THIS REPORT DISCUSSES LEXICOGRAPHICAL CLASSIFICATION OF FOLK TERMS. THE CONCERNS OF SUCH CLASSIFICATION ARE DESCRIBED AS (1) IDENTIFYING RELEVANT SYNTACTIC STRUCTURES, (2) IDENTIFYING FUNDAMENTAL SEMANTIC UNITS IN SPECIFIC CONTEXTS, (3) DELINEATING SIGNIFICANT SETS OF SEMANTIC UNITS IN PARTICULAR DOMAINS, AND (4) TRANSLATING AND MARKING THE…

The ending "-ni," a productive morpheme which can be affixed to Swahili nouns, has been called the "locative" by most grammarians. While the author does not object to this term, he does not agree with Sacleux and Seidel, who call it a case. In some Indo-European and Altaic languages, the author argues, the locative is a case in…

Analyses the use of the French "en". (AM)

This column examines the term "variable rules," which accounts for patterning in language. Variable rules can show variation in the structural description and/or in the process involved in the rule. (SW)

THIS PAPER PRESENTS THE SECOND PART OF A THREE-PART ARTICLE ON CERTAIN ASPECTS OF THE LINGUISTIC STRUCTURE OF GANDA. THE SPECIFIC CONCERNS OF THIS PART ARE (1) THE TONOMORPHOLOGY OF NOUNS AND ADJECTIVES AND (2) BASIC SETS OF ABSOLUTE AND DEMONSTRATIVE PRONOUNS. TONAL DECLENSIONS OF NOUNS AND PRONOUNS ARE PRESENTED ACCORDING TO CLASS, REPRESENTING…

Transparent" refers to words formed from other words in such a way that meanings and relationships to the original object or concept are clearly suggested; the author analyzes and classifies the processes according to which these types of words are formed. (RS)

Presents an analysis of Russian compound word structure, dividing the compound terms into four categories based on word-formation structure and showing how these four categories may be translated into English. (AM)

TWO MODELS OF DESCRIPTION, GENERATIVE AND NONGENERATIVE, ARE APPLIED TO THE PHONOLOGY OF ITALIAN TO DETERMINE WHICH OF THE TWO OFFERS A SIMPLER YET MORE COMPREHENSIVE STATEMENT. THE NONGENERATIVE MODEL IS GIVEN IN A LISTING OF PHONEMES AND A BRIEF STATEMENT OF THE PHONOTACTICS AND ALLOPHONICS. THE GENERATIVE MODEL STATES THE FACTS IN 11 REWRITE…

THIS PAPER IS THE THIRD PART OF A THREE-PART ARTICLE DEALING WITH CERTAIN ASPECTS OF THE LINGUISTIC STRUCTURE OF GANDA. THE SPECIFIC CONCERNS OF THIS PART ARE QUALIFICATIVES (ADJECTIVES, ENUMERATIVES, QUANTITATIVES, AND POSSESSIVES) AND VERBAL RADICALS AND AFFIXES. LISTS ARE PROVIDED IN ENGLISH AND GANDA, DESCRIBING EXAMPLES PERTAINING TO EACH…

The syntax of lexical units, or signs, of American Sign Language (ASL) is analyzed. Previous areas of study concerning pauses, functional sentence perspective, theme and rheme, and topic and comment are discussed. A model is offered to depict topic-comment relationships in ASL using space, vectors, and relationship rules. (SW)

Revised version of paper presented at the Annual Conference of Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast, Vancouver, B.C., June 1973. (DD)

Paper prepared for a conference on Creole Languages and Education, University of the West Indies, July 24-28, 1972. (DD)

Tense-subordination in English, as distinct from clause-subordination, is examined. The concept means that the viewpoint of one tense-form (the subordinate tense) is based on the viewpoint of another (the governing tense). (SW)