Linguistics: an interdisciplinary journal of the language sciences articles from May 2006

Linguistics: an interdisciplinary journal of the language sciences archives from May 2006

The extraposition of prepositional objects of adjectives in Dutch (1).
May 1, 2006... Abstract In this article I present a corpus-based analysis of Dutch extraposition constructions that contain an adjective which combines with a prepositional object. I discuss two models that explain extraposition constructions in general:...

Case stacking in realizational morphology.
May 1, 2006... Abstract Case stacking, the phenomenon whereby a single word may bear multiple cases reflecting its relation to a number of different syntactic elements, is an important phenomenon both for the development of theories of inflectional...

On the meaning predictability of novel context-free converted naming units *.
May 1, 2006... Abstract In the field of predictability, the effort of both morphologists and psycholinguists has been primarily concentrated on primary compounds. Little attention has been paid to the meaning predictability of converted naming units....

No "double plurals" in Dominican Spanish: an optimality-theoretic account *.
May 1, 2006... Abstract In addition to standard methods of pluralization, Dominican Spanish has an alternative plural formation mechanism, normally referred to as the "double plural," in which -(e)se [(e)se] is adjoined to the base, libro > librose...

The anomaly of the verb 'give' explained by its high (formal and semantic) transitivity (1).
May 1, 2006... Abstract 'Give' is a very atypical trivalent verb in many ways. In the present article, an explanation for this anomaly will be proposed. The goal of the article at hand is to show that the anomaly of 'give' follows from its high formal...

Intransitivity and the origins of middle voice in Otomi *.
May 1, 2006... Abstract San Ildefonso Tultepec Otomi has three distinctive nasal morphemes that share a substantial number of features. The morphemes are the following: a middle marker, a detransitivizer, and a marker characterizing a closed subclass of...