Frontmatter -- PREFACE -- PROGRAM AND TABLE OF CONTENTS -- Figures -- Monday, August 27, 1962 (M.I.T.) -- 9 . 0 0 a . m . OPENING SESSION -- President of The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Welcoming Remarks -- President of The Ninth International Congress of Linguists, Introductory Remarks -- Secretary General of The Ninth International Congress, Quelques mots d'accueil -- 10.15 a . m . PLENARY SESSION -- On the Methods of Internal Reconstruction -- Discussion -- 2 . 1 5 p . m . SECTION MEETINGS -- SECTION A: MATHEMATICAL LINGUISTICS -- A Statistical Study of English Syntax -- Measures of Linguistic Divergence -- Mathematics of Genealogical Relationships Between Languages -- Discussion -- Mathematical Linguistics - A Trend in Name or in Fact? -- Discussion -- SECTION B: PHONETICS AND PHONEMICS -- Aspects et fonctions linguistiques des variations mélodiques dans la chaîne parlée -- Minimal Systems, Potential Distinctions, and Primitive Structures -- Discussion -- Stress, Juncture, and Syllabification in Phonemic Description -- Discussion -- Pattern Fringe and the Evaluation of Phonological Analyses -- Discussion -- Pleniphonetic Transcription in Phonetic Analysis -- Discussion -- SECTION C: LINGUISTIC GEOGRAPHY -- Dialect Borders and Linguistic Systems -- Structure and Typology of Dialectal Differentiation -- Discussion -- Remarques sur quelques isoglosses dialectales -- Discussion -- Interrelation between Regional and Social Dialects -- Discussion -- Tuesday, August 28, 1962 at (M.I.T.) -- 9 . 0 0 a . m . GROUP MEETINGS -- 1. Linguistic Theory -- On Systems of Grammatical Structure: Studies in New Guinea and South America -- Discussion -- Concerning the Logical Basis of Linguistic Theory -- Discussion -- 2. Theory of Syntax, I -- On the Fundamentals of Sentence Structure -- Fundamentals of Syntax -- Discussion -- Is There an Interlingual Element in Syntax?. -- 3. Chinese, I -- Some Syntactic Rules for Mandarin -- Bipartite Division of Syllables in Chinese Phonology -- 4. Phonological Descriptions of Languages, I -- The Significance of Accentuation in English Words -- The Nasal Vowel Phonemes of French: a Case History -- Spanish L.L., y and rr in Buenos Aires and Corrientes -- Discussion -- 5. Language Teaching -- English Syntax Problems of Filipinos and the Principles of Linguistic Relativity -- Discussion -- Learning Problems involving Italian [s], [z] and English /s/, /z/ -- Discussion -- 6. Theory of Morphology -- On the Use of Zero in Morphemics -- Discussion -- 7. Glottochronology -- The Fallacy of a Universal List of Basic Vocabulary -- Glottochronology with Retention-rate Inhomogeneity -- On the Validity of Comparative Lexicostatistics -- Discussion -- 8. Dialects and Dialectology -- Le renouvellement des méthodes en linguistique géographique -- Discussion -- New Methods to Interpret Linguistic Maps -- Discussion -- 9. Varia, I -- La teoria Crociana e la linguistica strutturale -- Sign, Meaning, Society -- On Some Traces of the Unknown Language- Substratum in the Northern Uralic Languages -- 10.15 a . m . PLENARY SESSION -- Les niveaux de l'analyse linguistique -- Discussion -- 2 . 1 5 p . m . SECTION MEETINGS -- SECTION A: STYLISTICS -- The Description of a Poem -- Discussion -- The Linguistic Study of Literary Texts -- Discussion -- Poetry and Grammaticalness -- Discussion -- The Stylistic Function -- Discussion -- Styles as Dialects -- Discussion -- SECTION B: MORPHOLOGY AND MORPHOPHONEMICS -- Compounding as a Phonological Process -- Discussion -- Grammatical Categories and Their Phonetic Exponents -- Discussion -- Mohawk Prefix Generation -- Discussion -- Theory and Practice in Morpheme Identification -- Discussion -- SECTION C: LANGUAGES IN CONTACT -- Some Aspects of Bilingualism among Cultured People in Catalonia -- Discussion -- Stylistic Aspects of Borrowing: a Stylistic and Comparative View of American Elements in Modern German, and British English -- Discussion -- The Proliferation and Extension of Bantu Phonemic Systems influenced by Bushman and Hottentot -- Discussion -- Transfert du système phonologique de Blaesheim sur une autre langue, le français -- Wednesday, August 29, 1962 (at Harvard) -- Thursday, August 30,1962 (at M.I.T.) -- Friday, August 31, 1962 (at Harvard) -- LIST OF MEMBERS -- INDEX OF AUTHORS -- Backmatter