The accent pattern known as verum focus is commonly understood as an ordinary
alternative focus on the truth of a proposition. This standard view, which we call the focus …

Our goal in this chapter is to investigate some cross-linguistic data relating to
epistemological concepts. We will not be directly addressing the word know or its …

Recent research on the Copy Theory of Movement has suggested that the realization of
movement chains may be regulated by well-formedness conditions governing complex word …

The accent pattern known as verum focus is commonly understood as an ordinary
alternative focus on the truth of a proposition. This standard view, which we call the focus …

Over the 100 years since IJAL's inaugural issue, research on semantics in indigenous
languages of the Americas has advanced the field in at least three major ways. It has greatly …

This article provides an analysis of verum marking in the Tsimshianic language Gitksan.
Original fieldwork data are provided to show that Gitksan verum is very similar in its …

This paper presents the phonological layer of a Kwak'wala finite-state morphological
transducer, using the phonological hypotheses of Lincoln and Rath (1986) and the lenient …

In this dissertation, I investigate factors underlying the distribution of object case in K w ak w
ala, an endangered Northern Wakashan language of British Columbia, Canada. K w ak w …

Abstract is paper investigates the emphatic meaning of object marker doubling (OMD)
constructions—constructions in which a DP object and an associated object marker (OM) co …

The present dissertation investigates a structural feature found in texts from oral
environments. The feature in question involves a particular type of juxtaposition among …