BLS 12: General Session and Parasession on Semantic Typology

Published: 1986-05-15

Preface, Table of Contents, Index

BLS Editors

i-xiii
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Articles

An Analysis of Lushootseed Diminutive Reduplication

Dawn Bates

1-13
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Productivity and Pragmatics of Thai Classifiers

Kathie Carpenter

14-25
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Academic Speaking

Wallace Chafe

26-40
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Evidence for a Strictly Sentence-Internal Antecedent-Finding Mechanism

Wayne Cowart

41-50
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Weak Crossover and Obviation

Amy Dahlstrom

51-60
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Stress and Vowel Harmony Domains in Turkish

Michael Dobrovolsky

61-71
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Abrupt Transmission Failure in Obsolescing Languages: How Sudden the 'Tip' to the Dominant Language in Communities and Families?

Nancy C. Dorian

72-83
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Non-Finite Clauses in Creoles

William H. Eilfort

84-94
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Pragmatically Controlled Zero Anaphora

Charles J. Fillmore

95-107
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'Overlay Structures' in the Song of Roland: A Discourse-Pragmatic Strategy of Oral Narrative

Suzanne Fleischman

108-123
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Sex and the Question: Terminal Contours of Responses by Men and Women

Cheryl Ramsey Garcia

124-134
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Clefts, Discourse Representations, and Situation Semantics

Jean Marc Gawron

135-146
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Some Theoretical Consequences of Dutch Complementizer Agreement

Jack Hoeksema

147-158
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On the Acquisition of the Vowel Shift Rule

Jeri J. Jaeger

159-172
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The Rise and Fall of Tones Through Diffusion

Charles N. Li

173-185
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Polyadicity of Three Verbs Associated with Bloodletting Rituals in Western Glyphic Maya

Martha J. Macri

186-194
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When Zero Isn't There

Marianne Mithun

195-211
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Phonemes as Mental Categories

Geoffrey S. Nathan

212-223
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Pragmatic Roles in Cherokee Grammar

Janine Scancarelli

224-234
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Levels of Grammatical Relations and Russian Reflexive Controllers

Linda Schwartz

235-245
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Folk Formality

Deborah Tannen

246-260
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The Development of the Indirect Passive in English

Linda Thornburg

261-270
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CV- versus X-Notation: A Formal Comparison

Rachelle Waksler

271-282
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Metrical Structure in Wakashan Phonology

Stephen A. Wilson

283-291
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Topic, Contrast, Definiteness, and Word Order in Mandarin

David A. Zubin, Naicong Li

292-304
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The General Case: Basic Form versus Default Form

Arnold M. Zwicky

305-314
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Interacting Semantic Systems: Mixtec Expressions of Location

Claudia Brugman, Monica Macaulay

315-327
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A La Recherche du Temps de Verbe Perdu: Semantic Bootstrapping and the Acquisition of the Future Tense

Justine Cassell, Robert Chametzky

328-339
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Thematic Roles and Semantics

David R. Dowty

340-354
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The Grammaticization of Number as a Verbal Category

Mark Durie

355-368
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From Preposition to Copula

Zygmunt Frajzyngier

371-386
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The Development of Subordinators from Postpositions In Bodic Languages

Carol Genetti

387-400
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Independent Verbs and Auxiliary Functions in Newari

David Hargreaves

401-412
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A Semantic Typology Derived from Variation in Germanic

John A. Hawkins

413-424
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When is a Classifier No Longer a Classifier?

Judy Kegl, Sara Schley

425-441
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Argument Forms in Lexical Semantics

George Lakoff, Claudia Brugman

442-454
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Abstract Motion

Ronald W. Langacker

455-471
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Expressive Language in White Hmong

Eric Pederson

472-484
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Observations on Reference Object Geometry in Emai Path Expressions

Ronald P. Schaefer

485-496
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Classifiers, Verb Classifiers, and Verbal Categories

Michael Silverstein

497-514
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On the Evolutionary Paths of Locative Expressions

Soteria Svorou

515-527
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Polysemy vs. Abstraction: Mutually Exclusive or Complementary?

Eve E. Sweetser

528-538
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From Polysemy to Internal Semantic Reconstruction

Elizabeth Closs Traugott

539-550
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Is the Compositionality Principle a Semantic Universal?

Cynthia K. Welsh

551-563
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