Complements a previous article on the Russian verb system, treating deverbals (participles and gerunds) and the imperative mood. Paradigms for deriving each form for the three verb classes are indicated where (1) the infinitive is base form; (2) past tense is derived from infinitive; and (3) neither past nor nonpast is derived from infinitive.…

Temporal and causal uses of "since" are examined. (RM)

This article discusses the syntactic behavior of the word "that," usually classified as a relative pronoun but seen here as a conjunction. Data from standard and non-standard English, Yoruba, and Persian are used. (CLK)

Papers on nominal syntagma as objects in discourse include: "Quelques notions utiles a la semantique des descripteurs nominaux" ("Some Useful Notions on the semantics of Nominal Descriptors") (Alain Berrendonner); "Note sur le statut semantique et la fonction de quelques relatives integrees" ("Note on the…

Revised version of a paper published in the "Edinburgh Working Papers in Linguistics," n1. (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)

Translated from the English; research supported by the Delegation generale a la Recherche scientifique et technique, CNRS, Paris, France; special issue on "Changing Linguistics." (DD)

Revised version of a paper presented at the Caribbean Linguistics Conference, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica, April 1971; research assisted by a grant from the Ford Foundation for the Dialect Survey of Guyana. (DD)

Paper written at a linguistic workshop held at Nasuli, Malaybalay, Bukidnon, Philippines, May-July 1971, and conducted by Joseph E. Grimes (Cornell Univ.) and the Summer Institute of Linguistics; research partially funded by National Science Foundation. (DD)