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

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

Actants in semantics and syntax II: actants in syntax *.
March 1, 2004... Abstract Part II of the article deals with deep-syntactic and surface-syntactic actants. A deep-syntactic actant slot is defined by its correspondence to a semantic actant slot; a deep-syntactic actant of a lexical unit L either fills a...

Yes/no questions and A-not-A questions in Chinese revisited *.
March 1, 2004... Abstract In this article, the morphological and syntactic peculiarities of Chinese A-not-A questions are revisited. With reference to the observation that Standard Mandarin shares significant typological features with prototypical SOV...

On the paradigmatic nature of affixal semantics in English and Dutch *.
March 1, 2004... Abstract This article looks in some detail at the semantics of the affixes -er and -ee in English, at the affix -er in Dutch, and at the fact that Dutch seems to lack a specific process of word formation analogous to -ee in English. We...

"Finite" and "nonfinite" from a typological perspective *.
March 1, 2004... Abstract The differentiation between finite and nonfinite forms is among the most complex domains of grammatical description. This is probably the reason why this category plays only a marginal role in typology. Clarification is further...

Aristotle's kinesis/energeia-test and the semantics of the Greek perfect (1).
March 1, 2004... Abstract The purpose of this article is twofold. First, I aim to arrive at a better understanding of Aristotle's distinction between kineseis and energeiai in the Metaphysics 1048b. I argue that in order to understand Aristotle's test, we...

What does finiteness mean to children? A cross-linguistic perspective on root infinitives *.
March 1, 2004... Abstract The discussion on root infinitives has mainly centered around their supposed modal usage. This article aims at modelling the form-function relation of the root infinitive phenomenon by taking into account the full range of...

Susanne Wurmbrand: Infinitives. Restructuring and Clause Structure.(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... Susanne Wurmbrand: Infinitives. Restructuring and Clause Structure. Studies in Generative Grammar 55. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2001. vi + 371 pp. 1. Introduction The topic of this book is the dimension of infinitival structure that...

Jonathan Leather and Jet van Dam, editors: Ecology of Language Acquisition.(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... Jonathan Leather and Jet van Dam, editors: Ecology of Language Acquisition. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003. xi + 225 pp. Hardcover ISBN 1402010176. This book stresses ecological dyamism in language acquisition, with the...

John Lynch, Malcolm Ross, and Terry Crowley: the Oceanic Languages.(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... John Lynch, Malcolm Ross, and Terry Crowley: The Oceanic Languages. Richmond: Curzon Press, 2002. xvii + 924 pp. 125.00 [pounds sterling]. Hardcover ISBN 0700711287. The new volume in the Curzon Language Family Series presents an overview...

Notice.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... August 2004 August 25-27, 2004, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, 39th Linguistics Colloquium: Variation in Language Theory and Language Acquisition. The topic of the conference is inspired by the idea that every speaker shows variation in...