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David Adger - Economy and optionality: Interpretations of subjects in Italian
Zara Iles - Collaborative repair in EFL classroom talk
Eric Keller and Brigitte Zellner - A timing model for Fast French
John Local and Ken Lodge - Another travesty of representation: Phonological representation and phonetic interpretation of ATR harmony in Kalenjin
John Local and Tony Wootton - On being echolalic: An analysis of the interactional and phonetic aspects of an autistic's language
David E. Newton - The nature of resonance in English: An investigation into lateral articulations
Richard Ogden - Prosodies in Finnish
Susan Pintzuk - Old English verb-complement order and the change from OV to VO
Bernadette Plunkett - Situating que
Catrin Siân Rhys - Event structure and the ba construction
Charles V.J. Russ - Explanations of sound change. How far have we come and where are we now?
Sali Tagliamonte - Has it ever been 'perfect'? Uncovering the grammar of early Black English
Rosalind A.M. Temple - Voice source characteristics of male and female speakers of French
Georges Tsoulas - Notes on temporal interpretation and control in Modern Greek gerunds

Steve Harlow and Connie Cullen - Correlative constructions in Chinese
John Kelly - Xhosa Isinkalakahliso again
John Local - Conversational phonetics: Some aspects of news receipts in everyday talk
Richard Ogden - Parametric interpretation in Yorktalk
Charles V.J. Russ - English in contact with other languages: English loans in German after 1945
Joan Russel - From reanalysis to convergence: Swahili -Amba
Tan Chor Hiang and Anthea Fraser Gupta - Post-vocalic /r/ in Singapore English
Anthony R. Warner - A lexical default account of English auxiliaries
Guobin Wu - Discourse anaphora in Chinese: A rhetorical predicate account

David L. Appleyard - The role of tone in some Cushitic languages
G.N. Clements - Downdrift in a tone language with four tone levels
John Coleman - Non-pitch exponents of accent and structure in Japanese
Edward D. Elderkin - Clause structure and tone in Sandawe
R.J. Hayward - Tone and accent in the Qafar noun
John Kelly - Glides and phonological change in Mombasan Swahili
Ian Maddieson - Tone spacing
Joan Maw - A performance of a Swahili poem analysed
Samuel Gyasi Obeng - Pitch, loudness and turn regulation in Akan conversation
R.K. Sprigg - Pharyngeal fricatives, and Pike's 'fricative' and 'frictional' categories
L. van Buuren - A study of quantity in Mestreechs
G. Furniss and P.J. Jaggar - Professor Jack Carnochan: Biographical note

Urs Dürmüller - Attitudes towards English as a possible lingua franca in Switzerland
Anton M. Hagen and Henk Münstermann - Functional stability and structural levelling of dialects: The case of Maastricht
Paul Kerswill and Susan Wright - On the limits of auditory transcription: A sociophonetic approach
Clare Mar-Molinero - Current language planning and policy in Catalonia
John Wilson - Constructive beliefs and political reference
Subhi Zora and Catherine Johns-Lewis - Lexical density in interview and conversation
Adrian Battye - Reflections on nominal quantification in three Romance varieties: French, Italian and Genoese
Piero Bottari - On the notion of the idiomatic preposition: A case study from Italian
Richard Coates - A solution to the 'must of' problem
John Coleman and John Local - The 'no crossing' constraint in Autosegmental Phonology
Christopher Lyons - Phrase structure, possessives and definiteness
Amaya Mendikoetxea - Processing relative clauses in Basque and Spanish
John Charles Smith - A pragmatic view of French deixis
Clare Tarplee - Confirmation and repair: An interactional analysis of redoing sequences in child-adult talk
Anthony R. Warner - The range of gapping and the status of auxiliaries

