This article discusses the origin and history of three Spanish idioms: "Aqui hay gato encerrado,""Seguir en sus trece," and "La carabina de Ambrosio." (Text is in Spanish.) (CLK)

This article discusses the use of abbreviations in written Spanish, with abundant examples. The hope expressed is that abbreviations will be used only where indispensable. (Text is in Spanish.) (CLK)

Describes a notation system devised for translation research, to compare translated texts with their originals and with one another. Also described is an index for comparison of translations of the same text. These are necessary to measure the preservation of information or the loss of it in the translation process. (CLK)

This article describes research methods involved in compiling a lexicon of terms used in the mining industry. This consisted mainly in contrasting terms found in dictionaries with actual usage in spoken and written language. (Text is in French) (AM)

Reference is made to a 1973 article of Singer and Rosenberg regarding linguistic integration. Some of their arguments are supported, and certain claims about integration clarified. (RM)

Two experiments measured the frequency of perceptual errors as a function of differential presupposition in descriptive sentences. More errors occurred when misrepresentation involved presupposition than when it involved the focused proposition. Several surface structures of English, in combination, increased the presuppositional strength of the…

Two experiments are reported in which subjects judged whether pairs of words viewed simultaneously contained the same stem morpheme. Reaction times for making these judgments are discussed. (Author/RM)

Research is reported investigating the processes involved in rejecting certain false categorical statements. (RM)

Thirty percent of all students in the USSR learn German. The extent of Soviet linguistic research in the Germanic field is determined by this interest in German. The foci of this research are described and the most important publications are discussed briefly. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

Introduces a series of articles; explains the significance of these heterogeneous languages and their teaching as they relate to the French language and as they contribute to or gain from linguistic study. (Text is in French.) (MSE)

This paper demonstrates the qualitative differences between the long and short vowels of Navaho from spectrum analysis of the language made by the Kay Electric Sona-Graph. (CK)

Discusses the stratification and specialization of common language into sublanguages for various spheres of activity and the introduction of the sublanguages into different language boundaries. (CK)

An analysis of TH-roles in middle constructions (e.g., "this book reads poorly") responds to theories that the non-overtness of TH-roles in these constructions is attributable to syntactic suppression. It is argued that middle formation does not involve lexical operations that adjust a verb's argument structure, but rather involves two…

Analysis of two Restructuring constructions in Italian, "equi" and "raising" structures, suggests that while lexical functional grammar (LFG) does not offer the kind of analysis previously used on this kind of structure, it does offer an insightful and interesting analysis of Restructuring in Italian. This approach treats…