Actes des Journees de linguistique (Proceedings of the Linguistics Conference) (7th, March 1993).

Papers from a 1993 conference on linguistics, all in French, include essays on the following: Yoruba morphophonology; literary Arabic morphophonology; grammatical cohesion in Burushaski; phonological and lexical variation in French Canadian dialects, including Acadian; insults in Madrid Spanish; discourse analysis; maintenance of meaning in translation; lexical stratification in specialized language; the nature of language planning; linguistic stereotypes in Berber; semantics of terminology used for American Indians; French usage among Canadian hispanophones; court interpreting; borrowing from French in Peul; language attitudes and proficiency among Latino immigrants to Quebec; the grammar of anaphora; evolution of a Cameroon pidgin; semantic comparison of the concept of beauty in French and English; a New Brunswick study of bilingualism in young children; a study of trilingual (Portuguese/French/English) families in Montreal; a pragmatic analysis of film criticism; the Moroccan vocalic system; evolution of the comma in French grammar; the concept of morphology in the functionalist linguistics of Andre Martinet; language, society, and ethnicity in Cameroon; Italian Swiss participation in a study of French vocabulary; use of the French phrase "en tout cas"; and official recognition of current usage in Quebec French. (MSE)