Volume XXXV No. 2

ISSN 1548-1484

Spring, 2010

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Editor’s note

We invite our readers to enjoy another exciting issue, with articles about computational linguistics, language acquisition, discourse analysis, general linguistics, and sociolinguistics, along with reviews of recent literature and performances of interest to the general linguist.

We invite squibs, reviews of literature, conferences, and performances, review articles, short and longer articles, and comments on any of the material that appears here. 

Submissions may be made by email to the editor or by mail with an electronic copy enclosed (Dept. of English & Linguistics, California State University, Fullerton, CA 92634).  An editorial decision will be made promptly, usually in about a month.

Robert D. Angus
email: dangus@fullerton.edu

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Articles

Labial consonant distribution in Niger-Congo: A study in typological distance

By Yuri Tambovtsev

Distances between Polish and other Slavonic languages: A phono-typoloical comparison

By Yuri Tambovtsev

Consonant patterns in Spanish and other Romance languages: A study in typological closeness

By Yuri Tambovtsev

Tale of two brothers (Part 2)

By Vladimier Agafonov

The internal structure of the Edo verb

By Lendzemo Constantine Yuka & Esohe Mercy Omoregbe

Negation in Èkìtì: A critique

By Tèmítọpẹ̣́ Olúmúyìwá

A Descriptive Analysis of Miship Ideophones

By Mohammed Aminu Muazu & Katwal Pemark Isah

Wh movement in Kunari: A Minimalist Approach

By Baba Kura Alkali Gazali

The language of diplomacy

By Afgan Mehtiyev

Tracking ideology in political news

By Akin Odebunmi

Discourse construction at 4-5 years: Language specificities and ‘cognitive functional’ constraints

By Hana Hirzalla

Wired learning: Blogging for literacy in Malay

By Jyh Wee Sew

Cooperative learning strategies and reading comprehension        

By Ziba Javadi Rahvard

Vocabulary learning and L2 reading comprehension: A case for translation

By Ali Jahangard, Ahmad Moinzadeh &Mansoor Tavakoli

A Grammar of African philosophy: Being and transcendence in Falola

By Nelson O. Fashina

Defying armies: Protesting military oppression in Arrows of Rain

By Niyi Akingbe

Recent Nigerian bards and minstrels: Forms of counter narratives

By Ogaga Okuyada

The Miship: People, language, and dialects

By Mohammed Aminu Muazu & Katwal Pemark Isah

Reviews

Hofmann, Th. R. Realms of meaning: An introduction to semantics

Siaw-Fong Chung

Bernard Spolsky. Language management

Robert D. Angus

Penelope Gardner-Chloros. Code-switching

Robert D. Angus

J. Clancy Cements. The linguistic legacy of Spanish and Portuguese: Colonial expansion and language change

Robert D. Angus

Lieselotte Anderwald. The morphology of English dialects: Verb-formation in non-standard English

Robert D. Angus

Donna Minkova & Robert Stockwell. English words: History and structure

Robert D. Angus

Charles F. Meyer. Introducing English linguistics

Robert D. Angus

Elena Semino. Metaphor in discourse

Robert D. Angus

Mohammed Aminu Muazu & Fibi Balami. A Descriptive analysis of Bura verbs and vocabulary

LINCOM

Mohammed Aminu Mu'azu & Katwal Pemak Isah. A grammar of the Miship language

LINCOM

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, conferences, or performances  relating to language and linguistics in the widest scope of those terms. Editor, Robert D. Angus (email: dangus@fullerton.edu)

Our thanks go to Angela Della Volpe, Acting 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.