P. Livesey and M.K. Verma - Preface
R.B. Le Page - What is a language?
List of publications of R.B. Le Page
Darwish G. Al-Amadidh - The unreality of quantitative figures
Jenny Cheshire - Addressee-oriented features in spoken discourse
Jennifer Coates - Women's speech, women's strength?
Nikolas Coupland and Justine Coupland - Age identity and elderly disclosure of chronological age
Aidan Coveney - Pragmatic constraints on interrogatives in spoken French
N. Denison - Twixt the Scylla of total assimilation and the Charybdis of suicidal purism
Toni Deser - Dialect transmission and variation: An acoustic analysis of vowels in six urban Detroit families
Hubert Devonish - Language variation theory in the light of co-occurrence restriction rules
Malcah Yaeger-Dror - Realtime vs apparent time change in Montreal French
E. Douglas-Cowie and R. Cowie - Speech disorder as a sociolinguistic problem
Karol Janicki - A rebuttal of essentialist sociolinguistics
Uus Knops - The evaluation of phonological vs phonetic variation in Dutch standard pronunciation
Caroline Macafee - Qualitative insights into working-class language attitudes
Kay McCormick - Unfiltered talk: A challenge to categories
James Milroy - The concept of prestige in sociolinguistic argumentation
Lesley Milroy - Gender as a speaker variable: The interesting case of the glottalised stops in Tyneside
Shana Poplack and Sali Tagliamonte - There's no tense like the present: Verbal -s inflection in early Black English
M.B.H. Rampton - Group affiliation and quantitative sociolinguistics
Joan Russell - The role of vernacularization in Tanzania: Swahili as a political tool
Henriette F. Schatz - Analyzing English lexical elements in the language of Dutch immigrants in the United States
Marion Smith and Barbara Lloyd - Linguistic measures of developing social gender identity
Jean Ure - Mediating skills in the development of a multilingual society: Perspectives for Britain
Eddie Williams - A paradigm remained: Conflict perspective on language use in bilingual educational and social contexts
Susan Wright - The effects of style and speaking rate on /l/-vocalisation in local Cambridge English

A.C. Battye - Italian comparatives of inequality with che and di
R.D. Borsley - A note on passives in GPSG
J. Calder - Reduplicated constructions in Chinese and questions of generative power
G. Gazdar and G.K. Pullum - A note on subcategorization, constituent order, and the notion 'head'
P.D. Griffiths - Constituent structure in text-copying
S.J. Harlow - Gaps in Generalised Phrase Structure Grammar
J.K. Local - Some rhythm, resonance and quality variations in urban Tyneside speech
B. Rampton - A methodology for describing sociolinguistic variability within multilingual settings in general, and 'interactive' and 'reactive' ethnic processes in language in particular
A.R. Warner - Ellipsis conditions and the status of the English copula

Reviews
R.S. Bauer - Sentence particles in Cantonese (H. Kwok)
R.B. Le Page - White talk black talk: Inter-racial friendship and communication among adolescents (R. Hewitt)
R.B. Le Page - Pacific linguistics (S. Wurm)

R.B. Le Page - Introduction
J. Aitchison - Social networks and urban New Guinea Pidgin (Tok Pisin)
P. Baker - The significance of agglutinated French articles in the Creole languages of the Indian Ocean and elsewhere
P. Breinburg - Linguistic shift: Urban Creoles and the black child in European inner city schools
F. Byrne - Instrumental in Saramaccan
J-M. Charpentier - Le pidgin bichelamar avant et après l'independance de Vanuatu (cas d'une dé pidginisation avant créolisation)
H. Devonish - Creole language standardisation in Guyana: Race, class and urban-rural factors
V. Edwards and P. Ladd - The linguistic status of British Sign Language
W.F. Edwards - A community-based approach to the provenance of urban Guyanese Creole
G. Escure - The acquisition of Creole by urban and rural black Caribs in Belize
L.I. Ferraz - Fanakalo: A pidgin caught in a crisis
P. Garner-Chloros - Code-switched discourse in Strasbourg
K. Gibson - Evidence against and anterior tense system in Guyanese and Jamaican Creoles
G.G. Gilbert - The first systematic survey of the world's pidgins and creoles: Hugo Schuchardt, 1882-1885
E. Harding - Foreigner talk: A conversation-analysis approach
V. Hinnenkamp - Eye-witnessing pidginization? Structural and sociolinguistic aspects of German and Turkish foreigner talk
T. Janson - A language of Sophiatown, Alexandra and Soweto
F.C.V. Jones - Aspects of the morphology of English-derived words in Sierra Leone Krio
Kang-Kwong Luke - Expedient and orientational language mixing in Hong Kong
A. Kihm - Is there anything like decreolization? Some ongoing changes in Bissau Creole
J.K. Local, W.H.G. Wells and M. Sebba - Phonetic aspects of turn-delimitation in London Jamaican
P. Mühlhäusler - Pidgin and Creole German, relexification and biogrammar
D.K. Nylander - Wh-phrases, relative clauses and case assignment in Krio
V. Pollard - Rastafarian language in St. Lucia and Barbados
M.L. Pradelles de Latour - Urban pidgin in Douala
M. Sebba - Serial verbs: Something new out of Africa
K. Shields - Jamaican Creole or Standard Jamaican English? Teacher language in the Jamaican context
I.R. Smith - Coining of words in pidgins/creoles: A case study of Naga Pidgin
D. Sutcliffe - Inverstigating the language use of a British black community: An initial report
L. Winer - Factors affecting error rate in written English in an English Creole context: Residence and school type

