Linguistics: an interdisciplinary journal of the language sciences articles from January 2001

Linguistics: an interdisciplinary journal of the language sciences archives from January 2001

Secondary topic as a relation in information structure(*).
January 1, 2001... Abstract Information structure may be understood as the pragmatic structuring of a proposition in terms of the speaker's assumptions concerning the addressee's state of mind at the time of the utterance. The commonly assumed binominal...

Analogy in morphology: modeling the choice of linking morphemes in Dutch(*).
January 1, 2001... Abstract This study argues that a productive but not fully regular morphological phenomenon, the choice of linking morphemes in Dutch nominal compounds, is based on analogy. In Dutch, a linking -s- or -en- can appear between the...

The structure of the German vocabulary: edge marking of categories and functional considerations(1).
January 1, 2001... Abstract That phonology can signal the boundaries of constituents has been well known since Trubetzkoy identified the delimitative function of phonology. In this paper, it is argued that such edge marking may be much more systematic than...

Vowel harmony, centralization, and peripherality: the case of Pasiego(*).
January 1, 2001... Abstract Although many different cases of vowel harmony can be found in the world's languages, there is a general consensus that they can all be classified into three basic types: frontness or palatal harmony,, roundness or labial harmony,...

Synchronic variation as a result of grammaticalization: concessive subjunctions in German and Italian(*).
January 1, 2001... Abstract In this paper, the grammaticalization of German and Italian concessive subjunctions is analyzed from a primarily synchronic perspective. On the basis of data drawn from contemporary written texts it will be shown that different...

Basic BLUE in East Slavonic(1).
January 1, 2001... Abstract Russian's second BLUE term goluboj `light blue' constitutes a well-known exception to the Berlin and Kay basic color-term typology. If other Slavonic languages do not have a second BLUE term, then the special position of Russian...

Grammatik der Zaza-Sprache. Nord-Dialekt (Dersim-Dialekt).(Selcan, Zulfu)(Review)
January 1, 2001... Zulfu Selcan: Grammatik der Zaza-Sprache. Nord-Dialekt (Dersim-Dialekt). Berlin: Wissenschaft und Technik Verlag, 1998. xiii + 730 pages. ISBN 3-928943-96-0. Zazaki (also known as Dimili) is a northwest Iranian language spoken across a...

Handbook of Language and Ethnic Identity.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Joshua A. Fishman, editor: Handbook of Language and Ethnic Identity. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999, xii + 468pp. US $50.00 hardback. In his concluding comments Joshua Fishman explicitly states that "the very breadth and diversity...

The Syntax of American Sign Language: Functional Categories and Hierarchical Structure.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Carol Neidle, Judy Kegl, Dawn MacLaughlin, Benjamin Bahan, and Robert G. Lee: The Syntax of American Sign Language: Functional Categories and Hierarchical Structure. Cambridge, MA, and London: MIT Press, 2000. In a periodical devoted to...

Input and Interaction in Deaf Families.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Beppie van den Bogaerde: Input and Interaction in Deaf Families. Utrecht: LOT (Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics), 2000. One of the still relatively new achievements of linguistics is the definite acceptance of deaf communication...