Studies in Language

Volume 39, Issue 2 (2015)

2015.  iii, 250 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 20 August 2015
Table of Contents
Articles
Pronominal datives: The royal road to argument status
Mira Ariel, Elitzur Dattner, John W. Du Bois and Tal Linzen
257–321
Competing motivations and ditransitive encoding and ordering
Chao Li
322–353
Antipassive/associative polysemy in Cilubà (Bantu, L31a): A plurality of relations analysis
Sebastian Dom, Guillaume Segerer and Koen Bostoen
354–385
Information structure without topic and focus: Differential Object Marking in Burmese
Pavel Ozerov
386–423
Coherence relation and clause linkage: Towards a discourse approach to adjunct islands in Chinese
Dawei Jin
424–458
The constructionalization of the Chinese cleft construction
Fangqiong Zhan and Elizabeth Closs Traugott
459–491
Book Reviews
Review of Levison, Lessard, Thomas & Donald (2013): The Semantic Representation of Natural Language
Reviewed by Jonathan Dunn
492–500
Review of Michaelis, Maurer, Haspelmath, Huber & Revis (2013): The Survey of Pidgin and Creole Languages English-based and Dutch-based languages Portuguese-based, Spanish-based, and French-based languages Contact languages based on languages from Africa, Asia, Australia and the Americas
Reviewed by Claire Lefebvre
501–506
Subjects

Main BIC Subject

CF: Linguistics

Main BISAC Subject

LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General