P.A. Bennet - The nature of explanation in historical linguistics
M. Carter - The acquisition of British Sign Language (BSL)
C. Cullen - Stress comprehension and 'normal' stress
E. Fudge - Stress in English compounds
S. Harlow - Celtic relatives
E. Klein - Transduction to discourse representations
J. Local and B. Wells - You don't have to resort to syntax
P. Sells - Relative clauses in Irish and Welsh
C. Spencer - Maternal speech: A comparison of a mother's speech-style to her children of 3 months and 2.5 years
M.O. Tallerman - Island constraints in Welsh

Reviews
A. Bloom - The linguistic shaping of thought: A study in the impact of language on thinking in China and the West (S. Harlow)
J. Holm (ed.) - Central American English (M. Sebba)

M.W.S. De Silva - Introduction
R.B. Le Page - Projection, focussing, diffusion
R.B. Le Page: A biographer's unofficial account
Principal publications of R.B. Le Page
D. Bickerton - What happens when we switch?
R. Brown - Why are signed languages easier to learn than spoken languages?
F.G. Cassidy - Phonosymbolism: Some notes
H.R. Dua - Language identity, language functions and social status
J.A. Fishman - New worlds to conquer in the sociology of language
H. Giles - Accommodation theory: Some new directions
J.J. Gumperz - Language, social knowledge and interpersonal relations
W.F. Mackey - Comparing languages in contact
R. Posner - Romance history: Creolization and decreolization? Or diffusion and focussing?
D.A. Reibel - On the interpretation of the complement noun phrases of illocutionary/perlocutionary and transitive verb-of-motion predicates
J.C. Russell - Networks and sociolinguistic variation in an African urban setting
R.W. Shuy - Code-switching in Lady Chatterley's lover
A. Tabouret-Keller - 'They don't fool around with the creole much, as with the Spanish': A family case in San Ignacio, Cayo district (Belize)
P. Trudgill - Acts of conflicting identity: A sociolinguistic look at British pop songs

J. van der Auwera - Hence
J. Coates and G. Leech - The meanings of the modals in Modern British and American English
C.J. Ewen - The characterisation of glottal stricture in Dependency Phonology
R.M. Hogg - Æ₁
R. Hudson - A note on phonological variables
J. Local - Modelling intonational variability in children
J. Pellowe - Establishing variant intonational systems
D.A. Reibel - On the role of Universal Grammar in acquisition, competence and performance of first and second language
C.V.J. Russ - A century of sound changes without exceptions
N. Vincent - Some issues in the theory of word order

Notes and discussion
D.C. Bennet - The Li and Thompson findings on word order and word order change in Mandarin: An alternative analysis
R. Coates - Ethnoichtyology and noun morphology in English
G. Gazdar - The performative interpretation of descriptive utterances
G. Gazdar and G.K. Pullum - There is there
P. Schmoll - Motivations for the choice of French and English as foreign languages
J. Local and M. Pearson - Some physical properties of three English tones

Reviews
T. Bynon - Historical linguistics (C.V.J. Russ)
J.M. Meisel (ed.) - Langues en contact, pidgins, creoles, languages in contact (R.B. Le Page)
M. Rogon - Single word usage, cognitive development and the beginnings of combinatorial speech: A study of ten English-speaking children (A. Mills)

A. Radford - Counter-filtering rules
C. Jones - Segment gemination and syllable shape: A dependency approach
J.M. Anderson - Noch einmal ae. samcucu
S.-Y. Killingley - Internal structure of the Cantonese word and general problems of word analysis in Chinese
R.B. Le Page - De-creolization and re-creolization: A preliminary report on the sociolinguistic survey of multilingual communities stage II: St. Lucia
G. Knowles - The nature of phonological variables in Scouse

Notes and discussion
T. Chapman - Bilingualism in Alsace: An associationist approach to 'competence'
G. Sampson - Sauce for the Gazdar
G. Gazdar - Mr Sampson and Mrs Higgins
R. Keefe - Thoughts on how not to delimit semantics
G.K. Pullum and S.J. Harlow - Vowel height features and arithmetic
D.L. Goyvaerts - Global information and intrinsic ordering
P.E. Jones - Right and left dislocation

