Monograph Series on Languages and Linguistics

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Monograph Series
on
Languages and Linguistics
lumber 20, 1967 edited by E. L. Blansitt, Jr.
18th Annual Round Table
Georgetown University
School of Languages and Linguistics

REPORT
OF THE EIGHTEENTH ANNUAL
ROUND TABLE MEETING
ON LINGUISTICS
AND LANGUAGE STUDIES
EDWARD L. BLANSITT, Jr.
EDITOR
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY PRESS
Washington, D.C. 20007
©Copyright 1967
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY PRESS
SCHOOL OF LANGUAGES AND LINGUISTICS
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 58-31607
Lithographed in U.S.A. by
EDWARDS BROTHERS, INC.
Ann Arbor, Michigan
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Page
Foreword v
WELCOMING REMARKS
Reverend Frank L. Fadner, S.J.
Regent, School of Languages and Linguistics vii
Reverend Francis P. Dinneen, S.J.
School of Languages and Linguistics ix
INTRODUCTORY REMARKS xi
PANEL I: TAGMEMIC THEORY
Kenneth L. Pike
Grammar as Wave 1
Robert E. Longacre
The Notion of Sentence 15
Walter A. Cook, S.J.
The Generative Power of a Tagmemic Grammar 27
William R. Merrifield
On the Form of Rules in a Generative Grammar 43
DISCUSSION 57
FIRST LUNCHEON ADDRESS
Ernest F. Ha den
Tense, Time, and Focus in French 69
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PANEL II: CURRENT RESEARCH IN TAGMEMIC
DESCRIPTION
Howard W. Law
The Use of Function-Set in English
Adverbial Classification 93
Dan M. Matson
Tagmemic Description of Agreement 103
Alton L. Becker
Conjoining in a Tagmemic Grammar of English 109
James O. Morgan
English Structure above the Sentence Level 123
DISCUSSION 133
PANEL III: GRAMMATICAL ANALYSIS
Arthur Bernhart
Dual Graphs in Symbolic Logic 143
Stanley N. Werbow
Toward a Taxonomy of Spoken German 151
Robert L. Allen
Sector Analysis: From Sentence to Morpheme
in English 159
Yehia A. El-Ezabi
The Sectors of Written Arabic 175
DISCUSSION 181
CONCLUDING REMARKS 189
Appendix I
List of Registrants 193
FOREWORD
For the past eighteen years, Georgetown University's annual
Round Table Meetings have brought together scholars in linguis -
tics and related disciplines to report on their latest research and
to discuss current problems. At this year's session, held March
seventeenth and eighteenth, 1967, fourteen interesting papers
were read. The present volume represents the proceedings of
that meeting with one regrettable exception: Dr. Mark Hanna
Watkins' paper read at the March eighteenth luncheon meeting
was not received in time for publication.
In accordance with the format of its immediate predecessors,
the 18th Round Table Meeting consisted of three panels, each
with four speakers, and two luncheon addresses. Unlike its pred-
ecessors, the 18th Round Table Meeting had one central theme
throughout: tagmemics. The discussions which followed each of
the three panels were recorded and are included as a part of
this volume.
Thanks are due to several graduate and undergraduate students
of the School of Languages and Linguistics of Georgetown Univer-
sity for their invaluable voluntary assistance at the 18th Round
Table Meeting: Harry Farmer, Judith Farmer, Jay Harris,
George Kelly, Philip Miller, Josephine Overholser, and Diane
Seavit. Special thanks are due to Louis B. Hillman, who master-
fully coordinated the student effort.
Edward L. Blansitt, Jr.
Editor

WELCOMING REMARKS
FRANK FADNER, S.J.
Regent, School of Languages and Linguistics
Georgetown University
Ladies and gentlemen, colleagues, participants and guests at
Georgetown University's Eighteenth Annual Round Table Meeting
on Linguistics and Language studies:
I don't suppose that in these chaotic days of turmoil and bitter
debate a man could win a popularity contest by asserting that
humanity owes a debt of gratitude to the advent of Communist
ideology.
And yet the historical record shows that since the rise of
Bolshevism and its triumph in a large neighbourhood, people in
the rest of the world have become more socially aware: we've
been put on our toes and made to realize the existence of 'the
other man'.
In bygone days when static hierarchy ruled the world of thought
philosophers were content with a stress on the static, individual,
aspect of that important creature known as man; and they said of
him: Man is a rational animal.
Now we have come to realize that an equally essential defini-
tion of man stresses his dynamic aspect, his nature—the way he
acts, and we say: Man is a social animal—an intelligent, free
animal with an inner urge or drive to enter the society of his own
kind as a necessary means to his immediate end (life, liberty and
the pursuit of happiness)—and his ultimate end.
This means communication—human language. Hence we also
come up with a third definition of a man—rather waggish if you
viii / WELCOMING REMARKS
will—Animal sapiens nonnunquam loquax—an intelligent animal
who has to talk—now and then!
As I look over the agenda for our Round Table discussions,
as a layman floundering in a sea of technicalities, I must sigh
with the ancient observer of human nature: omne ignotum pro
mirabili—we have to bow down in reverence and awe before the
unknown. In fact the only item really comprehensible to me ap-
pears in the middle of page two scheduled for six o'clock this
afternoon, namely, the Reception!
It occurs to me that today, the 17th of March is also sacred
to the Irish. What is more natural, then, than to greet you this
morning with the same words that met their great patron, Patrick,
as he took up his work on the Emerald Isle.
Cead Milte Failte^—a hundred thousand welcomes—and a hun-
dred thousand blessings on your two day venture at Georgetown!
Thank you.