Linguistics: an interdisciplinary journal of the language sciences articles from November 2000

Linguistics: an interdisciplinary journal of the language sciences archives from November 2000

Intentional relation and suspended reading of before" clauses: the case of the French avant que(*).(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... Abstract The aim of this paper is to account for the suspended reading of before clauses, that is, a reading on which the proposition expressed by the subordinate clause is neither true nor false. The analysis is based on French linguistic...

Four types of morpheme: evidence from aphasia, code switching, and second-language acquisition(1).
November 1, 2000... Abstract This paper presents empirical evidence supporting a new model of morpheme classification called the 4-M model. This model emphasizes the notion that lemmas underlying different types of morphemes become salient at different levels...

A constructional approach to clefts(*).
November 1, 2000... Abstract In this article I will argue that clefts differ in more than simply their information structure from their noncleft counterparts. Clefts are constructions in their own right, whose grammatical features convey specific...

Language variation and the linguistic enactment of identity among Dominicans(*).
November 1, 2000... Abstract The present study seeks to examine the linguistic dimensions of national and immigrant Dominican societies, in particular, the linguistic attributes and attitudes that delimit Dominican speech communities and the extent to which...

Singular definite expressions with a unique denotatum and the limits of properhood(*).
November 1, 2000... Abstract The issue addressed is that of whether singular definite expressions with unique denotata, e.g. the zodiac, are proper names or not. These are analyzed as special cases of a class of expressions ambiguous between a proper and a...

Function or fashion? Reply to Martin Haspelmath(1).
November 1, 2000... This is the final episode, at least as far as this journal is concerned, in an exchange between Martin Haspelmath and myself concerning the nature of grammaticalization. It started when Haspelmath (1999) argued that the standard view of...