Southwest Journal of Linguistics articles from December 2004

Southwest Journal of Linguistics archives from December 2004

Are there two distinct Foci in Italian?(Critical Essay)
December 1, 2004... ABSTRACT. It is commonly assumed in the literature (e.g. Rochemont 1986, E. Kiss 1998, Zubizarreta 1998, Belletti 2004, among others) that two distinct FOCI exist: a Focus that expresses new information and a Focus that expresses exhaustivity...

Words on the tip of the tongue: a study of lexical retrieval failures in Spanish-English bilinguals.
December 1, 2004... ABSTRACT. Cognitive diary and TOT-elicitation studies investigated whether (English-dominant) fluent bilingual Heritage Spanish speakers of the southwestern United States experienced more and different tip-of-the-tongue states (TOTs) compared...

The intonation of absolute interrogatives in Castilian Spanish.
December 1, 2004... ABSTRACT. Traditionally the terminal contour has been considered the principal difference between the intonation of Spanish declaratives and absolute interrogatives. While the final fundamental frequency fall of declaratives and the final...

A three-dimensional account of it-clefts in discourse: a corpus-based study.
December 1, 2004... ABSTRACT. This paper presents results of a work in progress that investigates the features and discourse distribution of cleft constructions across languages as well as the factors at work in their choice. Specifically, we find that in English...

Is the acquired before or after a?
December 1, 2004... ABSTRACT. With the intent to examine the universality and applicability of a well-documented article acquisition sequence, this study investigated the acquisition of English articles by a 9-year-old beginning Chinese ESL learner in the American...

Some proposals for historical linguistic grammars.
December 1, 2004... ABSTRACT. Grammars, including historical grammars, that are compact but complete, should now be produced for all languages. They should include descriptions of comparable length for phonology, inflectional morphology, derivational morphology,...

Spanish loans in Chicahuaxtla Trique.
December 1, 2004... ABSTRACT. Loanwords are tell-tale evidence of cultures in contact and sometimes in conflict. Cultural change evidenced in introduction of new items and complexes often calls for new words, which are borrowed from the language that already...

Spanish influenced by English in Georgia: intra-speaker variation.
December 1, 2004... ABSTRACT. In a Georgia (U.S.A.) community, Latin American immigrants' Spanish/English bilingual patterns include monolingual Spanish and English turns, codeswitched turns, and turns showing grammatical convergence. The data are analyzed within...

Nominal apposition in Japanese.
December 1, 2004... ABSTRACT. This paper examines a group of constructions in Japanese that have been associated with the notion of NOMINAL APPOSITION. The relation between two NPs linked by the particle -no is the focus of this study. The construction [NP1-no...

Scholar's Zulu dictionary: English-Zulu/Zulu-English.(Book Notice)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Scholar's Zulu dictionary: English-Zulu/Zulu-English. 3rd edn. By G. R. DENT and C. L. S. NYEMBEZI. New York: Hippocrene Books, 1995. Pp. 519. ISBN: 0796007187. Paper $21.25. Zulu is spoken by over nine million people and is one of the 11...