A study of verbs of movement from the point of view of what causes these particular verbs to be used. The defining features of these verbs are presented and discussed. The analysis is made in terms of its relation to the Mixtec analysis, with suggestions for reexamination of the latter. (SCC)

English has two classes of modal deference expressions that may be superordinate to performative verbs. Verbs representing the illocutionary force of a sentence are sometimes embedded in modal constructions whose function is auxiliary to the central illocutionary act. This phenomenon is discussed in this paper. (CK)

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)

The contemporary German, predicate adjective and adjectival adverb are expressed by the same form. Although modern grammatical research gathers the various functions of the adjective under "indicator of kind," school practice still separates adjective and adverb. The historical development of qualitative adverbs is outlined. (Text is in German.)…

V-Te-I and V-Te-Ar are Japanese verb forms used to express "overlapping," or the relationships of expressions in time. In English these have the form Be-V-Ing. Progressive, concomitant, and stative overlapping are discussed with references to their meanings and to the type of verb each takes. (SC)

The desirability of the exploitation of experimental phonetics by the phonologist is discussed, and research on vowel duration in Thai is described in support of this contention. (RM)

The loss of the copula in Black English Vernacular (BEV) is demonstrably traceable to norms of pidginization that have their roots in West African languages and in contact among those languages. An extensive examination of the verb systems of a number of West African languages reveals that in every case a variety of verbal forms serves the many…

This study describes special questions (SQs) and disjunctive questions (DQs) in English and Polish. Central to the study is the interrogative mood and the illocutionary force of the question; interrogative structures without illocutionary force are excluded. "Speech Act Theory" (SAT) is used as a label for certain tendencies in the…

THIS PRELIMINARY EDITION COMPRISES A DESCRIPTIVE GRAMMAR OF INDONESIAN (BAHASA INDONESIA), THE OFFICIAL LANGUAGE OF THE REPUBLIC OF INDONESIA. THE THREE SECTIONS--PHONOLOGY, SYNTAX, AND MORPHOLOGY--PRESENT A COMPREHENSIVE LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS OF INDONESIAN, WITH OCCASIONAL CONTRASTIVE REFERENCE TO MALAY, JAVANESE, SUNDANESE, AND SUMATRAN. THIS…

THE FORM OF A GENERATIVE SYSTEM FOR FUNDAMENTAL VOICE FREQUENCY IN MANDARIN CHINESE IS DISCUSSED, AND SEVERAL ASSUMPTIONS ARE MADE IN ORDER TO REDUCE THE PROBLEM TO A MANAGEABLE SIZE. DATA WAS GATHERED FROM TWO SPEAKERS BY HAVING THEM READ A PREPARED LIST WHICH CONTAINED ISOLATED WORDS, TWO-TUPLES, AND THREE-TUPLES IN ALL POSSIBLE COMBINATIONS OF…

The schema generally used to describe the linguistic situation in Italy includes two categories: dialetto regionale (regional dialect) and italiano regionale (regional Italian). These stand apart from the widely accepted sociolinguistic model "variety--dialect--language." It is demonstrated that both these categories should be treated…

This book attempts to bring together semantic theory and description in order to provide the foundation of a unified "semantics of English." Part 1 is thus devoted to semantic theory and Part 2 to the description of some central fields of meaning in English. In Part 1, theory is developed involving two kinds of semantic analysis:…

The use of the terms "substratum" and "superstratum," used in diachronic linguistics to designate linguistic contact, leads to ambiguity, confusion, and specious arguments. Each term carries a chronological-geographic, a social, and a linguistic definition which increases the grounds for misunderstanding. The terms encourage thinking about…

The rate of assimilation of individual features to their target phonetic constraints varies as a function of the general target constraint itself, the segment class affected by the constraint, and the syllable involved. This rate is hypothesized as a measure of the strength or productivity of the phonological rule. (Author/DB)

A structural-functional basis for the construction of an English tense system is proposed. It is asserted that such a system will facilitate the teaching of English tense usage. (Author/RM)