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This paper studies the so-called strict subcategorization rules, and the theory associated with them, in the transformational grammar of. Erigl·ish as proposed by Noarn Chomsky in his Aspects. The syntactic component of English transformational grammar consists of two mutually ordered parts, viz., the base and the transformational subcomponents. The initial part of the base are the so-called categorial rules, which are of almost exclusive interest to us here. Their primary task is to generate what are usually called basic sentence patterns, and will here, with Chomsky (Aspects, p.ll3), be designated with the expression, frames of category symbols.- The rules of the transformational subcomponent modify, in various ways, the frames generated by the base. For several reasons - one of them being that the correct work of the transformational subcomponent quite often depends on the kind of lexical items with which the syntactic positions in the frames of category symbols have been filled, the lexical items must be introduced from the lexicon into the empty positions in the frames before the rules of the transformational subcomponent can be allowed to modify the frames.

The fiften years of archaeological excavations in Sirmium have already given significant information concerning various spheres of the life in the ancient town. The present paper calls the reader’s attention to what is so far a unique example in our territory: to the existence of three glass melting furnaces within the town. Furnace No 1 has been discovered in the north part of the town (Sector VIII) in a complex of several walls dated to be from the second half of the fourth century. The furnace had been built by the side of wall No III, which wall is older. At a depth of 1.95 m there is first a semi-circular surface of unrefined glass substance in the form of a plate. All around it waste glass particles or bigger pieces, all of irregular shapes, are to be found as well as lumps of raw materials for the production of glass. By the side of the glass plate a fuel-chamber has been discovered, it is made bricks cemented by some muddy substance. The fragments of the Roman bricks used, the cementing by means of mud, and probably also the earthen skull forming the upper part of the furnace indicate a time after the fourth century. This seems to be supported also by a number of various objects from the fifth and from the first half of the sixth century found nearby. The other two glass melting furnaces, which are essentially identical and possibly also simultaneous with the first glass melting furnace, have been discovered in Locality No 28, also in an architectonical complex from the fourth century. These two furnaces are built to the east of wall No XXV, on the premises 15 of the building No V. Both of them are considerably damaged, as they have been discovered in a layer of soil much affected by fire. Furnace No 2 consists of two parts, one of which was probably of a square shape. The floor is covered by fragments of bricks, over which lie thick layers of melted glass. Furnace No 3 is of a rectangular shape, and has only a partly preserved north and south-west wall. On the north wall was probably the opening. The wall No XXV is in its lower part built of bricks cemented by lime mortar and represents the dividing wall of the premise 15 on the Roman locality. Later on, a younger wall was built upon this construction, apparently at the time of building the furnaces with which it is connected. It is built of cracked bricks, cemented by mud or firmly packed earth. Concerning the date of the younger, simpler wall and the date of the glass melting furnaces one can simply say that they are from after the fourth century, and that the upper limit might be posited in the second half of the sixth century — or at the time when the Avars reached the territory of Sirmium.

The present paper is a list of Modern Icelandic nouns, adjectives, and adverbs, analysed into their respective stems and endings; the declension of the suffixed definite article is also included. Under each item it is stated which rules, if any, apply in the derivation of its grammatical forms. The following items of the list should be consulted for new phonological rules: (3), (11), (12), and (133). A grammatical innovation has been implemented in the list, namely the so-called REPLACING ENDINGS. These are not added after the last segment of the stem, as endings usually are, but replace the last segment(s) of the stem. More is said on replacing endings in the Introduction.

The paper deals with the phonology of modern Icelandic preaspiration. The rule that produces the non-lexicalised cases of preaspiration before what is written as p, t, k + l, n is different for hardmadi and linmeli. The hard medi role generates preaspiration before an aspirated plosive + /1, n/. (The aspiration of the plosive is obliterated by a later deaspiration rule.) The linmaeli rule generates preaspiration before plosive + /l, n/ just in case there is at least one such form in the inflexional paradigm of the word-form to which the rule is to apply containing a long vowel immediately followed by a plosive (where the vowel and the plosive are those mentioned in the structural description of the preaspiration rule).

Before the book under review, Magnús Pétursson (=MP) had published his doctoral dissertation about the articulatory phonetics of Icelandic (1974, in French) , a book on general and Icelandic phonetics, and another on general and Icelandic phonology (1976, 1978, both in Icelandic) in addition to a number of papers connected with phonetics and phonology: MP has now to be commended for having tackled a broader subject: Isländisch is an attempt at presenting an overall view of Iceland and Icelandic, especially the latter, to the German-reading public.

The present paper is a list of modern Icelandic verbs and pronouns analysed into their respective stems and endings. Under each item it is stated which phonological rules, if any, apply in the derivations of its grammatical forms. The following items of the list should be consulted for new phonological rules: (3), (6), (31), (37), and (49); see also the Appendix. A grammatical innovation has been implemented in the list, namely the socalled replacing endings; see the Introduction.

This paper addresses the problem of defining the notion of mixture in languages and dialects as used by Jan Baudouin de Courtenay (1845 - 1929). Focussing on the types of interference which were formulated on the basis of observations of the dialects of the Slovene language (5) , the paper deals primarily with those Baudouin's theoretical positions (4), observations and deductions (5.1) which are today part of a theory of linguistic interference. The article is an English version of a paper, presented at the Eighth International Congress of Slavists which was held in Zagreb from the 3rd to the 9th September 1978.

