https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/112 Project MUSE®: Latest articles in Language. daily 1 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 text/html en-US Vol. 77 (2001) - vol. 101 (2025) (With scattered issues prior to 2001) Latest Articles: Language TWO Project MUSE® Language 1535-0665 0097-8507 Latest articles in Language. Feed provided by Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/article/978271 <p></p> The degradedness of sentences like those in 1 has traditionally been attributed to the inability of syntactic movement to cross certain structural domains, a phenomenon called island effects (Ross 1967). Examples of such structural domains include complex noun phrases, clausal adjuncts, and conjuncts.(1)a. Extraction from a complex noun phrase&#x2003;&#x2003;*Whati does John know the fact that Mary ate ti?b. Extraction from a clausal adjunct&#x2003;&#x2003;*Whoi did John have lunch after he talked to ti?c. Extraction from a conjunct&#x2003;&#x2003;*Whoi does John like Mary and hate ti?Traditionally, island effects have been considered to arise due to the constraints that particular structures impose on syntactic dependencies (Ross 1967, Chomsky 1977, 1986 ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/978279">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/112/image/coversmall Evidence for a discourse account of manner-of-speaking islands 2025-12-23 text/html en-US Evidence for a discourse account of manner-of-speaking islands 2025-12-23 2025 TWO Project MUSE® 206492 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 2025-12-23 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/978272 <p></p> The present study is concerned with understanding the phonetic origin of phonologization: that is, with shedding light on the factors that cause coarticulatory phonetic variation to advance along a so-called path of sound change (Beddor 2009, Gao &#x26; Kirby 2024, Yu 2021) such that usually over several generations it becomes categorical&#x2014;that is, contrastive. The well-known phonologization-based sound changes include metaphony (Greca et al. 2024, Maiden 1991) and umlaut (Iverson &#x26; Salmons 2003, Penzl 1949, Twaddell 1938) with a phonetic origin of anticipatory vowel-to-vowel coarticulation that can span several intermediate consonants; tonogenesis (Brunelle et al. 2016, Brunelle et al. 2020, Coetzee et al. 2018, Hag&#xE8;ge ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/978279">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/112/image/coversmall Vowel nasalization and the path to sound change: An MRI study of American and Southern British English /nt, nd/ 2025-12-23 text/html en-US Vowel nasalization and the path to sound change: An MRI study of American and Southern British English /nt, nd/ 2025-12-23 2025 TWO Project MUSE® 312925 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 2025-12-23 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/978273 <p></p> Austronesian languages are frequently discussed in work in both syntactic typology and theory for their apparent interactions between syntactic movement operations and the choice and form of verbal voice morphology. Within the Malayic subgroup of Austronesian languages, spoken in Indonesia and Malaysia, such interactions have been well studied in Standard Indonesian (SI) and Standard Malay (SM), but much less so among nonstandard, regional, and colloquial varieties. In this article, we offer a new analytic perspective on these morphosyntactic interactions, informed by our original fieldwork on Suak Mansi Desa, a previously undescribed Malayic language of western Borneo. Unique properties of the grammar of Suak ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/978279">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/112/image/coversmall Voice and extraction in Malayic 2025-12-23 text/html en-US Voice and extraction in Malayic 2025-12-23 2025 TWO Project MUSE® 380001 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 2025-12-23 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/978274 <p></p> Whether there is a pathway from parataxis to finite subordination in the evolution of human languages has been an open question for over a century. The arguments for and against the parataxis-to-hypotaxis development have mostly been based on theoretical considerations and on reconstructions of syntactic structures and processes of early Indo-European languages that are open to different interpretations. No clear developmental path from parataxis to hypotaxis has been documented with historical data. The dominant view in current diachronic generative syntax is that the assumption of a pathway from parataxis to hypotaxis is unfounded and unsustainable for lack of reliable evidence (Roberts 2007, Walkden 2018, Weiss ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/978279">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/112/image/coversmall From parataxis to finite subordination