Language: Journal of the Linguistic Society of America, Volume 29, Number 1, January-March 1953.

Edited by Bernard Bloch

Roland Grubb Kent (obituary by George S. Lane).

Jaan Puhvel: Indo-European negative composition.

Albert Money Sturtevant: Certain Old Norse secondary formations.

E. Colin Cherry, Morris Halle, and Roman Jakobson: Toward the logical description of languages in their phonemic aspect.

Yehoshua Bar-Hillel: A quasi-arithmetical notation for syntactic description.

Miscellanea:

Bernard Bloch: Contrast.

Kemp Malone: Long and short in Icelandic phonetics.

Dwight L. Bolinger: Addenda to the comparisons of inequality in Spanish.

Herbert H. Paper: An Elamite etymology.

Reviews:

Shannon and Weaver: The mathematical theory of communication (Charles F. Hockett)

Sturtevant: A comparative grammar of the Hittite language, revised edition (Holger Petersen).

Brunner: Die englische Sprache (Herbert Penzl).

Sauvageot: Esquisse de la langue hongroise (Thomas A. Sebeok).

Polotsky: Notes on Gurage grammar (Wolf Lesley).

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