Linguistics: an interdisciplinary journal of the language sciences articles from September 2006

Linguistics: an interdisciplinary journal of the language sciences archives from September 2006

Introduction: current issues in optimality theoretic syntax **.
September 1, 2006... 1. Introduction to OT syntax General tendencies that hold in or across languages are easy to find. For example, sentences in English usually have a subject. The subject often is the first element in the sentence. In many cases, the subject...

Aligning restricted objects **.
September 1, 2006... Abstract The hierarchy of grammatical functions currently employed by harmonic alignment (Aissen 1999a) makes use of the distinction between the core relations of subject and object. Evidence from languages with unregistered objects...

Matrix unloaded: binding in a local derivational approach (1).
September 1, 2006... Abstract The central question I address in this article is a theoretical one: is it possible to integrate binding into a local derivational syntactic approach, and what would the theoretical consequences of such an enterprise be? The...

The winner takes it all--almost: cumulativity in grammatical variation **.
September 1, 2006... Abstract In this article we show that cumulativity is necessary to account for probabilistic variation found in actual language use, and we compare the accuracy of the predictions that different versions of stochastic OT make. We...

Constraining nominalization: function/form competition **.
September 1, 2006... Abstract The present article deals with constraints on transcategorial processes such as nominalization. In particular, it addresses the issue whether one can predict the order in which verbal categories are lost and nominal categories are...

Person and number agreement in Dumi **.
September 1, 2006... Abstract Aissen (1999, 2003) argues that prominence hierarchy effects in morphosyntax are governed by fixed rankings of markedness constraints related to the hierarchies themselves by harmonic alignment (Prince and Smolensky 1993). In this...

Weak function word shift **.
September 1, 2006... Abstract The fact that object shift only affects weak pronouns in mainland Scandinavian is seen as an instance of a more general observation that can be made in all Germanic languages: weak function words tend to avoid the edges of larger...

Freezing and marking **.(word-order freezing)
September 1, 2006... Abstract This article shows that word-order freezing is not an adequate application of bidirectional optimality theory and that what it attempts to account for presents a problem for bidirectional optimality theory. Max(X) constraints...

Publications received between 2 May 2005 and 1 June 2006.
September 1, 2006... 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...