THIS DETAILED, LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS DOES NOT CONTRAST ENGLISH AND QUECHUA PHONOLOGY AND GRAMMAR BUT RATHER ATTEMPTS TO DESCRIBE THE DISTRIBUTIONAL AND SEMANTIC CATEGORIES PARTICULAR TO CUZCO QUECHUA IN A THOROUGH AND SCIENTIFIC MANNER. IT CAN BE USED IN THE FIELD TO IDENTIFY UNFAMILIAR UTTERANCES OR TO HELP UNDERSTAND HOW NATIVE SPEAKERS…

THE PURPOSE OF THIS STUDY IS TO DESCRIBE THE MAIN STRUCTURAL ASPECTS OF COCHABAMBA QUECHUA. IT IS INTENDED TO SERVE AS A REFERENCE BOOK FOR LINGUISTS AND THOSE LEARNING THIS DIALECT. THE INTRODUCTION DISCUSSES THE STUDY'S PURPOSE, INFORMANTS, METHODS, TERMINOLOGY, AND NOTATION. THE AUTHORS THEN EXAMINE IN SEPARATE CHAPTERS PHONOLOGY,…

The research undertaken for producing a "Dictionary of American Regional English" (the DARE project) is reported in this document. Ten spoken and 13 written sources of relevant data are listed, and outlines of the editing and production procedures and of the material to be included are given. Completion date for the dictionary is 1976.…

The articles presented in this study represent four of the seven Nahuatl dialects in which the Summer Institute of Linguistics workers are currently involved. Tentative conclusions from the dialect testing teams engaged in measuring degree of intelligibility between Nahuatl dialects suggest that almost a dozen mutually unintelligible Nahuatl areas…

This monograph on Gowda Kannada presents a description of the phonology, morphophonemics, nouns, pronouns, adjectives and adverbs, interjections, noun derivations, verbs, clitics, and verb stem alternants. The author, in the Introduction and throughout the work, has pointed out some of the important differences between this dialect of Kannada and…

The subject of this book is the development of written Estonian from its beginnings in the 13th century up to the last few decades. This work also attempts to bring out points not made in previous works and pays special attention throughout to the role of Finnish influence. Following the Introduction, chapters deal with the periods (1) from the…

The main purpose of this study is to fill a gap in the literature on the Mixtec language of Mexico by describing, systematically and completely, the grammar of the Jicaltepec dialect of the language. A subsidiary aim is that of collecting in one place and within a unified theoretical framework, phonological information about Mixtec that had…

Views from different disciplines and within different disciplines often come into sharp conflict with one another about the speech of lower socio-economic class Negroes. Furthermore, some current views of Black English have challenged basic linguistic and sociolinguistic premises about the nature of language. It is therefore the purpose of this…

Intended for use with students who have just become aware of dialect variations, this book addresses dialects of American English. Chapters include an introduction to dialect study, discussions of colonial English, Eastern sttlement, Eastern words, Eastern pronunciation, Eastern grammar, the Westward movement, an analysis of sectional atlas…

A study was designed to measure the effects of regional dialects on the attitude of the receiver toward the source. Four hundred ninety-two subjects who were randomly selected from a basic communication course listened to a speech given by a native of one of five dialect regions (Southern, Northeastern, General American, New York, and…

Argues that the mechanism of rule ordering, although sufficient to account for certain facts about linguistic change and variation, is not necessary. Different sequences of identical rules needed to account for dialectal facts in Catalan can be predicted by two independently motivated universal principles. (CHK)

The question of the origin of Catalan is considered from the historic, geographical, linguistic and textual viewpoints. (Text is in Spanish.) (CHK)

Discusses the curriculum implications of recent research and linguistic theory on bidialectalism. (DD)

The uses of the eleven Spanish clitic pronouns are discussed for various regional dialects and formal and colloquial speech in Spain and Latin America. (Text is in Spanish.) (CHK)

This bibliography cites studies concerning Quebec French done since 1965, and is a sequel to Dulong's 1966 bibliography. (Text is in French.) (CDSH/CLK)