An etymology of the Spanish "se" from Latin usage. (CHK)

An editorialized report of data accumulated in a study of current American practice in the treatment of problems of usage in general purpose dictionaries. Their descriptive objectivity is characterized as "that of the blind men examining the elephant." Such practices reveal little change from that of Samuel Johnson's 1755 English…

Argues that the nonfuture use of "will" has exactly the same semantic structure as the future "will," and that the basic meaning of "will" is potential rather than future. (Author/HP)

The analysis presented here comprises a series of morphophonological rules (nasalization, assimilation, degemination) and a proposal for the way in which "in-" is incorporated in the lexicon. (Author/RM)

Kindergarten and third grade subjects were timed while they verified sentences that paired animal names and properties varying in saliency and type of meaning. Results showed kindergarteners to be as adept as third graders in retrieving functional meaning that was highly salient and dynamic. (Author/JMB)

Argues that recent attacks on euphemism have been too simplistic. (DD)

A comparison of American and British language of the theater. A conclusion noted is that there exists parrallel vocabulary in the United States and Great Britain. The terms studied are: director, producer, stage director, stage manager, assistant stage manager, artistic director. A glossary is appended. (Text is in French.) (AMH)

Presents some examples of differences of meaning, as well as "secondary effects," in noun phrases using or omitting the articles, definite and indefinite, in German, e.g.: "Die Kinder machen Krach,""Die Kinder machen den Krach," and "Die Kinder machen einen Krach!" The question is seen as needing much more research. (WGA)

Recent studies show that, although graphemic clues are fundamental to reading, older readers can effectively use syntactic and semantic context to improve their perception of word possibilities; the teaching of reading should include helping students increase their use of these supplemental cues. (JM)

The word "verteufeln" is now in common use in German television broadcasts. Its popularity in current colloquial German is seen as due to the fact that it combines picturesqueness and vagueness. It is used, for example, in lieu of words for "condemn,""scold," and "disparage." (Text is in German.) (WGA)

Argues against the thesis that exact translation is impossible, because languages reflect different world-views or different cognitive structures (de Saussure, Humboldt, Whorf, Weisgerber). The possibility of underlying universals (Lenneberg, Heger) must be considered and discussed in the field of language teacing. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

The ability of 10 language learning disabled (LD) children (age 9-12) and 10 sex/age matched normals to judge correctness of linguistic stress and semantic appropriateness was examined. Results indicated more difficulty on the linguistic stress task than the semantic interpretation task for LD children and better performance by normals on both…

Analyzes the difference between a motion and other statements connoted by the verbs "recommend,""suggest," and "order." Claims this difference is crucial to and touches on the very essentials of parliamentary law and procedure. (NH)

This study examined how students' perceptions of silhouette drawings of various weights would change when descriptors of Likert-like endpoints describing heavy and thin weights were changed. Subjects were 211 college students who completed one of five forms of a questionnaire differing only in endpoint descriptors. Results are discussed. (MT)

Linguistic expressions involving body parts (and other entities) belonging to an "interested person" often have unique grammatical properties, e.g., the dative case in Russian. The notion called Inalienable Possession (IP) is used to account for such properties. Semantic and pragmatic analyses account for some of the properties of IP in Russian.…