Studies in Language

Volume 31, Issue 2 (2007)

2007. 272 pp.

Publishing status: Available

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https://doi.org/10.1075/sl.31.2

Table of Contents

Articles
A two-dimensional approach to the study of motivation in lexical typology and its first application to French high-frequency vocabulary Peter Koch † and Daniela Marzo	259–291
Relative Clauses in English conversation: Relativizers, frequency, and the notion of construction Barbara A. Fox and Sandra A. Thompson	293–326
Backgrounding and suppression of reciprocal participants: A cross-linguistic study Leila Behrens	327–408
Beyond Aristotle and gradience: A reply to Aarts William A. Croft	409–430
In defence of distributional analysis, pace Croft Bas Aarts	431–443
Review article
Haspelmath, Martin & Matthew S. Dryer & Davil Gil & Bernard Comrie. 2005. The World Atlas of Language Structures Wolfgang Schulze	445–463
Reviews
Review of Marinis (2003): The acquisition of the DP in Modern Greek Reviewed by Athina Sioupi	465–474
Review of Aikhenvald & Dixon (2003): Studies in Evidentiality Reviewed by Winfried Boeder	474–478
Review of Fried & Östman (2004): Construction Grammar in a Cross-Language Perspective Reviewed by Martin Hilpert	479–485
Review of Hawkins (2004): Efficiency and Complexity in Grammars Reviewed by Östen Dahl	485–497
Review of Cruse, Hundsnurscher, Job & Lutzeier (2005): Lexicology. An international handbook on the nature and structure of words and vocabularies Reviewed by Christiane Wanzeck	498–508
Review of Gess & Rubin (2005): Theoretical and experimental approaches to Romance linguistics. Selected papers from the 34th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Salt Lake City, March 2004 Reviewed by Andreas Dufter	508–523

Subjects

Linguistics

Theoretical linguistics

Functional linguistics

Main BIC Subject

CF: Linguistics

Main BISAC Subject

LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General