Showing papers in "Lingua in 1985"

TL;DR: This paper examined the historical development of concessive connectives and concessive sentences in English and found that concessivity is derived from conditional connectives, from expressions asserting remarkable co-occurrence or co-existence, or from notions earlier only applicable to human agents or experiencers.

TL;DR: The analysis of stress in Polish compounds substantiates the claim of current prosodic theory that phonological structure need not be isomorphic to morphological structure.

TL;DR: The relation between the various uses of get in English is explored and the so-called get -passive is shown to be an example of ergative get.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present acoustic data from several Mongolian dialects, which show that there has been a shift in the phonetic basis of vowel harmony from palatality in Classical Mongolian to pharyngeality in modern East Mongolian (including Khalkha and Inner Mongolian).

TL;DR: A theory of markedness is introduced in which portions of the statement of the restriction prohibiting backward anaphora represent stages of acquisition, and Solan presents a series of experiments designed to demonstrate how this staged acquisition process is constrained by innate principles of Universal Grammar.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose a sequence developpementale suivante: the premiere notion exprimee est celle de l'accomplissement a l'aide de morphemes tels que la, voila/so.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that by allowing a rich system of principles, conditions and conventions most of which are attributed to universal grammar, the theory of non-linear phonology makes it possible for individual grammars like that of Chichewa to be simpler.

TL;DR: This paper examined Jordanian Arabic and found that it exhibits a Verb-Subject-Object (VSO) word order, which is consistent with Greenberg's claim that VSO languages are a minority among the world's languages.

TL;DR: The authors argued that some of the apparently arbitrary prosodic aspects of English loans in Hindi and of the interphonology of native speakers of Hindi learning English as a second language can be adequately accounted for only in terms of the metrical theory of the syllable of the sort proposed in Kiparsky.

TL;DR: The authors assesses and questions the plausibility of a diphthongal signification for all instances of old English ie in West Saxon, in the light of orthographic practice, phonological plausibility and analysis of morphological structure.

TL;DR: In this paper, a psycholinguistic experiment was conducted to investigate whether speakers are differentially sensitive to the kinds of subject nominals they choose, and it was concluded that not only are the traditionally discussed factors of animacy and concreteness of direct relevance in sentence production, but frequency, an essentially non-linguistic property, also plays a signficant role.

TL;DR: The verb forms used in independent clauses in verb-initial languages differ from their counterparts in SVO languages in that they cannot be presuppositional (in the sense of Givon as discussed by the authors ).

TL;DR: This paper examined the triggering conditions for epenthesis in Dutch and Irish and found that it is governed by a sonority scale of consonantal segments and that Dutch has epenthetic over the whole of this scale while Irish does not.

TL;DR: In this paper, le passe simple peut etre defini par trois proprietes semantiques: temps passe, dimensionalization (dont la mise en relief n'est qu'une variante contextuelle) and detachement.

TL;DR: In this article, the evolution of English and Spanish third-person pronouns is discussed, on the basis of quantitative data, where the need for coherence brings about synchronic skewings in frequency distribution, which allow a qualitative reinterpretation of the value of the relevant forms.

TL;DR: The typologically odd features of the standard reconstruction of the PIE stop-system - voiced but no voiceless aspirates and cooccurrence restrictions on voiced stops in roots - have led to several attempts to improve the system.

TL;DR: The authors compare Whorf's writings on language with Wittgenstein's, revealing continuities of a striking nature in their thought, arguing that the linguistic relativity principle (LRP) is a concomitant of a structuralist view of language.

TL;DR: In the course of time it sometimes happens that morphemes which behaved previously as separate words are fused together into one word, and the order of these words reflects an order that was not necessarily unmarked but never or hardly ever permitted another word to intervene between the two words.

TL;DR: The psychomechanics of language as mentioned in this paper is a theory of language that is based on Guillaume's psychophysics of language, which is used in the system of grammatical number in English.

TL;DR: Clitic doubling in Spanish provides an argument in favor of positing at least two levels of grammatical relations distinct from semantics, and a comparison is made between Relational Grammar and Functional Grammar.

TL;DR: The authors argued that there are two branches of the study of children's language: child language and language acquisition, and the goals of each one are distinct and each is sceptical of the work of the other.

TL;DR: In this paper, an analysis of the Amharic conjunctive particles -m and -ss correspond to a wide range of forms in English and apparently most other languages, and the authors present plausible inferential strategies for all of the interpretations that the particles have in these texts.

TL;DR: Generative grammarians hypothesize that intuitively unacceptable syntactic forms violate rules and filters in the speaker/hearer's language-generating mechanism, and a theoretical alternative is offered in which a sentence is an entity signifying mediation between otherwise incommensurable domains: subject and predicate.

TL;DR: In this paper, the author claims that Warao is an OSV language based on data gathered in northeastern Venezuela in summer 1981, and points out that SUBJECT FRONTING is a major device for questioning and highlighting in Warao; therefore, SOV order in sentences other than statives are considered ‘marked.

TL;DR: A new analysis of the complex problem of the behavior and representation of the schwa vowel in Berber relies on a theory of syllable structure in which phonological segments are represented in terms of three separate tiers: a tier of distinctive feature specifications called the ‘melody’, a skeletal tier of C's and V's, and atier of Onsets and Rimes.