Reviews
D. Steinberg and L.A. Jakobovits (eds) - Semantics. An interdisciplinary reader in philosophy, linguistics and philosophy (R.O.U. Strauch)
J.R. Hurford - The linguistic theory of numerals (P.D. Griffiths)
S.R. Anderson - The organization of phonology (N.B. Vincent)
R. Lass - English phonology and phonological theory: Synchronic and diachronic studies (C.V.J. Russ)
M.P. Maratsos - The use of definite and indefinite reference in young children (A.E. Mills)
J. Aitchison - The articulate mammal: An introduction to psycholinguistics (J.N. Green)

G.R. Sampson - Good grammars of good theory of language? A novel problem for the philosophy of science
T. Moore - Languages are clouds and clocks
R.T. Bell - On the use of the term system in linguistics
M.A.A. Tatham - Variability in phonetics
J. Laver - The semiotic nature of phonetic data
C.V.J. Russ - The data of historical linguistics: Sources for the reconstruction of pronunciation from written records
R. Posner - The relevance of comparative and historical data for the description and definition of a language
J. Ellis - The role of the concept of text in the elaboration of linguistic data
H. Eckert - Non-contextual testing procedures in semantics
G. Gazdar - Quantifying context
R. Chan - Formality in English: A non-linear scale as a descriptive alternative to labelled categories
G.N. Leech - Being precise about lexical vagueness
F.B. D'Agostino - The relevance of mathematical linguistics to empirical linguistics

Reviews
R. Lass and J.M. Anderson - Old English phonology (R.M. Hogg)
D. Bickerton - Dynamics of a creole system (P.G. Christie)
H. Orton and N. Wright - A word geography of England (C.V.J. Russ)
T. Storer and D. Winter - Formal aspects of cognitive processes (P.D. Griffiths)
P.H. Matthews - Morphology. An introduction to the theory of word-structure (J. Kelly)
I. Robinson - The new grammarians' funeral (J.N. Green)

J. Anderson - Principles of syllabification
J. Voorhoeve - Suprasegmental phonology
D.L. Goyvaerts - Remarks on stress assignment rules
C.V.J. Russ - Umlaut in German: The development of a phonological rule
W.F. Edwards - A quantitative study of sociolinguistic behaviour in rural and urban circumstances in Guyana: I
J. Anderson - A non-argument for deep structure
G.K. Pullum - On linguistically insignificant generalizations
L. Lipka - Re-discovery procedures and the lexicon

Notes and discussion
F. Plank - Rule inversion: Hermann Paul already had an idea-r-of it
A. Tabouret-Keller - The psychological implications of the arbitrary nature of the linguistic sign in its earliest use by the child
P. Meara - A note on statistical approximations
A. Mills - The role of imitation of a visual stimulus in child phonology
D.L. Goyvaerts - On the need for an 'elsewhere condition' in phonological theory
T. Wachtel - A constraint on relativization
G.K. Pullum and A. Radford - On the applicability of raising
R.O.U. Strauch - An inconclusive note on each, every and all.

Review article
I.L. Humberstone - Semantics of natural language

R. Lass - Linguistic orthogenesis: Scots vowel quatity and the English length conspiracy
G. Sampson - The single mother condition
R.B. Le Page - Processes of pidginization and creolization
M.W.S. De Silva - Some consequences of diglossia
F. Plank - A belated case re cases versus coordination and identity deletion
M. Bell - A note on conditional sentences in English

Notes and discussion
J.N. Green - Constraining Spanish surface structure
A. Henry - Constraining French surface structure
F. Flaherty - The N-prefix in Swahili
E. Kellerman - Elicitation, lateralisation and error analysis
A. Mills - Moving on from elicitation procedures

Review articles
G. Sampson - Understanding and misunderstanding: Some thoughts on the recent marriage of philosophy and linguistics
J.N. Green - Transforming dialectology

Reviews
J.J. Katz - Semantic theory (M. Bell)
C.D. Fillmore and D.T. Langendoen (eds) - Studies in linguistic semantics (P.P. Sah)
J.B. Caroll and F.O. Freedle (eds) - Language comprehension and the acquisition of knowledge (W. Bellin and M.J. Wroe)
P.H. Matthews - Inflectional morphology. A theoretical study based on aspects of Latin verb conjugation (D.A. Reibel)

