LT

[Frans Plank]

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LT 8 - 1 (2004)
Contents


Articles

Ulrike Zeshan
Hand, head, and face: Negative constructions in sign languages


Eva Schultze-Berndt and Nikolaus P. Himmelmann
Depictive secondary predicates in crosslinguistic perspective



Book Reviews

Keren Rice
Endoclitics and the Origins of Udi Morphosyntax, by Alice C. Harris


Silvia Luraghi
Variierende Markierung von Nominalgruppen in Sprachen unterschiedlichen
Typs, edited by Winfried Boeder and Gerd Hentschel

Silvia Luraghi
The Origin of Agent Markers, by Enrique Palancar



To / From the Editors

R. M. W. Dixon
Correction of error


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FORTHCOMING A LITTLE LATER THIS YEAR, among others


Johanna Nichols, David A. Peterson, and Jonathan Barnes
Transitivizing and detransitivizing languages


Sérgio Meira
Mental state postpositions in Tiriyó and other Cariban languages


Colette Grinevald and Frank Seifart
Noun classes in African and Amazonian languages: Towards a comparison


Peter Trudgill
Linguistic and social typology: The Austronesian migrations and phoneme
inventories


with commentary from
	Keren Rice
	Language contact, phoneme inventories, and the Athapaskan language
family

	John Hajek
	Small consonant inventories as an areal feature of the New
Guinea-Pacific
	region: Testing Trudgill's hypotheses

	Baržs Kabak
	Acquiring phonology is not acquiring inventories but contrasts:
	The loss of primary long vowels in Turkic and Korean


	Peter Bakker
	Phoneme inventories, language contact, and grammatical complexity:
	A critique of Trudgill

	Vladimir Pericliev
	There is no correlation between the size of a community speaking a
language
	and the size of the phonological inventory of that language


and an Author's Response from
	Peter Trudgill