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A DEFINITION OF THE RANGE OF INFLUENCE OF THE UZBEK TEACHER AS AN AGENT OF SOCIOCULTURAL CHANGE IN SOVIET UZBEKISTAN AND A DETERMINATION OF THE ROLE OF THE TEACHER IN TRANSMITTING NEW VALUES AND REINTERPRETING TRADITIONAL CULTURES WERE THE MAJOR PURPOSES OF THE STUDY. AN INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH WAS USED WHEREIN HISTORICAL-CULTURAL, PSYCHOLOGICAL, AND SOCIOLOGICAL RESEARCH METHODS WERE USED. POLICIES AND METHODS WHICH SOVIET AUTHORITIES PURSUED OVER A 40-YEAR PERIOD IN UZBEKISTAN HAVE MET WITH QUALIFIED SUCCESS. THE MAJOR CONCLUSION OF THE STUDY WAS THAT THE SCHOOL WAS PERFORMING SPECIFIC AND VITAL ROLES OF CHANGE. THE FORMULATION OF THE UNDERLYING PRINCIPLES OF THIS POSITION INTO A THEORY THAT DEFINES A MODEL FOR SOCIOCULTURAL CHANGE IS A GENUINE POSSIBILITY, BUT WILL DEPEND UPON FURTHER WORK IN THIS FIELD. (HB)

THIS GRAMMAR OF THE UZBEK LANGUAGES, THE MOST IMPORTANT IN THE SOUTHEASTERN GROUP OF TURKIC LANGUAGES, IS BASED ON THE EDUCATED DIALECT OF TASHKENT IN UZBEKISTAN, USSR. UZBEK IS SPOKEN TODAY BY APPROXIMATELY SEVEN MILLION PEOPLE IN UZBEKISTAN AND ADJOINING REPUBLICS OF SOVIET CENTRAL ASIA, AND IN UZBEK COMMUNITIES SCATTERED THROUGHOUT THE MIDDLE EAST. THE HISTORICAL BACKGROUND OF UZBEK AND ITS MAIN DIALECTS ARE DESCRIBED BRIEFLY IN THE INTRODUCTION, WHICH ALSO INCLUDES A SECTION OF NOTES AND REFERENCES TO MATERIALS ON UZBEK PUBLISHED IN ENGLISH, RUSSIAN, AND GERMAN. FOLLOWING SECTIONS DEAL WITH PHONOLOGY, PHONOTACTICS AND MORPHOPHONOLOGY, FORM AND FUNCTIONAL CLASSES, DERIVATION, INFLECTION, PHRASE STRUCTURE, AND CLAUSE STRUCTURE. TABLES IN THE TEXT PRESENT CONSONANT PHONEMES, ALLOPHONES OF THE VOWEL PHONEMES, AND THE UZBEK ALPHABET WITH CORRESPONDING CYRILLIC ORTHOGRAPHY AND PHONEMIC EQUIVALENTS. THIS TEXT IS PUBLISHED BY INDIANA UNIVERSITY AND MAY BE ORDERED FOR $3.50 FROM THE EDITOR, URALIC AND ALTAIC SERIES, RAYL HOUSE, INDIANA UNIVERSITY, BLOOMINGTON, INDIANA 47401. (AM)

THIS READER IS DESIGNED TO PROVIDE EXAMPLES OF THE JOURNALISTIC TYPE OF LANGUAGE IN USE IN THE UZBEK-SPEAKING AREAS OF SOVIET CENTRAL ASIA (TURKESTAN). PART ONE, AN OUTLINE OF THE GRAMMAR OF UZBEK, PRESENTS THE ORTHOGRAPHY, PHONETICS, AND MORPHOLOGY OF THE PRESENT-DAY WRITTEN LANGUAGE (WHICH IS ALSO CALLED "LITERARY UZBEK"). PART TWO CONTAINS TEXTS EXCERPTED FROM 1958-1960 ISSUES OF THE STALINABAD NEWSPAPER "SOVETI TOJIKISTON" AND THE TASHKENT NEWSPAPER "KIZIL UZBEKISTAN." GRAMMATICAL NOTES TO THE TEXTS ARE CONTAINED IN PART FOUR. AN UZBEK-ENGLISH VOCABULARY AND A SHORT BIBLIOGRAPHY COMPRISE PART FIVE. THE UZBEK PRESENTED HERE IS BASED ON THE TASHKENT DIALECT AND APPEARS THROUGHOUT IN CYRILLIC SCRIPT. THIS VOLUME MAY BE ORDERED FROM THE EDITOR, URALIC AND ALTAIC SERIES, RAYL HOUSE, INDIANA UNIVERSITY, BLOOMINGTON, INDIANA 47401, FOR $2.00. (AMM)