Author presented his interpretations of the derivation of different words as an added incentive for teachers interested in the meanderings of language. (Author/RK)

Defines certain kinship relationships in terms that are linguistically accurate and imply neither identity nor difference. (CK)

Two experiments are reported in which subjects viewed films of automobile accidents and then answered questions about events occurring in the films. Wording of questions regarding speed influenced subjects' estimates of speed. (Author/RM)

Third part of a continued article. (SK)

Discusses the grammatical form and meaning of Russian perfective verbs and contrasts them with derived imperfectives. A number of examples are provided and analyzed. (Text is in German.) (DH)

This paper outlines an approach to the study of internal state words and their use in conversation. The first section of the paper deals with the basic categories of words involved, discussing and illustrating theoretical and practical problems in defining critical components and boundaries for the class of internal state words as a whole and then…

Some Spanish nouns designating non-animate things may have either feminine or masculine gender. The reasons given for the choice of gender are many and varied. It is put forward that in some cases the masculine acts as a diminutive and the feminine as an augmentative. (Text is in Spanish.) (TL)

Misunderstanding words and word meanings creates problems between teachers and students. Solutions are offered to business education teachers for helping increase students' word knowledge. (TA)

The results of a survey in which 50 British university students were asked to assess the acceptability of 40 indirect object sentences are analyzed, and some problems inherent in English indirect object constructions are discussed. (DS)

Levels of lexical specificity are discussed in terms of the way various terms are used to convey different feelings, meanings and semantic effects. (CHK)

The opinions of various grammarians and linguists about the correct usage of "adonde" and "a donde" are presented. (Text is in Spanish.) (CHK)

Discusses why translation theory has had an inadequate impact on translation practice and gives specific examples of ways in which translation theory can provide the translator with general principles and methods of translating idioms. (SED)

Reviews concepts from discourse analysis and translates them into instructional techniques that can be used in the classroom to improve reading comprehension. (FL)

Regardless of the syntactic variation of the direct object "a" in Spanish, a great deal of semantic unity underlies its use. Argues that it carries an invariant meaning that is present in every use of the form, and, concomitantly, its absence before a direct object carries an equally invariant meaning within the systematic semantic structure of…