Current issues are now on the Chicago Journals website. Read the latest issue.International Journal of American Linguistics is a world forum for the study of all the languages native to North, Central ...

Last week, we started discussing the differences between a phrase, clause and a sentence. We defined a phrase as a group of words without a subject and a predicate, though standing together to form a ...

This paper introduces an interesting class of predicates that come in pairs, so-called total and partial predicates. It will be shown that such predicates contribute to an explanation for the weak and ...