Gives some examples of internal contradictions in the use of the Spanish subjunctive. Details these contradictions to show there is only a tenuous relationship between surface forms and semantic features and categories. (EKN)

Conference held in the Moscow Pedagogical Institute of Foreign Languages, in December 1972; discusses various papers presented at the conference. (HK)

Describes the surface structure of German adverbs proceeding from the standpoint of dependence-valence grammar. On the basis of their meaning, adverbs are classified as modal, temporal and locational. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

Field work conducted under the auspices of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, 1957-1971; research partially supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation. (DD)

Examines the relationship of "ne" and its accompanying particles ("pas,""plus,""jamais,""personne," etc.) in the French negation system, with special reference to subject opacity. (AM)

Sentences containing "estar" + participle are analyzed in order to highlight their semantic characteristics. (RM)

Describes and partially presents a theory of grammar combining the most essential features of Montague's theory of syntax and semantics and the transformational approach to syntax. Appendices include examples of truth definitions, derivations according to Montague's theory and illustrations of types of intentional logic. A list of references…

This article examines the conditions under which impersonal constructions may be used in French. The basic idea is that few rules govern this use, and that principally it is a matter of lexical interpretation. (Text is in French.) (AM)

An explanation is offered of aspect in imperative verb forms and in certain infinitive verb forms in Russian. Three presuppositions or conditions of appropriateness are postulated and their correlation to the aspect of an imperative or infinitive form discussed. (RM)

A collection of three papers written at a workshop on discourse grammar in Philippine languages is presented. The aims of the workshop were to (1) focus on discourse level grammar in the languages studied; (2) identify contrastive discourse types (genre) in the surface grammar; (3) identify the semantic constructions encoded by the different…

Seeks to formulate a definition of imperativity based on extralinguistic rather than formal notions. (TL)

A polemic is made for frame semantics and the linguistic phenomenon of anaphoric reference without noun phrase (NP) antecedent is examined within this frame. Non-syntactic anaphora is that which does not point out into the real world but rather points back into the discourse in a frame which has been built up between the speaker and hearer in a…