Presents the results of field research into the extinct Cacaopera language of El Salvador. Data from two Spanish-speaking informants are given in broad phonetic notation. (RM)

Differences in meaning and usage of the two closely related Russian adverbs "daleko" and "dalyoko" are explored through examination of short literary texts. (Text is in Russian.) (DH)

The article traces the history of comparative linguistics, noting a continual increase in the breadth of such studies. It then considers the related fields of typological-comparative linguistics and confrontative linguistics, their differences and similarities in methodology and application. (Text is in German.) (DH)

The formation of plurals in the three classes of nouns in 'Afar is discussed, as well as vowel changes in particular environments. (SC)

The sign language of the American deaf community (ASL) is analyzed from a linguistic point of view. The history of the application of linguistic principles to sign language studies is briefly traced. The cherology (phonology) of sign language is treated with respect to finger spelling, manual numeration, ASL phonetics, and conventions of sign…

THIS DETAILED, LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS DOES NOT CONTRAST ENGLISH AND QUECHUA PHONOLOGY AND GRAMMAR BUT RATHER ATTEMPTS TO DESCRIBE THE DISTRIBUTIONAL AND SEMANTIC CATEGORIES PARTICULAR TO CUZCO QUECHUA IN A THOROUGH AND SCIENTIFIC MANNER. IT CAN BE USED IN THE FIELD TO IDENTIFY UNFAMILIAR UTTERANCES OR TO HELP UNDERSTAND HOW NATIVE SPEAKERS…

THE PURPOSE OF THIS STUDY IS TO DESCRIBE THE MAIN STRUCTURAL ASPECTS OF COCHABAMBA QUECHUA. IT IS INTENDED TO SERVE AS A REFERENCE BOOK FOR LINGUISTS AND THOSE LEARNING THIS DIALECT. THE INTRODUCTION DISCUSSES THE STUDY'S PURPOSE, INFORMANTS, METHODS, TERMINOLOGY, AND NOTATION. THE AUTHORS THEN EXAMINE IN SEPARATE CHAPTERS PHONOLOGY,…

This annotated bibliography covers materials on Chinese language and linguistics published from 1940 through 1979. Approximately 150 entries are included, covering textbooks, dictionaries, study and teaching materials on Mandarin Chinese, general descriptions of Chinese, linguistics, writing system, and bibliographies. An author index is appended.…

This final report is a brief outline of Phase One in the preparation of a comprehensive reference grammar of Tamil, based on the results of recent linguistic theory and analytic techniques, and designed to be "accessible" to any student of Tamil. The studies which have resulted from Phase One are "strictly preliminary" to a larger study of the…

The morphotonemics of Ganda have been particularly troublesome to linguists trying to describe the tonal structure of Bantu languages. Ganda has three surface tones, and changes in the surface tones parallel changes in grammatical function only part of the time. The author has found that a description of Ganda tones becomes manageable if instead…

This paper introduces the reader to a brief history of the focus of linguistic method from prehistoric times, through the Classical era, the Middle Ages, to the present. The scientific orientation of linguistic method is exploited; a set of specific principles is found to unify most of today's diverse methods. The success of linguistics is…

Text linguistics, though firmly based on all precedent work in sentence linguistics, is not a mere extension of the methods of the latter to units above the sentence; it adds a new dimension to linguistics, which may affect our thinking about any aspect of linguistics. In this paper the concept of text is applied to the linguistic analysis of…