BLS 4: General Session

• Front Matter and Table of Contents

  Jeri J. Jaeger, Anthony C. Woodbury, Farrell Ackerman, Christine Chiarello, Orin D. Gensler, John Kingston, Eve E. Sweetser, Henry Thompson, Kenneth W. Whistler

  i-xii

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Articles

• A Non-Relative Analysis of So-Called Relative Clauses

  Katsue Akiba

  1-10

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• Verb Agreement in Southern Tiwa

  Barbara J. Allen, Donald G. Frantz

  11-17

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• On Primary Topicalization

  József Andor

  18-30

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• Denotative and Connotative Meaning of the 'Preterite' and 'Perfect' in Bulgarian and English

  Catherine Chvany

  31-42

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• The Translation of the Present Perfect into Serbo-Croation and Implications for the Analysis of the Present Perfect in English

  Nancy Cochrane

  43-52

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• The Mysterious Samoan Transitive Suffix

  Kenneth William Cook

  53-66

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• Why Should Turkish Relativization Distinguish Between Subject and Non-Subject Head Nouns?

  Müserref Dede

  67-77

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• Doing Without Word Order and Inflections: The Case of British Sign Language

  Margaret Deuchar

  78-85

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• Functional Universals

  Jeffery Heath

  86-95

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• Taxonomy, Description, Definition, Explanation: Special Case: Pronouns

  David Justice

  96-105

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• Relativization Strategies in Wappo

  Charles N. Li, Sandra A. Thompson

  106-113

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• Secondary Predicates

  Johanna Nichols

  114-127

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• The Passive Analog in Lango

  Michael Noonan, Edith Bavin Woock

  128-139

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• Switch-Reference in Barai

  Mike Olson

  140-156

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• Impersonal Passives and the Unaccusative Hypothesis

  David M. Perlmutter

  157-190

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• Remarks on the Analysis of Assertion and the Conversational Role of Speech Acts

  Andy Rogers

  191-201

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• A Continuum of Meaning in the Copula

  Noel Rude

  202-210

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• Subject/Direct Object Raising in Niuean

  William J. Seiter

  211-222

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• The Ilokano Causative in Universal Grammar

  Carmen Silva-Corvalán

  223-237

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• Deixis and Deducibility in a Wasco-Wishram Passive of Evidence

  Michael Silverstein

  238-253

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• Thematicization and Aspects of the Verbal Morphology in Burmese: The Principles of Organization

  Graham Thurgood

  254-267

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• Modern Greek Clitics: Placement, Order, and Function

  Dieter Wanner

  268-282

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• Vocalic Change in the Belizean English/Creole continuum and markedness theory

  Genevieve Escure

  283-292

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• Acoustic Correlates of "Big" and "Thin" in Kujamutay

  Steven Greenberg, J. David Sapir

  293-311

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• Speech Aerodynamics and Phonological Universals

  Jeri J. Jaeger

  312-329

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• Phonetic and Grammatical Explanations for an Epenthesis and a Non- Epenthesis in English

  Hector Javkin

  330-340

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• On the Notion "Completely Anaphoric" in Phonology

  Ellen Kaisse

  341-351

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• Consonant Assimilation in Inupiaq Eskimo

  Lawrence D. Kaplan

  352-359

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• The Frequency of Tones

  Ian Maddieson

  360-369

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• Southern Bantu vs. the World: The Case of Palatalization of Labials

  John J. Ohala

  370-386

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• On the Hierarchy of Boundaries

  Robert M. Vago

  387-396

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• Creative Neologism as a Dynamic Process in Language Evolution: A Case Study From English

  John M. Carroll

  397-417

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• Monophthong and Diphthong Relations: Internal Evidence

  Alice Wyland Grundt

  418-426

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• On Panoan Sibilants

  Eric P. Hamp

  427-445

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• Icelandic Word Order: In Support of Drift as a Diachronic Principle Specific to Language Families

  Karen C. Kossuth

  446-457

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• Advancement Rules and Syntactic Change: The Loss of Instrumental Voice in Mayan

  William M. Norman

  458-476

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• On *w and *y in Kiowa-Tanoan

  Laurel J. Watkins

  477-484

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• The Demise of the Whorf Hypothesis (A Major Revision in the History of Linguistics)

  Danny K. H. Alford

  485-499

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• Speech Minus Spectrum Equals Time -- Or What the Left Hemisphere is For

  Pierre L. Divenyi

  500-511

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• Grammatical Relations and Word Order in Italian Child Discourse

  Elisabetta Fava

  512-523

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• Linguistic Representation of Spatial and Temporal Orientation

  Clifford Alden Hill

  524-538

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• The Acquisition of Quantifier Dialects by Children

  David E. Iannucci

  539-544

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• Generalization of Language Behaviours in a Language Delayed Child

  Reanne Sue Singer

  545-556

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• Interruptions and the Interpretation of Conversation

  Adrian Bennett

  557-575

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• Some Conversational Conventions of Black English

  Mark Hansell, Cheryl Seabrook

  576-587

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• "Bonjour, hello?": Negotiations of Language Choice in Montreal

  Monica S. Heller

  588-597

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• Levels of Structure Within the Paragraph

  John Hinds

  598-609

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• Multilingualism in its Social Context in Aboriginal North America

  Wick R. Miller

  610-616

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• Language and Speakers in the Courtroom

  Martha Platt

  617-627

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• False Starts Can be True

  Livia Polanyi

  628-639

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• A Cross-Cultural Study of Oral Narrative Style

  Deborah Tannen

  640-650

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• Appositive Relatives in Discourse

  Emily Yarnall

  651-657

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