Topic, French Style: Remarks about a Basic Sentence Type of Modern Non-Standard French

Proceedings of the Sixth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1980), pp. 337-36

There Was a Farmer Had a Dog: Syntactic Amalgams Revisited

Proceedings of the Fourteenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1988), pp. 319-33

Compositional vs. Constructional Meaning: The Case of French "comme-N"

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"What, me worry?" -- 'Mad Magazine Sentences' Revisited

Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1990), pp. 215-22

On Nominal Extraposition: A Constructional Analysis

Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: General Session Dedicated to the Contributions of Charles J. Fillmore (1994

Introduction

This introduction surveys the prospects for developing a systematic comparative approach to Austronesian syntax and outlines the benefits of such an approach for syntactic theory. We begin with a brief overview of Austronesian languages, focusing on some typologically unusual aspects of their grammar, and the theoretical explanations that have been proposed for these features. We then survey the articles in the rest of this volume and the theoretical questions they address. A novel feature of this special issue is that each article is followed by a commentary by another Austronesian linguist which engages the same issues from a different perspective. The pairings of article and commentary should give readers a window into the study of Austronesian syntax and its current contributions to linguistic theory