NOL, 1975-1979 (Numbers 1-12)

Complete Table of Contents

Number 1 (January 1977)

Notes on Linguistics: Scope and purpose, by Karl J. Franklin

Linguistic coordinator: Why?, by Karl J. Franklin

Training programs for those involved with SIL in language projects¹, by Calvin R. Rensch

1. Introduction

2. Training for all language workers

2.1. Pre-SIL

2.2. Prefield SIL courses²

2.3. * Field training courses

2.4. Programs on the field

2.5. Programs on furlough

3. Training for consultants and trainers

3.1. Prefield

3.2. On the field

3.3. On furlough

4. Plans for implementation

Some general guidelines for determining stage and location of academic training programs

A note on hierarchies and levels¹, by David Thomas

1. Hierarchies

2. Grammatical ranks (levels)

2.1. Ranks in the literature

2.2. Comments

2.3. Proposed ranks

2.4. Conclusion

References

Abstract: Collected notes on some North-Ghanaian kinship systems, by A. J. Naden

Review: Problem solving, by Ken Gregerson

Abstract: Trends in phonological theory: A historical introduction, by Eli Fischer-Jorgensen

Review: Educational patterns and cultural configurations: The anthropology of education, by Cheryl Fluckiger

Abstract: Phonology and syntax of Sedang, A Vietnam Mon-Khmer language, by Kenneth D. Smith

Consultants' Seminar in PNG 1976, by David Thomas and George L. Huttar

LSA Summer Institute 1976, by Wanda Pace

Editing Workshop held in Papua New Guinea, by Richard Loving

1976 Dictionary Production Workshop in Papua New Guinea, by Richard Loving

Report on Dallas meeting, by Karl J. Franklin

Number 2 (April 1977)

What do we have to do now to obtain our objectives tomorrow?, by Karl J. Franklin

Participant observation and cognitive studies¹, by Marvin K. Mayers

References

Now the computer can learn Choctaw grammar, by T. P. Kehler and Donald A. Burquest

References

Recent discourse structure contributions¹, by Robert E. Longacre

References

Abstracts, by Karl J. Franklin

1. Bontkes, Carolyn. "Surui prefixes"

2. Bontkes, Willem. "Surui ideophones"

3. Burgess, Eunice. "Xavante information structure"

4. Campbell, Barbara. "Jamamadi discourse"

5. Campbell, Robert. "Jamamadi verification suffixes"

6. Chapman, Shirley. "Paumari interrogatives"

7. Dooley, Robert. "Guarani narrative"

8. Koop, Gordon. "Dent person affix sets"

9. Landin, David. "Karitiana clauses"

10. Landin, Rachel M. "Higher level conjunctions in Karitiana"

11. Lowe, Ivan. "Nambiquara topicalization"

12. Lowe, Margaret. "Nambiquara characters in discourse"

13. Odmark, Mary Ann. "Paumari narrative repetition"

14. Richards, Joan. "Waura verb structure"

15. Sandberg, Clive Donald. "Cinta Large clause constituents"

16. Sheldon, Steven. "Piraha suffixes"

17. Stute, Horst (New Tribes Mission). "Gaviao fronting"

Abstract: A grammar of Angas, by Donald A. Burquest

Abstract: A natural phonology and morphophonemics of Chimalapa Zoque, by Lyle M. Knudson

Abstract: English-Khmer medical dictionary, by Sally Keller

Abstract: Copy-raising in Koine Greek, by Stephen A. Marlett

Abstract: A grammatical sketch of Brao, a Mon-Khmer language, by Charles E. Keller

Abstract: Participant reference in Bahasa Indonesia narrative discourse, by Constance Elizabeth Currier

Abstract: An overview of Stiêng grammar, by Vera Grace Miller

Review: A discourse analysis of certain root transformations in English, by Norman Gary

Review: Poet and peasant, by Kenneth E. Bailey

Ethnologue progress report, by Barbara F. Grimes

Panama workshop, by Stephen Levinson

Number 3 (July 1977)

