It is argued that the so-called fourth person or obviative of Chippewa and probably other Algonkian languages is the result of a syntactic feature switch rule, and that the "fourth person" label is inapproapriate and misleading. (CK)

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

Clitics are explained through the interplay of different levels of language in performance. It is shown that clitic movement can be blocked on phonological ground, and accusative marked by "shwa" follows, rather than precedes, a clitic segment containing a back vowel--"vous le" or "nous le". (SCC)

Discusses two causes of what is considered here the inadequacy of generative grammars. (RM)

The corpus of the study is presented and discussed, problems of Spanish suffix analysis are presented, and then noun usage--suffixed versus unsuffixed nouns, the gender marker in the corpus, the most frequently used suffixes, and general characteristics and trends of usage-are discussed. (SCC)

This article presents a description of intonation in English in terms of the relationship between the syntactic surface structure of a given sentence and certain distinctive intonative features.

Contributory data derived in part from a computer-generated concordance of Motovilova et al. (1964), prepared under URI Grant SRF 282, University of Texas at Austin, 1967-68. (DD)

A tagmemic analysis of Zuni clauses in terms of their grammatical and sememic structure, that is, the participants in a predication and their relational roles. Special attention is paid to the effects on Zuni transitivity and to the difference between nucleus and margin clauses. (SCC)

Various theories are presented in support of a rationist approach to linguistics. (Author/HP)

Revised and expanded version of a paper read to the Fifteenth Annual Conference on Linguistics, New York City, March 14, 1970. (VM)