YPL1 - Issue 4

Issue 4 (March 1974)

Editors: J.N. Green and R.O.U. Strauch

Linguistic Orthogenesis: Scots Vowel Quatity and the English Length Conspiracy

7–25

Roger Lass

The Single Mother Condition

27–40

Geoffrey Sampson

Abstract

I propose a modification of the notion 'phrase-marker' to permit nodes to branch upwards as well as downwards. The change for which I argue both simplifies linguistic theory and renders it more empirically adequate. 

Processes of Pidginization and Creolization

41–69

R.B. Le Page

Some Consequences of Diglossia

71–90

M.W. Sugathapala De Silva

A Belated Case re Cases versus Coordination and Identity Deletion

91–128

Frans Plank

A Note on Conditional Sentences in English

129–139

Martin Bell

Notes and Discussion

Constraining Spanish Surface Structure

141–147

John N. Green

Constraining French Surface Structure

149–157

Alison Henry

The N-Prefix in Swahili

159–164

Francis Flaherty

Elicitation, Lateralisation and Error Analysis

165–189

Eric Kellerman

Moving on from Elicitation Procedures

191–194

Anne Mills

Review Articles

Understanding and Misunderstanding: Some Thoughts on the Recent Marriage of Philosophy and Linguistics

195–219

Geoffrey Sampson

Transforming Dialectology

221–238

John N. Green

Reviews

J.J. Katz. Semantic Theory. New York: Harper & Row. 1972. xxviii + 463 pp. £7.95.

239–242

Martin Bell

C.D. Fillmore and D.T. Langendoen (eds). Studies in Linguistic Semantics. Holt, Rinehart and Winston. 1971. vii + 299 pp.

243–248

P.P. Sah

John B. Caroll and Roy O. Freedle (eds). Language Comprehension and the Acquisition of Knowledge. New York: John Wiley & Sons. 1972. xiii + 380 pp.

249–251

Wynford Bellin and Michael J. Wroe

P.H. Matthews. Inflectional Morphology. A Theoretical Study Based on Aspects of Latin Verb Conjugation. Cambridge Studies in Linguistics 6. Cambridge University Press. 1972. x + 431 pp.

253–260

D.A. Reibel