in the Ugric languages and beyond 2025-12-23 text/html en-US From parataxis to finite subordination in the Ugric languages and beyond 2025-12-23 2025 TWO Project MUSE® 218260 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 2025-12-23 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/978275 <p></p> A few days ago I found myself back at my old alma mater, Stanford University, to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Department of Linguistics. Much was familiar to me since I left nineteen years ago&#x2014;the building, the offices, a few of the faculty, the random musical equipment lying around&#x2014;but there were some changes. The most notable was in the first floor break room: the built-in bookshelves that had long stood at the end of the room had been removed, replaced by a standing table and bar seating. It was a small matter of remodeling, and to be fair the contents of the bookshelf had mostly been moved around the corner into the copy room. But it was a bit of a shock to see, because I remember ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/978279">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/112/image/coversmall An Editor’s farewell 2025-12-23 text/html en-US An Editor’s farewell 2025-12-23 2025 TWO Project MUSE® 82546 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 2025-12-23 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/978276 <p></p> Adamou, Evangelia; S. Guillaume; and A. Michaud. The Pangloss Collection: Opening up research data on endangered and underdocumented languages [Language Revitalization and Documentation]. 101(1). e38&#x2013;e59 (2025).Adams, Sarah M.; C. W. Raymond; S. Albert; E. M. Hoey; N. Grothues; J. Henry; O. H. Marrese; M. Pielke; E. Reynolds; and R. G. Tom. Language policy as interactional practice in everyday public space: The Corpus of Language Discrimination in Interaction [Language and Public Policy]. 101(1). e1&#x2013;e37 (2025).Albert, Saul; C. W. Raymond; E. M. Hoey; S. M. Adams; N. Grothues; J. Henry; O. H. Marrese; M. Pielke; E. Reynolds; and R. G. Tom. Language policy as interactional practice in everyday public space: The ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/978279">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/112/image/coversmall Index to Volume 101 (2025) 2025-12-23 text/html en-US Index to Volume 101 (2025) 2025-12-23 2025 TWO Project MUSE® 35608 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 2025-12-23 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/978278 <p></p> Supplementary material: http://muse.jhu.edu/article/979038Despite hegemonic narratives that would suggest otherwise, the United States has always been and continues to be a multilingual country. As Pavlenko (2002) points out:In reality, these [immigrants], many of whom were already multilingual, were joining a society that was also visibly multilingual, and where bilingualism, biculturalism, and linguistic diversity were for a long time viable options, reflected in the policies and practices of the 18th and 19th centuries.However, she identifies an ideological shift between 1880 and 1924, during which English monolingualism became a fundamental aspect of American national identity through the coalescence of ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/978279">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/112/image/coversmall Expanding access to CLA: The effects of incorporating critical language awareness into a general education course on bilingualism in the United States 2025-12-23 text/html en-US Expanding access to CLA: The effects of incorporating critical language awareness into a general education course on bilingualism in the United States 2025-12-23 2025 TWO Project MUSE® 279362 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 2025-12-23 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/978279 <p></p> The view that parataxis precedes hypotaxis has a long pedigree. As early as 1883, Gildersleeve felt justified in writing that &#x2018;Nihil est in hypotaxi quod non prius fuerit in parataxi [there is no hypotaxis that was not formerly parataxis] is the motto of recent investigators&#x2019; (1883:419). Yet the notions of parataxis and hypotaxis involved often remain vague and disputed (Harris &#x26; Campbell 1995:283), as do the details of the idea that there is a directional progression in language history from the former to the latter.In this report I first make the case that there are multiple different versions of the parataxis-precedes-hypotaxis claim and that these need to be kept distinct. I then revisit one version of the ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/978279">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/112/image/coversmall Parataxis and hypotaxis in historical corpora 2025-12-23 text/html en-US Parataxis and hypotaxis in historical corpora 2025-12-23 2025 TWO Project MUSE® 158059 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 2025-12-23