currents in contemporary linguistic thought. (Author/RM)

Reviews current work in Romance linguistics and discusses the kind of scholarship the field needs. (RM)

Original Russian version appeared in "Voprosy jazykoznanija" 3, 1971. (DD)

Presents arguments to disprove the thesis that "the phoneme is a bundle of distinctive features." (RM)

Discusses the history, nature and current context of diglossia in Greece. (RM)

A discussion of disappearing and no longer used languages in anthropomorphic metaphors "language death" and "language suicide." Three stages in the disappearance of several specific languages are described. Ultimately, the direct cause of "language suicide" is not disappearance of rules but disappearance of speakers;…

Certain changes which occurred between the Old and Middle Indic periods are discussed in detail in order to demonstrate the importance of examining synchronic structure in relation to historical change. (RM)

An analysis of the process of disappearance in which each language is engaged. Information concerning their past, present and future as indicated by the sociocultural profile of the ethnic groups concerned is given. The reasons for the language disappearance and, on the dialectological level, signs of language death are noted. (AMH)