Linguistics: an interdisciplinary journal of the language sciences articles from January 2005

Linguistics: an interdisciplinary journal of the language sciences archives from January 2005

From the board of editors.
January 1, 2005... In addition to its regular publication activities, Linguistics welcomes proposals from prospective guest editors for collections of papers devoted to a particular theme of interest to students of natural language. Contributions intended for...

Introduction: language-specific conditions for discourse linking and appropriateness *.
January 1, 2005... 1. Discourse appropriateness and processing ease Studying linguistic expressions in discourse, we can filter out a lot of the options linguistic elements have in isolation. As Asher (2002) says, "There are many sources of ambiguity in...

Elusive connectives. A case study on the explicitness dimension of discourse coherence (1).
January 1, 2005... Abstract The present article is an explorative study concerned with the elusiveness of certain connectives (discourse particles), intralinguistically and across languages: the fact that one and the same connective may seem redundant in one...

Interpretation of leftward-moved constituents: processing topicalizations in German (1).
January 1, 2005... Abstract Five experiments were conducted on German topicalization sentences to explore their interpretation and the relation between the syntactic representation and the discourse representation of the sentence. It is proposed that a DP is...

Pragmatic properties of certain German and English left peripheral constructions *.
January 1, 2005... Abstract The article discusses various left peripheral constructions in German and English, which are often considered to be topic constructions. The article demonstrates, however, that only one of the constructions under review...

Event types and discourse linking in Hungarian *.
January 1, 2005... Abstract In every sentence type describing a particular type of event, there is a designated argument functioning as the default information focus. In the case of sentences expressing a change of state, this argument is the theme...

A discourse-based account of Spanish ser/estar *.
January 1, 2005... Abstract The study offers a discourse-based account of the Spanish copula forms ser and estar, which are generally considered to be lexical exponents of the stage-level/individual-level contrast. It argues against the popular view that the...

Topic-worthiness in German and English *.
January 1, 2005... Abstract Translations from English into German show that about every second sentence does not begin like the original, although discourse conditions are similar and analogous beginnings are seldom excluded for linguistic reasons. In many...

Contrast and information structure: a focus-based analysis of but *.
January 1, 2005... Abstract This article presents a novel analysis of the contrastive connector but based on the observation that (i) the contrast induced by but relates to the information structure of the conjuncts, and (ii) the use of but requires a denial...