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Student Abstracts Of Selected Articles, Ron Trail, Nancy Freiberger, Richard Bergman, Kenneth D. Smith, Jean Haggar, Margie Griffin, Elwood Jacobson, Bob Beadle, Gwen Young

Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session

Vowel Nasality in Sudanese by Ron Trail, abstracted from Robins, R. H. 1957. "Vowel Nasality in Sudanese, A Phonological and Grammatical Study." Studies in Linguistic Analysis, J.R. Firth ed. London: The Philological Society, 87-103.

Style in Huichol by Nancy Freiberger, abstracted from Grimes, Joseph E. 1955. "Style in Huichol Structure," Language 31.31-35.

Trique Tone by Richard Bergman, abstracted from Longacre, Robert E. 1952. "Five Phonemic Pitch Levels in Trique," Acta Linguistica 7.62-82.

Tonme Representation in Mazatec Orthography by Ron Trail, abstracted from Gudschinsky, Sarah. 1959. "Toneme Representation in Mazatec Orthography," Word, 15.446-52.

Totonac Verb Inflection by Kenneth D. Smith, abstracted …

Opportunities In The Field Of Bible Translating, Eugene A. Nida

Concordia Theological Monthly

Ever since World War II an increasingly larger number of persons have become interested in and concerned for the field of Bible translating; the strategy of the printed page and the crucial necessity of wider distribution of the Scriptures have forced Christians to pay greater attention to the translation and revision of the Holy Scriptures. In our rapidly shrinking world, those with even a limited knowledge of the problems of communication on the mission field, have not failed to be impressed with the significant contribution which can be made by the relatively new emphases on structural linguistics and cultural anthropology. …

Definitions And Synonyms, Richard L. Phillips

Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session

No abstract provided.

A Method For Eliciting Paradigmatic Data From Text, Richard S. Pittman

Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session

No abstract provided.

Turkish Reversals And Palindromes, Robert Devereux

Word Ways

After reading Dmitri Borgmann's discourse on "Welsh: Reversed English" in the February 1985 Word Ways and noting his invitation (or challenge) to replicate his studies in other languages, I decided to determine what a similar examinaiton of the Turkish lexicon would reveal.

Degendrification Of Modern English, Steven Cushing

Word Ways

One of the most important developments in the recent history of the English language has been the widespread elimination of the sexist suffix -man and its replacement with the sex-neutral suffix -person. Words such as chairman, mailman, milkman, German, and Doberman have been increasingly replaced in common used by such substitutes, respectively, as chairperson, mailperson, milkperson, Gerperson, and Doberperson, in an attempt to minimize offensive sexual connotation. This phenomenon has spread so generally throughout the language that it is now possible to discern the beginnings of a new stage of development in which the sexist connotations of -person itself have …

Zazzification In American Slang, Roger W. Wescott

Word Ways

The coinage zazzification is my expansion of the American slang term zazzy (jazzy, sexy). I use it to designate the strong tendency, in American English, to render words slangier than they already are by substituting a Z-sound (sometimes written ZZ) for other consonants.

Colloquy

Word Ways

Webster's Dictionary defines "colloquy" as "mutual discourse". Readers are encouraged to submit additions, corrections, and comments about earlier articles appearing in Word Ways. Comments received at least one month prior to publication of an issue will appear in that issue.

Kickshaws, Willard R. Espy

Word Ways

A collection of linguistic kickshaws.

Answers And Solutions

Word Ways

Answers and solutions to the puzzles in this issue.

A Survey Of Small Squares, Maxey Brooke

Word Ways

In a desperate attempt to make ever-larger word squares, logologists have succeeded only in producing monsters such as the ten-by-ten tautonymic word squares featured in the August and November 1973 issues of Word Ways. Is it not time to recall the intrinsic beauty and extreme versatility of smaller word squares -- say, those of size six-by-six or less? This article surveys a wide variety of such squares, taken from past issues of Word Ways, from Dmitri Borgmann's Language on Vacation (Scribner's, 1965), and from Martin Gardner's Mathematical Games column in Scientific American.

Senator's Opera Treat - To A Rope, Ted Clarke

Word Ways

I take my hat off to the 'paper-and-pencil practitioner' Peter Newby for his clever article "Opera's Not Over 'Til Arepo Returns", which I naturally assume was produced without the aid of a computer. At first sight I thought he really had beaten computer buffs to the punch. A few weeks ago I tackled this classic problem, using the Wordsworth database of 14,300 five-letter words; I gave it up as impossible!