Parameters of Consonantal Assimilation

Young-mee Yu Cho
Rutgers University

The goal of this book is to develop a parametric theory of consonantal assimilation, one of the most well-attested processes in phonology and one which has been described extensively enough to construct a theory of some predictive power. The emphasis lies in constructing a parametric theory in which all and only the possible types of assimilations can be obtained through very simple combinations of the possible settings of the following six parameters: (1) Site of Spreading, (2) Specification on Target and/or Trigger, (3) Locality Conditions, (4) Relative Ordering between Spreading and Redundancy Rules, (5) Directionality, and (6) Domain of Spreading. The study is based on detailed analyses of the assimilation phenomena of Korean, Japanese and Sanskrit, among other languages. Building on the theoretical assumptions made by Autosegmental Phonology, Feature Geometry, Underspecification, and Lexical Phonology, all the parameters involved in local and unbounded assimilation are identified. In addition, certain universal tendencies regarding consonantal assimilation find natural explanation in the present framework.

Contents:

1 INTRODUCTION
2 THEORETICAL ASSUMPTIONS
2.1 AUTOSEGMENTAL PHONOLOGY
2.1.1 Assimilation as Spreading
2.1.2 Factorization of Feature-Changing Rules
2.2 FEATURE GEOMETRY
2.3 RADICAL UNDERSPECIFICATION
2.3.1 Coalescence
2.3.2 Edge-Neutralization
2.3.3 Assimilation
2.3.4 Absence of Place Nodes
2.4 STRUCTURE PRESERVATION
2.5 LOCALITY CONSTRAINTS ON RULES
2.6 SUMMARY
3 PARAMETERS OF ASSIMILATION
3.1 INTRODUCTION
3.2 JAPANESE ASSIMILATION
3.3 SANSKRIT CONSONANTAL SANDHI
3.3.1 Place Assimilation
3.3.2 Neutralization
3.3.3 Other Assimilations
3.3.4 Conclusion
3.4 KOREAN ASSIMILATION
3.4.1 Place Assimilation
3.4.2 Other Assimilations
3.4.3 Coda Neutralization
3.4.4 Coda Simplification
3.5 PLACE ASSIMILATION AND CODA TARGET
4. VOICING ASSIMILATION
4.1 INTRODUCTION
4.2 PARAMETERS OF VOICING ASSIMILATION
4.3 TYPOLOGY OF VOICING ASSIMILATION
4.3.1 Type 1: Coda Delinking and [voice] Spreading
4.3.2 Type 2: Coda Devoicing without Spreading
4.3.3 Type 3: Cluster Devoicing and [voice] Spreading
4.3.4 Type 4: Cluster Devoicing without Spreading
4.3.5 Type 5: No Devoicing with Spreading
4.3.6 Type 6: No Devoicing and No Spreading
4.3.7 Universal Delinking
4.4 COMPARING TWO THEORIES OF VOICING
4.4.1 The Role of Feature [sonorant]
4.4.2 The Status of "Voiceless" Sonorants
4.4.3 On the Interaction of Final Devoicing and Phrasal Assimilation
4.4.4 Voicing Assimilation and Underspecification
4.5 CONCLUSION
5 APPARENT COUNTEREXAMPLES
5.1 INTRODUCTION
5.2 SANSKRIT DOUBLING AND PALI GEMINATION
5.2.1 Sanskrit Doubling
5.2.2 Doubling
5.2.3 Pali Gemination
5.2.4 Problems with Assimilation Accounts
5.2.5 Non-Assimilation Accounts
5.2.6 Gemination Account
5.3 CASES OF AUTOMATIC SPREADING
5.3.1 Hausa
5.3.2 Italian
5.3.3 Old Irish
5.4 CONCLUSION
6 TRADITIONAL GENERALIZATIONS REVISITED
6.1 CONSONANT STRENGTH HIERARCHY
6.2 DIRECTION OF ASSIMILATION
6.2.1 Dominant Assimilation
6.2.2 Progressive vs. Regressive Assimilation
6.3 HOMORGANIC NASAL ASSIMILATION
6.4 PRINCIPLE OF SIMILARITY
6.4.1 Review of some Putative Cases
6.4.2 A Case of Apparent Similarity
6.4.3 Hierarchical Extension of Similarity
6.4.4 Similarity and the OCP
7 CONCLUSION
REFERENCES

ISBN 9783895866074. LINCOM Studies in Theoretical Linguistics 15. 266pp. 1999.