It has long been suggested that the Hittite verb da-ah-hi 'I take' is to be connected with the Indo-European root *dō- ' to give'. (See Friedrich, 1952, 201; Kronasser, 1966, 533-534; Kammenhuber, 1969, 235-236). The pur­pose of this paper is to support this suggestion but in a slightly different way than it has been supported in the past.

In this paper we shall focus our attention. on several aspects of the ongm and nature of homonymy, drawing examples from Russian and Serbo-Croatian and other Slavic languages. We shall first view this from a diachronic perspective noting some of the reasons for the appearance of homonyms. Then we shall examine the phenomenon at the synchronic level employing a variant of Serbo-Croatian in which important phonetic changes now in pro­ cess have given rise to new homophones. We may begin by turning to the ancestor of both Russian and Serbo-Croatian, Common Slavic. Homonymy appears to be a linguistically universal phenomenon, and it is safe to assu­ me that there were homonyms in Common Slavic. One pair of such words was undoubtedly the infinitive pasti 'to graze' (pasq) and ' to fall' (padq) which has its reflexes in most of the modern Slavic languages, e. g. Serbo-Croatian pásti and pȁsti or Russian pastí and past' and Ukrainian pásty.

From the cemeitery at Zgornji Duplek we received for anthropological examination eight skeletons. Skeletons No. 2. to 4. were dug through and were in paper bags, skeletons No. 5. to 9. were exeminated in situ. All skeletons were cleaned, glued and partially reconstructed in the laboratory of Anthropological department of Biotehnical faculty in Ljubljana. At our work we used standard instruments and methods for measuring, age and sex determination and estimation of stature. The following skeletons were determined: skeleton No. 2 — female, adultus (25—30 years) skeleton No. 3 — male, maturus (40—50 years) skeleton No. 4 — female, adultus skeleton No. 5 — female, adultus (30—40 years) skeleton No. 6 — child, infans II (7—8 years) skeleton No. 7 — child, infans I (6—7 years) skeleton No. 8 — child, infans I (4—5 years) skeleton No. 9 — child, infans II (7—8 years) All measurements in cranium and postcranium are shown in tables No. 1 and No. 2. Of all eight skeletons four were children (No. 6 to 9) one was male (No. 3) and three were female (No. 2, 4 and 5). According to the results we can see that among female skeletons there is a large homogenity in some measures in cranium and postcranium. Both female (No. 2 and 5) and also the male cranium are of medium length (mesocranic) and hight with regard to breadth and lenght of cranium. All the three are ovoid with bomb forming occipital part. Postcranial part of female skeletons was gracile and of male medium strong with higer value of pilastric and platymeric index. Most of other mesaures and indices have higher value in male skeleton. We didn’t find any special pathological changes or anomalies except a small exostosis in left tibia in male skeleton. Teeth condition is medium except the case of paredentosis in skeleton No. 2, strong abrasion conected with athrophy in maxille and mandible in skeleton No. 5 and some cases of caries. Because of bad preserved skeletons we could not describe all epigenetical traits which a in some cases important in studies of connections between populations and within a pot)lc lation. In spite of a small number of such traits there is a possibility that some person in jv' small cemetery were in relation. Indication to such connection are non matrical traits 'S female skull No. 5 and child skull No. 9 and in child skull No. 6 and No. 7. ln The most corresponding skeletal material for comparison is the material from the sit Turnišče near Ptuj which is in the same region of Slovenia. When looking over the result which can be compared we established some analogy between the material from Turnišče and our small series from Zgornji Duplek. At Turnišče in most cases skulls are also meso cranic and acrocranic (Hypsicranic). These traits distinguish Turnišče from all other Slo vene cemeteries from the same period (for ex. Bled and Ptuj). Body stature corresponds onlv in male and female skeleton No. 5. Average bodystature in Turnišče for female was 153.0 cm and for male 168.0 cm. Other female skeletons (No. 2 and No. 4) have a higher body stature of 159 cm. Our series of four child and four adult skeletons is too small for extensive conclusions but all the same shows very interesting inner homogenity as well as analogy with skeletal material from Turnišče.

He who reads carefully Cicero'sDe Legibus and Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Stride Toward Freedom is surprised to find, mutatis mutandis, on how many points these two great men agree. The historical circumstances are different, but the essential ideas are very similar. The purpose of this paper is to show on what precisely they agree and on what they differ.

In this paper is presented a new hypothesis regarding the development of the so-called "endingless locative" construction of Indo-European. It is argued that locative formations in -ē, and * ī came to appear in the , o-stem nouns through the monophthongization of word-final *-oi and *-ei before word-initial consonants. These formations were analogically extended to the other stem-classes, with the suffix*-ē, frequently hypercharacterized by the locative particles *-i or *-u, becoming the primary marker of the locative function in the i- and u-stems. On the basis of such apparently "endingless" locative constructions, old consonant-stem nominative (-accusative) formations in were reinterpreted as locatives as well.