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Strong linearity and the typology of templates
(Mouton, 2007)
The term template is commonly employed in linguistic description and
analysis when salient aspects of the linear arrangement of the subconstituents
of some larger constituent appear to be specified independently ...
Split prosody and creole simplicity: The case of Saramaccan
(AEJPL, 2004)
Saramaccan, an Atlantic creole whose lexifier languages are Portuguese and
English, has a “split” prosodic system wherein the majority of its words are
marked for pitch accent but an important minority are marked for ...
Modeling contested categorization in linguistic databases
(2006)
A fundamental problem in the design of linguistic databases is finding effective ways to encode
content which is of a contested nature—that is, content which involves data for which there is
no general consensus on how ...
Paradigmatic complexity in pidgins and creoles
(Edinburgh University Press, 2015)
The last decade has seen increasing attention paid to questions of grammatical complexity, in particular
regarding the extent to which some languages can be said to be more “complex” than others,
whether globally or with ...
Commentary on the Bostoen et al.’s Middle to Late Holocene paleoclimatic change and the early Bantu Expansion in the rain forests of western Central Africa
(University of Chicago Press, 2015)
The paper by Bostoen et al. is a landmark attempt to synthesize results from a range of
disciplines in order to refine our understanding of the Bantu expansion. It comes at an important
moment in the field of linguistics ...
Quantifying Language Dynamics: Introduction
(Brill, 2014)
A review of “Dynamics of contact-induced language change” by Claudine Chamoreau and Isabelle Léglise (eds.)
(John Benjamins, 2016)
The present volume consists of twelve chapters, along with an introduction by the editors, and its
general focus is the relationship between language contact and language change in
morphological and syntactic constructions. ...
Review of Total reduplication: The areal linguistics of a potential universal, by Thomas Stolz, Cornelia Stroh, and Aina Urdze. Zeitschrift f¨ur Dialektologie und Linguistik. 81:124–126
(2014)
The focus of this rich volume is total reduplication, that is, reduplicative
constructions where one finds two copies of the same element appearing
adjacent to each other in a way prescribed by the grammar of a language, ...