Linguistics: an interdisciplinary journal of the language sciences articles from July 2004

Linguistics: an interdisciplinary journal of the language sciences archives from July 2004

Syntax of information structure in Turkish.
July 1, 2004... Abstract Three sentential positions have been ascribed a special status in the focus-background articulation of Turkish sentences. It has been argued that the sentence-initial, postverbal and immediately preverbal slots are three syntactic...

Combinatory conditions on Halkomelem causatives (1).
July 1, 2004... Abstract Previous treatments of Halkomelem causatives have posited various conditions on their formation, including restricting causatives to intransitive bases and banning double causatives. While these conditions account for the basic...

A change of mood: the development of the Greek mood system *.
July 1, 2004... Abstract This paper traces the steps in the changes of the Greek mood system, from the morphological one of Classical Greek, where mood was fused with tense and agreement within INFL, to the more syntactic one of Modern Greek, where mood...

Initial and final position for adverbial clauses in English: the constructional basis of the discursive and syntactic differences (1).
July 1, 2004... Abstract This study argues that adverbial clauses in initial position constitute a distinct construction type within the domain of clause combining in English, and that their specific constructional features can help to explain the...

Terry Crowley: Serial Verbs in Oceanic: a Descriptive Typology.(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... Terry Crowley: Serial Verbs in Oceanic: A Descriptive Typology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. xvii + 281 pp. Hardback ISBN 0198241356 [pounds sterling]. 55.00. The phenomenon of so-called serial verbs was first described for...

Elisabeth Leiss: Artikel und Aspekt. Die grammatischen Muster von Definitheit.(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... Elisabeth Leiss: Artikel und Aspekt. Die grammatischen Muster von Deftnitheit. Studia Linguistica Germanica 55. Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2000. 309 pp. ISBN 3110167182. In her study on the development of the definite article...

Siobhan Chapman: Philosophy for Linguists: an Introduction.(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... Siobhan Chapman: Philosophy for Linguists: An Introduction. London and New York: Routledge, 2000. 192 pp. Hardback ISBN 0415206588, Paperback ISBN 0415206596. Chapman has written a book for linguistics students to provide them with the...

William Croft: Explaining Language Change. An Evolutionary Approach.(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... William Croft: Explaining Language Change. An Evolutionary Approach. London: Longman, 2000. 304 pp. Hardback ISBN 0582356784. The back cover of this book claims it to be "the first thoroughly worked out framework for language evolution" and...