Linguistics: an interdisciplinary journal of the language sciences articles from January 2004

Linguistics: an interdisciplinary journal of the language sciences archives from January 2004

Actants in semantics and syntax I: actants in semantics *.
January 1, 2004... The verbal node [in a clause]... expresses a whole little drama. As a drama, it implies a process and, most often, actors and circumstances. The verb expresses the process.... Actants are beings or things that... participate in the...

Split intransitivity, linking, and lexical representation: the case of Yukatek Maya *.
January 1, 2004... Abstract Split-intransitive systems of argument marking provide an excellent opportunity to study the structure of the lexical-semantic representations that underlie argument structure alternations and argument linking rules. Yukatek Maya...

On a partial, strictly word-order based definition of grammatical relations in Liangshan Nuosu *.
January 1, 2004... Abstract Liangshan Nuosu, a Burmese-Lolo language from Southwest China, is verb-final, and A and O (cf Dixon 1979, 1994) rarely carry morphological markers. Nuosu partitions simple clauses into three aspectual categories: (i) "ongoing"...

Dynamic aspects of German -er-nominals: a probe into the interrelation of language change and language acquisition *.
January 1, 2004... Abstract The discussion of the interrelation of language change and language acquisition, which has been going on for more than a hundred years, has yielded a number of theoretical approaches but still lacks empirical substantiation....

Signs of a developing grammar: subject drop and inflection in early child Dutch *.
January 1, 2004... Abstract The objective of this article is to describe and explain changes in subject drop in early child language. The empirical basis of this study is provided by longitudinal spontaneous speech data from six monolingual children...

Peter Matthews: a Short History of Structural Linguistics.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Peter Matthews: A Short History of Structural Linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. x + 163 pp. Hardback ISBN 0-521-62367-7, USD 59.95; Paperback ISBN 0-521-62568-8, USD 21.95. This book is less a history than an...

Sylvain Auroux, E. F. K. Koerner, Hans-Josef Niederehe, and Kees Versteegh, editors: History of the Language Sciences/Geschichte der Sprachwissenschaften/Histoire des sciences du langage.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Sylvain Auroux, E. F. K. Koerner, Hans-Josef Niederehe, and Kees Versteegh, editors: History of the Language Sciences/Geschichte der Sprachwissenschaften/Histoire des sciences du langage. (HSK 18), vol. 2. Berlin: Waiter de Gruyter, 2001....