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Accent rules of compound verbs composed of (more than) two verb forms in the Ibuki-jima dialect of Kagawa Prefecture are described. They are summarized as follows:
Appended to the paper is a list of compound verbs of more than 3 moras, together with a list of 3-mora nouns.
The present paper is an acoustic-phonetic study of intonation patterns observed in the Tokyo dialect spoken by a younger generation (in their 20's-30's ).
Sentences dealt with here are questions ending in "yaru" without any overt interrogative particle, while their intonation alone shows that the hearer's response is expected.
The experiments carried out are the following: 1) questions are classified according to the implied speaker's intentions, such as asking for the hearer's judgment, asking for the hearer's confirmation, or expressing the speaker's disagreement; 2) recording of intonation paterns so classified are synthesized; 3) synthesized sentences are used for perception tests.
It was found out that in the first two categories, asking fot the hearer's judgment or confirmation, the pitch of the beginning of a sentence is crucial for the hearer's interpretation, while in the category expressing the speaker's disagreemnt, the duration of the utterance is the most important.
Two brief texts with the glosses are presented in the Shiomichi dialect of Kikai Island. One is"kaKi-banasji (Competition of Wits)", where two storytellers compete with each other to see which one could owtwit the other. The other is "maNbiCjaa-nu tama (The Spider's Jewels)", where a man failed to sell a dirty house, even though he had cleaned it up beautifully, because he became greedy for more money.
This paper describes the accent of noun phrases of Korean spoken in China based on the data collected from two speakers, Informant A who comes from Jilin, and Informant B from Heilongjiang. Informant A has n+1 patterns for n-syllable words (n = 1 or > 1). But the system seems to be gradually collapsing and there is no distinction of the accent of four-syllable nouns. As for Informant B, the pattern is fewer than Informant A's, and the accent patterns depending on the prosodic phrase become predominant and the accent of the noun itself becomes indistinct.
Comparison with the South Hamkyeng dialect is aslo attempted.
Some of Austronesian languages do not have much evidence to differentiate adjectives from verbs, and some of them do not set a word class called 'adjectives'. There exist many such languages in Sulawesi. In this paper, I would like to argue that adjectives and verbs should form different word classes in Bantik, one of the Austronesian languages spoken in North Sulawesi. First, the morphological evidence for the division of adjectives and verbs will be shown. Second, the differences in syntactic behavior will be illustrated. Third, I will argue that the strongest evidence for separating these two word classes is that there is no tense system for adjectives although there is one for verbs.
Possessive verbs akvs and hqavs 'X has Y' may take an adjectival element besides two noun phrases in the dative and nominative casess, denoting the possessor and possessee respectively. When the adjectival element is a perfect participle, two noun phrases may denote the agent and patient of the action of the participle, rather than the possessor and possessee. In such cases, the possessive verbs are to be reanalyzed as an auxiliary occurring before the participle.
Studies of polite expressions in Turkish usually include the usage of the second person plural pronoun and the plural suffix attached to predicates. But there are also some verbs showing honorific character, though used in restricted discourse situations. This paper aims to clarify the basic characteristics of such honorific verbs. It is shown that Turkish honorific verbs, based on how agents are treated honorifically, can be classified into: 1) Exalting and 2) Humbling verbs, which correspond to Sonkeigo and Kenjougo, respectively, of Japanese. Verbs of both exalting and humbling characters, as well as Polite verbs (teineigo) are also found.
In Upper Sorbian, a West Slavonic language, the verb shows agreement with the subject in gender and number. There is no distinction between the second and third person dual. Instead, the ending -taj and -tej are used for both numbers. In the Bautzen dialect, on which Standard Upper Sorbian is based, -taj is exclusively used when the subject refers to two male persons, otherwise -tej is used. The Crostwitz dialect, however, does not follow this rule perfectly. In this paper, cases of -taj, which is more restricted in use, are surveyed and the possibility is pointed out that not only the semantic factor above, but also phonemic factors work in choosing -taj.
In this paper I deal with the Azpeitia dialect of Basque. I try to describe the usage and meaning of the periphrastic verbal construction with the auxiliary diyo conjugation and the dative case co-occurring with this conjugation.
The aim of this paper is to analyze the characteristics of the abstract nouns with the suffixes -nes(s), -scipe, -had, -hed,-dom, -ræden, -lac, -þ(o), -þ(u), -ung/-ing, -oþ, -aþ, -wist and -et(t) in the post-Conquest annals (1070 - 1154) of the Petersborough Chronicle. We discuss mainly abstract nouns with the suffixes mentioned above. However, we also deal with simplexes and compounds which are relevant to them. The conclusions can be summed up as follows:
The Ganda language is one of the main Bantu languages spoken in Uganda, East Africa.
This paper describes in terms of the tone verbal forms such as the infinitive and various indicative forms in this language.
