Volume XXXIV No. 1

ISSN 1548-1484

winter, 2009

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Editor’s note

We wish all of our readers a happy new year and invite you to enjoy our newest issue!

We are proud to offer articles on a range of topics, along with reviews of recent literature of interest to the general linguist.

We invite squibs, reviews, 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

The enigma of the classification of Hungarian

By Yuri Tambovtsev

The Altaic language taxon: Language family of language union?

By Yuri Tambovtsev

Switch junctions in Yorùbá-English code switching

By M.T. Lamidi

Politeness in political interviews in print media in Nigeria

By Akin Odebunmi

Tale of two brothers

By Vladimir Agafonov

A retrospective survey of the problems with Berlin and Kay (1969)

By William James Michael McIntyre

Fifty years on: Problematizing the Heroic ideal in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart

By Christopher Anyokwu

Descriptive analysis of the Kilba tonal system

By Mohammed Aminu Muazu

The Modern novel and the historical sense: The examples of D.H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf

By Ayo Kehinde

The foundations of Construction Grammar

By Amr M. El Zawawy

Face-threatening acts: A dynamic perspective

By Ann Hui-Yen Wang

Reviews

Liaw Yock Fang. Speak standard Malay: A beginner’s guide

Jyh Wee Sew

Report on Redesigning Pedagogy Conference

Jyh Wee Sew

Braj B. Kachru, Yamuna Kachru, and S.N.Sridhar, Ed. Language in South Asia

Robert D. Angus

James Clackson. Indo-European linguistics: An introduction

Robert D. Angus

Nikolas Coupland. Style: Language variation and identity

Robert D. Angus

John C. L. Ingram.  Neurolinguistics: An introduction to spoken language processing and its disorders

Robert D. Angus

Roger D. Woodard, Ed. The ancient languages of Europe

Robert D. Angus

Roger D. Woodard, Ed. The ancient languages of Asia Minor

Robert D. Angus

Roger D. Woodard, Ed. The ancient languages of Syria-Palestine and Arabia

Robert D. Angus

Roger D. Woodard, Ed. The ancient languages of Asia and the Americas

Robert D. Angus

Peter K. Austin, Ed. One thousand languages: Living, endangered, and lost

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, 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.