Linguistics: an interdisciplinary journal of the language sciences articles from July 2003

Linguistics: an interdisciplinary journal of the language sciences archives from July 2003

The distribution of aspirated stops and /h/ in American English and Korean: an alignment approach with typological implications *.
July 1, 2003... Abstract Languages that have both aspirated stops and the phoneme /h/ often manifest a close parallel in their distribution. Previous work in phonology either has failed to recognize this close parallel or does not formally account for it....

Completive aspect, emotion, and the dynamic eventive: the case of Korean V-a/e pelita, Japanese V-te shimau, and Spanish se (1).
July 1, 2003... Abstract This paper examines the auxiliary verb constructions V-a/e pelita in Korean and V-te shimau in Japanese as markers of both completive aspect and speaker stance. These constructions are, for the most part, grammatically optional in...

Grammatical development in adolescent first-language learners *.
July 1, 2003... Abstract Studies o f first-language acquisition in adolescence are very rare and depend primarily on comprehension measures to evaluate grammatical knowledge. These studies have led to the general conclusion that grammatical development in...

Aktionsart, aspect, and the aquisition of finiteness in early child grammar *.
July 1, 2003... Abstract This article investigates the origins of the "eventivity effect" during the root infinitive (RI) stage in child French, German, Dutch, and English. Ferdinand (1996), Wijnen (1997), Hoekstra and Hyams (1998), and Becket and Hyams...

Translations as evidence for semantics: an illustration (1).
July 1, 2003... Abstract Though a corpus-based linguistics is potentially more empirical than the intuition-based kind, the mere use of a corpus does not guarantee empiricalness. A monolingual corpus is good for counting forms but it does not readily...