The present study aims at establishing grammatical constraints on the borrowing of nouns (Ns) and verbs (Vs) in Urdu and English by adopting Noam Chomsky's Methodological Naturalism within the field of generative grammar as the theoretical framework of the study. For this purpose, the corpus of Pure Urdu and Pure English sentences from textbooks…

Second part of a series on trade names from classical languages. Part one appeared in Classical Outlook", v47 Jan 1970. (DS)

Third in a series of tongue-in-cheek articles on the use of Greek and Latin words for names of U.S. cities. (DS)

Fourth and final part in a series of tongue-in-cheek articles on the use of Greek and Latin words for names of U. S. cities. (DS)

Second in a series of tongue-in-cheek articles on the use of Greek and Latin words for names of U.S. cities. (DS)

This study is based on a sample of about 100 languages with numeral classifiers. An attempt is made at reconstructing the dynamics of the process by which such systems arise, develop, and decay. Among the hypotheses advanced are the following: (1) numeral classifiers involve the overt expression of one kind of quantification, namely, counting by…

Describes a computer program that generates a bank of items for second-language learning drills, including the differential processing of nouns, adjectives, and verbs. The program is used in a New Testament Greek course at the University of the Orange Free State (South Africa), and the exercises generated are tied directly to the course textbook.…