The Languages of Native North America

TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide a few L2 acquisition examples to illustrate how the feature-reassembly approach illuminates the nature of the learning problems facing the acquirer of a second language beyond that of a feature-selection approach.

TL;DR: The authors argued that evidential clitics in St’at’imcets (a.k.a. Lillooet; Northern Interior Salish) must be analyzed as epistemic modals.

TL;DR: A cross-linguistic overview of animacy effects in (differential) case marking is presented, and an explanation for the attested patterns in terms of two competing case marking strategies is provided.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the interpRETation of LEGAL TEXTS, multilinearism and trans-lating, and the identification of a speaker's identity.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide a few L2 acquisition examples to illustrate how the feature-reassembly approach illuminates the nature of the learning problems facing the acquirer of a second language beyond that of a feature-selection approach.

TL;DR: The authors argued that evidential clitics in St’at’imcets (a.k.a. Lillooet; Northern Interior Salish) must be analyzed as epistemic modals.

TL;DR: A cross-linguistic overview of animacy effects in (differential) case marking is presented, and an explanation for the attested patterns in terms of two competing case marking strategies is provided.

TL;DR: The authors distinguish between semantic roles (SRs) and thematic roles (θ-roles), which hold between arguments and predicates (typically verbs), rather than between argument and clauses.