Linguistics: an interdisciplinary journal of the language sciences articles from May 2003

Linguistics: an interdisciplinary journal of the language sciences archives from May 2003

Aspectual selection and negation in Mandarin Chinese *.
May 1, 2003... Abstract This paper argues that the distributions of bu 'not' and mei 'not' in Mandarin Chinese can be accounted for in terms of their aspectual selections. I propose that while mei aspectually selects an event as its complement, bu...

Incremental existence: the world according to the Finnish existential sentence (1).
May 1, 2003... Abstract This work is a cognitive semantic study on existential constructions in Finnish, the main argument being that existentials code an idiosyncratic, external perspective on the semantic relationships they designate. Unlike...

Morphology, argument structure, and lexical semantics: the case of Spanish auto- and co- prefixation to verbal bases *.
May 1, 2003... Abstract This paper deals with two Spanish prefixation processes, namely auto- and co- prefixation, which affect the participants in the event expressed by the verbal bases to which they apply. From our point of view, these two prefixation...

The rise in the rise-fall contour: does it evoke a contrastive topic or a contrastive focus? *.
May 1, 2003... Abstract Sentences with a rise-fall intonation contour, as they occur in German and in Dutch, have often been assigned a contrastive topic/comment structure. The hypothesis pursued here instead is that this intonation contour together with...

Tense, aspect, and syntax (1).(Tense and Aspect: From Semantics to Morphosyntax)(Critical Essay)
May 1, 2003... Alessandra Giorgi and Fabio Pianesi: Tense and Aspect: From Semantics to Morphosyntax. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997. Abstract This review is devoted to the bulk of Giorgi and Pianesi's (1997) proposal for the...