BLS 4: General Session

Table of Contents

Front Matter and Table of Contents
Jeri J. Jaeger, Anthony C. Woodbury, Farrell Ackerman, Christine Chiarello, Orin D. Gensler, John Kingston, Eve E. Sweetser, Henry Thompson, Kenneth W. Whistler
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i-xii

Articles

A Non-Relative Analysis of So-Called Relative Clauses
Katsue Akiba
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1-10
Verb Agreement in Southern Tiwa
Barbara J. Allen, Donald G. Frantz
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11-17
On Primary Topicalization
József Andor
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18-30
Denotative and Connotative Meaning of the 'Preterite' and 'Perfect' in Bulgarian and English
Catherine Chvany
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31-42
The Translation of the Present Perfect into Serbo-Croation and Implications for the Analysis of the Present Perfect in English
Nancy Cochrane
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43-52
The Mysterious Samoan Transitive Suffix
Kenneth William Cook
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53-66
Why Should Turkish Relativization Distinguish Between Subject and Non-Subject Head Nouns?
Müserref Dede
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67-77
Doing Without Word Order and Inflections: The Case of British Sign Language
Margaret Deuchar
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78-85
Functional Universals
Jeffery Heath
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86-95
Taxonomy, Description, Definition, Explanation: Special Case: Pronouns
David Justice
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96-105
Relativization Strategies in Wappo
Charles N. Li, Sandra A. Thompson
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106-113
Secondary Predicates
Johanna Nichols
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114-127
The Passive Analog in Lango
Michael Noonan, Edith Bavin Woock
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128-139
Switch-Reference in Barai
Mike Olson
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140-156
Impersonal Passives and the Unaccusative Hypothesis
David M. Perlmutter
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157-190
Remarks on the Analysis of Assertion and the Conversational Role of Speech Acts
Andy Rogers
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191-201
A Continuum of Meaning in the Copula
Noel Rude
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202-210
Subject/Direct Object Raising in Niuean
William J. Seiter
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211-222
The Ilokano Causative in Universal Grammar
Carmen Silva-Corvalán
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223-237
Deixis and Deducibility in a Wasco-Wishram Passive of Evidence
Michael Silverstein
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238-253
Thematicization and Aspects of the Verbal Morphology in Burmese: The Principles of Organization
Graham Thurgood
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254-267
Modern Greek Clitics: Placement, Order, and Function
Dieter Wanner
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268-282
Vocalic Change in the Belizean English/Creole continuum and markedness theory
Genevieve Escure
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283-292
Acoustic Correlates of "Big" and "Thin" in Kujamutay
Steven Greenberg, J. David Sapir
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293-311
Speech Aerodynamics and Phonological Universals
Jeri J. Jaeger
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312-329
Phonetic and Grammatical Explanations for an Epenthesis and a Non- Epenthesis in English
Hector Javkin
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330-340
On the Notion "Completely Anaphoric" in Phonology
Ellen Kaisse
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341-351
Consonant Assimilation in Inupiaq Eskimo
Lawrence D. Kaplan
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352-359
The Frequency of Tones
Ian Maddieson
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360-369
Southern Bantu vs. the World: The Case of Palatalization of Labials
John J. Ohala
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370-386
On the Hierarchy of Boundaries
Robert M. Vago
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387-396
Creative Neologism as a Dynamic Process in Language Evolution: A Case Study From English
John M. Carroll
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397-417
Monophthong and Diphthong Relations: Internal Evidence
Alice Wyland Grundt
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418-426
On Panoan Sibilants
Eric P. Hamp
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427-445
Icelandic Word Order: In Support of Drift as a Diachronic Principle Specific to Language Families
Karen C. Kossuth
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446-457
Advancement Rules and Syntactic Change: The Loss of Instrumental Voice in Mayan
William M. Norman
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458-476
On *w and *y in Kiowa-Tanoan
Laurel J. Watkins
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477-484
The Demise of the Whorf Hypothesis (A Major Revision in the History of Linguistics)
Danny K. H. Alford
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485-499
Speech Minus Spectrum Equals Time -- Or What the Left Hemisphere is For
Pierre L. Divenyi
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500-511
Grammatical Relations and Word Order in Italian Child Discourse
Elisabetta Fava
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512-523
Linguistic Representation of Spatial and Temporal Orientation
Clifford Alden Hill
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524-538
The Acquisition of Quantifier Dialects by Children
David E. Iannucci
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539-544
Generalization of Language Behaviours in a Language Delayed Child
Reanne Sue Singer
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545-556
Interruptions and the Interpretation of Conversation
Adrian Bennett
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557-575
Some Conversational Conventions of Black English
Mark Hansell, Cheryl Seabrook
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576-587
"Bonjour, hello?": Negotiations of Language Choice in Montreal
Monica S. Heller
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588-597
Levels of Structure Within the Paragraph
John Hinds
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598-609
Multilingualism in its Social Context in Aboriginal North America
Wick R. Miller
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610-616
Language and Speakers in the Courtroom
Martha Platt
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617-627
False Starts Can be True
Livia Polanyi
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628-639
A Cross-Cultural Study of Oral Narrative Style
Deborah Tannen
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640-650
Appositive Relatives in Discourse
Emily Yarnall
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651-657