[Latin cŏr ‘heart’ and chorda ‘string, cord, chord’ have been proposed as the origin of Spanish acordar. Examples from early texts show that all the principal meanings of acordar are to be found in cŏr and related words. Chorda accounts for only the meanings ‘harmonize, agree’ and not for the meanings that refer to mental and emotional states. Although there may be an overlapping of cŏr and chorda in the meanings ‘harmonize, agree’, cŏr, since it could account for all meanings, should also appear in REW §71a. It should be stated that of the two Latin words chorda occupies the second place of importance.]

[Up to the present this consonantal group has appeared to be rare; hence additional examples will be of interest to Algonquianists.]

[In the perfect of the Latin first and fourth conjugations, the ‘long’ paradigm in , etc. is posterior in formation to the ‘short’ paradigm in , etc. The latter represents an old inherited Indo-European perfect paradigm; it was the normal form in Vulgar Latin, and is continued in the ‘weak’ preterites of the Romance languages.]

This list includes all those who were on the rolls of the Society in 1940. SC before the name indicates Signers of the Call which led to the foundation of the Society, FM indicates Foundation Members, a date indicates the year of election.

[The Italian syntactic type il Machiavelli ‘Machiavelli’, with sources in Old Italian use of the definite article with family names in the plural and with nicknames and the like, first crystallized in the Renaissance period together with more frequent use of the family name as a result of humanistic influence. Use of the family name in the singular without the definite article first became frequent in the 19th century, with the common use of the family name as equivalent to the given name in conversation, and for a time had stylistic value as an optional variant; at present, use of the definite article is formal or pedantic, and will probably disappear entirely.]

[American English loan words in the dialect of Norwegian immigrants are provided with one of the two intonation patterns which characterize native words. This paper investigates the distribution of the two patterns in such loan words and formulates the rules of their occurrence.]

[Ugaritic does not share in the features which are most characteristic of Canaanite, in particular the Canaanite innovations. Hence it cannot be classified as a dialect of the Canaanite branch of Semitic. Ugaritic displays, however, a definite relationship to the language of the Amurrites, for which the name ‘East Canaanite’ is to be rejected. A part of the alleged Old Canaanite' words preserved in Egyptian transliteration likewise originate with the Amurrites, who played an important rôle in Palestine as well as in Syria.]

[Noun incorporation was formerly often thought to be characteristic of American Indian languages as a whole. While it is now definitely known that the process is not pan-American, its complete area of distribution (especially as a non-functional survival) cannot yet be plotted. For this reason it is of considerable interest that the process can be demonstrated to exist as a survival in the Muskogean languages, particularly since its occurrence in these languages has not previously been reported.]

[The article describes the distribution of the terms shown on Map 113 of the AIS, and attempts to explain this distribution on the basis of linguistic geography and semantic development. It closes with a brief comparison of the names for the cheek in the AIS and the ALF.]

[A discussion of selected features of Hausa syllabic structure, tonal pattern, vocalism, and consonantism, with incidental criticism of earlier treatments of the language.]

[This paper gives for the first time a comprehensive survey of Finnish dissyllabic e-stem nouns for the purpose of clarifying the declensional patterns. Words that cannot be classified by general rules are listed in full.]

[After a brief statement concerning junctures, prosodemes, and consonants, the paper is devoted to a phonemic analysis of the syllabic sounds of English (the vowels and diphthongs) on the basis of their phonetic character, their distribution, and their mutual relations. The results of the analysis are summarized in a table of syllabics and in a concise description of the total pattern.]

This idiom was explained by Zimmer as a preterite passive (passé indéfini) which secondarily acquired active meaning. He confined his investigation to the spoken dialects and appears to have been misled by French grammatical categories. In fact the meaning is present and active, and the phrase is a blend of two uses of the verb ‘to be’ which date from the Old Irish period. It may be as early as the 13th century.

[While most of the Algonquian languages east of the Plains show one reflex for each consonant or consonant cluster in the parent language, Delaware shows multiple reflexes in some instances but is very conservative in others. The reflexes are given and stages of development are postulated in conclusion.]

[The Handbook of the Linguistic Geography of New England lists certain words and expressions as ‘innovations’ and ‘relics’ in New England. This paper, based on fifty field records just completed by the author for the Linguistic Atlas of the United States and Canada, examines the status of these words and expressions in Wisconsin. Their status rarely proves to be the same; Wisconsin is seen to be in general less conservative than New England.]