Conference held in the Moscow Pedagogical Institute of Foreign Languages, in December 1972; discusses various papers presented at the conference. (HK)

Levelling processes in the history of the German verb paradigm from Old High German to the present are discussed. It is asserted that the theory of transformational generative grammar provides a proper framework for the study of linguistic change. (RM)

Two passive forms of verbs are discussed. One is related to its active counterpart transformationally and the other lexically. Voice is defined as the relationship between a verb's subcategorization feature and the surface form of the sentence it occurs in. (SC)

Discusses phrase structure and marking rules (for number and case) in Zuni transitive and intransitive verbs. (DD)

Paper presented at the Symposium in Applied Mathematics, 1961; research supported by the National Science Foundation. (DD)

The fact that impersonal verbs in Russian do not form active participles or gerunds is discussed and explained. (RM)

This article presents recent representative structural, eclectic, transformational, and semantic analyses of the subjunctive. A different theory is presented that states that there is but a single common rule for the use of the subjunctive and the indicative in all of their occurrences, both in independent and main clauses. (Author/NCR)

Considers marked and unmarked structures in modern Arabic in terms of defending a basic unmarked structure which carries the least presuppositional background to which other surface orders can be related and a lexical treatment of number in Arabic. (CB)

Translation of the original Russian article which appeared in Voprosy jazykoznanija'' 1, 1970. (DD)

This article discusses Nass-Gitksan, a native language of northern British Columbia. The basic syntactic structures of the language are presented, along with arguments to show that Nass-Gitskan is an ergative language both at the deep and the surface syntactic levels. (CLK)

This article hypothesizes that causative constructions among the languages of the world share some fundamental characteristics, even though they have different ordering restrictions and varying degrees of fusion. (Author/NCR)

This book is a transformational generative discussion of American English designed for use at the undergraduate as well as the graduate level. Chapter 1 deals with the definition of language and questions of dialect and standard language. Chapter 2, "The Nature of Linguistic Data," considers the speaker's knowledge of his language and the…