BLS 5: General Session

Table of Contents

Preface, Table of Contents, Index
BLS Editors
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Articles

Form and Function: Passives, Middles, and Impersonals in Modern Hebrew
Ruth A. Berman
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1-39
Case Marking and Islandhood In EST: Evidence from Quechua
Peter Cole, Gabriella Hermon
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40-48
Athapaskan Classifiers, Person, and Deference
James Collins
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49-62
Innocence: A Second Idealization for Linguistics
Charles J. Fillmore
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63-76
Multiple Dependency in Blackfoot
Donald G. Frantz
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77-80
Out of Control in Ilokano
Donna B. Gerdts
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81-93
The Auxiliary Verb in Natchez
Mary R. Haas
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94-105
Coping with Complex Polysemy: A Comparison of Dative/Benefactive Constructions in Mandarin and Thai
Karen Hermann
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106-113
Raising to Oblique in Modern Greek
Brian D. Joseph
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114-128
Re-Weaving the Word-Web: Graph Theory and Rhymes
James Joyce
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129-141
Functional Grammar
Martin Kay
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142-158
Temporal Relations in Bakweri Oral Narratives
John Kingston
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159-179
The Role of the Genitive Suffix in Relative Clauses in Turkish: A Reply to Dede
Laura Knecht
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180-197
Theme and Context Dependency: Thematic Progression
Norman C. Keul
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198-205
Pragmatics and Social Deixis: Reclaiming the Notion of Conventional Implicature
Stephen C. Levinson
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206-223
Syntactic, or Lexical, Zero in Natural Language
Igor A. Mel'čuk
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224-260
The Meeting of East and West: Confrontation and Convergence in Contemporary Linguistics
Johanna Nichols
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261-276
Working 1s and Inversion in Italian, Japanese, and Quechua
David M. Perlmutter
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277-324
Semantic Mechanisms of Humor
Victor Raskin
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325-335
Temporal Connectives and Logical Form
Ivan Sag, Steven Wiesler
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336-349
How Not to Tell a Passive: The Case of Old Persian mana krtam Reconsidered
Hariklia Statha-Halikas
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350-361
Focus of Contrast Aspects in Makua: Syntactic and Semantic Evidence
Susan U. Stucky
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362-372
Peak Vary, Endpoints Don't: Implications for Intonation Theory
Suzanne Boyce, Lise Menn
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373-384
Evidence Against the Use of Word Boundaries in Tonological Rules: An Autosegmental Approach to the Fast Speech of the Tokyo Dialect of Japanese
Nobuko Hasegawa
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385-396
Double-Cross in Phonology: Why Word-Boundary (Often) Acts Like a Consonant
Richard D. Janda
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397-412
Phonetic Explanations for the Devoicing of High Vowels
Hector R. Javkin
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413-418
Polarity in Phonology
Alexandre Kimenyi
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419-427
The Influence of the Social Class in the Verbal Morphology of Certain Dialects of Spanish
Alberto M. Rivas
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428-437
Historical Riddles in Cheyenne: A Re-examination of Goddard's Soʔtaaʔe Evidence
Danny K. H. Alford
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438-452
The Relationship Between Meaning and Morphological Productivity
Andrew S. Allen
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453-460
Tongass Tlingit and Na-Dene
Eric P. Hamp
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461-470
Language Death in the Valley of Puebla: A Socio-Geographic Approach
Tim, Liliane Knab, Hasson de Knab
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471-483
The Evolution of Certain Cochimí­ Aspectuals and the Cochimí-Yuman Hypothesis
Mauricio J. Mixco
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484-488
Prehistoric Sociolinguistics: The Case for Hopi
David Leedom Shaul
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489-499
The Acquisition of Word Meaning: A Reexamination
Marilyn N. Silva
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500-509
Neurolinguistic Considerations on the Optimum Age for Second Language Learning
Terence M. Walsh, Karl C. Diller
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510-524
A Linguistic Phenomenology of Therapy Talk
Adrian T. Bennett, Barbara Reed Hartmann
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525-538
The Function and Content of Relative Clauses in Spontaneous Oral Narratives
Robert Bernardo
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539-551
Spokes in a Wheel: A Linguistic and Rhetorical Analysis of Native American Public Discourse
Ralph Cooley
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552-557
On Discourse Syntactic Consequences of Certain Short Topic Sentences
Larry Gorbet
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558-566
How to Ask for Wiper Fluid in Montreal: Struggling with the Terminology of Car Parts in Québecois
Monica S. Heller
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567-580
Communication Strategies in Conversation: The Case of Scenes from a Marriage
Robin Tolmach Lakoff, Deborah Tannen
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581-592
Trickster and the Village Women: A Psychosymbolic Discourse Analysis of a Lahu Picaresque Story
James A. Matisoff
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593-636
Clitics, Clauses, Closure, and Discourse in Easter Pomo
Sally McLendon
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637-646
A Study of Sharing Time With First Grade Students: Discourse Narratives in the Classroom
Sarah Michaels, Jenny Cook-Gumperz
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647-660