What¹ could the source be for that self-determined sentence: “This is true”?²

¹Fieldwork was supported by grants from the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies and the Central Research Fund of the University of London. Analysis and cogitation were partly supported by grant CS-1957 to Tokyo University and the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique through grant 412H. I am grateful to Alain Barthelemy, Ted Lightner, and Maurice Gross, who discussed an earlier version of this work (Marseille-Luminy 1968, mimeo.). For the definitive version I am especially indebted to C.A. Debru, César Florès, H. Morel and J. Gabszevich who helped me in many ways as I developed the problem presented here, and to Jacques Lacan and Alcofribas J. Greimas, who put their native intuitions about Aztecan at my disposal and enabled me to see many points which I would otherwise have missed. This paper incorporates the insights and suggestions of many other colleagues, especially Richard Kayne, Jean Stefanini, Georges Mounin, Gilles-Gaston Granger, Sri Kindanapura, Mohammed Mebkout, and Wladimir Troubetzkoy. John R. Ross is responsible for many stylistic improvements. All errors are of course my own.

²English was not the primary, or even secondary, focus of my fieldwork. However, whenever no informant for a language in which I was most interested was available, I would fill the time by working with any aborigine that I could find. In this way I worked a full day with Deb Gunnawara and her sister Nellie (at Palm Beach, 8 April 1969).

Reprinted with permission of the author and the editor from Linguistic Inquiry 3:2, p. 249 (Spring 1972).

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