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1984

1984

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George Orwell: Socialist Or Liberal? Big Brother And The Abuse Of Power, Noel B. Reynolds Jun 1984

George Orwell: Socialist Or Liberal? Big Brother And The Abuse Of Power, Noel B. Reynolds

Noel B Reynolds

For although he was too strongly independent in his thinking to accept the Marxist or socialist dogmas of his associates, because they did not seem to square with experience, and though he admired the tough resistance of English character and legal institutions to tyranny, Orwell never did tumble to the understanding of man and government which had shaped each over the centuries. Failing to see the constants in human nature as the key to the political problem, he looked around the world both as he perceived it and his literary fellows portrayed it, and concluded that power lust was the …


Speech Disguise And Phonological Representation In Amharic, John J. Mccarthy Jan 1984

Speech Disguise And Phonological Representation In Amharic, John J. Mccarthy

John J. McCarthy

An autosegmental analysis of a secret language used by prostitutes in Addis Ababa.


Theoretical Consequences Of Montañes Vowel Harmony, John J. Mccarthy Jan 1984

Theoretical Consequences Of Montañes Vowel Harmony, John J. Mccarthy

John J. McCarthy

No abstract provided.


Prosodic Structure In Morphology, John J. Mccarthy Jan 1984

Prosodic Structure In Morphology, John J. Mccarthy

John J. McCarthy

The thesis of this paper is that morphological templates have access to a richer variety of categories than the CV tier. Although foot and syllable reduplication had been suggested previously, here I have shown the need for templates—conditions on the form of words of particular morphological types—that refer to syllables in modern Hebrew and to feet in Cupeño. In the course of the analyses I have suggested a number of technical proposals: a specific version of the prosodic hierarchy, a procedure for expansion of morphological templates containing higher-level prosodic units, and another procedure for selecting the appropriate structure in case …