Essays in language and linguistics.

To C. C. Fries /William Tenney -- Charles C. Fries -- an appreciation / Albert H. Marckwardt -- The philosophic limits of linguistics / Chad Walsh -- Linguistic and semantic structure / Eugene A. Nida -- Linguistic data : some quantifications / Joseph K. Yamagiwa -- Hyperphonemes and non-systematic features of Aguaruna phonemics / Kenneth L. Pike and Mildred Larson -- Verboid constructions in Thai / Edward M. Anthony -- The structure of spoken Chinese / Kuo P'ing Chou -- Some morphological and syntactic features of Mandarin Chinese -- an attempt / Yao Shen -- The revival of peripheral and non-productive patterns under the influence of foreign borrowings / James Ferrell -- Construction of pattern practice in an inflected language / Waldo E. Sweet -- Saint Martin creole and genetic relationships / Raleigh Morgan, Jr. -- The evidence for the change from th to d in Old High German / Herbert Penzl -- The development of word-order patterns in twelfth-century English / Harold V. King -- How dead is congruence? / J. J. Lamberts -- German loan words in American English / Leo L. Rockwell -- Establishing and evaluating social boundaries in English / David W. Reed -- Poe's use of Negro dialect in "The gold bug" / Eric Stockton -- Plurals of nouns of measure in the United States / Raven I. McDavid, Jr. and Virginia G. McDavid -- Aspects of the linguistic geography of the upper Midwest / Harold B. Allen -- English sentence connectors / Seymour Chatman -- Teaching English consonant clusters / Betty Wallace Robinett -- A suggested new direction in primary school language teaching / Ruth Hirsch Weir -- How to test cross-cultural understanding / Robert Lado -- Recording a physical sign of reading comprehension / Russell Cosper.