SOAS Working Papers in Linguistics Volume 18 (2016)

The 18th Volume of the SOAS Working Papers in Linguistics features research in progress of research students and research associates of the Department of Linguistics at SOAS. This volume was edited by Lu Lu and Sandy Ritchie.

Contents

• Editorial Note

Morphological alignment

• 3-29 Morphological alignment in Saru Ainu: A direct-inverse analysis
  Elia Dal Corso

Information Structure

• 33-52 The marker =ga and topicality in Tena Kichwa
  Karolina Grzech
• 53-74 Information structure in Mandarin Chinese light verb constructions
  Lu Lu

Multilingualism

• 77-93 "Which language(s) are you for?" "I am for all the languages." Reflections on breaking through the ancestral code: trials of sociolinguistic documentation
  Samantha Goodchild