Language: Vol 90, Issue 4 (December 2014)
Table of Contents
Letters to Language
Articles
Two types of deverbal nominalization in Northern Paiute
Maziar Toosarvandani
On the disunity of right-node raising phenomena: Extraposition, ellipsis, and deletion
Rui P. Chaves
The semantics of sluicing: Beyond truth conditions
Scott AnderBois
Asymmetries in the prosodic phrasing of function words: Another look at the suffixing preference
Nikolaus P. Himmelmann
Language and Public Policy (Web Only Content)
Jasmine and the Bee: Spelling word-initial [th] in English
Gerald R. McMenamin, Lindsay N. Kerr
Language management in the People’s Republic of China
Bernard Spolsky
Perspectives (Web Only Content)
Target Article
How to investigate linguistic diversity: Lessons from the Pacific Northwest
Henry Davis, Carrie Gillon, Lisa Matthewson
How field linguists have been investigating linguistic diversity: Commentary on Davis, Gillon, and Matthewson
Willem de Reuse
Descriptive hypothesis testing is distinct from comparative hypothesis testing: Commentary on Davis, Gillon, and Matthewson
Martin Haspelmath
Teaching Linguistics (Web Only Content)
High school linguistics: A secondary school elective course
Suzanne Loosen
A tactile IPA magnet-board system: A tool for blind and visually impaired students in phonetics and phonology classrooms
Brook Danielle Lillehaugen, Gabriela Echavarría Moats, Daniel Gillen, Elizabeth Peters, Rebecca Schwartz
Reviews
The language of Queen Elizabeth I: A sociolinguistic perspective on royal style and identity by Mel Evans (review)
Graham Williams
The transmission of Anglo-Norman: Language history and language acquisition by Richard Ingham (review)
David W. Lightfoot
The Bloomsbury companion to phonetics ed. by Mark J. Jones and Rachael-Anne Knight (review)
Maria-Josep Solé
Numeral classifiers in Chinese: The syntax-semantics interface by XuPing Li (review)
Matthias Gerner
Computational methods for corpus annotation and analysis by Xiaofei Lu (review)
Richard Xiao
Sign language: An international handbook ed. by Roland Pfau, Markus Stein-bach, and Bencie Woll (review)
Susan Fischer
Rich languages from poor inputs ed. by Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini and Robert C. Berwick (review)
Iris Berent
Grammatical variation in British English dialects: A study in corpus-based dialectometry by Benedikt Szmrecsanyi (review)
Warren Maguire
Clause structure by Elly van Gelderen (review)
Tor A. Åfarli