Abstracts, notes, reviews, and other matters, by Karl J. Franklin

1. Introduction

2. Abstracts

2.1. Some examples of abstracts

3. Notes

4. Reviews

5. Other matters

References

A note on hierarchies and levels, by David Thomas

Teaching introductory linguistic analysis, by Alan Healey

1. Introduction

1.1. Slow students

1.2. Non-English students

2. Course content

2.1. Curriculum

2.2. Order of introduction

2.3. Theory

2.4. Terminology

3. Teaching materials

4. Teaching methods

4.1. Analytical procedures

4.2. Description

4.3. Constraints on the teacher

5. Conclusion

The microcomputer: A new tool for the field linguist, by Steve Thrasher

Abstract: The design and evaluation of a course in conversational Indonesian, by Marit Kana

Abstract: Proto-Danao: A comparative study of Maranao, Maguindanao, and Iranon, by E. Joe Allison

Abstract: Abstractness, rule ordering, and natural phonology, by Evan Antworth

Abstract: The coordinate, antithetical, and alternative sentences in Spanish, by M. Cecilia Carcelen

Abstract: The place of Haroi in the Chamic languages, by Eugene Courtney Burnham

Abstract: The Proto Mayan verb phrase, by Vernon Reynolds Frank

Abstract: A reconstruction of Proto-Mansakan, by Andrew Gallman

Abstract: Korean clause structures: Surface structure types and deep structure roles, by Shin Ja Hwang

Abstract: Tuyuca plot structure: A pilot study, by Gloria Jean Karn

Abstract: Syllable theory in natural phonology, by Doris Virginia Lander

Abstract: Analysis of the larger semantic units of the Epistle to the Philippians, by Takashi Manabe

Abstract: Zapotec verb morphology: Categories and Tono-mechanics with special attention to Sierra Juarez Zapotec, by Donna Louise Marks

Abstract: Proto Jicaque-Subtiaba-Tequistlateco: A comparative reconstruction, by David F. Oltrogge

Abstract: Comaltepec Chinantec verb inflection, by Wanda Jane Pace

Abstract: Nasality in Aguaruna, by David L. Payne

Discourse grammar: Studies in indigenous languages of Colombia, Panama, and Ecuador, by Robert E. Longacre and Frances Woods

1. Forster, Keith. "The narrative folklore discourse in Border Cuna"

2. Moore, Barbara J. "Some discourse features of Hupda Macu"

3. Henriksen, Lee A., and Stephen H. Levinsohn. "Progression and prominence in Cuaiquer discourse"

4. Cathcart, Marilyn E., and Stephen H. Levinsohn. "The encoding of chronological progression in Cacua narratives"

5. Koontz, Carol, and Joanne Anderson. "Connectives in Teribe"

6. Headland, Paul, and Stephen H. Levinsohn. "Prominence and cohesion in Tunebo discourse"

7. Binder, Ronald. "Thematic linkage in Waunana discourse"

8. Wiebe, Neil. "The structure of events and participants in Cayapa narrative discourse"

9. Welch, Betty. "Tucano discourse, paragraph, and information distribution"

10. Salser, J. K., and Neva Salser. "Some features of Cubeo discourse and sentence structure"

11. Howard, Linda. "Camsa: Certain features of verb inflection as related to paragraph types"

12. Tracy, Hubert P., and Stephen H. Levinsohn. "Participant reference in Ica discourse"

13. Kondo, Victor F. "Participant reference in Guahibo narrative discourse"

14. Walton, James. "Participant reference and introducers in Muinane clause and paragraph"

15. Waltz, Carolyn H. "Some observations on Guanano dialogue"

16. Koontz, Carol. "Features of dialogue within narrative discourse in Teribe"

17. Kerr, Isabel. "The centrality of dialogue in Cuiva discourse structure"

18. Smith, Richard. "Southern Barasano sentence structure"

19. Whisler, Dave. "Some aspects of Tatuyo discourse"

20. Witte, Paul. "Functions of the Andoke copulative in discourse and sentence structure"

21. Borman, M. B. "Cofan paragraph structure and function"

22. West, Birdie. "Results of a Tucanoan syntax questionnaire pilot study"

Number 4 (October 1977)

