Volume XXXII No. 1 |
ISSN 1548-1484 |
WINTER, 2007 |
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Editor’s Introduction, Jan. 2007 Dear Reader, Welcome back for another interesting issue! This note is being written while I am teaching at the United Arab Emirates University and doing research in the UAE, Oman, and Qatar. I have been in the Arabian Gulf countries since mid-August 2006 and will be here for many months to come.
The UAE is an exciting country with much to offer the linguist and the visitor of any scholarly or lay background. We are now in winter (comfortable T-shirt weather during the day and a jacket at night), and the weather is mild compared to summer here which is hot, to say the least.
This issue is one of our best ever containing, I hope, what you will consider to be many hours of interesting reading on a variety of subjects. As usual, our subsequent issues welcome anything and everything of a linguistic nature in the form of articles, reviews, or squibs.
Please send to me at: akaye@fullerton.edu or alanskaye@yahoo.com
Our very best wishes to all for 2007!
Alan S. Kaye Editor, CLN Al Ain, United Arab Emirates
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Articles
Tummy talk and the Yorůbá language: A conversation-analytic deployment of a local element to a global topic by Adeleke A. Fakoya
Pragmatic particles as speech strategies: The case of leh and its tonal variants in colloquial Singapore English by Lee Tong King
An optimal alternative to iterative footing by Faisal M. Al-Mohanna
Exaptation, grammaticalization, and reanalysis by Heiko Narrog
The construction of discourse and its development in first and second language by Hana Hirzalla
Notes about serial verb construction in Chinese by Xin Wang
Bismilla: A Soqotran folk tale (Conclusion) by Vladimir Agafonov
Reviews Abdullah Hassan & Ainon Mohd. 2002. Komunikasi Intim: Panduan Menjalin Hubungan Persahabatan, Kekeluargaan Dan Kasih Sayang Yang Memuaskan dan Berkekalan Jyh Wee Sew
Liaw Yock Fang. 1999. Malay Grammar Made Easy: A Comprehensive Guide Jyh Wee Sew
Alan M. Stevens and A. Ed. Schmidgall-Tellings. 2004. A Comprehensive Indonesian-English Dictionary Jyh Wee Sew A.F.L. BEESTON. 2006. The Arabic Language Today. (Reprint in the Georgetown Classics in Arabic Language and Linguistics of the 1970 edition) Alan S. Kaye
George Bohas, Jean-Patrick Guillaume, and Djamel Kouloughli. 2006. The Arabic Linguistic Tradition. (Reprint in the Georgetown Classics in Arabic Language and Linguistics of the 1990 edition) Alan S. Kaye Bisang, Walter, Himmelmann, Nikolaus P., Wiemer Bjorn, (eds.). 2004. What makes grammaticalization? A look from its fringes Robert D. Angus |
California Linguistic Notes (ISSN 1548-1484) is published at the Program in Linguistics, California State University, Fullerton, California 92834-9480. CLN is a refereed publication requiring the agreement of at least two well-qualified peers for acceptance of articles. Also accepted are peer evaluated reviews or review articles of recent scholarly literature about topics relating to language and linguistics in the widest possible meanings of those terms. Editor, Alan S. Kaye (email: akaye@fullerton.edu); Associate Editor, Robert D. Angus (email: dangus@fullerton.edu).
Thanks go to Thomas P. Klammer, Dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at California State University, Fullerton, for providing financial support to make this publication a reality once again.
