Linguistics: an interdisciplinary journal of the language sciences articles from November 2003

Linguistics: an interdisciplinary journal of the language sciences archives from November 2003

Modern Spanish "spurious" se: a genuine case of pseudo analysis.
November 1, 2003... Abstract No fully satisfactory explanation has yet been offered for the Spanish recourse to "spurious" se instead of dative le. Three distinct questions are at issue: the failure of le to cluster with accusative lo; the number of...

Patterns of segmental modification in consonant inventories: a cross-linguistic study *.
November 1, 2003... Abstract It is well known that secondary articulation types, such as labialization and palatalization, as well as laryngeal modifications, such as aspiration and glottalization, can play a contrastive role in segment inventories. This...

Prosodically constrained postverbal PPs in Mandarin Chinese *.
November 1, 2003... Abstract This article discusses postverbal PPs in Mandarin Chinese and proposes that the constraints on postverbal PPs are not syntactic per se, but prosodic in character. It is shown that the NSR (Nuclear Stress Rule), formulated in terms...

The discourse particle well and its equivalents in Swedish and Dutch *.
November 1, 2003... Abstract The aim of the article is to make a contribution to the description of the meaning and functions of well by looking at its translations into Swedish and Dutch. In order to study well cross-linguistically we have used electronic...

Bas Aarts: English Syntax and Argumentation.(Book Review)
November 1, 2003... 2nd ed. Modern Linguistic Series. Basingstoke, Hampshire and New York: Palgrave, 2001. xiii + 312 pp. ISBN hardcover 0-333-94987-0, ISBN paperback 0-333-94986-2 First encounters with formal syntax are known to be a challenging experience...

Laura Benua: Phonological Relations between Words.(Book Review)
November 1, 2003... New York and London: Garland, 2000. x + 271 pp. This book is a slightly revised version of Benua's dissertation defended at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Since the ideas developed in this dissertation played an important role...

Jacob Mey: Pragmatics: An Introduction.(Book Review)
November 1, 2003... 2nd ed. Oxford: Blackwell, 2001. 300 pp. Pragmatics, second edition by Jacob Mey is a thorough, authorative and solid introduction to societal pragmatics. The author's laudable concern with language use and the importance of the context of...

Paul Cobley, editor: The Routledge Companion to Semiotics and Linguistics.(Book Review)
November 1, 2003... New York and London: Routledge, 2001. ISBN paperback 0-415-24314-9 This, number 5 in a series of scientific companions, is a work of ambivalent character in that it combines a dictionary of key notions and key figures in semiotics and/or...

Michel Paradis, editor: Manifestations of Aphasia Symptoms in Different Languages.(Book Review)
November 1, 2003... Oxford: Pergamon, 2001. vii + 296 pp. ISBN 0-08-043662-5. (Also published as Journal of Neurolinguistics 14(2-4). How is language represented in the brain? For well over a century, we have hoped that the study of language impairments after...

Shana Poplack and Sali Tagliamonte: African American English in the Diaspora.(Book Review)
November 1, 2003... Oxford: Blackwell, 2001. xxi + 293 pp. The history of African American English (= AAE) has been a much contested playground or battlefield for linguists, especially since the 1960s. One of the difficulties was that evidence on the decisive...