The selection, training, and evaluation of translation consultants, by John Beekman

1. Introduction

2. The selection and qualifications of translation consultants

2.1. Translation ability

2.2. Organizational and managerial (especially of interpersonal relations) ability

2.3. Ability in linguistics, anthropology, and other areas

3. The training of translation consultants

3.1. Training in translation principles

3.2. Training in teaching

3.3. Training in consultation

3.4. Training in exegesis

3.5. Through independent reading programs

4. The evaluation of translation consultants

4.1. Adequacy of quality checks

4.2. Interpersonal relations

4.3. Training imparted

4.4. Written reports

4.5. Oral reports

4.6. Self-evaluation sessions

5. Conclusion

Information processing technology: On and off the field¹, by Joseph E. Grimes

Tila Chol come, and go, and arrive, by Daniel A. Hoopert and Viola Warkentin

References

A discourse manifesto, by Robert E. Longacre

Introduction

2. The study of discourse

2.1. Participant reference

2.2. Pronominalization

2.3. Tense, mode, and voice

2.4. Conjunctions and back reference

2.5. Nominalization and topicalization

2.6. Optional locational and temporal expressions

2.7. Variation in quoted speech

2.8. Amount of detail and elaboration

2.9. Uses of types on any structural level

2.10. "Mystery" particles

3. Other discourse applications

4. Summary

Abstracts, by Summer Institute of Linguistics

1. Weir, E. M. Helen. "The Nadeb verb"

2. Cook, Dorothy. "Coreguaje dependent verb suffixes"

3. Gralow, Frances. "Topicalization and constituency in Coreguaje narrative"

4. West, Birdie. "The adversative particle in Tucano discourse"

5. Koontz, Carol. "Staging in Teribe discourse"

Abstract: The deep and surface structure of the Choctaw clause, by Mary Martin Redding

Abstract: On Catio grammar, by Eileen Elizabeth Rex

Abstract: Clause versus sentence in Choctaw, by Terry Lynn Todd

Abstract: Discourse grammar in Ga'dang, by Michael Walrod

Abstract: Some psycho-physiological aspects of a theory of semantics, by Stephen L. Walter

Abstract: Kobon phonology, by John Herbert Davies

Abstract: A contrastive study of some negative morphemes in standard Spanish and several indigenous languages of Peru, by Sanford Whitcomb Shaw

Review: Manual for bilingual dictionaries, by Dow Robinson

Abstract: Discourse texts: Discerning differences between oral and written texts and constructing simple texts for new readers, by Barbara Boltz

Report: Suriname workshop, by Eunice Burgess

Report: Congress on the Evaluation of Anthropology in Oaxaca, by Cal Rensch

Report: Yumanist-Hokanist meetings in Salt Lake City, by David F. Oltrogge

Report: Conference on the history and making of dictionaries, by Alice Davis

Report: A program of studies in lexicography at Indiana State University, by Karl J. Franklin

Report: Conference on African Linguistics, by Carol McKinney

Report: Seminar for Asia Area Linguistics, by Lou Hohulin

Report: Australian Aborigines Branch Workshop, by Alan Healey

Number 5 (January 1978)

Core bibliography of Indonesia¹, by Heidi Bowman

1. Introduction

2. Bibliographic annotations

2.1. General orientation

2.2. Cultural--general

2.3. Cultural--religion

2.4. Cultural--culture contact

2.5. Cultural--case studies

2.6. Linguistic

2.7. Environment

2.8. Economics and agriculture

2.9. History

2.10. Politics and government

2.11. National figures

2.12. Arts and literature

3. Journals

3.1.Focus on Indonesia

3.2.Indonesia

3.3.Irian: Bulletin of Irian Jaya Development

3.4.Madjalah Ilmu-Ilmu Sastra Indonesia (Indonesian Journal of Cultural Studies)

3.5.NUSA, Linguistic Studies in Indonesian and Languages in Indonesia

3.6.Pacific Affairs: An International Review of Asia and the Pacific

4. National language study

4.1. Schools

4.2. Texts

4.3. Dictionaries

Some thoughts on writing technical papers, by Ken Gregerson

The personal element in planning research, by Austin Hale

1. Introduction

2. On achieving by priority

3. On minimizing frustration

4. On intelligent planning

Problem?, by Marjorie Cook

Result?

