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Volume 10:1 (Spring 1980)
Papers in General Linguistics
(Edited by Charles W. Kisseberth, Braj B. Kachru, Jerry Morgan, Ladislav Zgusta)

Becker, Lee A., & David P. B. Massamba. CiRuri tonology (A preliminary view). 1
Cheng, Chin-Chuan, & Charles W. Kisseberth. Ikoravere Makua Tonology (Part 2). 15
Garber, Anne. Word order change and the Senufo languages. 45
Hock, Hans Henrich. Archaisms, morphophonemic metrics, or variable rules in the Rig-Veda? 59
Jake, Janice L. Object verb agreement in Tigre. 71
Kachru, Braj B. Socially realistic linguistics: The Firthian tradition. 85
Kachru, Yamuna, & Rajeshwari Pandharipande. Toward a typology of compound verbs in South Asian languages. 113
Kisseberth, Charles W., & David Odden. Aspects of tone assignment in Kimatuumbi. 125
Kisseberth, Charles W., & Winifred J. Wood. Displaced tones in Digo (Part I). 141
Lutz, Richard. Hindi verbs of judging: An application of Fillmore's system of semantic description. 179
Sherwood, Bruce Arne, & Chin-Chuan Cheng. A linguistics course on international communication and constructed languages. 189
Sridhar, S. N., & Kamal K. Sridhar. The syntax and psycholinguistics of bilingual code mixing. 203

Volume 10:2 (Fall 1980)
Studies in Arabic linguistics
(Edited by Michael (J.) Kenstowicz)

Abu-Salim, Issam M. Epenthesis and geminate consonants in Palestinian Arabic. 1
Broselow, Ellen. Syllable structure in two Arabic dialects. 13
Comrie, Bernard. The sun letters in Maltese: Between morpho-phonemics and phonetics. 25
Kenstowicz, Michael (J.). Notes on Cairene Arabic syncope. 39
Kenstowicz, Michael (J.), & Kamal Abdul-Karim. Cyclic stress in Levantine Arabic. 55
McCarthy, John J. A note on the accentuation of Damascene Arabic. 77
Welden, Ann. Stress in Cairo Arabic. 99
Britti, Anthony. A history of right dislocation in certain Levantine Arabic dialects. 121
Haddad, Ghassan F., & Michael Kenstowicz. A note on the parallels between the definite article and the relative clause marker in Arabic. 141
Kenstowicz, Michael (J.), & Wafaa Wahba. Clitics and the double object construction in Cairene Arabic. 149
Killean, Carolyn G. Demonstrative variation in Oral Media Arabic in Egypt. 165

Volume 11:1 (Spring 1981)
Papers in General Linguistics
(Edited by Charles W. Kisseberth, Braj B. Kachru, Jerry Morgan, Ladislav Zgusta)

Bokamba, Eyamba G. Language and national development in sub-Saharan Africa. (A progress report). 1
Green, Georgia M. Pragmatics and syntactic description. 27
Green, Georgia M. Competence for implicit text analysis: Literary style discrimination in five-year-olds. 39
Kim, Chin-W. Epenthesis and elision in metrical phonology. 57
Kisseberth, Charles W. Displaced tones in Digo (Part 2). 73
Lee, Yen Ling. A study on code-switching in Taiwan. 121
Morgan, Jerry (L.). Some observations on discourse and sentence grammar. 137
Odden, David. Evidence for the Elsewhere Condition in Shona. 145
Tsutsui, Michio. Topic marker ellipsis in Japanese. 163
Cheng, Chin-Chuan, & Charles W. Kisseberth. Ikorovere Makua Tonology (Part 3). 181

Volume 11:2 (Fall 1981)
Dimensions of South Asian linguistics
(Edited by Yamuna Kachru)

Bhat, D. N. S. Physical identification in Kannada. 1
Hock, Hans Henrich. Sanskrit causative syntax: A diachronic study. 19
Kachru, Yamuna. On the syntax, semantics, and pragmatics of the conjunctive participle in Hindi-Urdu. 35
Kumar, Suresh. Discourse structure in a Hindi short story. 51
Mohanan, K. P. Pronouns in Malayalam. 67
Pandharipande, Rajeshwari. Interface of lexicon and grammar: Some problems in Hindi grammar. 77
Vijaykrishnan, K. G. The syllable in phonological theory: Arguments from Tamil. 101
Wallace, William D. Object-marking in the history of Nepali: A case of syntactic diffusion. 107
Bhatia, Tej K. Transplanted South Asian languages: An overview. 129
Bhatia, Tej K. Trinidad Hindi: Three generations of a transplanted variety. 135
Domingue, Nicole. Internal change in a transplanted language. 151
Pandharipande, Rajeshwari. Transitivity in Hindi. 161
Kachru, Yamuna. Transitivity and volitionality in Hindi-Urdu. 181
Bhatia, Tej K. The treatment of transitivity in the Hindi grammatical tradition. 195
Aggarwal, Narindar K. Reference material in Hindi: State of the art. 209

