Woleaian Reference Grammar

Humanities Open Book Program, a joint initiative of the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon FoundationA systematic presentation of the overall grammatical structure of Woleaian, spoken in the Caroline Islands. For those who want to learn the language and for linguists who are interested for theoretical purposes

Woleaian-English Dictionary

Humanities Open Book Program, a joint initiative of the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon FoundationThis was the first dictionary compiled for the language spoken on Woleai Atoll in the Caroline Islands. The dictionary contains some 6,200 Woleaian entries and an English-Woleaian finder list of about 4,000 entries. The Woleaian entries are based on an alphabetic system of orthography developed by the authors. Each entry also contains, where appropriate, the following parts: loan source, alternant forms, part of speech or word-class, grammatical notes, definitions, phrase examples, sentence examples, synonyms, antonyms, and cross-references

Coherence in Korean "Auxiliary" Verb Constructions

1. Verbs in Korean are traditionally classified as 'main' or 'auxiliary.' For example, :sal 'lives' and silh 'is undesirable' in (l) are 'main' verbs, whereas siph 'is desirable' is an "auxiliary' verb. Choi (1965: 244-45) classifies verbs as 'main' vs. 'auxiliary', depending on whether a verb can stand by itself in a predicative function or whether it necessarily follows another verb, thereby 'helping' it. When one applies this 'stand-by-itself' test to the above three verbs, as in (2), siph turns out to be 'auxiliary', because only (2c) is ungrammatical

Retrospection in Korean

It is argued in Sohn (1974) that Korean verbal suffixes like the honorific -si, the formal aeferential -sup, and the performative elements such as -ta(reportive) and -kka(question) are all underlyingly transitive sentences with the speaker or hearer as the agent. The present paper is an attempt to push the frontier forward and reveal some fundamental semantic properties (the semantic structure, the semantic units, and the interactions of these units) associated with the retrospective suffix

Acute Interstitial Pneumonia in Siblings: A Case Report

Acute interstitial pneumonia (AIP) is a rapidly progressive condition of unknown cause that occurs in a previously healthy individual and produces the histologic findings of diffuse alveolar damage. Since the term AIP was first introduced in 1986, there have been very few case reports of AIP in children. Here we present a case of AIP in a 3-yr-old girl whose other two siblings showed similar radiologic findings. The patient was confirmed to have AIP from autopsy showing histological findings of diffuse alveolar damage and proliferation of fibroblasts. Her 3-yr-old brother was also clinically and radiologically highly suspected as having AIP, and the other asymptomatic 8-yr-old sister was radiologically suspected as having AIP