Reasons for the success?

The role of a consultant, by Barbara Boltz

1. Why consult?

2. Who can be a consultant?

2.1. Academic

2.2. Interpersonal relationship

2.3. Roles

3. How can one become a consultant?

4. What does a consultant do?

4.1. Weeks 1 and 2

4.2. Weeks 3 and 4

4.3. Weeks 5 through 7

4.4. Weeks 8 through 10

4.5. Weeks 11 and 12

4.6. Week 13

4.7. The workshop

4.8. Problems and new directions in workshops

Training language assistants effectively, by Barbara Boltz

1. Eliciting words with a language assistant (LA)

2. Teach your LA to operate the tape recorder

3. Teach him to read and write

4. Teach him to type

5. Have your LA participate in composing the first draft of translation materials

6. Use "naive assistants" to check the accuracy of your first draft to ensure that it communicates well

Review: Grammatical analysis, by Linda Jones

1. Suggested reading audiences

2. Some basic concepts of "Grammatical analysis"

Abstract: An investigation of the tones of Lhasa Tibetan, by Anna Maria Hari

Abstract: Milingimbi aboriginal learning contexts, by Stephen G. Harris

Abstract: A comparative verb morphology of four Spanish dialects, by Donald Stewart Stark

Abstract: A discourse analysis of Hebrews, by Linda Kathryn Lloyd

Abstract: The functions of reported speech in discourse, by Mildred L. Larson

Field equipment: The AIWA TP-770H, by David Landin

Impressions of Symposium on Syntax and Discourse, UCLA, November 18-20, 1977, by Robert E. Longacre

Conference on the Differentiation of Current Phonological Theories (September 30--October 1, 1977), by Don Burquest

The search for structure, by John Sandefur

Linguistic section: University of Texas at Arlington Library holdings, by Lenard Studerus

Editing seminar, by Irvine Davis

Marketing, by Barbara Boltz

Report on information resources, by Fred Bevensee

New books, by Barbara Boltz

Number 6 (April 1978)

Outline of preliminary procedures for discovering discourse structure, by Thomas Bearth

1. Introduction

2. Tentative segmentation

3. Formal features

3.1. Juncture features

3.2. Sequence

3.3. Connective features

3.4. Selection

3.5. Identification and reference

3.6. Prominence

3.7. Phonetic features

3.8. Miscellaneous features

4. Some procedural steps

4.1. The Section-by-Section approach

4.2. The Feature-by-Feature approach

5. Problems of interpretation

5.1. Multiplicity of function

5.2. Multiplicity of manifestation

5.3. Difficulty of checking with substitution tests

5.4. Individual variation between speakers

5.5. Volume of data needed

5.6. Features not represented in translation

5.7. Indeed and subdivisions

5.8. No established terminology

References

An overview of Guyana Arawak phonology, by Walter F. Edwards

1. Introduction

2. Vowels

3. Consonants

4. Vowel length

5. Nasalisation

6. Some nonphonemic variations

7. Word stress pattern

8. Syllable patterns

9. Problem forms

References

A brief for grammatical thumbnail sketches, by Austin Hale

1. Introduction

2. The rationale

3. The goal of a sketch

4. Suggested headings

Recognition Memory (REM), by Sydney M. Lamb

1. Associative Memory

2. Recognition Memory

3.REM functions

4. Masking

5. Complex functions

6. The REM data system

Language proficiency test, by SIL, Mexico Branch

Test based on your lessons

Lessons approved each month

Involvement of both members of the team

Ingredients of a lesson

Standards

Time schedule

Test design

Suggestions and consultant help

Abstract: Mamanwa grammar, by Jeanne Miller and Helen Miller

Abstract: Predicate and argument in Rengao grammar, by Kenneth Gregerson

Abstract: Alphabet design for Papua New Guinea languages, by Anne M. Cochran

Abstract: Discourse markers in Northern Popoloca, by Polly Pat Machin

Abstract: Dadibi grammar: Morpheme to sentence, by George E. MacDonald

Abstract: Ono phonology and morphophonemics, by Thomas R. Phinnemore

Abstract: Parental kinship terminology in relation to child roles in the nuclear family: A tagmemic approach, by Roger Spielmann

