BLS 7: General Session

Table of Contents

Preface, Table of Contents, Index
BLS Editors
PDF

Articles

On the Syntax and Semantics of Nominal Compounds in Yoruba Personal Names
F. Niyi Akinnaso
PDF
1-12
Is Whorf’s Relativity Einstein’s Relativity?
Danny Keith Hawkmoon Alford
PDF
13-26
Topicalization in Breton
Stephen R. Anderson
PDF
27-39
Grammatical Relations and Surface Cases in Turkish
Müserref Dede
PDF
40-49
The Phonological Status of Downstep in Bakweri
Orin D. Gensler
PDF
50-67
The Relationship of Meaning and Underlying Grammatical Relations: Evidence from Quechua
Gabriella Hermon
PDF
68-81
Dative Clitics in Albanian: Evidence for Syntactic Levels
Philip L. Hubbard
PDF
82-92
Wilhelm von Humboldt’s Linguistic Importance
Karen Ann Hunold
PDF
93-103
The Semantics of Spontaneity in Japanese
Wesley Jacobsen
PDF
104-115
Atomic Phonology and Vowel Reduction
William D. Keel
PDF
116-122
Toward a Universal Semantics of Indirect Subject Constructions
M. H. Klaiman
PDF
123-135
Functional Correlates of Ergativity in Aguacatec
Thomas W. Larsen
PDF
136-153
The Abstract Consonant in Seri
Stephen A. Marlett
PDF
154-165
Question Strategies and Hierarchies of Grammatical Relations in Kinyarwanda
Edith M. Maxwell
PDF
166-177
Establishing Conversational Cooperation
Sarah Michaels, David Reier
PDF
178-191
Analogical Leveling and Child Morphology: The Case of the Irish Dependent
Carol Lynn Moder, Michael Noonan
PDF
192-201
Transitivity and Foregrounding in the North Caucasus
Johanna Nichols
PDF
202-221
The Notion of Givenness and the Use of Pronouns and Ellipsis
Shigeko Okamoto
PDF
222-235
Language Typology and the Segmentation Problem in Early Child Language Acquisition
Ann M. Peters
PDF
236-248
Topicalization, Focus-Movement, and Yiddish-Movement: A Pragmatic Differentiation
Ellen F. Prince
PDF
249-264
Voice in Fictional Discourse
Hilary Roberts
PDF
265-274
Piman Song Syntax: Its Historical Significance
David L. Shaul
PDF
275-283
Perception and the Choice of Language in Oral Narrative: The Case of the Co-Temporal Connectives
Marilyn N. Silva
PDF
284-294
The Historical Development of the Akha Evidentials System
Graham Thurgood
PDF
295-302
A Study of Communication Errors
Ivar J. Tõnisson
PDF
303-307
The Sociostylistics of Minority Dialect in Literary Prose
Elizabeth Closs Traugott
PDF
308-316
“Yes, He Hasn’t” and a Few Other Not’s in Turkish
Sabahat Sansa Tura
PDF
317-327
The Lexicalization of Linguistic Action
Jef Verschueren
PDF
328-335