Fleur de Ling: Tulane University Working Papers: Volume 1 (#1 2014)
Teresa Grubb and Shane Lief
TABLE OF CONTENTS
FOREWORD
Teresa Grubb and Shane Lief ................iii
PHONOLOGY, PHONETICS, AND MORPHOLOGY ....1
ROOT AND WORD MINIMALITY PATTERNS: UNDERLYING MINIMALITY CONDITIONS ANDSURFACE MINIMALITY EFFECTS
Zachary N. Hebert ..................... 3
THEORIES OF NASAL VOWEL REPRESENTATION AND NASAL VOWEL ASYMMETRIES INYORUBA BORROWINGS
Ọlanikẹ Ọla Orie..............................43
THE ROLE OF PHONETICS IN LOANWORD ADAPTATION: A CASE STUDY FROM CHINESE LOANWORDS IN BAI
Tianqi Yang .............. 63
INVITED CONTRIBUTOR .......................................81
ABLAUT IN DINKA NOUNS: A PRELIMINARY STUDY Michael J. Kenstowicz ................................. 83
SOCIOLINGUISTICS ...............................93
“PURO KAQCHIKEL”: THE DISCOURSE SURROUNDING LANGUAGE SHIFT AND STANDARDIZATION IN HIGHLAND GUATEMALA
Joyce Bennett .....................................95
INTERTEXTUALITY AS LOOSE CHANGE ON SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES
Shayra Burgos-Garcia ...................................107
DIVERSE TOPICS IN LINGUISTICS ..................... 129
DARK WINDOW: THE LIMITATIONS OF USING PROTO-INDO-EUROPEAN TO RECONSTRUCT CULTURE
Shane Lief ..................................131
PLURAL MARKING STRATEGIES IN NIGERIAN PIDGIN ENGLISH (NAIJA)
Morakinyo Ogunmodimu ......................................143
HANDEDNESS IN CITONGA QUOTABLE GESTURES
Karen Wu Sanders ................................161
LAGNIAPPE ............................................................ 185
“YAT” NEVER WAS WHAT IT WAS
Shane Lief.................................................................. 187