Linguistics in Amsterdam 4-2 (september 2011)

Esperanto: a language made transparent?1

Wim Jansen

Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication.


Abstract
1 Introduction
2 Interpersonal-Representational
2.1 Cross-referencing
2.2 Apposition
2.3 Limitations on which semantic units can be chosen as predicates
3 Representational-Morphosyntactic
3.1 Grammatical relations or pragmatic/semantic alignment only
3.2 Discontinuities
3.3 Sensitivity of function marking to the nature of input
4 Morphosyntactic
4.1 Expletive elements
4.2 Tense copying
4.3 Raising
4.4 Grammatical gender, declination, conjugation
4.5 Agreement
4.6 Fusional morphology
5 Morphosyntactic-Phonological
5.1 Parallelism of phonological phrasing and morphosyntactic phrasing
5.2 Influence of phonological weight on morphosyntactic placement
6 Phonological
6.1 Sandhi
6.2 Degemination
6.3 Diphthongization
6.4 Nasalization
6.5 Vowel deletion
7 List of additional glosses
Notes
8 List of references