Thinking Linguistically: A Scientific Approach Book

Preface     vii
Typographical Conventions     ix
An Introduction to Thinking Linguistically     1
Plural Noun Formation in Armenian     4
Noun Pluralization, or How to Talk About More Than Two Dogs in Kiowa     11
Noun Pluralization: An Introduction     13
Plural Noun Formation in English     16
Noun Pluralization: The Role of Phonology     19
Revisited: Plural Noun Formation in English     31
Noun Pluralization: Morphology Meets Phonology     33
Regular-Irregular Noun Plurals in English     36
Past Tense Formation in English     37
Plural Noun Formation in Spanish     38
Plural Noun Formation in Brazilian Portuguese     40
The Acquisition of Morphophonology     43
Noun Pluralization: Morphology Meets Syntax and Meaning     65
Plural Noun Formation in Nicaraguan English     67
Noun Pluralization: The Interaction of Linguistic Features     74
Plural Noun Formation in Mandarin Chinese     74
Plural Noun Formation in Cherokee     77
Noun Pluralization: A Summary     87
Question Formation, or How to Find Out Whether the Cat Is Sleeping in Tohono O'odham     97
Merge     99
Merging, Transforming, and Converging     117
An Introduction to the Syntax of Question Formation     119
WH-Question Formation in Mandarin Chinese     122
Syntactic Movement and Question Formation     124
Yes/No Question Formation in Tohono O'odham     132
WH-Question Formation in English     134
WH-Question Formation in Brazilian Portuguese     135
Question Formation: A Summary     138
WH-Question Formation in Tohono O'odham     148
The Acquisition of WH-Question Formation     152
Indonesian Speakers' Acquisition of English WH-Question Formation     165
Constraints, or Why You Can't Say Wanna Whenever You Wanna     169
Syntactic Constraints on Contraction in English     171
The Syntax of Wanna-Contraction in English     172
The Syntax of Is-Contraction in English     174
Contraction in English: Its Acquisition and Related Topics     176
Meaning and - Finally - about Counting Dogs in Kiowa     199
Meaning: An Introduction     201
Beyond Pluralization: Inversion and Noun Modification in Kiowa     211
How Do Kiowas Talk About More Than Two Dogs?     215
Argument Structure: The Conceptual System of Language      220
[theta]-Roles and Prepositions in English     225
On Thinking Linguistically: Looking Back and Looking Ahead     237
References     243
Index     249