Part 1 appeared in the October-November 1971 issue of Yelmo." (DS)

Discusses an analysis of grammar that systematizes knowledge about language according to new parameters but continues to view traditional grammar as the backbone of language structure. (NCR)

This article is the second on a series of listings of Provencal, Iberian, and Latin American folk music records, based on records available in France as of the beginning of 1976. (Text is in French.) (CLK)

Investigates the acquisition of the unaccusative-unergative distinction in second language Japanese by English learners. Aims to establish whether learners of Japanese are sensitive to the lexical-semantic characteristics of verbs in similar ways as learners of Romance languages who were found to follow the split intransitivity hierarchy.…

A theoretical discussion is offered on whether the subjunctive in the Romance languages is by nature thematic, as suggested in previous studies. English and Spanish samples are used to test the hypothesis; one conclusion is that the subjunctive seems to offer speaker-related information and may express the intensity of the speaker's involvement.…

Data from a number of language (Slavic, Romance, Modern Greek) concerning predicate agreement with the polite plural (semantically singular, but plural in surface structure) suggest that more verb-like predicates tend to agree with the surface subject, while more noun-like predicates tend to agree with the underlying subject. (Author/KM)

THIS PUBLICATION PROVIDES A HISTORICAL REVIEW AND LISTING OF THE INDO-EUROPEAN LANGUAGES, BOTH ANCIENT AND MODERN. THE VOLUME DEALS WITH THE LESSER-KNOWN BRANCHES OF THE INDO-EUROPEAN LANGUAGE FAMILY AND THE MAIN LANGUAGES OF THIS GROUP COMMON TO MODERN TIMES. (THE REPORT IS PART OF A SERIES, ED 010 350 TO ED 010 367.) (JK)

This article discusses the history of the Galician language. (Text is in Spanish.) (CLK)

Irrespective of the traditional reconstructions related to the theory of well known families of languages such as Indo-European or Semitic, some researchers have aimed at rebuilding super-families, going as far as a Proto-global family. Several puzzling agreements between their proposals and the reconstructions made by the genetics populations…

PACEFI is a working committee at the University of Neuchatel in Switzerland. (DS)

Discusses research in listening comprehension and proposes model for listening comprehension activities in college French conversation courses. (BK)