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Languages & Linguistics

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Languages & Linguistics

DESCRIPTIVE LINGUISTICS: ENGLISH
A semantic view of syntax: Some verbs that govern infinitives
Continuous/Discrete: A reinterpretation of the mass/count feature of English common nouns
The direct object nexeme in English
Some nonrules of English
Observations on the passive construction
Two notes on comparatives
Intuitive rules and factual evidence: /-sp, -st, -sk/ plus [-z]
The frailty of grammatical concord
Jespersen’s ‘Move and Change’ class and causative verbs in English
Squinting grammar and the number of tenses in English
The ‘barred-i’ morphophone in English
A classical case of structural ambiguity or no ambiguity at all
DESCRIPTIVE LINGUISTICS: OTHER LANGUAGES
The vowel of the imperfect prefix in Najdi Arabic
Some aspects of the semantic complexity of Karanā conjunct verbs in Hindi
Developments in the Hebrew verbal system of Israeli children and youth
Barbareño Chumash text and lexicon
Order and reference in Aleut
Kurdish dialects in Eastern Turkey
Universal rules and vocalic devoicing in Southern Paiute
The semantic significance of S O V sequences in Armenian
Phonetic segments of Haida (Hydaburg dialect)
The interpretation of glottalized resonants in Straits Salish
The origin and development of Kituba (Lingua Franca Kikongo)
The main stress rule in Turkish
The phonology of the Mixtepec dialect of Mixtec
Some generative solutions to problems in Cashibo phonology
Constraints in Zapotec questions and relative clauses
Inventory and choice in expressive language
Cuna numeral classifiers
Complex verbs in Hindi
Setswana phonemics: Sefokeng dialect
Some ‘glide shifts’ in Russian derivation

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