Studies in Language

Volume 39, Issue 3 (2015)

2015. iii, 282 pp.

Publishing status: Available

© John Benjamins Publishing Company

https://doi.org/10.1075/sl.39.3

Table of Contents

Articles

Preface

p. 5
Syntacticized topics in Kurmuk: A ternary voice-like system in Nilotic

Torben Andersen | pp. 508–554
Subject versus addressee in Dogon imperatives and hortatives

Jeffrey Heath and Vadim Dyachkov | pp. 555–593
A comparative study of semantic change in grammaticalization and lexicalization in Chinese and Germanic languages

Janet Zhiqun Xing | pp. 593–633
Diachronic effects of rhinoglottophilia, symmetries in sound change, and the curious case of Basque

Iván Igartua | pp. 635–663
Breaking the clause chains: Non-canonical medial clauses in Nungon

Hannah Sarvasy | pp. 664–697
Exclamative clauses in English and their relevance for theories of clause types

Peter Siemund | pp. 698–728
On the differences between adnominal and external possession in Ishkashimi

Elena Karvovskaya | pp. 729–753
Animacy and differential subject marking in the Ikema dialect of Miyako

Shoichi Iwasaki | pp. 754–778

Book review

Susanne Maria Michaelis, Philippe Maurer, Martin Haspelmath & Magnus Huber. 2013. The Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures

Reviewed by Claire Lefebvre | pp. 779–789

Subjects & Metadata

BIC Subject: CF – Linguistics

BISAC Subject: LAN009000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General