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Grammar Confusion And Some Guidelines, Case J. Boot, John Struyk

Pro Rege

No abstract provided.

Subordinating And Coordinating Particles In Lakhota, Wolfgang Corduan

Theses and Dissertations

In her Dakota Texts Ella Deloria appears to be using cha and chanke interchangeably. The goal of this paper is to show that the difference lies in the realm of subordination. For this purpose other languages have been examined to detect how subordination is marked in them. Both German and English are shown to mark subordinate clauses overtly, but Lakhota markers are not so apparent. Subordination is formally defined in a Generative Semantic framework and pertinent works on Lakhota grammar are reviewed. The solution implied by Boas and Deloria that cha is a subordinator is accepted and proven to be …

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 24, No. 1, Albert F. Jordan, Theodore W. Jentsch, Carol Shiels Roark, Suzanne Cox, Louis Winkler

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• Some Early Moravian Builders in America
• Old Order Mennonite Family Life in the East Penn Valley
• Historic Yellow Springs: The Restoration of an American Spa
• The Use of Speech at Two Auctions
• Pennsylvania German Astronomy and Astrology IX: Johann Friederich Schmidt
• Courtship and Marriage: Folk-Cultural Questionnaire No. 36

The Informant Volume Vii, Number 1, Western Michigan University

Informant (1968-1981)

Volume VII, Number 1

Fall 1974

• Nine Tenses in Kikamba
• Faculty News
• Graduate Majors and Alumni
• Undergraduate Students and Alumni
• New Undergraduate Majors and Minors
• Some Gold Records
• Critical Language Courses
• Consulting Committee
• Microfiche
• Some Good News and Some Bad News
• Call for Papers
• Course Offerings for Winter 1975
• Course Offerings for Spring 1975
• Course Offerings for Summer 1975

A Sociolinguistic Study Of Language Usage In The Territory Of Guam, George Alfred Riley

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

This is the report of a study of the language usage of residents of the Territory of Guam who are bilingual in Chamorro and English. It concerns the configuration of language dominance that is characteristic of this group, assessing the degree of bilingualism and the distribution of bilingualism in formal and informal societal domains. The relationship among ethnocentrism, language loyalty, and actual language usage is explored. The study also describes the attitudes of members of the speech community to language maintenance and shift in general, and towards the appropriateness of the two languages in various situations and domains.

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 23, Folk Festival Supplement, Don Yoder, Martha S. Best, Barbara B. Bomberger, Lester Breininger, Ernest Angstadt, Richard C. Gougler, Marsha Delong, Dorothy L. Longstreet, Peg Zecher, Earl F. Robacker, Ada Robacker

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• Twenty-Five Years of the Folk Festival
• Our Farmer's Market
• Simple Basics of Egg Decorating
• The Folk Festival's Bookstore
• Setting Up the Festival
• Festival Highlights
• Folk Festival Program
• Behind the Scenes of "We Remain Unchanged"
• Granges at the Kutztown Folk Festival
• How to Design Pressed Flower Pictures
• There is This Place - And These People
• Metalcrafting at the Festival
• Hex Signs and Magical Protection of House and Barn: Folk-Cultural Questionnaire No. 35

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 23, No. 4, Scott Hambly, Waln K. Brown, Denis Mercier, Angela Varesano, Elizabeth Mathias, Don Yoder, Mac E. Barrick, Berton E. Beck, Claude K. Deischer

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• Cultural Learning Through Game Structure: A Study of Pennsylvania German Children's Games
• "Nipsy": The Ethnography of a Traditional Game of Pennsylvania's Anthracite Region
• The Game as Creator of the Group in an Italian-American Community
• Pennsylvania Town Views of a Century Ago
• "The Barber's Ghost": A Legend Becomes a Folktale
• Grain Harvesting in the Nineteenth Century
• My Experience With the Dialect
• Harvest on the Pennsylvania Farm: Folk-Cultural Questionnaire No. 34

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 23, No. 3, Earl F. Robacker, Louis Winkler, Susan Stewart, Eleanor Yoder, W. Ray Sauers, Mac E. Barrick

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• Victorian Wall Mottoes
• Pennsylvania German Astronomy and Astrology VIII: David Rittenhouse
• Sociological Aspects of Quilting in Three Brethren Churches of Southeastern Pennsylvania
• Nicknaming in an Amish-Mennonite Community
• Fruit Harvesting and Preservation in Early Pennsylvania
• Folklore in the Library: Old Schuylkill Tales
• Mills and Milling in Pennsylvania: Folk-Cultural Questionnaire No. 33

The Dual Structural Criterion Reviewed, Thomas Bearth

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

From the introduction: "The dual structural criterion (referred to henceforth as DSC) is a solidly established piece of discovery procedure in tagmemic methodology. Its basic usefulness and empirical adequacy is reflected in a great number of tagmemic descriptions, whether the authors explicitly refer to it or not.

"There are, however, two major limitations to the usefulness of the dual structural criterion: the first pertains to its application as a practical tool of analysis, the second, to its theoretical status. I shall try to show that the two weaknesses are interrelated."

