A description of the circumstances in which the various types of past tense can or cannot be used in final clauses with "damit." (Text is in German.) (TL)

Margaret Speas'"Phrase Structure in Natural Language" is reviewed. It presents three recent innovations in phrase structure research that offer new tools to explain data and solve old problems: the VP-internal subject hypothesis, the layered VP hypothesis, and the articulated IP hypothesis. (Contains 19 references.) (LB)

Revised version of a paper presented at the Summer Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, July 31, 1971. (RS)

Original Russian version appeared in Sign, Language, Culture,'' edited by A. Greimas et al., Mouton, 1970, p195-215. (RS)

Pin-yin transcription is used for Mandarin examples. (RS)

This article attempts to find a systematic structure behind French verbal idiomatic expressions, specifically the opposition between the verb, article, noun sequence and the sequence verb, noun. (Text is in French.) (AM)

Argues that verbal prefixes in Hungarian should not be assigned to a specific category of their own, but should be analyzed as belonging to the category of postpositions. (Author/AM)

Argues that the position of the finite verb in Old English clauses reflects synchronic variation in underlying structure, INFL-medial versus INFL-final, and that the syntax of main and subordinate clauses is the same. Quantitative data analysis indicates that the frequency of INFL-medial structure increases at the expense of INFL-final structure…

These papers were written as supporting documents for a colloquium on the Vietnamese language. The first catalogues and analyzes Vietnamese vowels, diphthongs, consonants and tones. The second analyzes some facets of Vietnamese syntax. (CHK)

Syntactic rules with structural descriptions which apply on several linguistic levels are called global derivational constraints. (DD)