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This paper considers morphophonemic changes that take place in verbal stem formation in Gude, a Chadic language of Nigeria. It is necessary to assign the classificatory features of the phonology to syllables rather than to single segments. (CK)

This article points out the contrast that exists both at the morphological and syntactic levels between affirmative and negative sentences in Hindi. This contrast and the structural changes related to it are discussed with specific reference to simple and compound sentences, interrogative sentences and specific elements within sentences. (CLK)

This article underlines the necessity of discourse analysis in a complete linguistic description, that is, the need to look at various phenomena such as social relationships as manifested in conversation, performatives, pronominalization constraints, or external factors such as the sex of the participants. A model of a method of analysis is presented. (CLK)

The article discusses the tonal system of Lamnsok, a language spoken in the North-West province of the United Republic of Cameroun with specific reference to verbs. The tone pattern for a given clause is dependent on various factors handled at length. Charts and extensive examples accompany the text. (CLK)

A word combination can have a grammatical function differing from that of the individual words which compose it. This increases the flexibility of lexical material and suggests a new approach to the classification of items in a lexicon. Examples are drawn mostly from German. (TL)

The distinction between the clitics "le" and "lo" is different for Peninsular Spanish than for Latin American Spanish but is in both cases systematic. The division in Castilian Spanish is along the line of animate-inanimate. The Latin American division is between accusative and dative case. (TL)

Deals with clause chaining in Washkuk, a language spoken by about 2500 people in northeastern New Guinea. Four clause types are ranked from lowest to highest. Any clause subordinates all preceding clauses of lower order. (TL)

Focuses on syntactic differences extending across two or more sensory processes, and finds that the referents of the vision modality are more flexible that those of other senses. (CK)

The concept of the verb phrase in natural and programming languages is discussed. (RM)

Examines structural properties of Romanian participle types in order to explain their descriptive relationship to the infinitive. (RM)

Some of the irregular verbs in the present indicative of Spanish are analyzed and described, and regular verbs are reviewed. (RM)

Sentences containing "estar" + participle are analyzed in order to highlight their semantic characteristics. (RM)

The purpose of this paper is to examine process- and agent-oriented sentences from the point of view of two theories of grammatical description: case grammar after Fillmore and tranformational grammar with modifications introduced by Chomsky. Subject and object functions are reflected in the initial structures of sentence derivation, regardless of the theoretical framework. (Author/CFM)

It has long been realized that tense is not a feature of the Chinese verb system, which is controlled by a set of particles attached to the verb or to the sentence as a whole. The various usages involving these particles have been listed and described, the author points out, but the system as a whole has not been clearly defined. He suggests the possibility of formulating a concept of time, contrasted with the tense concept of the Indo-European languages, that "goes far to give a unified view of the temporal particles." To appreciate the uses of temporal particles in Chinese, one should think of time as a series of discontinuous units occurring in succession, "like separate beads coming one after the other on a string." The particles "le,""ne,""guoh,""jy," and one use of "de," as well as the sentence without a temporal marker are examined. This paper deals specifically with Mandarin Chinese. (AMM)

Discussion of phenomenon of shape-differentiation as it appears in the numerical classifiers, classificatory verbs, and body-part suffixes of the Tarascan language. (RS)

Discussion of whether the Japanese copula can adequately be described as a dummy, i.e., as an element which although existing in the surface structure can be dispensed with in the deep structure of a sentence; based on a paper read at the 1970 meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Prague, Czechoslovakia. (RS)

Original Russian version appeared in Sign, Language, Culture,'' edited by A. Greimas et al., Mouton, 1970, p195-215. (RS)

Research supported by a grant from the American Council of Learned Societies. (RS)

Revised version of a paper presented at the Summer Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, July 31, 1971. (RS)

Field work conducted under the auspices of the Summer Institute of Linguistics; research supported in part by a grant from the National Science Foundation. (DD)

Theme'' refers to the semantic distinction between that constituent which is the starting point of an utterance and those which carry on what is meant to be said; field work conducted under the auspices of the Summer Institute of Linguistics. (DD)

Paper written at a field workshop conducted by Joseph E. Grimes; research conducted under the auspices of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, July 1968-January 1971, and partially supported by the National Science Foundation. (DD)

Field work conducted under the auspices of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, 1957-1971; research partially supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation. (DD)

Paper written at a linguistic workshop at Ukarumpa, E.H.D., Territory of New Guinea; research conducted under the auspices of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, July 1968-January 1971, and supported in part by National Science Foundation grants. (DD)

Paper prepared during a workshop conducted by Joseph E. Grimes, January-April 1971, at Ukarumpa, Territory of New Guinea, and partially supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation. (DD)

Research conducted under the auspices of the Summer Institute of Linguistics and partially supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation. (DD)

Research supported by a Faculty Research Grant from the Social Science Research Council. (DD)