Articles

Integrating sound symbolism with core grammar: the case of expressive palatalization
John Alderete & Alexei Kochetov

 

Backgrounded agents in Catalan Sign Language (LSC): passives, middles, or impersonals?
Gemma Barberà & Patricia Cabredo Hofherr

 

NP recursion over time: evidence from Indo-European
Manuel Widmer, Sandra Auderset, Johanna Nichols, Paul Widmer, & Balthasar Bickel

 

The multifunctionality of 'possible' modal adverbs: a comparative look
Daisuke Suzuki & Takashi Fujiwara

 

Result verbs, scalar change, and the typology of motion verbs
John Beavers & Andrew Koontz-Garboden

 

Case assignment and argument realization in nominals
Anastasia Smirnova & Ray Jackendoff

 

Review Articles

The making of the Oxford English Dictionary. by Peter Gilliver
Reviewed by R. W. McConchie

 

What the F: what swearing reveals about our language, our brains, and ourselves. By Benjamin K. Bergen
Reviewed by Laura W. McGarrity

 

Phonological acquisition: child language and constraint-based grammar. By Anne-Michelle Tessier
Reviewed by John Archibald

 

Perspectives

Language vitality: the weak theoretical underpinnings of what can be an exciting research area
Salikoko S. Mufwene

 

On how and why languages become endangered: reply to Mufwene
Lyle Campbell

 

The vitality or endangerment of some nonindigenous languages: a response to Mufwene
Nala H. Lee

 

Language vitality: theorizing language loss, shift, and reclamation (response to Mufwene)
Claire Bowern

 

The vitality and diversity of multilingual repertoires: commentary on Mufwene
Pierpaolo DiCarlo & Jeff Good

 

How far can the language ecology metaphor take us? A Pacific perspective on language vitality (Response to Mufwene)
Fiona Willans & Anthony Jukes

 

African(ist) perspectives on vitality: fluidity, small speaker numbers, and adaptive multilingualism make vibrant ecologies (Response to Mufwene)
Friederike Lüpke

 

Understanding language vitality and reclamation as resilience: a framework for language endangerment and 'loss' (Commentary on Mufwene)
Colleen M. Fitzgerald

 

On the role of agency, marginalization, multilingualism, and language policy in maintaining language vitality: Commentary on Mufwene
Marlyse Baptista

 

It's still worth theorizing on LEL, despite the heterogeneity and complexity of the processes (Response to the commentators)
Salikoko S. Mufwene

 

Phonological Alanysis

Phonological conditions on variable adjective and noun word order in Tagalog
Stephanie S. Shih & Kie Zuraw

 

All dissimilation is computationally subsequential
Amanda Payne

 

Additional Materials