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Ojibwe Vocabulary, Bill Chatfield

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

No abstract provided.

Cuicateco Indian Tribe, Marjorie Davis

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

Excerpts: "The Cuicateco Indians of Mexico are a tribe without songs, yet they are known as the singing people. The tribal language is a tonal one with many word couplets, triplets and quadruplets which sound alike except for a difference in the tone. To put Cuicateco words to existing tunes in other languages would be a total loss since the music would mar the meaning so much that it could not be understood."

"To compose songs in Cuicateco the relativity of the tones on the words must be preserved in the music."

Vietnamese, Register And Tongue-Root Position, Charles Keller

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

From the introduction: "The main body of this paper is concerned with drawing a parallel between Khmer and Vietnamese. We will endeavor to show the possibility of applying the tongue-root hypothesis to Vietnamese as it is already being applied to Khmer. (This hypothesis explains the grouping of certain phonological features in terms of historic advanced or retracted tongue-root position.) To do this we will be referring to "exponents of advanced (or "retracted" as the case may be) tongue-root position. An exponent is a co-occurring phonological phenomenon which may be considered as dependent on the occurrance of another phenomenon, the independent …

D. Thomas On The Liar's Paradox, Paul Mellema

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

From the introduction, "Dr. Thomas' paper is to be applauded as an indication that some Wycliffe linguists have joined in the growing rapprochement between linguists and philosophers of language. Philosophers have devoted much attention to subtle analyses of the semantics of certain subparts of language, namely those which are "philosophically interesting." However limited this corpus may be, it behooves linguists to find out how much of the scientific work of philosophers can be salvaged for use in dealing with semantics in linguistics. Similarly, those logicians of wide vision who wish to expand the notation of symbolic logic to capture …

Problem On Case-Marking Particles In Kalinga, C. Richard Gieser

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

No abstract provided.

The Development Of Tai Register Patterns, Jay Fippinger

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

From the introduction, "In this paper, we shall first summarize the findings of several scholars who have contributed to recent literature describing the history of tone in the Tai languages; we shall then focus on one problem that, to my knowledge, has not yet received sufficient attention: namely the reasons for widely divergent patterns of register development, in view of evidence for consonant-pitch correlation which might lead us to expect greater uniformity within the language family."

Medial Verbs, Donald R. Davis

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

No abstract provided.

Multiple Constructions Through Word Order Transposition, Jay Fippinger

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

No abstract provided.

Supplement To "Shoshone Phonemes" In Und Sil 1967 Workpapers, Wesley L. Kosin

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

The original article, published in 1967, can be accessed at commons.und.edu/sil-work-papers/vol11/iss1/4/

On Liars, Logic, And Linguists, David D. Thomas

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

No abstract provided.

Shoshone Thesaurus, Malinda L. Tidzump

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

Table of Contents:

1. World -- 2. Plants -- 3. Animals -- 4. Body -- 5. Senses -- 6. People's feelings -- 7. Movements, Actions -- 8. Work, Livelihood -- 9. Food, Cooking -- 10. Society, Kinship -- 11. Religion -- 12. Civilization -- 13. Descriptive words, Quality, Quantity -- 14. Language, Grammar

A Note On Tone Registers And Tongue-Root Position, Richard S. Pittman

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

No abstract provided.

Front Matter For Sil-Und Work Papers Vol. 14 (1970)

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

No abstract provided.