In 1858, a farmer plowing a field in Suszyczno, near Kovel in the old administrative unit Volhynia (now in the northwestern Ukraine), turned up an iron spearhead with an inscription and abundant ornamentation. After its publication some seventeen years later, the inscription became, and has remained, an object of keen interest to scholars, who at first had been inclined to doubt its authenticity because of forgeries that had recently occurred. R. Henning (who saw the spearhead itself before it was lost), L. F. A. Wimmer, and others were convinced that it bore inscribed runes and that the inscription was East Germanic. This is still the general opinion; because of the final -s of the inscribed word, it is considered to be Gothic. It is believed to date from about the 3rd century A.D.

[An Indo-European cluster composed of an originally initial voiced laryngeal and an immediately following */y/ coalesced in Armenian to yield the voiced palatal affricate /ǰ/. This development resembles a similar change in Greek.]

The purpose of this paper is to advance a theory as to the circumstances, linguistic and cultural, in which the uvular [r] has been substituted for the denti-alveolar trill in modern French.

In 1911 the Abbe J. Rousselot wrote:

In 1944 I published an article, The verb morphology of spoken French (Lg. 20.131-41). Leonard Bloomfield then published On describing inflection, Monatshefte für deutschen Unterricht 37.8-13 (1945), calling it a ‘less rigorous statement ... which can be compared with G. Trager's rigorous account.‘ In 1947 Robert A. Hall Jr. published Colloquial French verb inflection (Romance philology 1.39-50), and included the same analysis in his French (Lg. Mon. 24, 1948). Since then there have appeared Th. de Félice's Eléments de grammaire morphologique (Paris, 1950), reviewed by me in Lg. 27.200-1 (1951), and K. Togeby's Structure immanente de la langue française (Copenhagen, 1951); these two works are not limited to verbs.