Linguistics: an interdisciplinary journal of the language sciences articles from January 2002

Linguistics: an interdisciplinary journal of the language sciences archives from January 2002

The phonology of epenthetic stops: implications for the phonetics-phonology interface in optimality theory *.
January 1, 2002... Abstract This paper presents an OT analysis of stop epenthesis, which as well as reflecting the basic pattern of stop insertion can also model the available quantitative data on variability of stop epenthesis and the phonetic difference...

Dynamic versus static phonotactic conditions in prosodic morphology *.
January 1, 2002... Abstract Complementary distribution stems from two sources. The first is a consequence of static lexical regularities such that two sounds never appear in the same context. The second is from dynamic alternations induced by morphological...

Does MANNER count or not? Manner-of-motion verbs revisited *.
January 1, 2002... Abstract Pinker (1989) observes that particular manners of so-called manner-of-motion verbs like roll or bounce play no role in the mapping between syntax and semantics. This paper argues that while Pinker's claim seems to be valid for the...

Computing perspective: the pluperfect in Dutch *.
January 1, 2002... Abstract The proposal by linguists and narratologists that the pluperfect may be used to introduce perspective has not been founded in the (formal) semantics of tense and aspect. Neither has it been related to precise contextual...

Self-mockery in Japanese (1).
January 1, 2002... Abstract Self-mockery is defined as a linguistic act in which the speaker makes a statement and then denies, invalidates, or expresses his/her nonserious attitude toward the content of the utterance. It is a metalinguistic commentary that...

English in Cameroon.
January 1, 2002... Hans-Georg Wolf: English in Cameroon. Contributions to the Sociology of Language 85. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2001. ix + 359 pp. ISBN 3110170531. There has never been a comprehensive description of English in Cameroon -- in stark...

Sonora Yaqui Language Structures.
January 1, 2002... John M. Dedrick and Eugene H. Casad: Sonora Yaqui Language Structures. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1999. ISBN 0-8165-1981-1. 480 pp. USD 45.00. Yaqui is a southern Uto-Aztecan language spoken predominantly in the Mexican state of...

Foreign Vocabulary in Sign Languages: a Cross-Linguistic Investigation of Word Formation.
January 1, 2002... Diane Brentari, editor: Foreign Vocabulary in Sign Languages: A Cross-Linguistic Investigation of Word Formation. Mahwah, NJ, and London: Erlbaum, 2001. ISBN 0-8058-3208-4. The uniqueness of the information that sign-language research (SLR)...

Notice from the board of editors.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... The editors of Linguistics would like to express thanks to the following colleagues who, though not members of the consulting editorial board, have nonetheless given generously of their time in evaluating manuscripts submitted for volume 39 of...

Notice.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... July-August 2002 July 14-August 3, 2002, Heinrich Heine University, Dusseldorf, First Special Linguistic Summer Program, hosted by the Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Sprachwissenschaft and co-sponsored by the Linguistic Society of America, on...