VOLUME XXXIV, NO. 1 ISSN 1548-1484 WINTER 2009
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
Articles
The enigma of the classification of Hungarian
By Yuri Tambovtsev
The Altaic language taxon: Language family of language union?
By Yuri Tambovtsev
Switch junctions in Yorùbá-English code switching
By M.T. Lamidi
Politeness in political interviews in print media in Nigeria
By Akin Odebunmi
By Vladimir Agafonov
A retrospective survey of the problems with Berlin and Kay (1969)
By William James Michael McIntyre
Fifty years on: Problematizing the Heroic ideal in Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart
By Christopher Anyokwu
Descriptive analysis of the Kilba tonal system
By Mohammed Aminu Muazu
The Modern novel and the historical sense: The examples of D.H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf
By Ayo Kehinde
The foundations of Construction Grammar
By Amr M. El Zawawy
Face-threatening acts: A dynamic perspective
By Ann Hui-Yen Wang
Reviews
Liaw Yock Fang. Speak standard Malay: A beginner's guide
by Jyh Wee Sew
Report on Redesigning Pedagogy Conference
by Jyh Wee Sew
Braj B. Kachru, Yamuna Kachru, and S.N.Sridhar, Ed. Language in South Asia
by Robert D. Angus
James Clackson. Indo-European linguistics: An introduction
by Robert D. Angus
Nikolas Coupland. Style: Language variation and identity
by Robert D. Angus
John C. L. Ingram. Neurolinguistics: An introduction to spoken language processing and its disorders
by Robert D. Angus
Roger D. Woodard, Ed. The ancient languages of Europe
by Robert D. Angus
Roger D. Woodard, Ed. The ancient languages of Asia Minor
by Robert D. Angus
Roger D. Woodard, Ed. The ancient languages of Syria-Palestine and Arabia
by Robert D. Angus
Roger D. Woodard, Ed. The ancient languages of Asia and the Americas
by Robert D. Angus
Peter K. Austin, Ed. One thousand languages: Living, endangered, and lost
by Robert D. Angus