The difficulty and the beauty of Chinese lies in the simultaneous concreteness and ambiguity of each graph. (Author)

Children's early attempts at syntax, previously described in terms of pivot grammar, are discussed in the light of the author's research on the semantic intentions of early two-word sentences. Underlying conceptual relations were identified when such utterances were examined along with context and behavior. (Author/KW)

This paper pokes fun at the vocabulary of psychologists and presents the "true meanings" behind the smokescreen of professional language. (Author)

This article, an attempt to "systematize a general theory of lexical correlations and to define and illustrate their categories, is designed to "assist translators, linguists, teachers, writers, learners and all students of language and languages. (FWB)

Uses six examples to substantiate the hypothesis that masculine root words in reference to males in Russian cover a broader semantic space than do feminine root words in reference to females. Women share in the same wide space only when implicitly included in a masculine root. (Author/BK)

Discusses when an infinitive may appear directly after a noun in Spanish and which word is used and why if a preposition or other such word is required. Examples used are where the infinitive phrase is the predicate nominative with the verb "ser," where the infinitive acts as the grammatical subject, and where the infinitive phrase is a…

Examines the lexical formative "-oso," which is added to nominal and verbal roots to form adjectives to denote possession of the quality contained in the primitive, in Central American Spanish. Concludes it is used with traditional Spanish denotations and has undergone various semantic shifts and is being applied to roots in a completely…

Discusses alternatives to a number of assumptions fundamental to established linguistic theory which lead to a coherent view of linguistic structure that treats grammar as a symbolic phenomenon and emphasizes importance of analyzability to grammatical structure. Outlines descriptive framework called Space Grammar and its approach to semantic…

Believes the techniques used by interpreter in taking notes is a process of computing a representation of the sentence representative of its entailments. Although these are not spelled out, they are available to the interpreter in the form of notes. (Author/BK)

Discusses what the terms "fiction" and "nonfiction" mean with respect to science writing. Contends that it is time to recognize the fictional dimension of all science writing and to acknowledge what is often thought "pure" as a blend of fictional and nonfictional elements. (FL)

Analyzes the argumentational structure of a legal document. (AM)

Examines the question of the transitivity of the part-whole relation in grammar, in the context of the sentence and its semantic structure. (AM)