Linguistics: an interdisciplinary journal of the language sciences articles from January 2000

Linguistics: an interdisciplinary journal of the language sciences archives from January 2000

Navigating negative quantificational space(*).
January 1, 2000... Abstract This paper reports the findings from an interconnected set of experiments designed to assess children's knowledge of the semantic interactions between negation and quantified NPs. Our main finding is that young children, unlike...

Identity avoidance and constraint interaction: the case of Cantonese(*).
January 1, 2000... Abstract This paper explores various phenomena of identity avoidance in Cantonese and argues that both pausing and omission play a significant role in avoiding identity of elements. The descriptive generalization is that in Cantonese if...

Prosodic and segmental unmarkedness in Spanish truncation(*).
January 1, 2000... Abstract This paper deals with the two main truncation processes that occur in Spanish. Type A and type B hypocoristics represent two different degrees of emergence of the unmarked. Whereas type A hypocoristics achieve unmarkedness at the...

The phonology of Classical Greek meter(*).
January 1, 2000... Introduction "Since all metric phenomena are language phenomena, it follows that metrics is entirely within the competence of linguistics" (Lotz 1960:137). In this paper we take this charge quite seriously and try to describe the major...

Information structuring in Yoruba(*).
January 1, 2000... Abstract As in many other languages, the focus particle ni in Yoruba is derived from the copula ni. The basis for both junctions of ni is a preconstructed domain, that is, a presupposed set of items out of which the speaker exhaustively...

Pragmatics: Critical Concepts.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Asa Kasher, editor: Pragmatics: Critical Concepts. London: Routledge, 1998. ISBN 0-415-11734-8. 550 [pounds sterling] (boxed set). This attractive six-volume collection of mostly reprinted articles from journals and chapters from books is a...

The Linguistics of British Sign Language. An Introduction.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Rachel Sutton-Spence and Bencie Woll: The Linguistics of British Sign Language. An Introduction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. It always pays to look at a book's subtitle, in this case just "An Introduction." The question...

Arabic Grammar and Linguistics.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Yasir Suleiman, editor: Arabic Grammar and Linguistics. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon, 1999. 45.00 [pounds sterling]. viii + 245 pp. (hardcover). In his introduction Suleiman stares that the goal of this volume is to "... end the polarisation...

The Language of Thieves and Vagabonds 17th and 18th Century Canting Lexicography in England.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Maurizio Gotti: The Language of Thieves and Vagabonds. 17th and 18th Century Canting Lexicography in England. Lexicographica, Series Maior 94. Tubingen: Niemeyer, 1999. vi + 159 pp. DM 96.00 (paperback). The English lexicography of cant is...