Southwest Journal of Linguistics articles from December 2007

Southwest Journal of Linguistics archives from December 2007

Early Spanish-English bilingualism: theoretical issues, empirical analyses.(2007 Plenary Address)
December 1, 2007... I. INTRODUCTION. Bilingual communities are characterized by their social and linguistic heterogeneity, perhaps even more so than monolingual communities. Linguistically, the heterogeneity is evident in the proficiency continuum that...

The morphosyntactic status of animacy markers in San Andres Yaa Zapotec.
December 1, 2007... ABSTRACT. In San Andres Yaa Zapotec, adjectives used predicatively are often preceded by a morpheme marked for animacy: bi' for humans (HUM), be' for animals (ANIM), and da' for inanimates (INAN). In this paper, I demonstrate that such animacy...

The discourse function of the Japanese dative subject construction in written text.
December 1, 2007... ABSTRACT. This paper considers the discourse function of dative case marking on subjects in written Japanese texts (novels and newspaper articles) by examining transitivity components in discourse (Hopper and Thompson 1980). It has been shown...

Aproximacion sociolinguistica del marcador del discurso tu sabes en el habla de jovenes bilingues estadounidenses.
December 1, 2007... ABSTRACT. The objective of this study was to assess the impact of English on the Spanish spoken by young bilingual speakers with regard to the use of the Spanish discourse marker tu sabes 'you know'. The sociolinguistic variables of...

Differentiating the English futurate constructions: an etymological perspective.
December 1, 2007... ABSTRACT. English has a variety of constructions for indicating the future, such as will and be going to. English can also just use present tense alongside a future-marking adverbial (e.g. I leave soon). These future-marking strategies are not...