Volume 12:1 (Spring 1982)
Papers in General Linguistics
(Edited by Charles W. Kisseberth, Braj B. Kachru, Jerry Morgan, Ladislav Zgusta)

Abu-Salim, Issam M. Syllable structure in Palestinian Arabic. 1
Cheng, Chin-Chuan. The Esperanto of El Popola Cinio. 19
Cheng, Chin-Chuan. A quantification of Chinese dialect affinity. 29
Dabair-Moghaddam, Mohammad. Passive in Persian. 63
Hock, Hans Henrich. Aux-cliticization as a motivation for word order change. 91
Kenstowicz, Michael (J.). Gemination and spirantization in Tigrinya. 103
Cheng, Chin-Chuan, & Charles W. Kisseberth. Tone-bearing Nasals in Makua. 123
Lederman, Shlomo. Problems in a prosodic analysis of Hebrew morphology. 141
Sherwood, Bruce Arne. Statistical analysis of conversational Esperanto, with discussion of the accusative. 165
Sherwood, Bruce Arne. Variation in Esperanto. 183

Volume 12:2 (Fall 1982)
Papers on diachronic syntax: Six case studies
(Edited by Hans Henrich Hock)

Hock, Hans Henrich. Clitic verbs in PIE or discourse-based verb fronting? Sanskrit sá hovaca g argyah and congeners in Avestan and Homeric. 1
Hock, Hans Henrich. The Sanskrit quotative: A historical and comparative study. 39
Kachru, Yamuna. Syntactic variation and language change: Eastern and Western Hindi. 87
Pandharipande, Rajeshwari. Counteracting forces in language change: Convergence vs. maintenance. 97
Pearce, Elizabeth. Infinitival complements in Old French and diachronic change. 117
Wallace, William D. The evolution of ergative syntax in Nepali. 147

Volume 13:1 (Spring 1982)
Papers in General Linguistics
(Edited by Charles W. Kisseberth, Braj B. Kachru, Jerry Morgan, Ladislav Zgusta)

Bader, Yousef. Vowel sandhi and syllable structure in Kabyle Berber. 1
Blomeyer, Charlotte, & Tamara Valentine. 'We makin' some cookies': A child language case study of the effects of situational variation on pragmatic function and syntax. 19
Cassimjee, Farida. An autosegmental analysis of Venda nominal tonology. 43
Haller, John A. Enhanced miniature artificial languages. 73
Lederman, Shlomo. Relativization and pronoun deletion in Hebrew. 83
Livnat, Michal Allon. The indicator particle baa in Somali. 89
Ortiz de Urbina, Juan M. Empty categories and focus in Basque. 133
Rohrbach, Paula Chen. Two notes on negation in Japanese. 157

Volume 13:2 (Fall 1983)
Studies in language variation: Nonwestern case studies
(Edited by Braj B. Kachru)

Bhatia, Tej K. Variation in Hindi: Problems and prospects. 1
Hock, Hans Henrich. Language-death phenomena in Sanskrit: Grammatical evidence for attrition in contemporary spoken Sanskrit. 21
Kachru, Braj B. The bilingual's creativity: Discoursal and stylistic strategies in contact literatures in English. 37
Kachru, Yamuna. Cross-cultural texts and interpretation. 57
Lowenberg, Peter H. Lexical modernization in Bahasa Indonesia: Functional allocation and variation in borrowing. 73
Magura, Benjamin J. Language variation and language standardization: The case of Shona in Zimbabwe. 87
Pandharipande, Rajeshwari. Mixing and creativity in multilingual India. 99
Singh, V. D. Bazaar varieties of Hindi. 115
Valentine, Tamara M. Sexism in Hindi: form, function, and variation. 143
Zamir, Jan. Two social varieties of Farsi: 'Jaheli' and 'Armenian Persian'. 159

Volume 14:1 (Spring 1984)
Papers in General Linguistics
(Edited by Charles W. Kisseberth, Braj B. Kachru, Jerry Morgan, Ladislav Zgusta)

