BLS 15: General Session and Parasession on Theoretical Issues in Language Reconstruction

• Preface and Table of Contents

  BLS Editors

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Articles

• Path Predicates in English and Spanish: A Closer Look

  Jon Aske

  1-14

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• Flux

  Dwight Bolinger

  15-23

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• Alienability, Inalienability and Nominal Classification

  Hilary Chappell, William McGregor

  24-36

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• The Syntax-Phonology Interface and Variable Data: The Case of French Liaison

  Daan de Jong

  37-47

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• Real-Time Morphology: Symbolic Rules or Analogical Networks?

  Bruce L. Derwing, Royal Skousen

  48-62

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• ES and "Missing" Subjects in German

  Hana Filip

  63-78

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• A Unified Account of the Semantics of the English Ditransitive

  Adele E. Goldberg

  79-90

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• Proto-Linguistic Variation: A Link between Historical Linguistics and Sociolinguistics

  Joseph H. Greenberg

  91-101

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• Non-Logographic Chinese and the Non-Alphabetic Alphabet

  Mark Hansell

  102-113

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• A Connectionist Perspective on Prosodic Structure

  Mary Hare, David Corina, Garrison Cottrell

  114-125

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• A Connectionist Approach to the Story of Over

  Catherine L. Harris

  126-137

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• Questioning vs. Identifying: A Functionalist Analysis of the [A candidate that which professor recommended was hired?] Construction in Japanese

  Yoko Hasegawa

  138-149

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• Creative Idiomaticity

  Zili He

  150-160

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• Consciousness Condition on the Korean Reflexive Caki

  Ki-Sun Hong

  161-169

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• Displacement Features in Phonology

  Grover Hudson

  170-180

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• Contextual Operators: Respective, Respectively and Vice Versa

  Paul Kay

  181-192

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• Discontinuous Reduplication in Vernacular Malay

  Paul R. Kroeger

  193-202

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• The Linguistic Implications of Early and Systematic Variation in Child Language Development

  Elena V. M. Lieven

  203-214

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• Metaphor and the Grammaticalization of Evidentials

  Teenie Matlock

  215-225

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• Japanese-Style Noun Modification...in English

  Yoshiko Matsumoto

  226-237

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• Another Look at the Role of Female Speakers in Sound Change

  Birch Moonwomon

  238-247

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• Reduplication and Tone in Hausa Ideophones

  Paul Newman

  248-255

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• Topic Continuity in Written Mandarin Discourse

  Ming-Ming Pu

  256-267

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• "...that part of the city": Mental Spaces and Ethnic Neighborhoods

  Jo Rubba

  268-277

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• Syntactic Polysemy and Underspecification in the Lexicon

  Eric Schiller

  278-290

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• Concessive Conditionals in Japanese: A Pragmatic Analysis of the S1- TEMO S2 Construction

  Seiko Fujii Yamaguchi

  291-302

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• What's become of derivations? Defaults and Invocations

  Arnold M. Zwicky

  303-322

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• Phonetic Laws and Grammatical Categories

  M. B. Emeneau

  323-343

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• Clitics in Homeric Greek: Less Evidence that PIE was Head-Final

  Chris Golston

  344-355

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• Verb Agreement, Head-Marking vs. Dependent-Marking, and the 'Deconstruction' of Tibeto-Burman Morpho-Syntax

  Randy J. LaPolla

  356-366

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• Computerized Tools for Reconstruction in Tibeto-Burman

  John Lowe, Martine Mazaudon

  367-378

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• Erratic Derivational or Compositional Designs as Clues to Word Origins

  Yakov Malkiel

  379-390

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• Historical Linguistics and Linguistic Theory: Reducing the Arbitrary and Constraining Explanation

  Marianne Mithun

  391-408

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• The Origin of Nominal Classification

  Johanna Nichols

  409-420

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• Some Historical Sources of Partial Reduplication

  Mary Niepokuj

  421-431

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