Linguistics: an interdisciplinary journal of the language sciences articles from July 2001

Linguistics: an interdisciplinary journal of the language sciences archives from July 2001

The dimensions of topic--comment(1).
July 1, 2001... Abstract This paper argues that the common denominator of topic-comment (TC) constructions in natural languages is not a single functional feature (e.g. aboutness) but rather the fact that they share some salient semantic attributes with...

Discourse constraints on (non)extraposition from subject in English(*).
July 1, 2001... Abstract This paper analyzes the discourse conditions governing the choice between extraposition and nonextraposition of that-clause and infinitival-VP subjects. On the basis of a large corpus of naturally occurring data, it is shown that...

The Chinese negation marker bu and its association with focus(*).
July 1, 2001... Abstract The Chinese negation marker bu `not' is analyzed as a clitic-like element in the literature (Huang 1988; Ernst 1995; etc.) in order to explain why it cannot co-occur with (i) the perfective marker -le or (ii) manner phrases in the...

Expectations and (in)sufficiency: Spanish como conditionals.
July 1, 2001... Abstract Though the study of conditional sentences in terms of their meanings and functions has expanded rapidly over the past twenty years, analyses have not often dealt with noncanonical conditional constructions, focusing instead on...

Suppletion, lexical meaning, semantic primitives, and translation data(*).
July 1, 2001... Abstract The natural semantic metalanguage (NSM) theory developed in such research as Wierzbicka (1972, 1980, 1994a) and Goddard (1994, 1998) has taken SAY to be a semantic primitive without specifying exactly which semantic domains it...

Conditionals and Prediction: Time, Knowledge, and Causation in Conditional Constructions.(Review)
July 1, 2001... Barbara Dancygier: Conditionals and Prediction: Time, Knowledge, and Causation in Conditional Constructions. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. x + 214 pp. The principal theses of this book are that (i) "it is possible to offer a...

Semantics.(Semantics: Language Workbooks)(Review)
July 1, 2001... Howard Gregory: Semantics. Language Workbooks. London: Routledge, 2000. 92 pp. 9.99 [pounds sterling]. This introduction to semantics appears in the series "Language Workbooks" and follows the general idea of this series: the nine short...

Sprachgeschichte.(Sprachgeschichte: Ein Handbuch zur Geschichte der deutschen Sprache und ihrer Erforschung, vol. 2)(Review)
July 1, 2001... Werner Besch, Anne Betten, Oskar Reichmann, and Stefan Sonderegger, editors: Sprachgeschichte. Ein Handbuch zur Geschichte der deutschen Sprache und ihrer Erforschung, 2nd ed., volume 2. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2000, xiv + 1176 pp. (= pp....

Language Death.(Review)
July 1, 2001... David Crystal: Language Death. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. x + 198 pp. US $19.95 hardback One of the more positive developments to be observed in our discipline over the last eight years or so is the fact that the topic of...

The Real Professor Higgins: The Life and Career of Daniel Jones.(Review)
July 1, 2001... Beverley Collins and Inger M. Mees: The Real Professor Higgins: The Life and Career of Daniel Jones. Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 1999. xvi+571pp. ISBN 3-11-015124-3. Hardback DM 248.00, US$ [+ or -] 124.00 This book is a...

The Development of Standard English, 1300-1800.(Review)
July 1, 2001... Laura Wright, editor: The Development of Standard English, 1300-1800. Theories, Descriptions, Conflicts. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. xi + 236 pp. 37.50 [pounds sterling] (hb). ISBN 0 521 77 114 5. The investigation of more...