This case study of non-Jewish support of Yiddishism in Estonia examines the arguments Paul Ariste--a famous Estonian linguist who learned Yiddish as a young man--used in a Yiddish-language speech in the general context of Yiddishist ideology. (Author/VWL)

Introduces the topic of this special issue of the journal--linguistic construction and negotiation of social relations among bilingual Turkish-speaking adolescents in North-western Europe. The studies included focus on Turkish-German bilinguals and the Koge project in Denmark, a longitudinal study of bilingual development among Turkish Danes.…

Discusses a case study in the learning and teaching of Zulu as an additional language. It involved the organic development of a mutually supportive relationship between two lecturers from separate disciplines who assumed multiple identities in order to more effectively collaborate in the revision and development of two graduate courses.…

Reports on a study that investigated the role and status of Xhosa in a prison located in Grahamstown, a large town in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. Explored the extent to which members of the prison were aware of language policy, especially with regard to the role and status of Xhosa. (Author/VWL)

Assumes the overall frame work of Extended Standard Theory of grammar, with a focus on the lexicon. It assumes Chomsky's theory that the projection of a verb and its arguments onto syntax is determined by its lexical specifications. Emphasizes a lexical approach to Swahili verbal suffixes. (Author/VWL)

Describes the context of Basque language revitalization and offers a detailed picture of the motives, organization, and execution of the Ulibarri program, a program for the normalization of the use of Basque in school. (Author/VWL)

Explores the link between national language policy and practice in Irish-medium schools, which are known in Irish Gaelic as Gaelscoileanna. Provides an overview of the state's language policy since 1922 to promote Irish by using the schools as the primary vehicle for policy implementation. (Author/VWL)

A brief exploration of literacy in Thailand is provided, focusing on compensatory education and the major dialects of Thai. An 11-citation annotated bibliography and a 27-citation unannotated bibliography are included. (CB)

A study of popular attitudes toward and use of Catalan and Castilian Spanish sought to clarify the prestige level of the languages in different areas in Spain. The study focused on the degree to which Catalan has undergone linguistic normalization by extension to all social levels and situations. (Author/MSE)

Relates characteristics of the Portuguese language to cultural traits of the Portuguese people, focusing on Portuguese history, art, and outlook. (MSE)

Examines a number of grammatical constraints on the use of comparative nego, nego sto and od, and on coordinate nego and ali, with a view to establishing rules that will cover most of the grammatical behavior of these frequent function words in present-day standard Serbo-Croatian. (20 references) (GLR)

Presents a description of textual cohesion in Modern standard Chinese (MSC), and describes three types of relations as discourse and text features that contribute to the overall unity or coherence of a text. (24 references) (Author/VWL)

Provides a sociolinguistic account of the forms of address used in present-day Iranian Persian. The shift from power to solidarity as a result of the Islamic Revolution has resulted in a sociolinguistic simplification of address forms. (Author/CB)

This paper argues, utilizing Lexical Mapping Theory (LMT), that there are modern Greek deverbal nominal predicates that take syntactic arguments. A small set of simple unification-based operations is employed to model the relation between the argument structure of verb predicates and that of the corresponding deverbal nominals with an…

Presents the union analysis of adversatives; illustrates the range of Javanese passive constructions, arguing for the appropriateness of a passive analysis; presents evidence for the passive analysis of Javanese adversatives; presents the RG analysis for Javanese and with it the problem for the I-Advancement Exclusiveness Law; and outlines the…