Linguistics: an interdisciplinary journal of the language sciences articles from January 2006

Linguistics: an interdisciplinary journal of the language sciences archives from January 2006

Representing specificity by the internal order of indefinites *.
January 1, 2006... Abstract This article presents two contrasts between two types of indefinites in Chinese: those with an internal modifier and those with a left-peripheral modifier. With respect to interpretation, the former are ambiguous in specificity,...

Some aspects of topicalization in active Swedish declaratives: a quantitative corpus study.
January 1, 2006... Abstract In Swedish declaratives, clause-initial NP Fin NP... strings are structurally ambiguous. Though the prefinite argument NP normally occupies the role of the subject, in some circumstances the interpretation OVS is preferred over...

Productivity in Italian word formation: a variable-corpus approach *.
January 1, 2006... Abstract The quantitative approach to morphological productivity first proposed by Baayen crucially refers to the relation between the number of hapax legomena formed with a given affix occurring in a sufficiently large corpus and the...

Classifier loss and frozen tone in spoken Beijing Mandarin: the yi+ge phono-syntactic conspiracy (1).
January 1, 2006... Abstract A phono-syntactic conspiracy is proposed to account for a recent language change in spoken Beijing Mandarin Chinese, which involves the loss of the general classifier through sound erosion caused by frequency of usage in...

Locative trigrams in Northern Sotho, preceded by analyses of formative bigrams *.
January 1, 2006... Abstract In Northern Sotho one of the strategies to express locality makes use of locative particle groups, being complements preceded by any of the so-called locative particles ka, kua, mo, ga, or go. Current linguistic descriptions shy...

Locative trigrams in Northern Sotho, preceded by analyses of formative bigrams *.(4. An analysis of the locative trigrams ka mo ga and ka mo go, preceded by a discussion of the bigram ka mo)
January 1, 2006... 4. An analysis of the locative trigrams ka mo ga and ka mo go, preceded by a discussion of the bigram ka mo 4.1. An analysis of the bigram ka mo (N = 1,260) Querying the corpus in order to identify the syntactic environment in which...

Darrell T. Tryon and Jean-Michel Charpentier: Pacific Pidgins and Creoles: Origins, Growth and Development.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Darrell T. Tryon and Jean-Michel Charpentier: Pacific Pidgins and Creoles: Origins, Growth and Development. Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 2004. xix + 559 pp. Hardcover ISBN 3-11-016998-3, 88.00 [euro]. The pidgins and creoles...