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 HungarianPDF File

By Yuri Tambovtsev

The Altaic language taxon: Language family of language union?PDF File

By Yuri Tambovtsev

Switch junctions in Yorùbá-English code switchingPDF File

By M.T. Lamidi

Politeness in political interviews in print media in NigeriaPDF File

By Akin Odebunmi

Tale of two brothersPDF File

By Vladimir Agafonov

A retrospective survey of the problems with Berlin and Kay (1969)PDF File

By William James Michael McIntyre

Fifty years on: Problematizing the Heroic ideal in Chinua Achebe's Things Fall ApartPDF File

By Christopher Anyokwu

Descriptive analysis of the Kilba tonal systemPDF File

By Mohammed Aminu Muazu

The Modern novel and the historical sense: The examples of D.H. Lawrence and Virginia WoolfPDF File

By Ayo Kehinde

The foundations of Construction GrammarPDF File

By Amr M. El Zawawy

Face-threatening acts: A dynamic perspectivePDF File

By Ann Hui-Yen Wang

Reviews

Liaw Yock Fang. Speak standard Malay: A beginner's guidePDF File

by Jyh Wee Sew

Report on Redesigning Pedagogy ConferencePDF File

by Jyh Wee Sew

Braj B. Kachru, Yamuna Kachru, and S.N.Sridhar, Ed. Language in South AsiaPDF File

by Robert D. Angus

James Clackson. Indo-European linguistics: An introductionPDF File

by Robert D. Angus

Nikolas Coupland. Style: Language variation and identityPDF File

by Robert D. Angus

John C. L. Ingram. Neurolinguistics: An introduction to spoken language processing and its disordersPDF File

by Robert D. Angus

Roger D. Woodard, Ed. The ancient languages of EuropePDF File

by Robert D. Angus

Roger D. Woodard, Ed. The ancient languages of Asia MinorPDF File

by Robert D. Angus

Roger D. Woodard, Ed. The ancient languages of Syria-Palestine and ArabiaPDF File

by Robert D. Angus

Roger D. Woodard, Ed. The ancient languages of Asia and the AmericasPDF File

by Robert D. Angus

Peter K. Austin, Ed. One thousand languages: Living, endangered, and lostPDF File

by Robert D. Angus