Linguistics: an interdisciplinary journal of the language sciences articles from May 2007

Linguistics: an interdisciplinary journal of the language sciences archives from May 2007

"Two's company, more is a crowd": the linguistic encoding of multiple-participant events *.
May 1, 2007... 1. Introduction This issue investigates the linguistic encoding of events with three or more participants from the perspectives of language typology and acquisition. Such "multiple-participant events" include (but are not limited to) any...

Three-participant events in the languages of the world: towards a crosslinguistic typology (1).(Report)
May 1, 2007... Abstract Although one- and two-participant events, as expressed by intransitive and transitive constructions, have been extensively studied from a crosslinguistic perspective, little work has been done on three-participant events and the...

A typology of tritransitives: alignment types and motivations (1).
May 1, 2007... Abstract The present article discusses the syntax and semantics of tritransitive constructions. The label comprises constructions like a physiotherapist made the phonetician give a book to the bassoon player and a phonetician gave a book...

Encoding three-participant events in the Lao clause (1).(Report)
May 1, 2007... Abstract Any language will have a range of predicates that specify three core participants (e.g. 'put', 'show', 'give'), and will conventionally provide a range of constructional types for the expression of these three participants in a...

On giving, receiving, affecting and benefitting in Jalonke *.
May 1, 2007... Abstract The present article investigates the syntactic and semantic properties of verbs with optionally three participants in Jalonke. Jalonke, a variety of Yalunka, belongs to the Mande group of the Niger-Congo language stock and is...

External possession and utterance interpretation: a crosslinguistic exploration *.(Report)
May 1, 2007... Abstract The External Possession Construction (EPC) (Payne and Barshi 1999) morphosyntactically encodes a possessor participant as an apparent argument of the verb, in a constituent separate from its possessum. However, the meaning of a...

VP-shell analysis for the acquisition of Japanese intransitive verbs, transitive verbs, and causatives *.(Report)
May 1, 2007... Abstract Japanese-speaking children erroneously produce intransitive forms instead of (di)transitive forms, and intransitive / (di) transitive forms instead of causative forms. Murasugi and Hashimoto (2004) provide a uniform account of...

The genetic matrix of Mayan applicative acquisition *.
May 1, 2007... Abstract This article uses data on Mayan applicative constructions to demonstrate the use of a comparative method for language acquisition research. Mayan languages express indirect objects through an applicative suffix on verbs, a...