Chinese students have particular problems with the intersection of two English verb classes: transitional event verbs and state verbs of having and being. The problem is that these two verb classes appear to "pair up." Chinese students tend to be unaware that these two classes pair up. This study investigated whether lexical aspect could…

This article considers a mechanism of the linguistic change that occurs at the grammatical- and lexical-functioning levels. The linguistic phenomenon that stem from these mechanisms can be seen in the socio-linguistic macro context of the autonomization and vehicularization of the speech. This article examines the development of the…

This paper argues that further distinctions of syllable weight are necessary to account for certain phonological processes. It is shown that Pulaar, a dialect of Fula, makes a four-way weight distinction. In addition, the analysis shows that previous analyses of Pulaar metrical structure are inadequate. The paper provides a comprehensive analysis…

Commissioner P. P. Claxton issued a questionnaire to 2,500 teachers, selected through the administrative officers of large city systems asking for the games and exercises which the teachers used in correcting the classes of errors which are given as chapter headers in this bulletin. Detailed responses were received from some 500 teachers. The…

Part of research on negation in Chinese supported by the Research Council, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. (DD)

Revised version of a paper presented at the Twenty-Fifth Annual Meeting of the Northwest Anthropological Association, Portland, Oregon, April 1972; research supported by the National Museum of Canada, the Philips Fund of the American Philosophical Society, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. (DD)