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Language in Flux
The papers in this collection present a view of language as an evolving system within which flexibility is systemic and subject to progressive change, driven by pressures of every-day coordinative action as in conversational dialogue. As these papers demonstrate, these pressures provide a force for variation, hence for adaptation, and change. Topics covered include formal and game-theoretical models of evolution, diachronic studies of change (semantic, syntactic, lexical) and the role of dialogue factors in promoting such change, psycholinguistic experimental methods probing the nature of coordination in both language and non-language based interaction, formal modelling of dialogue, and prob...
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Word Order and Information Structure in Makhuwa-Enahara
This thesis investigates the grammar of Makhuwa-Enahara, a Bantu language spoken in the north of Mozambique. The information structure is an influential factor in this language, determining the word order and the use of special conjugations known as conjoint and disjoint verb forms. The thesis consists of two parts. The first part is a grammatical description of the language, covering the basic properties in the phonology, prosody and morphology of the nominal and verbal domain, as well as an overview of the conjugational system. The chapter also examines some syntactic issues, such as relativisation and non-verbal predication. The second part is concerned with the question how syntax and in...
Nels 34
NELS 34, the thirty-fourth annual meeting of the North East Linguistic Society, was hosted by Stony Brook University on November 7-9, 2003. These two volumes of conference proceedings, edited by Keir Moulton and Matthew Wolf and published by the Graduate Linguistic Student Association of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, contain the fourty-four presented papers that were submitted for publication.
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