Tone-Vowel Interaction in Optimality Theory

Ping Jiang-King
University of British Columbia


This study aims at constructing a fully articulated theory of tone-vowel interaction within the framework of Optimality Theory (OT). It examines the nature of this phenomenon in Northern Min languages, as well as various Southeast Asian languages. The questions addressed are (i) what is the nature of tone-vowel interaction? (ii) how do they relate to each other? Two important findings emerge from the investigation. First, tonal types and syllable types are closely related to each other. That is, different groups of tones occur only in a certain kind of syllables. These cooccurrence restrictions are identified as a correlation between tonal contour and syllable weight.

Second, tone does not directly affect vowel distributions and alternations. Rather, it is the relative syllable positions in which a vowel occurs and the number of segments present in a syllable that trigger vowel distributions and alternations. These findings lead to the conclusion that tone and vowel do not interact directly and that there is no feature-to-feature correlation between them. Their interaction lies in the prosodic anchor mediating between them. To account for the correlation between tonal contour and syllable weight and the close relationship between syllable structures and vowel features, a prosodic anchor hypothesis is proposed which attributes the tone-vowel interaction to the mora and its function as an anchor for both tone and vowel.

ISBN 9783895866470. LINCOM Studies in Theoretical Linguistics 16. 220pp. 1999.

Person prominence and relation prominence

On the typology of syntactic relations with special reference to Yucatec Maya

Christian Lehmann, Yong-Min Shin & Elisabeth Verhoeven


Two types of syntactic structures are postulated, one of person prominence, which is present in Standard Average European (SAE) languages, following Benjamin L. Whorf's term, and one of relation prominence, which is present in Yucatec Maya. The diverse structural manifestations of the two types and their implications for the organization of grammar are explored within eight mostly unrelated languages, English, German, Korean, Lezgian, Maori, Samoan, Tamil, and Yucatec Maya. The syntactic organization in different grammatical areas, namely modal and phase operator constructions, possessive constructions, experiential constructions, and benefactive constructions, is investigated and the languages are arranged on a continuum of person and relation prominence.

The study is intended for typologists, descriptive linguists and mayanists, but may as well be of interest to philologists of any of the other languages.

Christian Lehmann is professor for general and comparative linguistics at the University of Erfurt. He mainly attends to the study of language typology and the description of Yucatec Maya. Yong-Min Shin is writing his dissertation thesis on 'Possessive and participant relations in German and Korean' at the University of Bielefeld. Elisabeth Verhoeven is writing her thesis on 'Experiencer constructions in Yucatec Maya' at the same University.

ISBN 9783895866081. LINCOM Studies in Theoretical Linguistics 17. 160pp. 2000.

AFTER ETYMOLOGY: TOWARDS A SUBSTANTIVIST LINGUISTICS

Probal Dasgupta,  Rajendra Singh & Alan J.Ford

University of Hyderabad; Université de Montréal; Université de Monrtéal

The authors argue for a substantivist linguistics that parts company with the excessive concern with etymology that has shaped much modern work. Historical linguistics of the 19th century offered an etymology of words, but that etymology self-destructs, and merges into several structuralist projects. On our construal, this self destruction arises from Saussure’s attempt to push the Neo-grammarian logic to the point of demanding total accountability. But no structuralism can offer synchronic sources for words. Since the linguist’s etymological drive remained intact while the historical wing of the enterprise became first optional and marginal, the derivational impulse sought new objects. That impulse seems to us to have exhausted itself in frankly but unwarrantedly derivational accounts that are still the hallmarks of contemporary linguistics. We need to go beyond such accounts and beyond etymology.

The book examines what seem to be the core postulates of etymologism through their descriptive manifestations in grammar and argues for their replacement with substantivist postulates. It also asks that all linguists take a serious look at the substantive compulsions that have driven generative work not just to a revolution at the formal level, but also to a continuous substantive follow-up within that revolution.

Table of Contents:

1 Introduction
1.1 Preamble
1.2 Etymological Beginnings
1.3 Substance, Form, and Transparency
2 Morphology, Etymology, and the Internal Structure of Words
2.1 Introduction
2.2 On Units Smaller than the Word
2.3 Compounding and Incorporation
2.4 On Liberating Phonology
3 Towards a Non-Paninian Phonology
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Domains and Representations
3.3 Rules and Constraints
3.4 Some Comparisons
4 On Interpretation
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Beginning the Revision
4.3 Continuing the Revision
4.4 Rules, Strategies and Accomodation
4.5 Does Sense Precede Context?
5 Interpreting Different Expressions Differently
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Shaping Interpretations
5.3 The Road to Checking
5.4 Formalizing Sponsorship
5.5 Adpositions and Syntax
5.6 Post-formal Semantics and Syntax
5.7 Theta-marking and its Consequences
5.8 No Single Scene
6 Syntactic Epenthesis and the Rationality of Case
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Syntactic Epenthesis
6.3 Oblique-state Nominals in Hindi-Urdu
6.4 Agreement and Preposing
6.5 Morphological Involvement
6.6 The Empirical Edge
6.7 The Conceptual Edage
7 The Denomination Parameter
7.1 Introduction
7.2 The Locative
7.3 Remarks on Case
7.4 Denominators and Definiteness
7.5 Postpositions and Heterogeneity
7.6 Case, Integration, and Agreement
8 Epilogue: ARE WE READY?

ISBN 9783895869501. LINCOM Studies in Theoretical Linguistics 18. 180pp. 2000.

Put, Set, Lay and Place

A Cognitive Linguistic Approach to Verbal Meaning
Paul Pauwels
University of Antwerp

This work outlines a Cognitive Linguistic methodology for the analysis of verbal meaning, which is applied in a corpus-based investigation of the related English high-frequency verbs put, set, lay and place.

The first part takes a closer look at lexicography and lexical semantics, assessing the strengths and weaknesses of different approaches. The survey shows how a Cognitive Linguistic approach provides a framework which allows for differentiation, but also provides coherence. The first part results in a methodology providing for an analysis in three stages focusing on patterning, profiling and base (or cognitive domains).

The descriptive application in the second part demonstrates how this type of approach, which results in different clusters of specific uses (according to patterns, argument-slots in the profile, and domain matrixes) provides a principled differentiation between uses and at the same time uncovers a network of relations between them. The analysis highlights the role of cognitive processes like metaphor and metonymy, and indicates relevant image schemata and general usage types.

The resulting description of the four verbs provides a motivation as to why, for example, put is the high-frequency manipulation verb, why set is often used to conceptualize activation or motion, or why all verbs but put conceptualize arrangement. The findings also suggest that uses are entrenched (or salient) at different levels of abstraction, and that there are salient links between uses, supporting a polysemous analysis.

ISBN 9783895867897. LINCOM Studies in Theoretical Linguistics 19. 260pp. 2000.

Représentations du sens linguistique

Dominique Lagorgette et Pierre Larrivée (eds.)


Le sens participe de tous les niveaux d'analyse du langage. On le retrouve au coeur de phénomènes comme la polysémie, la grammaticalisation, le rôle pour l'interprétation de la syntaxe, l'organisation de la métonymie, la structuration de la métaphore. Il est sujet aux variations synchroniques et historiques, typologiques et sociales. Ces manifestations permettent de révéler, lorsqu'elles sont considérées sous le rapport des représentations qu'elles font intervenir, l'organisation du sens linguistique.

C'est cette organisation que s'attachent à identifier les contributions réunies dans cet ouvrage. À partir de l'étude empirique de problèmes classiques de sémantique et de prag-matique, elles proposent les réponses qu'apportent les approches les plus actuelles aux questions de la nature des représentations du sens, des régularités dont elles rendent compte et des contraintes qui les façonnent.

* Catherine Fuchs, ENS Ulm / Sèvres. Ordre des constituants, marqueurs polysémiques et dynamique du sens.
* Pierre Cadiot, Université Paris VIII - Vincennes-Saint-Denis et CNRS / Lattice, Yves-Marie Visetti, CNRS / Lattice, Instabilité et théorie des formes en sémantique.
* Alain Polguère, Université de Montréal. Le sens linguistique peut-il être visualisé ?
* François Nemo, Université d'Orléans. Symboles ou index ? La sémantique entre dénomination et signification .
* Jean-Jacques Franckel, Université Paris X - Nanterre. Rôle des unités morpho-lexicales dans la construction du sens des énoncés.
* Pierre Larrivée, Aston University. Le paradoxe de l'interprétation: à propos du calcul du sens de certains indéfinis.
* Denis Bouchard, Université du Québec à Montréal / Paris VIII - Vincennes-Saint-Denis. La source sémantique des facteurs apparemment hétérogènes qui régissent la distribution des adjectifs dans le Groupe Nominal.
* Evelyne Jacquey, LORIA. Les déverbaux d'action en français : type d'ambiguïté et catégorie conceptuelle.
* Jacques Lamarche, University of Western Ontario. Sémantique linguistique en contexte.
* Geneviève Lecorre, Université de Bretagne Occidentale. La primauté de la forme dans l'organisation du sens en Langue des Signes Française.
* Mariana Tutescu, Universitatea din Bucuresti. La fonction modalisation: contraintes syntaxiques et représentations sémantiques.
* Alexandra Cunita, Universitatea din Bucuresti. Vrais ou faux synonymes? Les marqueurs aspectuels roumains tot, mereu et totdeauna.
* Ivan Evrard, Université Libre de Bruxelles. Le tour factitif et la diathèse en français : une échelle de grammaticalisation.
* Georges Kleiber, Université Marc Bloch / SCOLIA. Y a -t-il des micro-sens ?
* Bert Peeters, University of Tasmania. Les constructions du type 'commencer un livre': état de la question et nouvelles perspectives.
* Franck Lebas, Université de Clermont-Ferrand II. Les référents évolutifs: à la croisée du conceptuel et du linguistique.
* Dan Van Raemdonck, Université Libre de Bruxelles. L'analyse syntaxique à l'épreuve du sens : le cas des adverbiaux paradigmatisants.
* Liana Pop, Universitatea Cluj Napoca. Adverbes de textes.
* Olivier Bertrand, Paris III - Sorbonne nouvelle. Construction du sens et néologie lexicale : de la création du lexème à la mise en phrase du mot dans les traductions politiques du XIVe siècle.
* Claire Blanche-Benveniste, École Pratique des Hautes Études. Le trait Humain et la métonymie dans la syntaxe.
* Maria Candea, Mary-Annick Morel, Université de Paris III - Sorbonne-Nouvelle. La gestion de l'indicible à l'aide de différents types d'allongements en français oral. * Chantal Rittaud-Hutinet, Université de Savoie. Dysfonctionnement et collaboration: des locuteurs en quête de sens.
* Michel Pierrard, Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Grammaticalisation et restructuration fonctionnelle : le cas du système des proformes indéfinies en français.
* Sophie Prévost, ENS Fontenay / St Cloud. Évolution de la syntaxe du pronom personnel sujet (14e - 16e siècles): la disparition d'alternances significatives.
* Lene Schøsler, Københavns Universitet. Je le pince au nez - je lui pince le nez – je pince son nez – Jean lève la main. La possession inaliénable: perspectives synchroniques et diachroniques.
* Marina Yaguello, Université de Paris VII – Denis Diderot. Grammaire et métaphore.
* Laurence Rosier, Université Libre de Bruxelles. Sortes d'invectives ou Approche syntactico-sémantique de quelques constructions injurieuses.
* Dominique Lagorgette, Université de Savoie / C.E.R.I.C. Les axiologiques negatifs sont-ils une classe lexicale ?
* Oana Poparda, Université Al.I. Cuza, Neculai Curteanu, Académie Roumaine. L'évolution du discours juridique francais: analyse par la stratégie linguistique S-C-D.

ISBN 9783895863356. LINCOM Studies in Theoretical Linguistics 22. 502pp. 2002.

Functional Grammar

Aspect and Aspectuality. Tense and Temporality.
Essays in honour of Alexander Bondarko
Adrian Barentsen & Youri Poupynin (eds.)


The articles in this collection discuss various problems in areas of linguistics towards which important contributions have been made by the distinguished Russian linguist A.V. Bondarko to whom the book is dedicated.

Three groups of articles can be distinguished. The first group concerns the sphere of aspectuality – Aspect and Aktionsart. Comments on the relation between these two concepts are given by Comrie. One also finds here a discussion of the use of verbs of several lexico-grammatical classes: the multiplicative and semelfactive Aktionsart (Birjulin) and non-actional verbs of existence (Voeikova). Various aspects of the reciprocal meaning are discussed: in a general typological perspective (Geniušen and Nedjalkov) and in relation to Russian reflexive verbs (Knjazev). (These articles can be classified in the first group because of the existence of a reciprocal Aktionsart.)

In the second group questions of the functioning of verbal categories are examined. In the articles by Lehmann and Tommola special attention is given to the interaction between the category of aspect and aspectually significant elements of the context. Mehlig discusses some problems from the sphere of the so-called general-factual meaning of the imperfective and Poupynin deals with the problem of invariancy with regard to the passive variety of the perfective.

The third group of articles is dedicated to the field of taxis, i.e. phenomena on the intersection of aspectuality and temporality. A general discussion of taxis, its definition and typological questions is given by Xrakovsky. The narrative functions of the imperfective aspect are studied by Kozintseva. Zorikhina-Nilsson presents a contrastive analysis of some functions of the Russian perfective gerund and its equivalents in Swedish and Barentsen discusses problems of temporal relations in complex sentences with verbs of perception.

List of authors: A. Barentsen (Amsterdam), L.A. Birjulin (Helsinki), B. Comrie (Leipzig), E. Geniušien (Vilnius), V.P. Nedjalkov (St. Petersburg), Ju.P. Knjazev (Novgorod), N.A. Kozintseva (St. Petersburg), V. Lehmann (Hamburg), H.R. Mehlig (Kiel), Y.A. Poupynin (St. Petersburg), H. Tommola (Tampere), M.D. Voeikova (Vienna), V.S. Xrakovsky (St. Petersburg), N. Zorikhina-Nilsson (Goeteborg).

ISBN 9783895863905. LINCOM Studies in Theoretical Linguistics 23. 260pp.

Syntactic Controversies

Tom Stroik
University of Missouri, Kansas City

Current generative theory permits some grammatical constructions to play a dual role within syntactic theory, allowing them to serve both as data which must be explained and as arguments for the theory itself. This book argues that these roles can come into conflict and that the meta-theoretic (argument) role played by dual-role constructions circumscribes the data role played by the constructions.

Such constructions become "imprisoned" by the theory because they cannot be re-analyzed in ways which would call the theory into question. Constraining the data to protect the theory, however, has obvious deleterious effects for the theory. In this book, the author looks at five constructions which play dual roles in generative (especially, minimalist) theory: antecedent contained deletion constructions, multiple-wh constructions, expletive constructions, do so constructions, and argument demotion constructions. The author shows that each of these constructions needs to be re-analyzed in ways which erode the argument role played by the construction in syntactic theory. The ultimate goal of this book, then, is to raise serious questions about current approaches to syntactic argumentation and to call for non-dual role syntactic analysis.

ISBN 9783895869631. LINCOM Studies in Theoretical Linguistics 24. 200pp. 2000.

Typology of Conditional Constructions

Victor S. Khrakovskij (ed.)
Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Linguistic Research, Saint-Petersburg

The present volume has been prepared by the Language Typology Workshop of the Institute of Linguistic Research, Russian Academy of Sciences.

The book continues the earlier studies of the Workshop addressing grammatical categories of the verb linked to the semantic and syntactic structure of the sentence: (ed. A.A. Kholodovich) Typology of Causative Constructions, Nauka: Leningrad, 1969; (ed. A.A. Kholodovich) Typology of Passive Constructions, Nauka: Leningrad, 1974; (ed. V.P. Nedjalkov) Typology of Resultative Constructions, Amsterdam, 1988; (ed. V.S. Xrakovskij) Typology of Iterative Constructions, LINCOM Europa: Munchen, 1997; (ed. V.S. Xrakovskij) Typology of Imperative Constructions, to be published by LINCOM Europa: Munchen, 2000; etc.

The choice of conditional sentences as the object of research was determined by the following considerations.

1. Conditional constructions, traditionally a focus of scientific interest, seem to be insufficiently described from the angle of universal typology (at least, the authors are not aware of any consistent description of conditional constructions in differently structured languages built on a single theoretical base).

2. The baseline approach, used in most modern conditional construction studies, is that conditional constructions in any natural language practically mirror the logical operation of implication and, consequently, any semantic definition of conditional constructions must proceed from the notion of material implication. We believe that this concept needs serious correction due to a basic difference existing between the approaches applied by logic and linguistics in their analysis of conditional utterances.

3. Until recently, the Language Typology Workshop of the Institute of Linguistic Research have studied exclusively mono-predicative constructions. Now they find it important to see how efficient their methods of language-typology studies can be when applied to bi-predicative constructions which are so typically represented by conditional constructions.

The volume consists of two parts. Part 1 contains two chapters: Chapter 1 outlining the theoretical concept of the research, and Chapter 2 which presents a questionnaire on conditional constructions in differently structured languages. Part 2 contains two sections and 24 chapters on conditional sentences in structurally different languages. Section 1 addresses languages where the prototypical conditional construction is represented by a complex sentence: Bulgarian, Dari, Armenian, Hindu, Old Greek, Archaic Latin, French, German, English, Finnish, Estonian, Hungarian, Hausa, Klamath, Indonesian, Cambodian, Vietnamese, and Ancient Chinese. Section 2 deals with languages where the prototypical conditional construction is represented by sentences with converbal/infinitive phrases: Even, Evenki, Eskimo, Aleut, Yukaghir, and Japanese.

The contributors to the volume include: researchers from Saint Petersburg Institute of Linguistic Research (Agus Salim, T. G. Akimova, N. J. Bulatova, N. B. Vaxtin, E. V. Golovko, N. A. Kozintseva, E. E. Kordi, A. L. Malchukov, E. S. Maslova, I. V. Nedjalkov, I. A. Perelmouter, M. A. Smirnova, N. M. Spatar, V. A. Stegnij, V. S. Khrakovskij), Oriental Faculty of the Saint Petersburg State University (I. S. Bystrov, N. A. Dobronravin, T. N. Nikitina, A. K. Ogloblin, T. I. Oranskaja), Philological Faculty of the Saint Petersburg State University (M. K. Sabaneyeva), as well as linguists from other research institutions of Russia, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, and Hungary: B. J. Ostrovsky (Moscow State University), V. M. Alpatov and V. I. Podlesskaya (Moscow Institute of Oriental Studies), S. M. Kibardina (Vologda University), R. Nicolova (Sofia University), I. P. Külmoja (Tartu University), H. Tommola (Tampere University), L. Jászai and E. Tóth (Budapest Teacher Training Institute).

The book is supplied with an extensive bibliography.

ISBN 9783895866791 (Hardbound). LINCOM Studies in Theoretical Linguistics 25. 730pp.2005.

Meaning and the Components of Grammar

El significado y los componentes de la gramática
Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach (ed.)
The Ohio State University, Columbus

This book contains twelve papers which address several issues pertaining meaning and interpretation in Spanish. The central focus of the volume is to explore how meaning is expressed through different grammatical components --namely syntactic structure, prosody, and discourse/text structure—, and also the theoretical repercussions for a variety of frameworks. Among the topics covered in the papers are the following ones: ellipsis, determiners and determiner phrases, the grammar of emotions, the past and the present perfect, intonation and discourse structure, lexical presuppositions, metalinguistic terms and discourse tipology in lexical semantics, and discourse markers.

Este libro consta de doce trabajos que tratan distintos aspectos sobre significado e interpretaciön en español. El foco principal del volumen es la exploración de cómo el significado se expresa a través de diferentes componentes gramaticales --como son la estructura sintáctica, la prosodia, y la estructura del discurso y los textos--, y también las repercusiones teóricas en diversos marcos de análisis lingüîstico. Entre los temas que se analizan en los distintos articulos destacan los siguientes: la elipsis, los determinantes y sintagmas determinantes, la gramática de las emociones, el pretérito perfecto y ei indefinido, la entonación y la estructura del discurso, las presuposiciones léxicas, los términos matalingüisticos y la tipologia de los discursos en el marco de la semántica léxica, y los marcadores de discurso.

The Role of Intonation in the Structuring of Discourse: Evidence from Colombian Spanish. Jessica Payeras, Université du Québec à Montréal.
¿Qué nos dicen del discurso los marcadores del español? José Portolés, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.
The Intonational Structure of Declamatory Declaratives in Spanish. Juan Manuel Sosa, Simon Fraser University.
Grammatical Relations and Semantic Argument Structure in Spanish Emotion Predicates. Begoña Villada and Carl Vogel, University of Dublin.
A Comparison of the Uses of the Spanish Pretérito Perfecto and the English Present Perfect Jean Yates, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Lingüística del texto, tipología de los discursos y semántica léxica (del español). Óscar Loureda Lamas, Universidad de La Coruña
Sobre el Sintagma Determinante Definido. Marta Luján, The University of Texas at Austin.
La expresión del pasado en el sistema verbal del español: semántica y pragmática. Ignacio Moreno-Torres, Universidad de Málaga
Las Eventualidades en el Discurso. Núria Alturo, Universitat de Barcelona
Semántica y pragmática en el léxico metalingüístico del español actual. Manuel Casado Velarde, Universidad de Navarra (Pamplona, España)
The Semantics And Pragmatics Of Verbal Lexical Presuppositions. Fernando García Murga, LEHIA (The Basque Center For Language Research)
The Depth of Spanish Anaphors. Cedric Boeckx, University of Connecticut.

ISBN 9783895863349. LINCOM Studies in Theoretical Linguistics 26. 280pp. 2001.