Upland Yuman speakers are located in parts of Arizona. The Yavapai, Havasupai and Hualapai dialects are discussed and compared for auxiliaries, verb markers, possessives, and negatives. (SC)

First language acquisition studies reveal that children overextend the minimal distance principle (MDP) during their acquisition of infinitive complement structures. The MDP dictates the interpretation of the logical subject of the infinitive in these structures and overrides marked lexical features such as subject control. Misinterpretations by…

Lexical semantics deals with the determination and description of the semantic knowledge or structure embodied in the lexicon. A description of lexical structure focuses on the meaning of a single lexical item in terms of its place in a structure consisting of related lexical items. This study concerns Japanese and English verbs of judging with…

Some results are reported of an investigation into the meanings of the English modal auxiliary verbs. The corpus consisted of the one million word Brown University corpus of American English and a matching Lancaster University corpus of British English. The three factors operative in the study were: (1) contextual features, that is, co-occurring…

The English verb is traditionally presented as having so many "tenses" that both students and teachers are confused. No real logic seems to hold the whole thing together, and teachers' explanations are often off the mark. Organizing verb forms in terms of past, present, and future is not only incorrect, but misleading. The linguist…

This paper is directed toward a traditional problem in the analysis of texts, that of finding meaningful linguistic units that are larger than a sentence and smaller than the text itself. Two principles are given for finding extended temporal structures based on the temporal expressions that occur in sentences: a sentence can be captured to form…

Some psychologically salient meaning properties of lexical items were isolated using judgments about the similarity of meaning within three sets of words: verbs of judging, hypothetical verbs, and locative prepositions. Subjects were asked to rate the similarity of meaning of all possible pairs of words from one of the three domains on a 1-9…

In his article "Contraction, Deletion, and Inherent Variability of the English Copula" ("Language," 1969, William Labov asserts that the affinities of Black English (BE) with Standard English (SE) are evidenced by the fact that BE copula deletion occurs in those positions where SE copula contraction may occur. This paper examines the conclusions…

This paper considers such contracted forms as "I'm,""he's,""we'd," and "isn't" or "won't." It is often assumed, the author states, that every contracted form is derived by surface-level phonological rules from a non-contracted and semantically equivalent counterpart. The author presents evidence to…

This two-volume comprehensive English-Serbocroatian dictionary, first published in Yugoslavia by the Serbian Publishing House, Prosveta, in 1956, contains the Serbocroatian equivalents of about 100,000 words, phrases, and idioms. Volume I (A-M, 843 pages) includes a prefatory section of printed and written alphabets in Serbian, Croatian (both…

This volume contains all the lexical items introduced in the Korean Basic Course. (See ED 024 943 for a description of Lesson Units 1-112.) The lexical items are arranged in the traditional dictionary order (explained in the Foreword) and indexed according to the lesson unit in which they appeared. The second half of the volume contains charts…

THIS ANALYSIS OF UNDERLYING SYNTACTIC STRUCTURE IS BASED ON THE ASSUMPTION THAT THE PARTS OF SPEECH CALLED "VERBS" AND "ADJECTIVES" ARE TWO SUBCATEGORIES OF ONE MAJOR LEXICAL CATEGORY, "PREDICATE." FROM THIS ASSUMPTION, THE HYPOTHESIS IS ADVANCED THAT, IN LANGUAGES EXHIBITING THE COPULA, THE DEEP STRUCTURE OF SENTENCES CONTAINING PREDICATE…