This article is concerned with the possible existence of a verbal anatomical representation comparable to that deriving from neural relationships concerned with somatic functions on the sensorimotor cortex of the brain, as seen in linguistic evidence available from Melanesian languages. (CLK)

Noun classes are said to have semantic content and be organized on a semantic basis. The system of organization is drawn up showing that divisions are made between unit and mass; under unit, shape and non-shape; under mass, liquid, lumpy, etc. Shape is divided into extended, curved, non-extended, etc. (SC)

Anthropological linguists often deal with language systems manifesting nonrandom variability. This article demonstrates that methods developed within the U.S. for the study of language variability are useful in the study of creole languages. This study was conducted on the island of Tobago in the West Indies. (CHK)

Deals with patterns of limited borrowing in Tarahumara, or Raramuri, a Uto-Aztecan language in northern Mexico. Probes the sociolinguistic constraints that have apparently caused Raramuri to have borrowed surprisingly little from Spanish. (Author/RM)

Presents an heuristic procedure, based on cooccurrence of forms, for identifying the closed systems of a language and to show how the systems interlock, differ in meaning, and manifest themselves. (AM)

This article explores the notion that the assumptions on which the process of linguistic analysis is based relate to linguistic universals. The kinds of universals that underlie the process and their role in it are examined. (CLK)

This paper discusses linguistic autonomy as related to the linguistic work of Carl Voegelin. (CLK)

Examines some of the main theoretical issues at the basis of generative grammar and the ways they can be a useful theoretical frame of reference for field procedures. (SC)