VOLUME XXXII, NO. 1 ISSN 1548-1484 WINTER 2007

Editor's note

We welcome readers to the California Linguistic Notes Archives. We invite articles, remarks & replies, squibs, and review articles for future issues. We welcome comments on any material that appears here. See submissions link for information on how to make a submission. Editorial decisions are made promptly.

Patricia Schneider-Zioga, editor since 2013

Articles

Tummy talk and the Yorùbá language:A conversation-analytic deployment of a local element to a global topic

by Adeleke A. Fakoya

Pragmatic particles as speech strategies: The case of leh and its tonal variants in colloquial Singapore English

by Lee Tong King

An optimal alternative to iterative footing

by Faisal M. Al-Mohanna

Exaptation, grammaticalization, and reanalysis

by Heiko Narrog

The construction of discourse and its development in first and second language

by Hana Hirzalla

Notes about serial verb construction in Chinese

by Xin Wang

Bismilla: A Soqotran folk tale (Conclusion)

by Vladimir Agafonov

Reviews

Abdullah Hassan & Ainon Mohd. 2002. Komunikasi Intim: Panduan Menjalin Hubungan Persahabatan, Kekeluargaan Dan Kasih Sayang Yang Memuaskan dan Berkekalan

by Jyh Wee Sew

Liaw Yock Fang. 1999. Malay Grammar Made Easy: A Comprehensive Guide

by Jyh Wee Sew

Alan M. Stevens and A. Ed. Schmidgall-Tellings. 2004.  A Comprehensive Indonesian-English Dictionary

by Jyh Wee Sew

A.F.L. BEESTON. 2006. The Arabic Language Today. (Reprint in the Georgetown Classics in Arabic Language and Linguistics of the 1970 edition

by Alan S. Kaye

George Bohas, Jean-Patrick Guillaume, and Djamel Kouloughli. 2006.The Arabic Linguistic Tradition. (Reprint in the Georgetown Classics in Arabic Language and Linguistics of the 1990 edition)

by Alan S. Kaye

Bisang, Walter, Himmelmann, Nikolaus P., Wiemer Bjorn, (eds.). 2004. What makes grammaticalization? A look from its fringes

by Robert D. Angus