BLS 7: General Session

• Preface, Table of Contents, Index

  BLS Editors

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Articles

• On the Syntax and Semantics of Nominal Compounds in Yoruba Personal Names

  F. Niyi Akinnaso

  1-12

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• Is Whorf's Relativity Einstein's Relativity?

  Danny Keith Hawkmoon Alford

  13-26

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• Topicalization in Breton

  Stephen R. Anderson

  27-39

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• Grammatical Relations and Surface Cases in Turkish

  Müserref Dede

  40-49

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• The Phonological Status of Downstep in Bakweri

  Orin D. Gensler

  50-67

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• The Relationship of Meaning and Underlying Grammatical Relations: Evidence from Quechua

  Gabriella Hermon

  68-81

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• Dative Clitics in Albanian: Evidence for Syntactic Levels

  Philip L. Hubbard

  82-92

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• Wilhelm von Humboldt's Linguistic Importance

  Karen Ann Hunold

  93-103

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• The Semantics of Spontaneity in Japanese

  Wesley Jacobsen

  104-115

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• Atomic Phonology and Vowel Reduction

  William D. Keel

  116-122

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• Toward a Universal Semantics of Indirect Subject Constructions

  M. H. Klaiman

  123-135

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• Functional Correlates of Ergativity in Aguacatec

  Thomas W. Larsen

  136-153

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• The Abstract Consonant in Seri

  Stephen A. Marlett

  154-165

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• Question Strategies and Hierarchies of Grammatical Relations in Kinyarwanda

  Edith M. Maxwell

  166-177

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• Establishing Conversational Cooperation

  Sarah Michaels, David Reier

  178-191

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• Analogical Leveling and Child Morphology: The Case of the Irish Dependent

  Carol Lynn Moder, Michael Noonan

  192-201

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• Transitivity and Foregrounding in the North Caucasus

  Johanna Nichols

  202-221

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• The Notion of Givenness and the Use of Pronouns and Ellipsis

  Shigeko Okamoto

  222-235

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• Language Typology and the Segmentation Problem in Early Child Language Acquisition

  Ann M. Peters

  236-248

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• Topicalization, Focus-Movement, and Yiddish-Movement: A Pragmatic Differentiation

  Ellen F. Prince

  249-264

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• Voice in Fictional Discourse

  Hilary Roberts

  265-274

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• Piman Song Syntax: Its Historical Significance

  David L. Shaul

  275-283

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• Perception and the Choice of Language in Oral Narrative: The Case of the Co-Temporal Connectives

  Marilyn N. Silva

  284-294

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• The Historical Development of the Akha Evidentials System

  Graham Thurgood

  295-302

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• A Study of Communication Errors

  Ivar J. Tõnisson

  303-307

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• The Sociostylistics of Minority Dialect in Literary Prose

  Elizabeth Closs Traugott

  308-316

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• "Yes, He Hasn't" and a Few Other Not's in Turkish

  Sabahat Sansa Tura

  317-327

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• The Lexicalization of Linguistic Action

  Jef Verschueren

  328-335

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