Report: The 1977 Linguistic Society of America Summer Linguistic Institute at the University of Hawaii, by Bob Litteral

Report: Staff development at Dallas SIL, by Marv Mayers

1. Educational goals

2. Personal goals

3. Extension of the course beyond the immediate quarter

Stages of learning

4. Stages of cross-cultural achievement

North Dakota SIL, by John Daly

Report: Text collections: What are they good for and how are they made?, by Jan Crowell

Report: Status of microprocessors with SIL, by Gene Chase

SIL President's letter to SILers, January 1, 1978, Puerto Rico, by Kenneth L. Pike

Number 7 (July 1978)

Core bibliography of the Philippines¹, by Marilyn J. Busenitz

1. Introduction

2. Bibliographic annotations

2.1. General orientation

2.2. Cultural

2.3. Linguistic general

2.4. Linguistic dictionaries and grammars

2.5. Geography

2.6. Politics

2.7. History

2.8. National figures

2.9. Popular

3. Journals

3.1.Philippine Journal of Linguistics (SIL)

3.2.The Asian Student

3.3.Philippine Journal of Science (UTA)

3.4.Philippine Studies

3.5.Philippine Quarterly of Culture and Society

3.6.Philippine Social Sciences and Humanities Review

3.7.Philippines Quarterly

3.8.Philippine Progress

3.9.Philippine Review of Business and Economics

3.10.Philippine Economy and Industrial Journal

3.11.Philippine Geographical Journal

3.12.Times Journal of Manila (International Edition)

3. 13.Philippine Journal of Education

3.14.Asian Affairs

3.15.Asian Studies

4. National language study

4.1. Schools: Philippines

4.2. Schools: USA

4.3. Texts

4.4. Dictionaries

Inibaloi metaphors¹, by Lee Ballard

1. Introduction

2. Theory of metaphors

2.1. Some metaphors do not play on nuclear components

2.2. Some metaphors are "second generation" metaphors

3. Inibaloi metaphors

3.1. Recognizing Inibaloi metaphors

4. Translating metaphors

References

Verb phrase components, by David Thomas

1. Semantic components

1.1. Semantic content

1.2. Semantic prosodies

1.3. Encyclopedia information (presuppositions)

2. Surface forms

References (abbreviated list)

Review: A new invitation to linguistics, by Mary Lynn McCubbin

Abstract: An account of the Golin language, by Gordon Bunn

Abstract: Some aspects of Hungarian vowel harmony, by Dale Sherman Crandall

Abstract: A reconstruction of Proto-Mansakan, by Andrew Gallman

Abstract: Samo social structure: A socio-linguistic approach to understanding interpersonal relationships, by R. Daniel Shaw

Abstract: Characteristics of the more successful and less successful missionaries, by Kenneth L. Williams

The problem

Methodology

Results

Report: University of Nairobi MA Program, by Ronald J. Sim

Report: Workshop report, Central America, by Charles Peck

Report: Applied Semantics Workshop--Danau Bira Indonesia, by Lee Ballard

Report: Pikes' visit to Suriname Branch, by J. L. Waller

Report: Progress on the Mark I microprocessor, by Martin Huyett

Hardware

Software

Management

Report:SIL Summer Course at UPNG, by Robert Litteral

Literacy 1

Translation

Grammar

Dictionary production

Class organization

Recommendations

Report:SICAL--Austronesian linguistics with wider significance, by Pete Silzer

Report: News of SIL International Linguistic Advisors, by Karl Franklin

Report: Universal Grammar, University of North Dakota-SIL, by Donald G. Frantz

Report: 1977 South Pacific School of Summer Institute of Linguistics, by Barry Irwin

Report: Language Learning Integration at South Pacific SIL, by G. P. Staalsen

Number 8 (October 1978)

