Demonstrates the syntactic and semantic similarities between French nominal expressions with "faire," and attempts to establish a relationship between these expressions and related nominals independent of "faire." (AM)

Presents a preliminary study on the analysis of cleft sentences in Chinese, defining the cleft sentence in Chinese, clarifying its relationship to equation sentences, and discussing two alternative analyses. (Author/AM)

Examines a family of Spanish compounds formed by the combination of a third-person singular verb form with a following noun, and attempts to show the semantic categories of such compounds. It is argued that speakers of Spanish intuitively categorize unfamiliar "guarda" compounds according to their existing repertoires. (EJS)

First part of a continued article. (SK)

Examines topicalization in Haida, describes its role in the language, and describes the particles used to mark it. (Author/AM)

THIS REFERENCE GRAMMAR IS WRITTEN FOR THE LINGUIST OF THE LINGUISTICALLY-ORIENTED INTERMEDIATE STUDENT OF MODERN TURKISH. THE EXAMPLES OF USAGE IN THE TEXT HAVE BEEN SELECTED FROM THE COLLOQUIAL SPEECH OF EDUCATED TURKS. THE ENGLISH GLOSSES OF TURKISH WORDS OR PHRASES ARE LITERAL, TO SHOW THE TURKISH STRUCTURE, WITH PARENTHETICAL ADDITIONS TO…

THIS TRANSLATION FROM THE RUSSIAN IS THE FIRST FULL-LENGTH GRAMMAR OF OSSETIC TO BE PUBLISHED IN A WESTERN LANGUAGE SINCE 1903. THE PRESENT WORK IS ACTUALLY A COMPOSITE OF TWO WORKS BY MR. ABAEV WHICH APPEARED IN 1952 AND 1959 AND WERE TRANSLATED AND EDITED BY GABOR HORVATH, STEVEN P. HILL, AND HERBERT H. PAPER AS ONE OF A SERIES OF TRANSLATIONS…

THIS VOLUME PRESENTS THE LINGUISTIC MATERIAL ASSEMBLED BY THE AUTHORS (MUCH OF IT AT FIRST HAND) IN THE COURSE OF THEIR CLASSIFICATION OF THE NON-BANTU LANGUAGES OF NORTHEASTERN AFRICA. THIS MATERIAL, DEALING MAINLY WITH MORPHEMES AND GRAMMATICAL AND SYNTACTIC BEHAVIOR, INCLUDES DESCRIPTIONS OF THE FOLLOWING LANGUAGES--MORU-MANGBETU,…

A DESCRIPTION OF THE GBAYA PEOPLES LIVING IN THE DISTRICT OF BOSSANGOA IN THE NORTHWESTERN PART OF THE CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC IS PRESENTED IN THE INTRODUCTION TO THIS COMPREHENSIVE STUDY OF THE GBAYA LANGUAGE. (THE LANGUAGE IS SPELLED VARIOUSLY BEA, GBEA, AND GBAYA.) IN THREE SECTIONS, THE FIRST PART OF THE TEXT DEALS WITH THE PHONOLOGY AND…

Proposes description of Latin syntactic structures through an analysis of their communicative functions. (AM)

Analyzes "possessive" reflexives in French, within the framework of a generative grammar approach. A list of examples is appended. (AM)

Revised and extended version of a paper presented to the Seventh International Conference on Salish Languages, August 1972; research supported by the National Museum of Canada, Simon Fraser University, Rice University, and the Canada Council. Bella Coola is a Salishan language spoken in British Columbia, Canada. (DD)

Examines the structure of negation in questions in French, in particular the interrogative form containing a negative but expecting a positive response. (AM)

Presents a critique of John Knowles' (1975) analysis of Spanish impersonal "se." (AM)

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…