Productivity and Creativity: Studies in General and Descriptive Linguistics in Honor of E. M. UhlenbeckTRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new perspectives in our understanding of language. The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks, as well as studies that provide new insights by approaching language from an interdisciplinary perspective.
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Contents
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Answers to questions put to an FSP theorist by Professor E M Uhlenbeck | 55 |
Some puzzles that arise from the assumption that to learn a language is to construct a grammar | 69 |
Ordering of valency slots from a communicative point of view | 83 |
On the obvious ability of people to speak | 93 |
Communicative salience in Old Javanese | 337 |
A note on relative markers in Javanese | 349 |
Adversativepassive verbs in standard Javanese | 357 |
An Old Javanese poem on chronogram words | 369 |
Adaptation of loanwords ending in isik in Indonesian | 393 |
Section 3 Pacific and Amerindian languages | 401 |
A case of preconquest contact between South America and the Pacific | 403 |
Differences in word structures | 413 |
Should we believe in UG? | 103 |
Anatomy of an approach | 115 |
Why it is so important to care about language in early stages of education | 161 |
Sidelines on Henry Sweet | 167 |
On divergent perspectives and controversial issues in studies of language and mind | 179 |
Is language a virus? Reflections on the use of biological metaphors in the study of language | 191 |
From Bopp to Bob before and after | 211 |
On complementarity | 231 |
Word sentence and discourse | 243 |
The morpheme in Bloomfields Language | 251 |
La linguistique entre psychologie et sociologie | 265 |
Section 2 Javanese and Indonesian | 279 |
A royal birthday in nineteenth century Java | 281 |
On vocabulary building in Batavia ca 1930 | 297 |
The verbal auxiliary padha in contemporary Javanese | 317 |
Grammar and discourse | 421 |
Evidence from Lushootseed and Lillooet | 433 |
On the Japanese particle ο | 449 |
Eggs Benedict or Benedicts Egg? | 473 |
Language endangerment and death in the central and southwestern Pacific with notes on the western | 479 |
Section 4 IndoEuropean and AfroAsiatic languages | 493 |
Some crosslinguistic parallels | 495 |
Vowel reduction tone and nominal declension in Dirayta | 503 |
The clitic cline in Inner Asia Minor Greek | 521 |
Zum Genitivattribut im Deutschen | 549 |
Vocative case and pronoun in Ancient Greek and Latin | 559 |
Un solécisme dans le grec judaïque dAlexandrie | 575 |
Preliminary data | 603 |
Cases of crossover between finite verb forms and nouns in Armenian | 629 |