Minimum language proficiency goals--Peru Branch^*, by SIL Peru Branch

1. For translation (of Scripture of educational materials)

2. For production of primers, advanced readers, and other educational materials

3. For guiding economic development projects

4. For working in literacy campaigns

SIL in Central America, by Summer Institute of Linguistics

On the management of SIL Language Programs, by Karl J. Franklin

1. Introduction

2. Two project models

3. Strategic planning

3.1. Coordination and management

3.2. Orientation

3.3. Manuscripts

3.4. Publications

3.5. Training

3.6. Advanced study

4. Shaping strategy

References

Some well known systems propositions^*, by John Gall

Teaching literal and figurative meanings using food vocabulary^*, by Marilyn A. Funk

Lesson 1: The literal meanings of "cooking" terms

Teacher preparation

Procedure

New vocabulary

Demonstrations

Lesson 2: Follow-up exercise

Procedure

Lesson 3: Some figurative uses of cooking terms

Teacher preparation

Procedure

Lesson 4: Follow-up exercise on figurative meanings of cooking terms--role-plays

Teacher preparation

Procedure

"Hierarchies" in a cognitive setting, by James Loriot

A program for increasing academic publications: Or how to get around the bottlenecks, by Mary Ruth Wise

1. Introduction

2. Goals and assumptions

2.1. International and corporation goals

2.2. Branch goals

2.3. Assumptions

3. Staff and finances

3.1. Recommended staff

3.2. Finances and distribution

4. Development of academic publication program in Peru

4.1. Polished articles and monographs

4.2. Semipolished materials

4.3. Microfiche

4.4. Field notes

4.5. Documentation of work

5. Strategy for the future

6. Summary

Appendix A: "Poor man's microfiche"

Abstract: Some contrastive features of Southern Barasano and Spanish, by Richard Dean Smith

Abstract: A framework for discourse analysis, by Wilbur Norman Pickering

Abstract: Halia verb morphology: From morpheme to discourse, by Gerald Norman Allen

Abstract: The Fore language of Papua New Guinea, by Graham K. Scott

Abstract: Culture contact and language divergence, by A. Kemp Pallesen

Abstract: A sketch of Au syntax and morphology, by David P. Scorza

Abstract: Some principles of higher-level linguistic analysis as applied to "The fable of the good lion" (Hemingway), by David Benjamin Frank

Review: Technical Studies Handbook, by Peter Munnings

Review: "Proceedings of the SIL consultants' seminar, Ukarumpa 1976", by Peter Munnings

Report: Maya Workshop III, Guatemala, by Steve Echerd

Report: Brazil SIL course, by Ursula Wiesemann

Understanding another culture, by Summer Institute of Linguistics

Report: Conference of the Society for Caribbean Linguistics, July 1978, by Naomi Glock

Papers presented at the Conference of the Society for Caribbean Linguistics

Number 9 (January 1979)

Grammatical relations in universal grammar¹, by Donald G. Frantz

1. Preface

2. Introduction

3. Terms and term "marking"

4. Multiple-relation sanctions

4.1. Advancements

4.2. Retreats

4.3. Insertions

4.4. Ascensions

5. Multiple dependency

Appendix 1: Relational grammar laws and tendencies

Laws

Tendencies

Other principles

Appendix 2: A partial bibliography for Relational grammar

The communication situation and rhetorical questions¹, by Mildred L. Larson

1. Introduction

2. The test

3. Results and observations

4. Conclusions

5. Appendix of charts

Chart 1

Chart 2

References

On the importance of morphophonemic alternation in phonological analysis, by Stephen A. Marlett

1. Introduction

2. Lengthening

3. Rounded consonants

4. Conclusion

References

Successful language learners: What do we know about them?^*, by Alice C. Omaggio

1. Introduction

2. Personality and cognitive style variables

2.1. Field independence

2.2. Tolerance of ambiguity

2.3. Category width

2.4. Extroversion

3. Strategies and techniques

4. Teachable techniques and remedial activities

5. Conclusion

References

How to prepare and present a professional paper^*, by Richard Yorkey

1. Introduction

2. How to prepare a paper

3. How to present a paper

Review: 1978 Work Papers of SIL, University of North Dakota, Volume 22, by Michael Martens

