Linguistics: an interdisciplinary journal of the language sciences articles from July 2000

Linguistics: an interdisciplinary journal of the language sciences archives from July 2000

Focus and topic in VP-anaphora constructions(*).
July 1, 2000... Abstract This paper explores the information structure of VP-anaphora constructions in English, Spanish, and German. The goal is to provide an initial account of the syntactic and prosodic licensing mechanisms of VP-anaphora and to suggest...

Breton as a V2 language(*).
July 1, 2000... Abstract Breton has VSO order in subordinate clauses and in some main clauses, but it does not normally allow a finite verb in initial position in main clauses, which instead show V2 order. We investigate Breton V2 structures and argue...

Syllabically conditioned coalescence and deletion in Zoque: an optimality-theoretic approach.
July 1, 2000... Abstract This article analyzes consonant coalescence (e.g. /yp/- [p.sup.y]) and consonant deletion in the Mixe-Zoque language Zoque spoken in southern Mexico. These processes will be argued to function as repair strategies necessary to...

L1 transfer revisited: the L2 acquisition of telicity marking in English by Spanish and Bulgarian native speakers(*).
July 1, 2000... Abstract This paper investigates the claim that the native grammar of the learners is the initial state of second-language acquisition, as far as the acquisition of universal grammar parameters is concerned. Two opposing views on L1...

Gender features in English(*).
July 1, 2000... 1. Introduction In the standard minimalist framework (Chomsky 1993, 1995), gender is considered as one of the [Phi]-features that participate in syntactic feature checking; thus, it is a "formal" (as opposed to semantic and phonological)...

Explaining grammaticalization (the standard way)(1).
July 1, 2000... Since nobody knows how to draw the line between lexical expressions and grammatical devices, it is natural to suppose that, in some sense, the transition from lexicon to grammar is a gradual one. There is a continuum, it seems, bounded by...

The relevance of extravagance: a reply to Bart Geurts(*).
July 1, 2000... Periphrasis and reduction: chicken and egg At least since Georg von der Gabelentz's (1901) famous passage (cf. Haspelmath 1999: 1051), grammaticalization processes have been conceived of as cyclic: a grammatical marker that expresses a...

A response to Kanno's "The stability of UG principles in second-language acquisition: evidence from Japanese"(1).(universal grammar)(Statistical Data Included)
July 1, 2000... This article is a response to the proposal by Kanno (1998) contending that test responses provided by American learners of Japanese as a second language constitute persuasive evidence that these students had access to universal grammar (UG) in...

Function, Selection, and Innateness: The Emergence of Language Universals.(Review)
July 1, 2000... Simon Kirby: Function, Selection, and Innateness: The Emergence of Language Universals. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. ix + 166 pp. 37.50 [pounds sterling]. The central theme of the book relates to the question of why languages are...

Models of Inflection.(Review)
July 1, 2000... Ray Fabri, Albert Ortmann, and Teresa Parodi, editors: Models of Inflection. Linguistische Arbeiten 388. Tubingen: Niemeyer, 1998. viii + 289 pp. What the editors of this volume have in common is that they all worked for a number of years...