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

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

Event paths, conflation, argument structure, and VP shells (1).
May 1, 2004... Abstract I discuss the semantics and syntax of a phenomenon often called "lexical subordination" and here called "conflation," in which a VP with a single verb expresses both an activity and a result predication, although only the former...

Light and heavy reflexives (1).
May 1, 2004... Abstract Haiman (1983) has argued that the phonological weight of reflexives within many languages is determined by the type of verb that they are coupled with. Specifically, he has claimed that reflexives which occur with "introverted"...

Can we make heads or tails of Spanish endocentric compounds? (1).
May 1, 2004... Abstract This paper proposes a unified account of headship assignment in Spanish endocentric compounds with a nominal non-head. It is argued that these compounds follow the universal head-complement word order (Kayne 1994), with the...

Shouldn't it be breakfunch? A quantitative analysis of blend structure in English *.
May 1, 2004... Abstract The present paper investigates the word-formation process of blending in English. Following a brief review of several previous classificatory studies, the paper analyzes the orthographic and phonemic structure of blends on a...

On the L2 acquisition of the morphosyntax of German nominals (1).
May 1, 2004... Abstract Our understanding of how adults acquire grammar has to date been mainly based on investigations of clause structure and the morphosyntax of verbs. The development of nominals, however, has so far not been investigated at the same...

Talmy Givon: Bio-Linguistics; the Santa Barbara Lectures.(Book Review)
May 1, 2004... Talmy Givon: Bio-Linguistics; the Santa Barbara Lectures. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: Benjamins, 2002. xviii + 383 pp. ISBN 90-272-2590-7. Bio-Linguistics, as it has been aptly termed by T. Givon, has become a central topic in language...

Karmiloff, Kyra and Karmiloff-Smith, Annette: Pathways to Language: from Fetus to Adolescent.(Book Review)
May 1, 2004... Karmiloff, Kyra and Karmiloff-Smith, Annette: Pathways to Language: >From Fetus to Adolescent. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2001. 272 pp. ISBN 0674004760. "Does the newborn come into the world prewired for language acquisition...