Earlier version of this paper entitled On the Notion 'Subjoined Clause'" was presented to the first annual meeting of the New English Linguistic Society in November 1970. (VM)

Explores the semantic distinctions and tonal behaviors of four types of "lai" in Taiwanese. It is concluded that some types cannot be fully understood without reference to the underlying structure, the surface structure being often insufficient for determining the tonal shape of the syllable in utterance. (CLK)

Challenges the notion that linguistic units which are equivalent from the point of view of being translated with ease from one language to another have a common deep structure. This notion is not seen as feasible in a transformational generative framework. (CLK)

Lists approximately 40 books and articles relevant to the discussion of generative semantics presented in this special issue devoted to the topic. (VM)

To account for vowel alternations in forms such as divine-divinity, Chomsky and Halle propose the Vowel Shift Rule and other rules. This study experimentally assesses the psychological validity and generality of these rules by testing the productivity of vowel alternation. Subjects were required, in a meaningful sentence context, to produce a…

This paper considers five possible analyses to explain dental alternations in Japanese and argues that the formulation approximating the actual historical development is likely to provide the most satisfactory synchronic description. The approaches considered are distributional analysis, strict historical interpretation, modified historical…

Revised version of a paper read at the summer meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Buffalo, New York, July 31, 1973. Preparation of the paper was supported by a National Science Foundation grant. (VM)