Cassimjee, Farida, & Charles W. Kisseberth. Downstep in Venda. 1
Farina, Donna M. The morphological rule of learned backing and lexical phonology. 31
Haddad, Ghassan F. Epenthesis and sonority in Lebanese Arabic. 57
Hock, Hans Henrich. (Pre-)Rig-Vedic convergence of Indo-Aryan with Dravidian? Another look at the evidence. 89
Irshied, Omar, & Michael Kenstowicz. Some phonological rules of Bani-Hassan Arabic: A Bedouin dialect. 109
Pearce, Elizabeth. Variation in case marking with infinitival and clausal complements in Old French. 149
Wallace, William D. The interaction of word order and pragmatics in a Sanskrit text. 167

Volume 14:2 (Fall 1984)
Language in African culture and society
(Edited by Eyamba G. Bokamba)

Bokamba, Eyamba G. French colonial language policy in Africa and its legacies (Part I) 1
Clements, G(eorge) N. Binding domains in Kikuyu. 37
Creider, Chet A. Language differences in strategies for the interactional management of conversation. 57
Faraclas, Nicholas. Rivers Pidgin English: Tone, stress, or pitch-accent language? 67
Obeidat, Hussein Ali. Relative clauses in Standard Arabic revisited. 77
Stahlke, Herbert. Derivational conditions on morpheme structure in Ewe. 97
Steinbergs, Aleksandra. Loanword incorporation processes: Examples from Tshiluba. 115
Vine, Brent. African 'shadow vowels': A descriptive survey. 127
Yanco, Jennifer J. Modifiers in Bantu: Evidence from spoken Lingala. 139
Yokwe, Eluzai M. Arabicization and language policy in the Sudan. 149

Volume 15:1 (Spring 1985)
Papers in General Linguistics
(Edited by Charles W. Kisseberth, Braj B. Kachru, Jerry Morgan, Ladislav Zgusta)

Archangeli, Diana. CV-skeleton or X-skeleton: The Turkish evidence. 1
D'Souza, Jean. Schwa syncope and vowel nasalization in Hindi-Urdu: A non-linear approach. 11
Dunn, Andrea S. Swahili policy implementation in Tanzania: The role of the National Swahili Council (BAKITA). 31
Hock, Hans Henrich. Yes, Virginia, syntactic reconstruction is possible. 49
Ka, Omar. Syllable structure and suffixation in Wolof. 61
Kachru, Yamuna. Applied linguistics and foreign language teaching: A non-Western perspective. 91
Kamwangamalu, Nkonko Mudipanu. Passivization in Bantu languages: Implications for relational grammar. 109
Nakazawa, Tsuneko. How do tense and aspect interact in determination of verb forms? Verb past forms and non-past forms in Japanese 'when'-clauses. 135
Ortiz de Urbina, Jon. Partitive constructions, unaccusativity and ergativity. 147
Sohn, Hyang-Sook. Korean irregular verbs and nonlinear phonology. 157
Valentine, Tamara M. Sex, power and linguistic strategies in the Hindi language. 195

Volume 15.2 (Fall 1985)
Linguistic studies in memory of Theodore M. Lightner
(Edited by Michael (J.) Kenstowicz)

Chvany, Catherine V. Ergative and argative (née ergative too). 1
Coats, Herbert S. Palatalization in Russian. 3
Davison, Alice. Case and control in Hindi-Urdu. 9
Foster, F. Joseph. Primitiveness, naturalness, and cultural fit. 25
Gladney, Frank Y. On glides following vocalic verbs in Russian. 39
Halle, Morris. Remarks on the scientific revolution in linguistics 1926-1929. 61
Kenstowicz, Michael (J.). The phonology and syntax of wh-expressions in Tangale. 79
Kim, Chin-W. Phonology on the C-string? 93
Lehman, Frederic K, with Namtip Pingkarawat. Missing nominals, non-specificity, and related matters, with especial reference to Thai and Burmese. 101
Lehmann, Winfred P. The persistence of pattern in language. 123
Lu, Zhiji, & Chin-Chuan Cheng. Chinese dialect affinity based on syllable initials. 127
Lunt, Horace G. On the progressive palatalization of early Slavic: Synchrony versus history. 149
Micklesen, Lew R., Sally R. Pitluck, & Edward J. Vajda. Derived imperfectives in Slavic: A study in derivational morphology. 171
Smith, Carlota S. Sentence topic in texts. 187
Zwicky, Arnold M. The case against plain vanilla syntax. 205

Volume 16:1 (Spring 1986)
Papers in General Linguistics
(Edited by Michael J. Kenstowicz)

