Linguistics: an interdisciplinary journal of the language sciences articles from January 2003

Linguistics: an interdisciplinary journal of the language sciences archives from January 2003

Toward a typology of focus and focus constructions (1).
January 1, 2003... Abstract Departing from the assumption that focus is nonuniform (Drubig 1994; Kiss 1998) this paper takes preliminary steps toward a typology of focus and focus constructions. Focus is taken to be a syntactic feature assigned freely to...

Surface analysis of the verbal cluster in Dutch *.
January 1, 2003... Abstract In this paper, a structuralist account of the verbal cluster of Dutch is given, as implemented in a structuralist surface parser. The description is based on a general principle of expectation, but with a limited number of...

Units in code switching: evidence for multimorphemic elements in the lexicon (1).
January 1, 2003... Abstract Studies of insertional code switching frequently include examples in which combinations of several words from the embedded language occur together in matrix-language clauses. In this paper, a range of such constructions are...

William Labov: Principles of Linguistic Change, Vol. II: Social Factors.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... vol. II: Social Factors. Oxford: Blackwell, 2001. This book is the second volume in a projected three-volume work on language change. The first volume, Internal Factors, appeared in 1994, and the third is to be entitled Cognitive Factors....

Claudio Di Meola: Die Grammatikalisierung deutscher Prapositionen.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Studien zur deutschen Grammatik 62. Tubingen: Stauffenburg, 2000. xii + 285 pp. ISBN 3-86057-452-3. Softback EUR 63,80. Di Meola's book Die Grammatikalisierung deutscher Prapositionen is an interesting case study that applies questions and...

Michael Beisswenger, editor: Chat Kommunikation. Sprache, Interaktion, Sozialitat und Identitat in synchroner computervermittelter Kommunikation.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Stuttgart: Ibidem, 2001. As I point out in my review of Crystal (2001) (this issue), the field of research into computer-mediated communication, or communication on the Internet, apart from a general and by now generally acknowledged lack...

David Crystal: Language and the Internet.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. The advent of the Internet has, unsurprisingly, sparked a flurry of books and articles from all possible perspectives, ranging from technical aspects through economic ones to cultural theory and...