Linguistics: an interdisciplinary journal of the language sciences articles from July 2005

Linguistics: an interdisciplinary journal of the language sciences archives from July 2005

Universals and grammaticality: wh-constraints in German and English *.
July 1, 2005... Abstract In this article we investigate the movement constraints superiority and discourse linking. These have played an important role in the tradition of generative syntax and might therefore be expected to be universal, but they are...

Temporal interpretation in Mandarin Chinese.
July 1, 2005... Abstract This article presents an account of temporal understanding in Mandarin Chinese. Aspectual, lexical, and adverbial information and pragmatic principles all contribute to the interpretation of temporal location. Aspectual viewpoint...

Adjectival modification in Mandarin Chinese and related issues *.
July 1, 2005... Abstract Against the background of recent typological studies postulating crosslinguistically valid hierarchies for the modifiers within the DP (cf. Scott 1998, 2002a, 2002b; Chao et al. 2001; Laenzlinger 2000), the present article argues...

Grammaticalization and structural scope increase: possessive-classifier-based benefactive marking in Oceanic languages *.
July 1, 2005... Abstract This article discusses the development of possessive classifiers into benefactive markers in Oceanic languages. On the basis of Tabor and Traugott's (1998) diachronic string comparison, this change episode will then be...

Aspects of the prosody of Kuot, a language where intonation ignores stress (1).
July 1, 2005... Abstract This article describes the basic system of intonation and lexical stress in Kuot, a non-Austronesian language of New Ireland, Papua New Guinea. Kuot employs pitch ([F.sub.0] variation) primarily to express structural information...