BLS 6: General Session

Published: 1980-10-20

Preface, Table of Contents, Index

BLS Editors
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Articles

Murray B. Emeneau: Descriptive Linguist and Scholar

Bruce R. Caron

1-19
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Indian Demonstrative Pronominal Bases -- A Revision

M. B. Emeneau

20-27
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Adaptation and Naturalization in a Linguistic Area: Sinhala Focused Sentences

James W. Gair

28-43
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Prosody, Linguistic Diffusion and Conversational Inference

John J. Gumperz, Hannah Kaltman

44-65
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Is Brahui Really Dravidian?

David W. McAlpin

66-72
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Discovering Connections

Arpita Mishra

73-89
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Evidence of Grammatical Convergence in Dakhini Urdu and Telugu

Bruce R. Pray

90-99
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The Tamil Liquids

Harold Schiffman

100-110
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J!nu Kurumba: First Report on a Tribal Language of the Nilgiri Area

Kamil V. Zvelebil

111-119
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Proficiency in Storytelling

Ruth Bennett

120-132
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The Language of "Born-Again" Christianity

Linda Coleman

133-142
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The Importance of Conversational Discourse Strategies in the Acquisition of Literacy

James Collins, Sarah Michaels

143-156
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To Taboo Everything at All Times

G. Diffloth

157-165
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Metaphors in Makah Neologisms

William H. Jacobsen, Jr

166-179
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Talking, Speaking and Chatting in Aztec

Tim Knab

180-190
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Getting the Whole Picture: The Role of Mental Images in Semantics and Pragmatics

George Lakoff

191-206
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Spoken/Written Language and the Oral/Literate Continuum

Deborah Tannen

207-218
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Inscrutability Revisited

Linda Wai Ling Young

219-226
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Where Dead Language Lives: The Case of the Balinese Shadow Theater

Mary Zurbuchen

227-237
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Lexical Extension and Grammatical Transformations

Judith Aissen, Jorge Hankamer

238-249
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The Development and Productivity of Prefixes

Andrew S. Allen

250-258
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Phonological Convergence Between Languages in Contact: Mon-Khmer Structural Borrowing in Burmese

David Bradley

259-267
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The Grammatical Status of Aspectual Catenatives in English

Laurel Brinton

268-277
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The Passive in Sliammon

John H. Davis

278-286
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On the Nature of Anaphoric Restrictions

Jeanette Speer DeCarrico

287-292
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Ascensions to Subject in Blackfoot

Donald G. Frantz

293-299
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Antipassives and Causatives in Halkomelem

Donna B. Gerdts

300-314
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A definite use of early Greek tis

Gary B. Holland

315-323
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On a Certain Construction of English's

Richard D. Janda

324-336
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Topic, French Style: Remarks about a Basic Sentence Type of Modern Non-Standard French

Knud Lambrecht

337-360
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Manifestations of Twinship in Toddler Language

Patricia M. Malmstrom

361-371
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Subject, Topic, and Control in Russian

Johanna Nichols, Gilbert Rappaport, Alan Timberlake

372-386
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Grammatical Parallelism in Quiche Ritual Language

William M. Norman

387-399
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In Search of Y/N S-Aux: A Study of Answers to Yes-No Questions in English

Judy E. Winn-Bell Olsen

400-422
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An Etymological Door to Synergetic Structures

Martin Schwartz

423-436
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Penutian Among the Ruins: A Personal Assessment

William Shipley

437-441
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The Status of Lexical Associations and the Obligatory Contour Principle in the Analysis of Tone Languages

John V. Singler

442-456
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The Extension of Language Universals: Constraints on the Function of Axial Reflection in Writing Systems with Special Application to Linear B

Laurence Stephens

457-466
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Case Relations in Modern Greenlandic

Robert Underhill

467-478
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Subjects, Topics and Agents: Evidence from Property-factoring

Jeanne van Oosten

479-494
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A Vowel-Lowering Rule in Kui-Kuvi

Bh. Krishnamurti

495-506
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The Conversational Duet

Jane Falk

507-514
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