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Peer reviewedHorn, Laurence R.; Lee, Young-Suk – Journal of Linguistics, 1995
This article presents an analysis and review of Ljiljana Progovac's "Negative and Positive Polarity: A Binding Approach" (1994). It concludes that by pushing a syntactic analysis of polarity to, if not beyond, its limits, Progovac has focused attention on the work that remains for any approach to polarity to resolve. Contains 59…
Descriptors: Language Research, Linguistic Theory, Structural Linguistics, Syntax
Peer reviewedKing, Barbara J. – Language & Communication, 1996
Maintains that language as humans now produce and comprehend evolved from languagelike precursors in the communication systems of nonhuman primates. The article reviews "Gesture and the Nature of Language" (GNL) (1995) and notes that GNL derives syntax incrementally without diluting it to an element not recognizable as a property of language. (37…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Concept Formation, Descriptive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics
