This beginning through advanced Spanish text includes grammar explanations, readings, and exercises with the emphasis on situations involving travel and tourism. The introductory lesson covers the Spanish language, the importance of Spanish in the United States, the Spanish alphabet, pronunciation, capitalization, punctuation, syllabication,…

Discusses current trends in psycholinguistics, particularly in reference to recent international linguistics conferences. (RM)

The principal nominal deictic affixes of Bella Coola, a Salishan language of British Columbia, are examined. (Author/RM)

The author defends a position previously taken against a criticism that stated that he did not use the Chomskyan model (or any closed model), but rather a general transformational grammar. Several selected examples are used to explain the ranking he assigns to this grammar in foreign language teaching. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

Advocates "pure intra-linguistic" criteria (rather than those of traditional grammar) to account for French usage in country names. The relationships between the phonology and the gender, and the use of the article and appropriate prepositional phrase, are suggested. A list of exceptions would be necessary. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

Poses as a problem the rules presented in traditional grammars on the agreement of adjective and substantive in French, specifically in respect to speaking and hearing. Offers a new classification in three categories, and gives reasons therefor. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

The "Elsewhere Condition" has been proposed by P. Kiparsky as an alternative to a treatment of disjuncive ordering. This article evaluates the Elsewhere condition and concludes there is little evidence to warrant its incorporation into linguistic theory. (CK)

This paper argues for cases of global rules that do not meet the constraining conditions proposed by P. Kiparsky, thereby proving these constraints invalid. (CK)

Points out to the anachronistic usage of certain pronouns in Spanish, particularly that of "usted-es" and "vosotros." (Text is in Spanish.) (DS)

Examines the similarity of clitic to other syntactic relationships, such as modifier plus noun, and demonstrates that the consistency of linking in each case may reflect a syntactic unity justifying obligatory liaison. (MSE)

In Eskimo there are two different underlying representations on the phonological level for the possessive and transitive constructions, but confusion has resulted from the fact that these have been treated identically. (CK)

Examines the level of explanatory adequacy outlined by Chomsky's theory of transformational grammar and finds it inadequate. (CK)

The notions of categorical selection (c-selection) and semantic selection (s-selection) as outlined in recent research on generative grammar are discussed. The first section addresses the type of selectional constraint imposed on English small clauses (e.g., "John considers [Mary smart]"). In the second section, it is suggested that the constraint…

A case study of the use of reflexive constructions by a Spanish-speaking child from age 2;5.2 to 3;5.2 is presented. Sixty hours of audiotaped utterances were recorded monthly over a one year period. The utterances are analyzed in terms of self-induced actions, impersonal constructions, and two-argument predicates. The data show the regular…

Considers the various usages of 'interesting' in English as a problem confronted by non-native English speakers learning the language. (LG)