Review: Tagmemics, Volume 2: Theoretical discussion, by Michael Martens

Review: Arguments for a non-Transformational grammar, by Michael Martens

Abstract: Barai syntax: A comparative study of tagmemic and transformational analyses, by Michael L. Olson

Abstract: Discourse analysis of II Timothy, by Sharon Stockdale

Abstract: Nakanai syntax, by Raymond L. Johnston

Abstract: The effect of steady-state and transition vowel duration on the perception of final stops in English, by P. J. Grainger

Abstract: The place of Haroi in the Chamic languages, by Eugene Burnham

Report: 1978 British SIL^*, by Martha Martens

Report: 1978 German SIL, by Thomas Bearth

Report: Monsoon 1978 IMTI Linguistics Course, June 26-September 14, by Alice Davis

Report: Impressions of the Linguistic Institute of the LSA, Summer 1978, by Les Bruce

Report: Notes on study programs on the "field", by Ron Sims

Pros

Cons

Masters' curriculum, University of Nairobi

Number 10 (April 1979)

The role of linguistics in translation today¹, by Thomas Bearth

1. Introduction

2. Redefining the roles of the LT and MTT

3. Guidelines for linguistic research that supports translation

3.1. Knowledge of the RL

3.2. Knowledge of the SL

3.3. Knowledge of translation principles

4. Suggestions and summary

References

Considerations for language identification surveys¹, by Robert Busenitz and Michael Martens

1. Introduction

2. Present methodologies

2.1. Preliminary research

2.2. Preliminary survey (Stage 2)

2.3. Word list surveys (Stage 3)

2.4. Dialect intelligibility surveys (Stage 4)

2.5. Sociolinguistic surveys (Stage 5)

3. Sociolinguistic factors in language identification

3.1. Intelligibility and acceptability distinguished

3.2. Sociolinguistic aspects which affect intelligibility and acceptability

4. Final remarks

References

Appendix: Categories of information for making language project assignments

I. Preliminary factors (background)

II. Primary factors (language related)

III. Secondary factors (culture related)

IV. Proposal

V. Summary and assessment

What can we do with our data?¹, by Ray Johnston

Participant identification in discourse, by Joan Richards

1. The importance of cultural information in participant identification

1.1. Participant identification by linguistic clues

1.2. Participant identification by cultural clues

1.3. Chief's language

2. The narrator's use of cultural information

2.1. Focus on participants and their interaction with others

2.2. Focus on events

3. Participant identification in the absence of cultural clues

4. Conclusion

Appendix: Text

References

Review:The grammar of case and On case grammar, by Michael Martens

Abstract: "Semantic change in Esperanto", by Earl Manning Bills

Abstract: "Training authors in a preliterate society", by Margaret M. Wendell

Abstract: "The goals of linguistic theory", by Bruce Samuelson

Report: Linguistics-related dissertations in UTA library, by Marvin Mayers

1973

1974

1975

Texas SIL 1977-1978 school year

Masters degrees granted, 1977-1978, by Karl J. Franklin

1977

1978

Report: Ninth Annual Meeting of NELS, November 1012, 1978, by Robert Longacre

Number 11 (July 1979)

An unlikely marriage: A merger of prosodic and phonemic analysis¹, by Wesley Collins

