Research supported by a Faculty Research Grant from the Social Science Research Council. (DD)

This article presents a description of intonation in English in terms of the relationship between the syntactic surface structure of a given sentence and certain distinctive intonative features.

Uses a quantified version of a syntactic acquisition hierarchy to compare syntactic development in second language learners to that of other components of grammar, particularly inflectional morphology. (CB)

Part of Lexicography and Dialect Geography, Festgabe for Hans Kurath''. (DD)

Revised version of a paper presented to the Canadian Linguistic Association Annual Meeting, Montreal, Quebec, 1972; research partially supported by the Canada Council. (DD)

A study of the relationship of morphology and syntax to the communication process from the functionalist viewpoint. Topics considered are: morphological processes, that is the distinction between functional and contingent language facts; the degree of necessity of syntax; the difference between functionalism and traditional grammar. (Text is in…

Examines Modern Greek verbs which seem to be negative-raisers, including consideration of data that offer syntactic justification for negative-raisers and an examination of the semantics and pragmatics of the negative-raisers. (CB)

Variations in the use of perfect "have" and its alternatives in the Trinidadian creole continuum are examined, based on data from a sample of speakers from different social backgrounds. The findings have implications for the study of morphosyntactic variation in other divergent dialect situations. (Contains 56 references.) (Author/LB)

An analysis is made of three "wh" words -- what, which, and who -- which are most frequently used as interrogative and relative pronouns in English. An attempt is made to find some formal syntactic markers distinguishing these two uses and consequently to postulate distinct feature matrices for them. (Available from: See FL 508 214.) (Author/RM)

Kashubian, which is considered a dialect of Polish by some linguists and a separate Slavic language by others, is spoken in a small area along the Baltic coast of northern Poland. The present study, an attempt to help fill the gap in the investigation of Slavic languages in the United States, deals primarily with the speech of a Minnesota-born…