Studies in Language

Volume 39, Issue 2 (2015)

2015. iii, 250 pp.

Publishing status: Available

© John Benjamins Publishing Company

https://doi.org/10.1075/sl.39.2

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