1. Some history

2. Prosodic analysis

3. Some possible problems and a new solution

4. Pragmatics

5. A new solution to an old problem

6. Conclusion

References

Core bibliography of Colombia, by Grace E. Hensarling

1. Introduction

2. Bibliographic annotations

2.1. General orientation

2.2. Culture--bibliography

2. 3 Culture--general

2.4. Culture--Indian

2.5. Culture--case studies

2.6. Culture--religion

2.7. Geography

2.8. History

2.9. National figures

2.10. Politics

2.11. Economics

2.12. Linguistics

2.13. Literature and the arts

3. Journals and periodicals

Index to technical studies bulletins, by Mary Lynn McCubbin

1. Notes to using index

1.1. Australian Aborigines Branch

1. 2 Bolivian Branch

1.3. Brazil Branch

1.4. Central America Branch

1.5. Colombia Branch

1.6. Ghana Branch

1.7. Indonesia

1.8. Ivory Coast

1.9. Mexico

1.10.MSEA

1.11. Nepal (Translation Memo)

1.12. Nigeria

1.13. North America

1.14. Papua New Guinea

1.15. Peru

1.16. Philippines

2. Cross-reference to articles found in Technical Studies bulletins

2.1. Anthropology

2.2. Assignments

2.3. Back translations

2.4. Bilingual education

2.5. Concordances

2.6. Consulting

2.7. Dictionary production

2.8. Discourse analysis

2.9. Distribution of Scriptures

2.10. Ethnomusicology

2.11. Grammar

2.12. Idioms

2.13. Indigenous translators

2.14. Inspiration

2.15. Language helpers

2.16. Language learning

2.17. Linguistic data

2.18. Linguistics

2.19. Literacy

2.20. Manuscripts

2. 21 Miscellaneous

2.22. Orthography

2.23. Productivity

2.24.SIL

2.25. Syllable

2.26. Tape cassettes

2.26. Translation

2.28. Translation checking

2.29. Tone

2.30. Verbs

The official rules, by Paul Dickson

Review: Mechanisms of syntactic change, by Michael Martens

Review: Language and situation: Language varieties and their social contexts, by Martha Martens

Abstract: Abstracts of papers presented at the 77th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association in Los Angeles, November 14-18, 1978, by Margaret Daly

Abstract: Bible translation and the emerging church, by Martha Martens

Report: Notes on program management in SIL, by Michael Martens

Report: 53rd Annual Meeting of LSA, December 28-30, 1978, by Robert Longacre

Report: Editing Seminar, Dallas, by Martha Martens

Special Issue 1 (July 1979)

Prospects for computer assisted dialect adaption, by David J. Weber and William C. Mann

1. Overview

2. The nature of the language situation

2.1. The general nature of the language(s)

2.2. The nature of the dialect differences

2.3. Phonological differences

2.4. Lexical differences

2.5. Grammatical differences

3. The nature of the computer program

3.1. Initialization

3.2. Target dialect root derivation

3.3. Text processing

3.4. The program's effects on single words

3.5. Program design problems: Ambiguity and the control of complexity

4. Procedures of checking the computer adapted text

4.1. The nature of the texts used in the experiment

4.2. Procedure used to check the texts

5. Results of checking the computer adapted text

5.1. General results

5.2. Disparities between computer adapted one final TD texts

5.2.10. Tense differences

5.3. Personnel related problems

5.4. Side benefits of using computers in adaption

6. Conclusions

Number 12 (October 1979)

Tagmemics^*, by Peter H. Fries

I. Language as purposive behavior

2. The description of units: Contrast, variation, and distribution

3. Particle, wave, and field

4. Hierarchy

5. Conclusion

6. Prospect

References

An ecological model for bilingualism, by Einar Haugen

References

The structure of abstracts^*, by Samuel G. Mahaffy

Announcement: On describing linguistic traditions, by Ken Gregerson

Review: Foundations of theoretical phonology, by Michael Martens

Review: Male/female language, by Martha Martens

Abstract: The Bible translation strategy: An analysis of its spiritual impact, by Wayne Dye

Abstract: Text analysis, phonological rules and casual speech processes of Nebaj Ixil, by Ray Elliott

Report: Linguistics and linguistics-related journals in SIL Dallas Library, by Mary Lynn McCubbin

Report: Linguistic Update Seminar at Ukarumpa, by Ken Gregerson

Intercultural communications: Materials being developed at Brigham Young University, by Martha Martens

Language learning, by Barbara Boltz

Pike visit to Kenya, by Kenneth L. Pike

Report: South Pacific SIL, December 1978-May 1979, by Barry Irwin

Feedback on branch management, by Dan Everett

Report: Conference on Theoretical Orientations in Creole Studies, by Jim Park

Report: Syntax Conference, by Velma Pickett

Major language atlas in preparation, by Karl Franklin