Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, Volume 17, Numbers 1 and 2.

"Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics" is intended as a forum for the presentation of the latest original research by the faculty and students of the Department of Linguistics and other related departments of the University of Kansas. Papers in this volume include: "Some Issues in Japanese Accent" (Kenneth Miner); "Retraction in Cariocan Portuguese" (Isaias Reis); "The Brahmi Family of Scripts and Hangul: Alphabets or Syllabaries?" (Christoper Wilhelm); "The Case of Subjects in the Romance Causative" (Sara Rosen); "Locative Inversion in Cantonese" (Sui-Sang Mok); "Spatial Expressions in Sinhala: Appearance of Verb Forms" (Sunanda Tilakaratne); "Division of Labor between Grammar and Pragmatics Concerning Anaphora" (Sun-Hee Kim); "A Study of Quantifier Phrases in Thai" (Phawadee Deephuengton); "Nouns in Tutelo" (Giulia Oliverio); "Proto-Algic IV: Nouns" (Paul Proulx); "Syllable Boundary Demarcation in Hualapai and Havasupai" (Marcellino Berardo); "A Bibliography on Incorporation and Polysynthesis in Native American and Paleosiberian Languages" (Willem de Reuse); and "Language Maintenance and Language Renewal among Cherokee People in Oklahoma" (Barbara Brooks). (JL)