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

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

Creoles, pidgins, and sundry languages: essays in honor of Pieter Seuren(1).
September 1, 2000... Readers familiar with Pieter Seuren's work in theoretical linguistics may be somewhat surprised to find an issue of Linguistics in his honor entirely devoted to creoles, pidgins and "sundry(2) languages." After all, this is an area he has...

Constructing new pronominal systems from the Atlantic to the Pacific(1).
September 1, 2000... Abstract The earliest attestations of pronouns that deviate significantly from the English system are listed for thirteen English-lexicon contact languages spoken around the world. What these forms tell us about the nature of pidgin and...

Verb serialization and object position(*).
September 1, 2000... Abstract This paper discusses the phrase-structure configuration of resultative serial-verb constructions and the position of the object in these constructions. It is argued that the analysis involves a VP-shell configuration in which the...

Loss in Berbice Dutch Creole negative constructions(1).
September 1, 2000... Abstract This paper examines attrition in the use of negative constructions by the last speakers of Berbice Dutch Creole. It does so by ranging speakers on a proficiency scale that takes as reference point a maximum contemporary level of...

Orthography and ideology: issues in Sranan spelling(1).
September 1, 2000... VERKRIJGBAAR o.a. PRAPI, WASI ADOYA, KOWRU DRESI, PIMBA, KRABASI (DRE NANGA VERS WAN), KWASI BITA, LOANGO TETE, PEDREKOE, PANJIE'S (ALLA SOORTU), SWIT SOPI, POMPEIA, DIFRENTI WIWIRI, INGI AMAKA, PRASARA SIBI, LOKSI BUBA, ABONGRA, KOKORI, POKAI...

The slaves' languages in the Dutch Cape Colony and Afrikaans vir(*).
September 1, 2000... Abstract The Afrikaans preposition vir ([is less than] Dutch voor `for') is an optional case marker in animate direct objects and in nominal indirect objects, and it is a preposition in recipient and beneficiary indirect object PPs. This...

Semantic transparency in Lowland Ecuadorian Quechua morphosyntax(1).
September 1, 2000... Abstract In this paper the properties of Lowland Ecuadorian Quechua, a possibly pidginized variety from this Andean indigenous language family, are evaluated in the light of the semantic-transparency hypothesis. It is argued that the...

From potential to realization: an episode in the origin of language(*).
September 1, 2000... Abstract What kind of input is necessary for a creature that has the linguistic potential of a human being actually to realize that potential? Various scenarios are investigated on the basis of the empirical evidence available, including...

Publications received between 17 June 1999 and 1 June 2000.
September 1, 2000... The following list includes recent books potentially relevant to the traditional and/or allied disciplines of linguistics. An effort is made to see that all books of interest to the readers of Linguistics are reviewed. Publishers receive two...