Linguistics: an interdisciplinary journal of the language sciences articles from January 2007

Linguistics: an interdisciplinary journal of the language sciences archives from January 2007

Developing register differentiation: the Latinate-Germanic divide in English *.
January 1, 2007... Abstract The study is an empirical, text-based analysis of Latinate elements of the English lexicon, taken as representing a more formal, literate level of language use than words of its native Germanic stock, and hence as diagnostic of...

On the middle voice: an interpersonal analysis of the English middle *.
January 1, 2007... Abstract In this article we approach the phenomenon of the English middle voice from a functional-cognitive perspective. Assuming the distinction between representational and interpersonal layers of organization in the clause (Halliday...

Dutch collective nouns and conceptual profiling *.
January 1, 2007... Abstract Collective nouns such as committee, family, or team are conceptually (and in English also syntactically) complex in the sense that they are both singular ("one") and plural ("more than one"): they refer to a multiplicity that is...

Is grammar dependence real? A comparison between cophonological and indexed constraint approaches to morphologically conditioned phonology *.
January 1, 2007... Abstract This article compares and contrasts cophonology theory and indexed constraint theory, the dominant current proposals to morphologically conditioned phonology. In cophonology theory, morphologically conditioned phonology is...

On triple auxiliation in Romance *.(analysis of romance laguages)
January 1, 2007... Abstract Romance languages divide into three classes, as far as perfective auxiliation is concerned: as well as languages showing a binary contrast (e.g., French) and languages showing no contrast (e.g., Spanish), several varieties exist...

John T. Jensen: Principles of Generative Phonology. An Introduction.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... John T. Jensen: Principles of Generative Phonology. An Introduction. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2004. 324pp. Hardback ISBN 1588115135; Paperback ISBN 1588115623. As stated on the back cover, Principles of Generative Phonology (henceforth...

Fred Genesee, Johanne Paradis, and Martha B. Crago: Dual Language Development and Disorders: A Handbook on Bilingualism and Second Language Learning.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Fred Genesee, Johanne Paradis, and Martha B. Crago: Dual Language Development and Disorders: A Handbook on Bilingualism and Second Language Learning. Baltimore, MD: Brookes, 2004. 256 pp. Paperback ISBN 1-55766-686-5. If you are a parent...

Terry Crowley: Bislama Reference Grammar.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Terry Crowley: Bislama Reference Grammar. Oceanic Linguistics Special Publication 31. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2004. 205 pp. Paperback ISBN 0-8248-2880-1. Vanuatu is the country that "possibly has the honour of having more...