Linguistics: an interdisciplinary journal of the language sciences articles from March 2008

Linguistics: an interdisciplinary journal of the language sciences archives from March 2008

Introduction theory and typology of the word *.(Report)
March 1, 2008... 1. Introduction This special issue is a collection of seven papers dealing with the theory and typology of the word. In Section 2 we discuss various theoretical issues and typological generalizations involving grammatical words and...

Coronals and compounding in Irish *.(Report)
March 1, 2008... Abstract Irish is characterized by a process of lenition, by which (among other changes) the coronals t, d, s become h, [??], h under certain morphosyntactically determined circumstances. Lenition of coronals is blocked (i.e., t, d, s...

Phonological and morphological domains in Kyirong Tibetan *.(Report)
March 1, 2008... Abstract A number of phonological generalizations in the Kyirong dialect of Tibetan are argued to require reference to rules or constraints referring to the syllable or the phonological word (pword). The latter domain is significant...

The word in sign language: empirical evidence and theoretical controversies *.
March 1, 2008... Abstract This article is concerned with the "word" in sign language, the "grammatical" and especially the "prosodic word". Both notions of the "word" are central in sign language linguistics and psycholinguistic. Converging evidence for...

Directional asymmetries in the morphology and phonology of words, with special reference to Bantu.(Report)
March 1, 2008... Abstract This article is concerned with two types of word-level asymmetries and their interaction: left-right asymmetries and stem-word asymmetries. Two left-right asymmetries are examined from a wide range of languages, one morphological...

The dual theory of reduplication *.(Report)
March 1, 2008... Abstract This article argues that the fundamental typological distinction pertaining to reduplication is that between phonological duplication and morphological doubling (the Dual Theory of reduplication). Phonological duplication, which...

"Case suffixes", postpositions, and the phonological word in Hungarian *.(Report)
March 1, 2008... Abstract In this article I propose a new construction algorithm for the phonological word in Hungarian. Based on a detailed discussion of the differences between so-called 'postpositions" and 'case suffixes', I show that both types of...

Phonetics and word definition in Ahtna Athabascan *.(Report)
March 1, 2008... Abstract This article investigates the question of word definition in a polysynthetic language, Ahtna Athabascan. Syntactic models of polysynthetic languages cannot explain why some syntactic strings constitute sentences and others words,...