Linguistics: an interdisciplinary journal of the language sciences articles from July 2007

Linguistics: an interdisciplinary journal of the language sciences archives from July 2007

Phonological development: toward a "radical" templatic phonology *.
July 1, 2007... Abstract "Radical" templatic phonology is a template-based approach to segmental phonological representation. The central hypothesis is that the segmental phonological structure of words is represented as language-specific phonotactic...

Syntactic direction and obviation as empathy-based phenomena: a typological approach.
July 1, 2007... Abstract In previous studies, various syntactic/semantic factors (person hierarchy, animacy, topicality, etc.) have been discussed as relevant to linguistic phenomena known as syntactic direction and nominal obviation. This article...

Aspects of Vietnamese clausal structure: separating tense from assertion *.
July 1, 2007... Abstract This article presents some data from Vietnamese that provide significant empirical support for the theoretical claims articulated in Klein (1998, 2006): first, that finiteness should be understood as a composite of tense and...

Bernhard Hurch, editor: Studies on Reduplication.(Book review)
July 1, 2007... Bernhard Hurch, editor: Studies on Reduplication. Empirical Approaches to Language Typology 28. Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 2005. xi + 640 pp. ISBN 978-3-11-018119-7. Studies on Reduplication is a compilation of articles...

Barbara Dancygier and Eve Sweetser: Mental Spaces in Grammar: Conditional Constructions.(Book review)
July 1, 2007... Barbara Dancygier and Eve Sweetser: Mental Spaces in Grammar: Conditional Constructions. Cambridge Studies in Linguistics 108. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. 295 pp. ISBN 0-521-84468-1. In this volume, Barbara Dancygier and...

Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald and Robert M. W. Dixon: Serial Verb Constructions--A Cross-Linguistic Typology.(Book review)
July 1, 2007... Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald and Robert M. W. Dixon: Serial Verb Constructions--A Cross-Linguistic Typology. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. xxiv+ 369 pp. Hardback ISBN 0199279152. USD 110.00. The publication of Mark Durie's seminal...

Anderson, Gregory D. S. (2006): Auxiliary Verb Constructions.(Book review)
July 1, 2007... Anderson, Gregory D. S. (2006): Auxiliary Verb Constructions. Oxford Studies in Typology and Linguistic Theory. Oxford: Oxford University Press. xviii + 473 pp. ISBN 0-19-928031-2. Anderson's book is a typological study of auxiliary verb...