Linguistics: an interdisciplinary journal of the language sciences articles from November 2002

Linguistics: an interdisciplinary journal of the language sciences archives from November 2002

Focus and antifocus in modern Afrikaans and West Germanic *.
November 1, 2002... Abstract Based on morphological evidence from modern spoken Afrikaans, this paper argues for the existence of a designated antifocus position in West Germanic, licensing the destressing of anaphoric elements under a Spec-head...

Segmentation marking in text production *.
November 1, 2002... Abstract This study considers marking of text segmentation in written and spoken monologic texts in the narrative and expository genres from a developmental perspective. Our sample consists of 320 texts produced by schoolchildren aged...

Focus, p-movement, and the nuclear-stress rule: a view from Germanic and Romance *.(Maria Luisa Zubizarreta: Prosody, Focus, and Word Order)(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... Maria Luisa Zubizarreta: Prosody, Focus, and Word Order. Linguistic Inquiry Monograph 33. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1998.213 pp. ISBN 0-262-74021-4. 1. Introduction Over the past three decades, many controversial proposals have been...

Klaus von Heusinger and Urs Egli, editors: Reference and Anaphoric Relations.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... Dordrecht: Kluwer, 2000. 347 pp. ISBN 0-7923-6070-2. One issue that has pervaded semantic discussions in the last twenty years is whether projection of interpretation for natural-language strings involves a level of representation of that...

Javier Rivas: Ergativity and Transitive Gradients in the Accusative and Infinitive Construction. A Cross-Linguistic Typological Approach.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... Coleccion LUCUS LINGUA, Anexos de Moenia, Revista Lucense de Linguistica y Literatura 7. Compostela: Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, 2000. The main title of this book is well chosen: the pivot of this study is the problem of...

Karen Emmorey and Harlan Lane, editors: The Signs of Language Revisited: an Anthology to Honor Ursula Bellugi and Edward Klima.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... Mahwah, NJ, and London: Erlbaum, 2000. ISBN 0-8058-3246-7. In this Liber Amicorum some 40 authors, mostly ASL (American Sign Language) researchers, together with some European colleagues and a few from elsewhere, have contributed 28 reports...