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VOLUME CONTENTS Volume 24, Number 1 January 2002 CONTENTS Yuzhi Shi, Charles N. Li The establishment of the classifier system and the grammaticalization of the morphosyntactic particle de in Chinese Madeline Haggan Self-reports and self-delusion regarding the use of Motherese: implications from Kuwaiti adults Elaine J. Francis Form and function in syntactic theory: a reaction to New- meyer George Wolf 3 Variations on a notational theme Stephen J. Cowley : Why brains matter: an integrational perspective on The Symbolic Species Forthcoming articles Volume 24, Number 2 March 2002 Savas L. Tsohatzidis Grammars as objects of knowledge: the availability of dispositionalism Seppo Kittila Remarks on the basic transitive sentence Susan Strauss : This, that, and it in spoken American English: a demonstrative system of gradient focus Nigel Armstrong * Variable deletion of French ne: a cross-stylistic perspective Z.S. Bond, Verna Stockmal = Distinguishing samples of spoken Korean from rhythmic and regional competitors Forthcoming articles Volume 24, Numbers 3-4 May/July 2002 Collecting Views on Language Change: a Donation to Roger Lass on his Sixty-Fifth Birthday Raymond Hickey 187 Foreword Cynthia L. Allen 189 The development of ‘strengthened’ possessive pronouns in English Alfred Bammesberger : On the prehistory of Old English hlefdige Derek Britton Northern fronting and the north Lincolnshire merger of the reflexes of ME /u:/ and ME /o: V VI CONTENTS Jacek Fisiak, Marcin Krygier Inflections in the two manuscripts of Laamon’s Brut Susan Fitzmaurice Servant or patron? Jacob Tonson and the language of deference and respect Raymond Hickey Internal and external forces again: changes in word order in Old English and Old Irish Dieter Kastovsky, Sexist German—non-sexist English or non-sexist German-sexist Christiane Dalton-Puffer English? Historical observations on a pragmatic question Margaret Laing Corpus-provoked questions about negation in early Middle English Chris McCully Exaptation and English stress Rajend Mesthrie Endogeny versus contact revisited: aspectual busy in South African English Terttu Nevalainen, Matti Rissanen Fairly pretty or pretty fair? On the development and grammaticalization of English downtoners Susan Pintzuk Morphological case and word order in Old English Paul Roberge The Modal Elements mos and maskie in Cape Dutch Herbert Schendl, Nikolaus Ritt Of vowel shifts great, small, long and short John Charles Smith Middle French: When? What? Why? Robert Stockwell, Donka Minkova Interpreting the Old and Middle English close vowels Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade Robert Lowth and the strong verb system Laura Wright Code-intermediate phenomena in medieval mixed-language business texts Corrigendum Forthcoming articles Volume 24, Numbers 5-6 September/November 2002 Vantage Theory: Applications in Linguistic Cognition Robert E. MacLaury Introducing vantage theory James Stanlaw “Hire” or “Fire”? Taking AD-vantage of innovations in the Japanese syllabary system Nobuko Adachi Negotiation of speech style in Japanese women’s language: vantage theory as cognitive sociolinguistics Hanna Pishwa Language learning and vantage theory CONTENTS Margaret E. Winters Vantage theory and diachronic semantics Marnie L. Johnson Vantage theory meets cognitive psychology: a synthesis with frame theory Philippe Castel, Categorial points of view in social representation Marie-Frangoise Lacassagne, Edith Salés-Wuillemin Keith Allan Vantage theory, VT2, and number T. Nyan Vantage theory and innateness Forthcoming articles 2002 Contents and Author Index