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1. jj36, Obituary: P.H. Furfey (1896-1992)
2. Robin Clark, Geneva Technical Reports
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 Paul Hanly Furfey, a pioneer of sociolinguistics, died at age
95 on June 8, 1992 at Providence Hospital. Monsignor Furfey taught
in the Sociology department at the Catholic University of America
in Washington, D.C., from 1925 until his retirement in 1966,
serving as department chairman from 1934 on. That same year he
became associated with Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker group,
and worked closely with Day through the 1930s and again during the
Vietnam-era peace movement.
 In 1943 Furfey gave the first known course on the Sociology
of Language, and in 1944 published two articles on sociolinguistic
topics in the American Catholic Sociological Review. In the early
1950s two of his doctoral students, Father George N. Putnam (1909-
1991) and Edna M. O'Hern (b.1919), undertook a pioneering
sociolinguistic study of a Washington, D.C. ghetto dialect, and
their dissertations were published jointly as a supplement to
Language in 1956 (The Status Significance of an Isolated Urban
Dialect, Lg 31, no. 4, Part 2, supplement).
 A fuller account of Furfey's life and career, as well as of
other pre-1960 work in sociolinguistics, may be found in my article
"Paul Hanly Furfey and the Origins of American Sociolinguistics",
forthcoming in the next issue of Historiographia Linguistica
(probably in July). It was my good fortune to get to know
Monsignor Furfey during the preparation of the article, and I am
sorry that he did not live to see it appear.

--John E. Joseph~Z

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the target. The striking result of the study is that there 10-20% of
0-subjects occur even after the full acquisition of inflection and Verb
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OCCASIONAL PAPERS IN SYSTEMIC LINGUISTICS 6 (1992)

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Jonathan Fine (Bar-Ilan, Israel):
Functions of probabilities on linguistic systems

Elke Teich (GMD-IPSI, Darmstadt):
A systemic grammar of German for text generation

Meriel Bloor (Warwick) & Thomas Bloor (Aston):
Given and new information in the thematic organization
of text: an application to the teaching of academic
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Exploring Theme: problems for research

Carmen Rosa Caldas-Coulthard (Santa Catarina, Brazil):
The representation of speech in factual and fictional
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Angela Downing on existential sentences

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BreivikUs accusations: a rejoinder

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Theme, Method of Development and Existentiality:
the price of reply

James R. Martin & Christian Matthiessen (Sydney):
A brief note on HuddlestonUs reply to Matthiessen & MartinUs
response to HuddlestonUs review of HallidayUs
Introduction to Functional Grammar

Rodney Huddleston (Queensland):
On HallidayUs Functional Grammar: a reply to Martin
and to Martin and Matthiessen

Anne-Marie Simon-Vandenbergen (Ghent):
The interactional utility of of course in spoken discourse

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