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The author investifates the accent rules of compound nouns of the Mishima dialect, Yamaguchi Prefecture. If we divide the compound (Z) into the first element (X) and the second element (Y), the accentual information of Y alone determines the accent pattern of Z, X having no relevance.
An attempt is made at the interpretation of Khotanese texts on the manuscripts P 2031, P 2788, P 2898 (at the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris) and Ch 00327 (at the India Office Library -- now part of the British Library), all from Dunhuang. The photographs of the first three were published in 1971-1973, but no systematic attempt at interpretation has been made. Especially, it has not been known among Iraniansts that P 2031 and P 2788 were originally the first and the second halves of a single manuscript. An unsatisfactory interpretation of Ch 00327 was published in 1968, but it was confirmed for the first time here through the identification of the Chinese Buddhist text on the recto (the Khotanese part being on the verso) that Ch 00327 is a sequel to P 2898 on the same manuscript. The introduction deals with the dating of these manuscripts, followed by the text, an English translation, and a commentary chiefly giving parallel texts.
In this article, we would like to point out that the English and Japanese reflexive pronouns may bear several functions, including that of being the realization of a bound variable in logical form, that of emphasizing a particular NP, and that of reflecting viewpoints. We claim further that when a pronoun, reflexive or otherwise, is the realization of a bound variable, it is under the following constraint, in both English and Japanese (NAEC stands for a certain type of sentence, the non-agentive emotive causative sentence).
Thus our claim is that different syntactic constraints apply to the distribution of the reflexive pronouns according to which function they bear.
This paper attempts to formalize the tone system of some Japanese dialects within a revised version of the framework presented in the author's previous article (TULIP 10). Six Manabe-type dialects, the Kanazawa dialect and the Takamishima dialect are treated here.
Mongolian has reflexive possessive suffixes (abbreviated as RPS), which are affixed to the case ending of a noun or a pronoun. When an RPS occurs in a simple sentence, its antecedent can only be the subject of the sentence. When an RPS occurs in the subordinate clause of a complex sentence, its antecedent can be the subject of the main clause or the subject of the subordinate clause in a certain variety of Mongolian.
In the dialect of Kushimoto-chô, Wakayama Prefecture, there are three basic auxiliary verbs of continuous aspect representing different meanings: -aru, -oku and -iru. In this paper, the system of these auxiliary verbs are discussed as the following table in terms of the three features: volitionality, preparation and ingressiveness.
| volitionalityy | preparation | ingressiveness | |
| -aru | - | - | - |
| -oku | + | + | ± |
| -iru | + | - | + |
This paper reveals a restriction on the constituent order within gerund clauses in Bengali, a modern Indic language. A nominative argument of a verb cannot be positioned farther away from the verb than any element adnominally dependent on the gerund verb. This fact may be interpreted either in a classical or in a modern framework. Viewed from the perspective of Government and Binding Theory, it constitutes a novel parametric value for the adjacency requirement of case assignment.
The proper noun is the word that designates uniquely the individual being specialized and qualified spatio-temporally in our cognition. As proper nouns form no system, they have no signifié as in the Saussurean terminology. Yet, if some proper nouns designate the same referent, there is an oposition among them and they are exceptionally possessed of signifié. Two different categories must be added to the traditional frameworks in order to clarify the nature of proper nouns: pseudo-proper nouns and near-proper nouns.
