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

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

Competing motivations for the ordering of main and adverbial clauses *.
May 1, 2005... Abstract This article examines the ordering distribution of main and adverbial clauses. Using corpus data from spoken and written English, it is shown that the positioning of finite adverbial clauses vis-a-vis the main clause varies with...

Degrees of clause integration: from endotactic to exotactic subordination in Dutch (1).
May 1, 2005... Abstract This article presents a fine-grained syntactic categorization of Dutch subordinating conjunctions, both simple and phrasal. By means of a hierarchical set of formal criteria, this article provides a detailed description of the...

Ladies first? Phonology, frequency, and the naming conspiracy *.
May 1, 2005... Abstract In pairs of names, male names often precede female names (e.g. Romeo and Juliet). We investigate this bias and argue that preferences for name ordering are constrained by a combination of gender, phonology, and frequency. First,...

"Discontinuous" APs in English *.
May 1, 2005... Abstract "Discontinuous" APs are problematic. Under P&P/minimalist assumptions, they cannot be initial structures and must result via MOVE, but MOVE should be motivated, and what the triggering feature might be is unclear, for...

Indexicality and honorific speech level choice in Korean.
May 1, 2005... Abstract The use of Korean honorifics is generally dependent upon such social factors as age, profession, socioeconomic status, and so forth. Traditional accounts of the two Korean honorific verbal suffixes, namely, the deferential and the...

Maya Hickmann: Children's Discourse: Person, Space, and Time across Languages.(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... Maya Hickmann: Children's Discourse: Person, Space, and Time across Languages.* Cambridge Studies in Linguistics 98. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. xvii + 392 pp. ISBN 0-521-58441-8. This volume represents a comprehensive...

Stephen J. Nagle and Sara L. Sanders, editors: English in the Southern United States.(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... Stephen J. Nagle and Sara L. Sanders, editors: English in the Southern United States. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. 244 pp. ISBN 0-5218-2264-5. This book brings together twelve essays on English in the Southern United...

Susan Goldin-Meadow: The Resilience of Language: What Gesture Creation in Deaf Children Can Tell Us about How All Children Learn Language.(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... Susan Goldin-Meadow: The Resilience of Language: What Gesture Creation in Deaf Children Can Tell Us about How All Children Learn Language. New York: Psychology Press, 2003. 300 pp. ISBN 1-8416-9026-0. The Resilience of Language by Susan...