Books in the Summer Institute of Linguistics Publications in Linguistics series

This study, by a native speaker of the Dényá language-a language of Cameroon-shows how discourse structure seems to influence the use of verb forms.

A sampling of some of the diverse studies recently carried out by investigators with varying divergent yet partially overlapping interests in the Spanish language. This book includes information on: Recent trends in Hispanic linguistics / Frank Nuessel; African influence on Hispanic dialects / John Lipski; The Spanish teacher as dialectologist / Mark G. Goldin; Noun gender categories in Spanish and French / Richard V. Teschner. This book is published by SIL International and is part of our series on Linguistics.

The thirteen papers in this volume are new contributions-in terms of fieldwork or of analysis-to the study of Kadai languages other than those of the Tai branch. The specific languages in focus are: Kam, Sui, Maonan, Mulam, Mak, Then, Ai-Cham, Be, Hlai (Li), and Lakkia.

This book has two parts. Part one presents a grammatical sketch of the Hixkaryana language--which is a member of the Carib language family and is spoken in northern Brazil--and the other part suggests the place Hixkaryana has in syntactic typology.

Shows how to reconstruct syntactic constructions, their constituents, and the functions of these constituents for a protolanguage by applying certain procedures of internal and comparative reconstruction to data from other languages concerned.

Originally presented as the author's thesis (University of Pennsylvania, 1983) under title: Some aspects of formal speech among the Western Subanon of Mindanao.