Discusses the syntax and morphology of languages of active case or typology, chiefly found in North America (the Nadene, Sioux and Gulf families) and South America (the Tupi-Guarani family). (CK)

This volume of papers in linguistics is the first in a series of proposed semiannual publications sponsored by the Linguistic Circle of Madison, Wisconsin. The first of the four papers concerns recursive rules, their use, and possible necessity. It is the author's intention to examine some of the properties of rules which he believes to hold for…