Cautions against a "synonymic" or "structural-semantic" approach to constructing texts and in reading them. Concern over matching each foreign word with a native-language word results in limiting the vocabulary of the text and the student's knowledge. Speech-act theory suggests a more flexible approach. (IFS/WGA)

Intends to demonstrate the value of statistical analysis in linguistic inquiry through a specific problem, mainly the distribution of and the correlation between the perfect and imperfect subjunctive in Latin. (AM)

Analyzes the structure of French distributive complements, including the formal and semantic similarities and differences among them. (AM)

Discusses Anderson's (1971) theory of semantic naturalness, and investigates ways in which exceptions to the derived theory of lexical naturalness may be accomodated within it. (AM)

This is a grammatical and semantic analysis of verb usage in French. The occurrence of verb stems and endings with associated adverbs is described, defined and diagrammed. (MLA)

Statistical tests for determining whether one pole of an attitude scale is characteristic of a population are examined. A less restrictive procedure and the situations in which it might be used are discussed. (Author/JKS)

An exposition of reasons why a system of automatic translation could not use a terminology bank except as a source of information. The fundamental difference between the two tools is explained and examples of translation and mistranslation are given as evidence of the limits and possibilities of each process. (Text is in French.) (AMH)

An analysis of terms used to translate the English real estate "developer." A comparative study is made of English and French definitions. The following terms are suggested translations of the English "developer": "Promoteur,""lotisseur,""amenageur," and "maitre de l'ouvrage." (Text is in French.) (AMH)

This article describes the work of the Royal Academy of Science and the Royal Academy of Spanish in developing current scientific and technical vocabulary. (NCR)

This article presents the Spanish words of Greek origin that include the ending "cracia" and their meanings. (NCR)

This article discusses Aronoff's (1976) theory of the lexicon and states that the theory must be modified to describe a more richly inflected language, such as French. A more comprehensive theory of the lexicon is then outlined. (NCR)

To determine whether the writing of certain transformations can predict comprehension of prose written in them, subjects were asked to read three major prose forms, each written in three transformed versions, and to respond to each immediately on cloze tests. (HOD)

In English there seems to be a large group of so-called reflexive verbs that do not possess any definable reflexive meaning. Grammatical reflexives are distinguishable from semantic reflexives and display considerable variation from one another also. Eight patterns or groupings of verbs are considered. (Author/SW)

Summaries are reported of papers presented at a symposium on Chinese linguistics held in July 1977 at the University of Hawaii. Topics of the program were: semantics and functions, syntactic relations, diachronic phonology, synchronic phonology and phonetics, and aspect and time relations. (SW)