Linguistics: an interdisciplinary journal of the language sciences articles from November 2005

Linguistics: an interdisciplinary journal of the language sciences archives from November 2005

Existential sentences with preposed locative phrases and postverbal determinerless subjects in Spanish. *.
November 1, 2005... Abstract In this article, I will deal with sentences consisting of preposed locative phrases and postverbal determinerless subjects. Most generative grammarians have analyzed these sentences as examples of unaccusative or unaccusativized...

Diachronic change and pronoun status: Italian dative loro*.
November 1, 2005... Abstract From a historical perspective, personal pronouns in Romance languages display a tendency to undergo changes in syntactic status in a particular order, namely; strong > weak > clitic. This article discusses the possible reasons...

Contrasting contrastive demonstratives in Tiriyo and Lavukaleve.
November 1, 2005... Abstract This article explores the contrastive function of demonstratives in two languages, Tiriyo (Cariban, northern Brazil) and Lavukaleve (Papuan isolate, Solomon Islands). The contrastive function has to a large extent been neglected...

On knowledge and development of unaccusativity in Spanish L2 acquisition. *.
November 1, 2005... Abstract Many studies have reported that L2 learners have persistent problems with unaccusative verbs in English, Japanese, Italian, French, and Chinese. Oshita (2001) proposed the "unaccusative trap hypothesis" (UTH) to account for the...

Brian D. Joseph and Richard D. Janda, editors: The Handbook of Historical Linguistics.(Book review)
November 1, 2005... Brian D. Joseph and Richard D. Janda, editors: The Handbook of Historical Linguistics. Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics. Oxford: Blackwell, 2003. 904 pp. ISBN 0-631-19571-8. The Handbook of Historical Linguistics is one of the Blackwell...

Phillip Glenn: Laughter in Interaction.(Book review)
November 1, 2005... Phillip Glenn: Laughter in Interaction. Studies in Interactional Sociolinguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xii + 190 pp. ISBN 0-521-77206-0. This short book is an excellent introduction to laughter in interaction, more...