YPL1 – 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
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The Single Mother Condition
27–40
Geoffrey Sampson
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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
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Some Consequences of Diglossia
71–90
M.W. Sugathapala De Silva
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A Belated Case re Cases versus Coordination and Identity Deletion
91–128
Frans Plank
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A Note on Conditional Sentences in English
129–139
Martin Bell
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Notes and Discussion
Constraining Spanish Surface Structure
141–147
John N. Green
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Constraining French Surface Structure
149–157
Alison Henry
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The N-Prefix in Swahili
159–164
Francis Flaherty
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Elicitation, Lateralisation and Error Analysis
165–189
Eric Kellerman
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Moving on from Elicitation Procedures
191–194
Anne Mills
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Review Articles
Understanding and Misunderstanding: Some Thoughts on the Recent Marriage of Philosophy and Linguistics
195–219
Geoffrey Sampson
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Transforming Dialectology
221–238
John N. Green
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Reviews
J.J. Katz. Semantic Theory. New York: Harper & Row. 1972. xxviii + 463 pp. £7.95.
239–242
Martin Bell
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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
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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
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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
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