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The aim of the present bibliography is to provide the student of metaphor with an up-to-date and comprehensive (albeit not exhaustive) overview of recent publications dealing with various aspects of metaphor in a variety of disciplines. Where the emphasis is primarily on specific works “about” metaphor mainly in philosophy linguistics and psychology the list has been supplemented with references to studies where metaphor is explicitly recognized as an instrument of research or analysis (e.g. in literature or in the elaboration of scientific and religious models) or where its use is illustrated.

Dans cette étude nous développons une approche formelle de quelques problèmes de linguistique. Les questions que nous considérons se rattachent plus spécialement à la théorie des dépendances et à celle des niveaux de représentation ainsi qu'à la relation entre ces théories: une théorie formelle des cas les subordonnées infinitives en français et en anglais la théorie des constructions relatives. Nous avons choisi ces domaines particuliers parmi d'autres parce qu’ils permettent d'illustrer certaines préoccupations théoriques communes des linguistes et des informaticiens.

Charles C. Fries (1887-1967) was a major figure in American linguistics and language education during the first half of the 20th century. Theoretical innovation and practical implementation were important threads that ran throughout his work. Fries believed that the attempt to deal with practical problems was a vital part of developing linguistic theory. He spent most of his effort exploring grammar as a tool for communicating meaning. Charles C. Fries was quite influential in the development of linguistics in the United States and yet in some ways remained outside of the mainstream of the linguistics he helped to develop. The contributors to this volume were asked to present and evaluate some aspect of Fries’ work and to show how similar ideas are being used today.

Wilhelm von Humboldt’s writings on language are a mixture of philosophical theorizing about mind and language on the one hand and on the other hand specialized studies of the most detailed sort of both the classical languages and languages which only in Humboldt’s day were becoming known to European scholars such as Sanskrit Chinese and native north and south American languages. This book endeavors to show that Humboldt’s work on language is a coherent system of thought; to recapture and expose the systematic structure of assumption hypothesis argument and conclusion; and to assign many of the specific themes in his writing to a place within this structure.

Passivization is explained by using the formalism of combinatory logic. The agented passive is derived from the agentless as follows: a term denoting an agent is transposed into a predicate modifier and applied to the passive predicate of the agentless construction. The passive predicate consists of two parts: 1) the two-place converse of the active predicate and 2) a zero unspecified term to which the converse predicate is applied. The passive is not derived from but is related to the active. The modifier of the passive predicate is the functional counterpart of the subject in the active. The proposed hypothesis gives an adequate solution to problems arising from various types of passive constructions. Passivization and antipassivization are defined as instances of a general cross-linguistic process involving conversion.

This volume contains a selection of papers presented at the XII Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL) held in April 1982 at Penn State University. These papers reflect the general state of the art in Romance Linguistics. Some of the studies are theoretical papers that seek to establish general principles based on the analysis of a Romance language others apply the principles of a particular theory to the solution of a problem in some Romance language or provide data-oriented descriptions of linguistic phenomena in Romance languages.

This is the first volume of a work envisioned to consist of six volumes providing a complete overview of the unified approach to basic problems of linguistics as developed by Hans-Heinrich Lieb. This first volume contains a detailed overview of Integrational Linguistics and outlines a major fragment of a theory of language systems. The further volumes will discuss: II. A theory of grammars; III. Language universals and language contrast; IV. Syntax and semantics; V. Morphology and morphosemantics; VI. Lexical semantics.

To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the birth of Edward Sapir (1884–1939) this volume brings together a number of papers by distinguished North American scholars appraising the life and work of the world-renowned anthropologist and linguist. It includes an introduction by the editor a full bibliography of Sapir's scientific writings a detailed index of names and many photographs and fac similes. Among the contributors are: Ruth Benedict Leonard Bloomfield Franz Boas Joseph Greenberg Mary Haas Zellig Harris A.L. Kroeber Robert H. Lowie David Mandelbaum Morris Swadesh and C.F. Voegelin.

Contains:

The Darwinian Theory and the Science of language (1863) by August Schleicher translated from the German by Alexander V. W. Bikkers.

On the Significance of Language for the Natural History of Man (1865) by August Schleicher translated from the German by J. Peter Maher.

On the Origin of Language (1867) by Wilhelm H. I. Bleek edited with a preface by Ernst Haeckel translated from the German by Thomas Davidson.

Sámuel Gyarmathi’s Affinitas linguae hungaricae cum linguis fennicae originis grammatice demonstrata (Göttingen 1799) was received as a distinguished work of scholarship in its own days and its historical importance has been fully recognized ever since. This volume provides an English translation of the entire Latin text including the Latin glosses of the original (with the exception of zoological and botanical terms and a few passages where specific reference is made to Latin grammar). This translation includes two additions to the text of Affinitas as reprinted in the Indiana University series: Appendix III a letter to Gyarmathi by A. L. von Schötzler and a number of notes in the author’s own hand found in his copy of the work (now held in the Library of the Lycée of Zalău). The translator’s Preface provides an introduction to the work and an overview of Gyarmathi’s life.