Language - Volume 93, Number 4 (December 2017)
Integrating sound symbolism with core grammar: The case of expressive palatalization
John Alderete & Alexei Kochetov
pp. 731-766, DOI: 10.1353/lan.2017.0056
Backgrounded agents in Catalan Sign Language (LSC): Passives, middles, or impersonals?
Gemma Barberà & Patricia Cabredo Hofherr
pp. 767-798, DOI: 10.1353/lan.2017.0057
NP recursion over time: Evidence from Indo-European
Manuel Widmer, Sandra Auderset, Johanna Nichols, Paul Widmer, & Balthasar Bickel
pp. 799-826, DOI: 10.1353/lan.2017.0058
The multifunctionality of ‘possible’ modal adverbs: A comparative look
Daisuke Suzuki & Takashi Fujiwara
pp. 827-841, DOI: 10.1353/lan.2017.0059
Result verbs, scalar change, and the typology of motion verbs
John Beavers & Andrew Koontz-Garboden
pp. 842-876, DOI: 10.1353/lan.2017.0060
Case assignment and argument realization in nominals
Anastasia Smirnova & Ray Jackendoff
pp. 877-911, DOI: 10.1353/lan.2017.0061
Perspectives
Language vitality: The weak theoretical underpinnings of what can be an exciting research area
Salikoko S. Mufwene
pp. e202-e223, DOI: 10.1353/lan.2017.0065
On how and why languages become endangered: Reply to Mufwene
Lyle Campbell
pp. e224-e233, DOI: 10.1353/lan.2017.0066
The vitality or endangerment of some nonindigenous languages: A response to Mufwene
Nala H. Lee
pp. e234-e242, DOI: 10.1353/lan.2017.0067
Language vitality: Theorizing language loss, shift, and reclamation (Response to Mufwene)
Claire Bowern
pp. e243-e253, DOI: 10.1353/lan.2017.0068
The vitality and diversity of multilingual repertoires: Commentary on Mufwene
Pierpaolo Di Carlo & Jeff Good
pp. e254-e262, DOI: 10.1353/lan.2017.0069
How far can the language ecology metaphor take us? : A Pacific perspective on language vitality (Response to Mufwene)
Fiona Willans & Anthony Jukes
pp. e263-e274, DOI: 10.1353/lan.2017.0070
African(ist) perspectives on vitality: Fluidity, small speaker numbers, and adaptive multilingualism make vibrant ecologies (Response to Mufwene)
Friederike Lüpke
pp. e275-e279, DOI: 10.1353/lan.2017.0071
Understanding language vitality and reclamation as resilience: A framework for language endangerment and ‘loss’ (Commentary on Mufwene)
Colleen M. Fitzgerald
pp. e280-e297, DOI: 10.1353/lan.2017.0072
On the role of agency, marginalization, multilingualism, and language policy in maintaining language vitality: Commentary on Mufwene
Marlyse Baptista
pp. e298-e305, DOI: 10.1353/lan.2017.0073
It’s still worth theorizing on LEL, despite the heterogeneity and complexity of the processes (Response to commentators)
Salikoko S. Mufwene
pp. e306-e316, DOI: 10.1353/lan.2017.0074
Phonological Analysis
Phonological conditions on variable adjective and noun word order in Tagalog
Stephanie S. Shih & Kie Zuraw
pp. e317-e352, DOI: 10.1353/lan.2017.0075
All dissimilation is computationally subsequential
Amanda Payne
pp. e353-e371, DOI: 10.1353/lan.2017.0076
Teaching Linguistics: Textbook Reviews
What the F: What swearing reveals about our language, our brains, and ourselves by Benjamin K. Bergen (review)
Laura W. McGarrity
pp. e372-e374, DOI: 10.1353/lan.2017.0077
Phonological acquisition: Child language and constraint-based grammar by Anne-Michelle Tessier (review)
John Archibald
pp. e375-e377, DOI: 10.1353/lan.2017.0078
Review
The making of the Oxford English Dictionary by Peter Gilliver (review)
R. W. McConchie
pp. 912-914, DOI: 10.1353/lan.2017.0062