Language: Vol 93, Issue 4 (December 2017)
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