This is an attempt at a comprehensive bibliography of materials relevant to the Lakota (Teton Dakota or Teton Sioux) language, with comments for most items. It covers the period 1887-1990, and is intended to supplement an earlier bibliography (One Hundred Years of Lakota Linguistics (1887-1987)), published in "Kansas Working Papers in…

This first to be published dictionary of Khowar has two parts, an introduction and the Khowar-English dictionary itself. The introduction describes Khowar, the primary language of the Chitral District of the Northwest Frontier Province of Pakistan. Khowar is described as an Indo-European language that came to the isolated Chitral valley more than…

The principle of "sound laws" is discussed from examples in Greek phonetics. It is shown how analogy and the weight of grammatical paradigms may modify the regularity of sound changes and interfere with our perceptions of reconstructed forms or stages of language evolution. The concept of morphophonology is also examined in relation to…

The articulation in recent years of Optimality Theory (OT) has paved the way for a reanalysis of linguistic phenomena that were previously accounted for by derivational theories through various modes of rule interaction. The theory has been shown to offer insightful accounts of various processes involving segmental and prosodic structure and has…

Refutes evidence that the plural system in Modern Standard Arabic is an archetype of a minority-default system with the affixational sound plural involving fewer nominal forms than the templatic broken plural. Points out that while both broken and sound plural are qualitatively productive in the sense of being subject to a number of constraints or…

Discusses the Brazilian Sign language digital encyclopedia, which contains a databank of 5,600 signs glossed in Portuguese and English, along with descriptions and illustrations of their signed form. (Author/VWL)

Examines the role of the relative transparency of Portuguese and Spanish orthographies in schoolchildren's word recognition procedures. Both Portuguese and Spanish may be considered as transparent orthographies. Results are discussed in terms of the role played by the differing orthographic transparency of Spanish and Portuguese in young readers'…

Discusses Dutch in the Northern France, specifically the historical retreat of Dutch from Pas-de-Calais, historical evolution of the language situation in the Department du Nord, reactions to official language policy and language loss, characteristics of Flemish in France, alienation from other Dutch dialects by communicative isolation, linguistic…

Investigates intonational differences according to the meanings of genuine yes/no questions and confirmation yes/no questions. Productions and perception tests were conducted. Results are discussed. (Author/VWL)

Examines the semantic and syntactic structure of some compound words in modern Greek within the framework of valency theory. It is observed that there is a structural parallel between certain compounds and clauses that contain a clitic object but no subject, as the latter is mapped onto the verb's inflectional ending. (Author/VWL)

Describes three examples illustrating the nature and extent of contact-induced change in the Linxia dialect, relating to extensive lexicosemantic diffusion resulting in areal convergence, coexisting markers representing two different types of borrowing, and a postpositional conditional marker as an example of significant syntactic and phonological…

Describes the use of MOKE, a basic IBM-compatible Japanese language word processor with a built in Japanese-to-English dictionary that functions as a text editor and also as a preparer and reader of electronic mail in Japanese. (CB)

Describes an experimental attempt to verify meaning hypotheses for four Dutch single-accent pitch patterns as postulated in the linguistic literature. Results show a distinct effect of orientation on appropriateness of two of the investigated pitch accent types; the other two pitch accent types are associated with predicted context types well…

Investigated the behavior of Dutch rising nuclear contours as a function of changes in pitch range by asking listeners to rate such contours on perceived attributes believed to be expressed through variations in pitch range. (Author/VWL)

Argues that a number of grammatical morphemes in Korean and Japanese are cognate and reflect two alternating copula roots: proto-Korean-Japanese t- ~ n-. (Author/VWL)