Linguistics: an interdisciplinary journal of the language sciences articles from November 2001

Linguistics: an interdisciplinary journal of the language sciences archives from November 2001

Lexical frequency in morphology: is everything relative? (1).(Statistical Data Included)
November 1, 2001... Abstract While it is widely assumed that high-frequency morphologically complex forms tend to display characteristics of noncompositionality, models of morphological processing do not predict a direct relationship between absolute...

Syntactic definiteness in the grammar of Modern Hebrew *.
November 1, 2001... Abstract Definiteness has often been assumed to play a role in syntax, most notably in relation to various "definiteness effects" and case alternations (Belletti 1988; De Hoop 1992; and many others). The question whether this involves a...

Is there a finite vs. nonfinite distinction in Chinese? *.
November 1, 2001... Abstract Some special devices are designed to test the existence of the finiteness of a Chinese clause, though Chinese evidently fails to meet the general conditions on finiteness. These tests include the occurrence of aspectual markers...

A non-universal approach to English inflectional morphology *.
November 1, 2001... Abstract This paper proposes an analysis of the English plural and possessive within a declarative model of morphology called word design that employs unviolable constraints only to explain the well-formedness of regular forms. An...

Complex Words in English.
November 1, 2001... Valerie Adams: Complex Words in English. Harlow: Person Education Limited, 2001. 173 pp. They say that you cannot step into the same river twice. Adams's latest book is such an attempt and -- in my view -- a worthwhile one. Twenty-eight...

Speaking of Events.
November 1, 2001... James Higginbotham, Fabio Pianesi, and Achille C. Varzi: Speaking of Events. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. 295 pp. A number of books have been published in 1999 and 2000, perhaps to welcome the new century, but only a small...

La entonacion del espanol.
November 1, 2001... Juan Manuel Sosa: La entonacion del espanol. Madrid: Catedra, 1999. 264 pp. Sosa's book, a long-awaited study based on his outstanding doctoral dissertation Fonetica y fonologia de la entonacion del espanol hispanoamericano (Sosa 1991),...

History of the Language Sciences/Geschichte der Sprachwissenschaften/Histoires des sciences du langage.
November 1, 2001... Sylvain Auroux, E. H. F. Koerner, Hans-Josef Niederehe, and Kees Verstegh, editors: History of the Language Sciences/Geschichte der Sprachwissenschaften/Histoires des sciences du langage (HSK 18), vol. 1. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2000. xxiii + 1094...