Magindanao Penultimate Vowels, Jerry Eck

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

From the introduction, "Earlier phonemic analysis of Magindanao (Eck, Ms) has shown that four vowels [...] can be contrasted in stressed and unstressed ante-penultimate and ultimate syllables. This paper discusses the vowel contrasts in stressed and unstressed penultimate syllables."

More On The Generation Of Tones From Registers (Part Ii), Timothy Friberg, Barbara Friberg, Richard S. Pittman

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

No abstract provided.

Serial Verbs In Surinam Creoles, George L. Huttar

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

From the introduction: "Williams (1971) has pointed out some specific resemblances between Krio and the Kwa languages of West Africa with regard to [the above] constructions. The obvious conclusion that one is tempted to draw is an answer to a question about origins, namely, Krio must have aquired this set of syntactic features from the influence of Kwa languages. Whether that is the correct evaluation of the resemblance between Krio and Kwa, however, must be determined by the answers to some other questions, such as the following:

• How widespread are identical or similar constructions in other [pidgins and creoles]?
• How …

Batteries At Other Ranks, David D. Thomas

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

From the introduction: "The structure and use of transformational batteries and paradigms at the clause rank (clause level) has been discussed for ten years (see bibliography in Thomas 1973). It has been becoming steadily more apparent that the theory is relevant also to other ranks besides the clause. This paper is a preliminary presentation of transformational batteries and paradigms at other ranks."

A Proposed Structural Model, David D. Thomas

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

No abstract provided.

What Is Why? (Or, Why Is What.), David D. Thomas

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

No abstract provided.

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 23, No. 2, Jane Spencer Edwards, Carol Kessler, Ronald L. Michael, Heinrich Rembe

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• Wills and Inventories of the First Purchasers of the Welsh Tract
• Ten Tulpehocken Inventories: What Do They Reveal About a Pennsylvania German Community?
• Wagon Taverns as Seen Through Local Source Material
• Emigration Materials From Lambsheim in the Palatinate
• Household Furnishings: Folk-Cultural Questionnaire No. 32

A Note On English Plural Formation, Richard Rhodes

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

No abstract provided.

Comments On The Decimal Classification Of New Guinea Languages, Alan Healey

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

No abstract provided.

Sangil Elevationals And The Performative Analysis, Kenneth R. Maryott

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

From the introduction: "A prominent feature of Sangil speech is the high frequency of terms such as "up", down", and "on the same level" for a variety of concepts which in the main have nothing to do with physical elevation. For example, when a Sangil tells of a distant land, he may characterize it as "up there" but be speaking of just another island at the same level as the one on which he is located. Thereupon he might call a different place "down" even though it is situated in precisely the same direction as the first. And at the …

A Computer Analysis Of Vietnam Language Relationships, Kenneth D. Smith

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

No abstract provided.

Text Vs. Dictionary Letter Frequencies For Primers, Kenneth D. Smith

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

From the introduction, "The following enquiry [...] gives greater insight into Sedang phonemics, may have application to other languages, and may clarify a theoretical point in regard to frequency counts."

Some Choctaw Sentence Structures, Stephen M. Swartz

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

From the introduction: "Being somewhat familiar with Longacre's case grammar approach to clause analysis, (Longacre, 1974), I felt it would be helpful to apply his sentence level techniques to the study of Choctaw. Longacre presents a binary, eight-part framework within which he groups all the various types of sentence combinations. [...] I chose to concentrate on the first four deep structures which find their counterparts in formal logic. Basically, conjoining and alternation are non-sequential deep structures while temporal and implication are sequential."

Number In The Mikasuki Verb Stem, David West

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

No abstract provided.

Some Forthcoming Titles, David D. Thomas

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

No abstract provided.

Mikasuki Verb Prefixes, David West

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

No abstract provided.

A Sketch Of Mayan Languages, David F. Oltrogge

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

From the introduction: "The purpose of this paper is to present some of the principal features of Mayan languages. It will also touch on genetic relationships among the major members of the Mayan language family, as well as sketch some inferences regarding past migrations and inter-group contacts.

"A study of this nature is necessarily limited; only a few aspects of the languages are handled, and then only in a broad way. Nevertheless, a reading of this introductory work should provides beginning point for further study, especially for the student who may be contemplating doing field work in a Mayan language."

Front Matter For Sil-Und Work Papers Vol. 18 (1974)

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

No abstract provided.

"Sloppy Identity": An Unnecessary And Insufficient Criterion For Deletion Rules, Emmon Bach, Joan Bresnan, Thomas Wasow

Linguistics Department Faculty Publication Series

No abstract provided.

The Community Issues And Social And Cultural Activities Component Of The Japanese Teachers' Program At Boston University, Summer 1973, Karen M. Zeller

MA TESOL Collection

No abstract provided.

A Program To Introduce Intermediate And Advanced Esl Students To America Through Boston, Catherine T. Tansey

MA TESOL Collection

This is a program to introduce intermediate and advanced ESL students to America through Boston. It consists of texts, film titles, vocabulary lessons, charts and field trips which make the students become aware of and familiar with the environment in which they are learning English