D'souza, Jean. Codification of non-native English: Is it necessary/possible? 1
Kachru, Braj B. ESP and non-native varieties of English: Toward a shift in paradigm. 13
Kachru, Yamuna. Applied linguistics and foreign language teaching: a non-Western perspective. 35
Kendall, Sue Ann, & James Hye-Suk Yoon. Sentence particles as evidence for morphosyntactic interaction with pragmatics. 53
Kenstowicz, Michael (J.). The phonology of Chukchee consonants. 79
Lu, Zhiji. Tonal changes: Interplay between tone and tone sandhi: A case study of the Shanghai dialect. 97
Nihalani, Paroo. In defence of implosives. 113
Radanovic-Kocic, Vesna. Synonym split in the dialect of Bosnia and Hercegovina: A study of a change in progress. 123
Rubach, Jerzy. Does the obligatory contour principle operate in Polish? 133
Treece, Rick. What is a Bantu noun class? 149

Volume 16:2 (Fall 1986)
Illinois studies in Korean linguistics
(Edited by Chin-W. Kim)

Ahn, Sang-Cheol. On the nature of h in Korean. 1
Chang, Suk-Jin. Tag questions in Korean: Form and function. 15
Cho, Euiyon. On the morphology of morphological causative verbs in Korean: An argument against Lieber's morpheme-based lexicon. 27
Cho, Jae Ohk, & Jerry Morgan. Some problems on NP coordination in Korean. 45
Choi, Yeon Hee. A study of coherence in Korean speakers' argumentative writing in English. 67
Kim, Chin-W., & Han Sohn. A phonetic model for reading: Evidence from Korean. 95
Kong, Yong-Il. The Korean writing system: A linguistic examination. 107
Lee, Sang Oak. An explanation of syllable structure change in Korean: With special reference to Vennemann's preference laws. 121
McClanahan, Virginia K. Negation in Korean and pragmatic ambiguity. 135
Shim, Seok-Ran. Umlaut in Korean. 147
Sohn, Hyang-Sook. Toward an integrated theory of morphophonology: Vowel harmony in Korean. 157
Toh, Soo-Hee. On the relationship between the early Paekche language and the Kara language in Korea. 185
Yeo, Sang-Pil. Fortition of loanwords in Korean. 203
Yoon, James Hye-Suk. Some queries concerning the syntax of multiple subject constructions in Korean. 215

Volume 17:1 (Spring 1987)
Papers from the 1986 South Asian Languages Analysis Roundtable
(Edited by Hans Henrich Hock)

Abbi, Anvita, & Mithilesh Kumar Mishra. Aspectual elements of simultaneity and interaction in Indian languages: A case for an areal universal. 1
Bundrick, Camille. A lexical phonology approach to Hindi schwa deletion. 15
Davison, Alice. Wh-movement in Hindi-Urdu relative clauses. 25
Garapati, U. Rao. The development of personal pronouns in modern Gondi. 35
Helmreich, Stephen C. Devanagari word-processing on the IBM-PC. 51
Hook, Peter Edwin. Poguli syntax in the light of Kashmiri: A preliminary report. 63
Kachru, Yamuna. Impact of expanding domains of use on a standard language: Contemporary Hindi in India. 73
Khan, Baber S. A. The ergative case in Hindi-Urdu. 91
Steever, Sanford B. Remarks on Dravidian complementation. 103
Subbarao, Karumuri V. , & Anju Saxena. Reflexives and reciprocals in Dravidian. 121
Tsiang, Sarah, & Albert Watanabe. The Pañcatantra and Aesop's Fables: A comparison of rhetorical structure in classical Indian and western literature. 137
Valentine, Tamara M. Interactional sociolinguistics and gender differentiation in North Indian speech. 147
Wallace, William D. The government and binding analysis of Nepali EQUI and subject-raising clauses. 163

Volume 17:2 (Fall 1987)
Papers in General Linguistics
(Edited by Michael J. Kenstowicz)

Bennett, J. Fraser. Consonant merger in Navajo: An underspecified analysis. 1
Bokamba, Eyamba G., & Nkonko M. Kamwangamalu. The significance of code-mixing to linguistic theory: Evidence from Bantu languages. 21
Du, Tsai-Chwun. A computer tool in the study of Taiwanese tones. 45
Farina, Donna M. Multiword lexical units in French. 63
Green, Georgia M. Some remarks on why there is implicature. 77
Lu, Zhiji. Shanghai tones: A nonlinear analysis. 93
Nakazawa, Tsuneko, & Laura Neher. Rule expansion on the fly: A GPSG parser for Japanese/ English using a bit vector representation of features and rule schemas. 115
Teoh, Boon Seong. Geminates and inalterability in Malay. 125
Review
Lee, Cher-leng. Review of Hakuta, Mirror of language: The debate on bilingualism. 137