John Anderson - Some speculations concerning meetings, matrimony, family resemblances and related matters
R.B. Le Page - The concept of competence in a creole/contact situation
H.A. Lewis - Model theory and semantics
H. Waring - A suggestion for a practical definition of linguistic stress
James Foley - Nasalization as universal phonological process

Notes and discussion
Rebecca Posner - Antiphony on nasalization: A brief comment on James Foley's 'Nasalization as universal phonological process'
James Foley - Reply to Posner
G.K. Pullum - What's this sentence doing showing up in English?
S.J. Harlow - Four reasons why Chinese is not an immediate dominance language

Reviews
T.P. Gorman (ed.) - Language and education in Eastern Africa: Papers from the First Eastern Africa Conference on Language and Linguistics (Joan Russell)
G.E. Perren and J.L.M. Trim (eds) - Applications of linguistics: Selected Papers of the Second International Congress of Applied Linguistics, Cambridge 1969 (G.K. Pullum)
M.L. Samuels - Linguistic evolution with special reference to English (C.V.J. Russ)
J.S. Ganz - Rules: A systematic study (D.L. Goyvaerts)
G. Nickel (ed.) - Papers in contrastive linguistics (Mahendra K. Verma)
S.K. Saumjan - Problems of theoretical phonology (Stephen J. Turrington)
Zellig Harris - Mathematical structures of language (G.K. Pullum)
R.R.K. Hartmann and F.C. Stork - Dictionary of language and linguistics (R.O.U. Strauch)
Elizabeth Ball Carr - Da Kine Talk: From pidgin to standard English (R.B. Le Page)
H.F. De Ziel (ed.) - Johannes King, 'Life at Maripaston' (R.B. Le Page)

J.M. Bell - Referential opacity and deep structure
Paul Kiparsky - From paleogrammarians to neogrammarians
Catriona Macleod - A deaf man's sign language: Its nature and position relative to spoken languages
Royal Skousen - Empirical restrictions on the power of transformational grammars
I.L. Humberstone - Rewiring transformations
D.A. Reibel - Language, learning, and linguistics: Four talks

Notes and discussion
D.W. Purdy - Did Old English have a definite article?
M.W.S. de Silva - The case for a lateral sibilant
G.K. Pullum - Free variation and equivalence relations
M.K. Verma - Reflexivization and clause reduction in Hindi
I.L. Humberstone - A note on 'instead of'
D.L. Goyvaerts - Ordered rules and the morphophonemics of the N-class in Swahili

Review article
E. Wesana-Chomi - Swahili sentence structure

Reviews
Morris Halle and Samuel Jay Keyser - English stress: Its form, its growth, and its role in verse (R.B. Le Page)
P. Garvin (ed.) - Method and theory in linguistics (R.O.U. Strauch)
Paul H. Mussen (ed.) - Carmichael's manual of child psychology (D.A. Reibel)
Paul A. Gaeng - Introduction to the principles of language (G.K. Pullum)
Frederick J. Damerau - Markov models in linguistic theory (Mark Lester)
Ilse Lehiste - Suprasegmentals (John N. Green)
William Cowan - Workbook in comparative reconstruction (S.L. Robertson)
W. Klein et al. (eds) - Schwerpunkte Linguistik und Kommunikationswissenschaft I and II (D.L. Goyvaerts)
L. Dieltjens - Rule-governed creativity: An analysis of the concept in the work of N. Chomsky (D. Roberts)

R.B. Le Page - Laudatory address on Roger Brown
D.A. Reibel - Language learning strategies for the adult
D.L. Goyvaerts - Towards an adequate formalization of linguistic descriptions
P.P. Sah - Towards a theory of error analysis
D. Roberts - Remarks on J.J. Christie's 'Locative, possessive and existential in Swahili'
P.A.M. Seuren - Autonomous versus semantic syntax
J.N. Green - Generating style

Notes and discussion
D.A. Reibel - What's the way how to analyse constructions like these?
G.K. Pullum - A note on the origins of pidgins and creoles
Joan Russell - Two treatments of word stress in English: 1780 and 1968
I.L. Humberstone - The class of human languages as a natural kind: Some comments on the achievement of Chomsky
D. Roberts - Notes for a stative transformation

Review article
G.K. Pullum and I.L. Humberstone - Science, theory and dogma

Review
H. Hörmann - Psycholinguistics: An introduction to research and theory (D.L. Goyvaerts)