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

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

Focus in double object constructions *.
March 1, 2005... Abstract Studies of the English dative alternation during the last three decades have not yet reached an agreement on the proper syntactic analysis of this alternation. The main goal of this article is to show that a study of the...

Genericity from a cross-linguistic perspective (1).
March 1, 2005... Abstract In this article, I will investigate genericity from a cross-linguistic perspective. After discussing some methodological and theoretical problems involved in this task, I will present a multidimensional approach, arguing that it...

Toward a semantic account of that-deletion in English *.
March 1, 2005... Abstract The phenomenon of that-deletion in English has traditionally been taken to be one of the prime examples of syntactic free variation: it has implicitly been assumed that the language arbitrarily allows predicates to embed their...

On mass denotations of bare nouns in Japanese and Korean *.
March 1, 2005... Abstract The present work explores the nature of bare nominal arguments in Japanese and Korean in conjunction with Chierchia's (1998a) nominal mapping parameter. The nominal mapping parameter categorizes Japanese and Korean as NP...

Semantic change in word formation (1).
March 1, 2005... Abstract The present article seeks to provide an answer to the following question: according to which mechanisms may a pattern of word formation develop a new meaning? In order to keep the task to a manageable size only changes will be...

Sebastian Lobner: Understanding Semantics.(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Sebastian Lobner: Understanding Semantics. London: Arnold Publishers, 2002. 260pp. One of the most important courses in the linguistics curriculum is an introduction to semantics for advanced undergraduate and/or beginning graduate...