Journal of Linguistics

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Case and word order in Lithuanian

STEVEN FRANKS and JAMES E. LAVINE

Journal of Linguistics, Volume 42, Issue 02, July 2006, pp 239-288

doi:10.1017/S0022226706003896 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Jun 2006

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Trapped morphology

ALICE C. HARRIS and JAN TERJE FAARLUND

Journal of Linguistics, Volume 42, Issue 02, July 2006, pp 289-315

doi:10.1017/S0022226706003902 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Jun 2006

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On Greek VSO again!

ANNA ROUSSOU and IANTHI-MARIA TSIMPLI

Journal of Linguistics, Volume 42, Issue 02, July 2006, pp 317-354

doi:10.1017/S0022226706003914 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Jun 2006

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Proper names and the theory of metaphor

LIONEL WEE

Journal of Linguistics, Volume 42, Issue 02, July 2006, pp 355-371

doi:10.1017/S0022226706003926 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Jun 2006

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Notes and Discussion

A note regarding ‘On the power-law distribution of language family sizes’

RICHARD ARNOLD and LAURIE BAUER

Journal of Linguistics, Volume 42, Issue 02, July 2006, pp 373-376

doi:10.1017/S0022226706003938 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Jun 2006

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Biology and language: a response to Everett (2005)

STEPHEN R. ANDERSON and DAVID W. LIGHTFOOT

Journal of Linguistics, Volume 42, Issue 02, July 2006, pp 377-383

doi:10.1017/S002222670600394X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Jun 2006

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Biology and language: response to Anderson & Lightfoot

DANIEL L. EVERETT

Journal of Linguistics, Volume 42, Issue 02, July 2006, pp 385-393

doi:10.1017/S0022226706003951 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Jun 2006

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Review Articles

Symptomatic imperfections David Adger, Core syntax: a Minimalist approach. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. xiii+424. Andrew Radford, Minimalist syntax: exploring the structure of English. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. xiii+512.

ASH ASUDEH and IDA TOIVONEN

Journal of Linguistics, Volume 42, Issue 02, July 2006, pp 395-422

doi:10.1017/S0022226706003963 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Jun 2006

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On a post-syntactic account of the generic Middle Construction Markus Steinbach, Middle Voice: a comparative study in the syntax–semantics interface of German (Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 50). Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2002. Pp. xii+340.

KJARTAN OTTOSSON and JOAN MALING

Journal of Linguistics, Volume 42, Issue 02, July 2006, pp 423-437

doi:10.1017/S0022226706003975 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Jun 2006

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Reviews

Robert D. Borsley & Bob Morris Jones, Welsh negation and grammatical theory. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2005. Pp. xiv+279.

HENRIËTTE DE SWART

Journal of Linguistics, Volume 42, Issue 02, July 2006, pp 439-444

doi:10.1017/S0022226706214099 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Jun 2006

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Guglielmo Cinque & Richard S. Kayne (eds.), The Oxford handbook of comparative syntax. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp. xii+977.

ANDREW CARNIE

Journal of Linguistics, Volume 42, Issue 02, July 2006, pp 444-452

doi:10.1017/S0022226706224095 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Jun 2006

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Peter W. Culicover & Andrzej Nowak, Dynamical grammar: minimalism, acquisition and change (Foundations of Syntax 2). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. xxii+324.

HANS VAN DE KOOT

Journal of Linguistics, Volume 42, Issue 02, July 2006, pp 452-457

doi:10.1017/S0022226706234091 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Jun 2006

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Nomi Erteschik-Shir & Tova Rapoport (eds.), The syntax of aspect: deriving thematic and aspectual interpretation (Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics 10). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp. xx+309.

KAREN ZAGONA

Journal of Linguistics, Volume 42, Issue 02, July 2006, pp 457-462

doi:10.1017/S0022226706244098 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Jun 2006

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Elly van Gelderen, Grammaticalization as economy (Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 71). Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2004. Pp. xiv+320.

ANNA ROUSSOU

Journal of Linguistics, Volume 42, Issue 02, July 2006, pp 462-466

doi:10.1017/S0022226706254094 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Jun 2006

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Bruce Hayes, Robert Kirchner & Donca Steriade (eds.), Phonetically based phonology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. viii+375.

MARC VAN OOSTENDORP

Journal of Linguistics, Volume 42, Issue 02, July 2006, pp 467-473

doi:10.1017/S0022226706264090 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Jun 2006

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Raymond Hickey (ed.), Legacies of colonial English: studies in transported dialects (Studies in English Language). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. xx+713.

CLAIRE COWIE

Journal of Linguistics, Volume 42, Issue 02, July 2006, pp 473-478

doi:10.1017/S0022226706274097 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Jun 2006

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Sharon Inkelas & Cheryl Zoll, Reduplication: doubling in morphology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. x+254.

ERIC RAIMY

Journal of Linguistics, Volume 42, Issue 02, July 2006, pp 478-486

doi:10.1017/S0022226706284093 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Jun 2006

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Sverker Johansson, Origins of language: constraints on hypotheses (Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research 5). Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2005. Pp. xi+345.

MAGGIE TALLERMAN

Journal of Linguistics, Volume 42, Issue 02, July 2006, pp 486-490

doi:10.1017/S002222670629409X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Jun 2006

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Christopher Potts, The logic of conventional implicatures (Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics 7). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp. xii+246.

KENT BACH

Journal of Linguistics, Volume 42, Issue 02, July 2006, pp 490-495

doi:10.1017/S0022226706304094 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Jun 2006

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Bernhard Wälchli, Co-compounds and natural coordination. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp. xviii+334.

LAURIE BAUER

Journal of Linguistics, Volume 42, Issue 02, July 2006, pp 495-499

doi:10.1017/S0022226706314090 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Jun 2006

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