BLS 11: General Session and Parasession on Poetics, Metrics, and Prosody

• Preface, Table of Contents, Index

  BLS Editors

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Articles

• The Development of Narrative by Warlpiri Children

  Edith L. Bavin, Tim Shopen

  1-13

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• Information Flow in Seneca and English

  Wallace Chafe

  14-24

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• Explaining the Phoneme: Why (Some Of) Phonology Is Natural

  Donald G. Churma

  25-38

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• Indirect Object "Lowering"

  William Croft

  39-51

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• Why All Languages Aren't SOV or VOS, or How Competing Motivations Lead to Natural Inconsistency

  Jon Dayley

  52-64

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• Lhasa Tibetan Evidentials and the Semantics of Causation

  Scott DeLancey

  65-72

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• Syntactic Intrusions and The Notion of Grammatical Construction

  Charles J. Fillmore

  73-86

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• Towards a Non-Paradigmatic Morphology

  A. Ford, R. Singh

  87-95

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• Ergativity, Number, and Agreement

  Zygmunt Frajzyngier

  96-106

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• Syntactic Constraints on Noun Incorporation in Southern Tiwa

  Donald G. Frantz

  107-116

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• The Description of Inversions in Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar

  Georgia M. Green

  117-145

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• Constraining the Application of Erasure Rules: Evidence from Conjunction Reduction

  Wynne Janis

  146-163

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• Japanese Sentence-Final Particles as Commitment Markers

  Sue Ann Kendall

  164-174

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• The Several Logics of Quantification

  William Labov

  175-195

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• The Category Structure of Kusaal

  William A. Ladusaw

  196-206

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• Where Have All the Adjectives Come From? The Case of Cherokee

  Geoffrey Lindsey, Janine Scancarelli

  207-215

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• Formulaic Patterns in the Maya Script

  Martha J. Macri

  216-225

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• Latin Word-Medial Consonants Lost in Portuguese: Early and Delayed Conjugational Reverberations

  Yacov Malkiel, Raquel F. Alessandri Teixeira

  226-244

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• Assertions from Discourse Structure

  William C. Mann, Sandra A. Thompson

  245-258

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• When Speakers Write

  Marianne Mithun

  259-272

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• The Directionality of Agreement

  Johanna Nichols

  273-286

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• A Rule's Progress: Reordering in Swiss German

  Mary Niepokuj

  287-293

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• Linguistic Variation as a Function of Ritual Structure in the Afro-Baptist Church

  Walter Pitts

  294-304

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• Agents, Instruments and Predication Theory

  John F. Richardson

  305-315

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• From Tonal to Accentual: Fuzhou Tone Sandhi Revisited

  Chi-Lin Shih

  316-326

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• The History of the Prepositional Passive in English

  Linda Thornburg

  327-336

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• en- Prefixation and the Syntactic Domain of Zero Derivation

  Hanna Walkinska de Hackbeil

  337-357

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• Objects in Serbo-Croatian

  Draga Zec

  358-371

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• How to Describe Inflection

  Arnold M. Zwicky

  372-386

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• Grammar and Memory

  Ann Banfield

  387-397

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• Syllable Weight in Some Australian Languages

  Stuart Davis

  398-407

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• Syllable Weight, Sloppy Phonemes, and Channels in Pirahã Discourse

  Daniel L. Everett

  408-416

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• Main Stress and Parallel Metrical Planes

  Michael Hammond

  417-428

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• Iambic and Trochaic Rhythm in Stress Rules

  Bruce Hayes

  429-446

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• Fall-Rise Intonation and the Place of Intonational 'Meaning' in Linguistic Theory

  Julia Hirschberg, Gregory Ward

  447-458

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• Degrees of Stress in Russian Versification

  Emily Klenin

  459-470

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• Improving Tree Theory

  Alan S. Prince

  471-490

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• Intonation, Stress and Meaning

  Elisabeth O. Selkirk

  491-504

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• Early Welsh Metrics and the Indo-European Poetic Tradition

  Eve E. Sweetser

  505-518

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• Prosodic Constraints and Processing Theory

  Lori Taft

  519-528

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