Illustrates with numerous examples and analyses the various uses of "quien." Discusses alternation between "quien" and the groups "el cual"/"el que," variation in the verb agreement, the function of "quien" as an indefinite pronoun, as well as questions of stylistic preference and correctness. (MES)

Examines the syntactic characteristics of Spanish verbs of motion dividing them into two classes, those that designate movement and those that designate both movement and change of place. Analyzes the differences between the two classes by contrasting Spanish and English usage. (MES)

Discusses the principle of lexical functions to demonstrate its applicability to the problem of word collocations in the acquisition of German as a second language. Presents sample exercises, focusing on the lexical combinability of words and utilizing constant meaning relations which are expressed through the principle of lexical function. (MES)

Examples illustrate that there are possible independent meanings of the imperfective, possessing stronger modality than the perfective in the Russian verb system. This is examined in past tense, infinitive, and imperative structures. (PMJ)

Ways to use personal computers to simplify the task of identifying and describing the phonology, morphology, and syntax of a language are outlined. The actual programing is viewed as simple once a phonetic alphabet is defined and symbols to indicate parts of speech are chosen. (MP)

Describes a linguistic technique that treats the clause as the unit of analysis and produces a quantitative description representing both the interrelations among words and their classification into meaning categories. Discusses the advantages of this method over qualitative and computer-aided approaches to content analysis. Contains 41…

A systematic analysis of the French interrogative focuses on the distinction between the syntactic processes (identification of question words, interrogative phrase preposing, and rules of question formation) and phonological processes (intonation patterns) that characterize questions in French. (Author/MSE)

Reexamines the issue of Spanish nonverbal word stress, illustrates two basic generalizations about primary word stress, develops the conclusion that penultimate stress is unmarked, examines the relationship between Latin stress and its Spanish descendant, and contrasts the stress systems of Latin and Spanish. (32 references) (GLR)

In the first of six articles about the links between cultural and linguistic traits, the ways in which French linguistic structures and imagination create a culture are explored. (MSE)

The familiar linguistic diagram for language acquisition is held to be theory-neutral. Arguments of Lightfoot to the contrary are refuted, and theories about children's language acquisition are discussed. (Contains 11 references.) (LB)

Responds to a previous article on research in second-language learning, challenging the need for discussion on the promises and problems, and asserting the need to report definitive results. (Author/JL)

Kaki Ae is a non-Austronesian language spoken by about 300 people on the south coast of Papua New Guinea, at best distantly related to any other language in that area. A brief grammar sketch of the language is presented, including discussion of the phonology, sentences, phrases, words, and morpheme categories. Kaki Ae phonemics include 11…

This paper argues that Mandarin Chinese has a fixed syllabic represented by the template CGVX, with one slot in the onset and three slots in the rimeprime (as projection of the rime). It claims that the pre-nucleus glide is obligatory, is an independent constituent, and is adjoined to the rime constituent. Extensive evidence for this template is…

The phonological rule that assigns stress at the word level in Modern French is examined in an effort to show how a consideration of productivity, morphological relatedness, and grammatical conditioning motivates a phonetically determined stress rule for Modern French. (Author/RM)

Clitics are explained through the interplay of different levels of language in performance. It is shown that clitic movement can be blocked on phonological ground, and accusative marked by "shwa" follows, rather than precedes, a clitic segment containing a back vowel--"vous le" or "nous le". (SCC)