BLS 6: General Session

Table of Contents

Preface, Table of Contents, Index
BLS Editors
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Articles

Murray B. Emeneau: Descriptive Linguist and Scholar
Bruce R. Caron
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1-19
Indian Demonstrative Pronominal Bases -- A Revision
M. B. Emeneau
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20-27
Adaptation and Naturalization in a Linguistic Area: Sinhala Focused Sentences
James W. Gair
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28-43
Prosody, Linguistic Diffusion and Conversational Inference
John J. Gumperz, Hannah Kaltman
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44-65
Is Brahui Really Dravidian?
David W. McAlpin
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66-72
Discovering Connections
Arpita Mishra
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73-89
Evidence of Grammatical Convergence in Dakhini Urdu and Telugu
Bruce R. Pray
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90-99
The Tamil Liquids
Harold Schiffman
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100-110
J!nu Kurumba: First Report on a Tribal Language of the Nilgiri Area
Kamil V. Zvelebil
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111-119
Proficiency in Storytelling
Ruth Bennett
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120-132
The Language of "Born-Again" Christianity
Linda Coleman
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133-142
The Importance of Conversational Discourse Strategies in the Acquisition of Literacy
James Collins, Sarah Michaels
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143-156
To Taboo Everything at All Times
G. Diffloth
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157-165
Metaphors in Makah Neologisms
William H. Jacobsen, Jr
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166-179
Talking, Speaking and Chatting in Aztec
Tim Knab
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180-190
Getting the Whole Picture: The Role of Mental Images in Semantics and Pragmatics
George Lakoff
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191-206
Spoken/Written Language and the Oral/Literate Continuum
Deborah Tannen
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207-218
Inscrutability Revisited
Linda Wai Ling Young
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219-226
Where Dead Language Lives: The Case of the Balinese Shadow Theater
Mary Zurbuchen
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227-237
Lexical Extension and Grammatical Transformations
Judith Aissen, Jorge Hankamer
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238-249
The Development and Productivity of Prefixes
Andrew S. Allen
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250-258
Phonological Convergence Between Languages in Contact: Mon-Khmer Structural Borrowing in Burmese
David Bradley
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259-267
The Grammatical Status of Aspectual Catenatives in English
Laurel Brinton
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268-277
The Passive in Sliammon
John H. Davis
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278-286
On the Nature of Anaphoric Restrictions
Jeanette Speer DeCarrico
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287-292
Ascensions to Subject in Blackfoot
Donald G. Frantz
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293-299
Antipassives and Causatives in Halkomelem
Donna B. Gerdts
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300-314
A definite use of early Greek tis
Gary B. Holland
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315-323
On a Certain Construction of English's
Richard D. Janda
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324-336
Topic, French Style: Remarks about a Basic Sentence Type of Modern Non-Standard French
Knud Lambrecht
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337-360
Manifestations of Twinship in Toddler Language
Patricia M. Malmstrom
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361-371
Subject, Topic, and Control in Russian
Johanna Nichols, Gilbert Rappaport, Alan Timberlake
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372-386
Grammatical Parallelism in Quiche Ritual Language
William M. Norman
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387-399
In Search of Y/N S-Aux: A Study of Answers to Yes-No Questions in English
Judy E. Winn-Bell Olsen
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400-422
An Etymological Door to Synergetic Structures
Martin Schwartz
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423-436
Penutian Among the Ruins: A Personal Assessment
William Shipley
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437-441
The Status of Lexical Associations and the Obligatory Contour Principle in the Analysis of Tone Languages
John V. Singler
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442-456
The Extension of Language Universals: Constraints on the Function of Axial Reflection in Writing Systems with Special Application to Linear B
Laurence Stephens
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457-466
Case Relations in Modern Greenlandic
Robert Underhill
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467-478
Subjects, Topics and Agents: Evidence from Property-factoring
Jeanne van Oosten
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479-494
A Vowel-Lowering Rule in Kui-Kuvi
Bh. Krishnamurti
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495-506
The Conversational Duet
Jane Falk
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507-514