Volume 18:1 (Spring 1988)
Papers in General Linguistics
(Edited by Michael J. Kenstowicz)

Carreira, Maria. The representation of diphthongs in Spanish. 1
Downing, Laura J. Tonology of noun-modifier phrases in Jita. 25
Irshied, Omar, & Peter Whelan. Exploring the dictionary: On teaching foreign learners of Arabic to use the Arabic-English dictionary. 61
Kenstowicz, Michael (J.), Emmanuel Nikiema, & Meterwa Ourso. Tonal polarity in two Gur languages. 77
Moshi, Lioba. A functional typology of ni in Kivunjo (Chaga). 105
Patterson, Trudi A. Some morphological and phonological interactions in Lakhota. 135
Wong-opasi, Uthalwan. On deriving specifiers in Spanish: Morpho-phono-syntax interactions. 151

Volume 18:2 (Fall 1988)
Papers in General Linguistics
(Edited by Hans Henrich Hock)

Abu-Salim, Issam M., & Hassan R. Abd-el-Jawad. Syllable patterns in Levantine Arabic. 1
Cervin, Richard. On the notion of 'second position' in Greek. 23
Gerdemann, Dale, & Erhard W. Hinrichs. UNICORN: A unification parser for attribute-value grammars. 41
Kamwangamalu, Nkonko Mudipanu. 'C-command' and the phonology-syntax interface in Ciluba. 87
Ourso, Meterwa A. Root control, underspecification, and ATR harmony. 111
Schäufele, Steven. Where's my NP? Non-transformational analyses of Vedic pronominal fronting. 129
Tsiang, Sarah. The discourse function of the absolutive in the Pañcatantra. 163
Zhou, Xinping. On the head movement constraint. 183
Review Article
Hock, Hans Henrich. Finiteness in Dravidian: Sanford B. Steever (1988): The serial verb formation in the Dravidian languages. 211

Volume 19:1 (Spring 1989)
Papers in General Linguistics
(Edited by Hans Henrich Hock)

Arora, Harbir, & K. V. Subbarao. Convergence and syntactic reanalysis: The case of so in Dakkhini. 1
Bundrick, Camille. An inference-based account of restrictive relative which and that. 19
Cassimjee, Farida, & Charles W. Kisseberth. Shingazidja nominal accent. 33
Chung, Raung-fu. On the representation of Kejia diphthongs. 63
Gerdemann, Dale. Restriction as a means of optimizing unification parsing. 81
Hock, Hans Henrich. Conjoined we stand: Theoretical implications of Sanskrit relative structures. 93
Kachru, Braj B. World Englishes and applied linguistics. 127
Kachru, Yamuna. Corpus planning for modernization: Sanskritization and Englishization of Hindi. 153
Squib
Bhatt, Rakesh Mohan. Good mixes and odd mixes: Implications for the bilingual's grammar. 165
Reviews
Aitchison, Jean. Review of Agnihotri, Crisis of identity: Sikhs in England. 169
Pandharipande, Rajeshwari. Review of Bhatia, A history of the Hindi grammatical tradition. 173
Markee, Numa. Review of Chamberlain & Baumgardner (eds.), ESP in the class-room: Practice and evaluation. 181
Zgusta, Ladislav. Review of Katre, Astadhyayi of Panini. 187

Volume 19:2 (Fall 1989)
The contribution of African linguistics to linguistic theory:
Proceedings of the 20th Annual Conference on African Linguistics (Vol. 1).

(Edited by Eyamba G. Bokamba)

Introduction vii
Clements, G(eorge) N. African linguistics and its contributions to linguistic theory. 3
Biloa, Edmond. Tuki gaps: Null resumptive pronouns or variables? 43
Childs, G. Tucker. Where do ideophones come from? 55
Ottenheimer, Harriet, & Heather Primrose. Current research on ShiNzwani ideophones. 77
Downing, Laura J. Tone in Jita questions. 91
Hyman, Larry M. Accent in Bantu: An appraisal. 115
Timmons, Claude, & Christian Dunn. La sélection morphophonologique des classes en kpokolo. 135
Ali, Mohammed. Trends in Oromo lexicon and lexicography. 155
Botne, Robert. Reconstruction of a grammaticalized auxiliary in Bantu. 169
Clamons, Cynthia Robb. Modification of the gender system in the Wollegan dialect of Oromo. 187
Appendices to the Proceedings
A. History of the Annual Conference on African Linguistics 199
B. Research and publications in African linguistics by students, alumni, and faculty of the University of Illinois 203
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