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Crossword

by Keith Slater

Across
1. Obl. case
4. Cognate of Spanish edad
7. Onomatopoetic word for clocks
10. Language of Japan
11. More than one constituent marked with an adpos.
12. In a town by this name, you might find yourself speaking Spanish, Bengali, Estonian, or Syrian Arabic
14. Verbum dicendi, low register
15. Non-tense temporal categ.
16. Sapir: “All grammars ___”
17. Second language acquisition theorist Gass
19. Most speakers of Plattdeutsch
21. With 36 down, core arg. distinction
23. Integrationism proponent Harris
24. Longest palindromic language name
28. Americanist Munro, informally
31. Stop cons.
32. Hokkien is a Min ___ Variety
33. O’odham word which does not mean “large lizard”
34. 3s.GEN
35. Austronesian language of Palawan Province, Philippines
37. Ling. theory of Van Valin
38. Proposed law in Autoseg. Phon.
39. Northwestern Iranian language in Pakistan
43. The Turkic Languages co-editor Eva A.
47. Verbs tend to agree with arguments that are hum. and ___
48. Textbook example with “run” and “big hill” or “big bill”
50. In Field Methods, the first relationship between the book and the table
51. Anglicized spelling of chicken style now popular in England
52. With 10 down, core arg. distinction
53. Home to one of the Goidelic languages
54. Merged with 28 down in most SE American English dialects
55. Animal whose lack of discrimination earned the first Ig Nobel Prize in Linguistics
56. Verbum dicendi, unmarked form
       1  2  3         4  5  6         7  8  9        
10                              11                       12                13 
14                              15                       16                      
17                       18         19         20                             
                     21         22         23                                    
24  25  26                       27                       28  29  30 
31                              32                       33                      
34                       35                       36                             
                     37                       38                                    
39  40  41                       42         43         44  45  46 
47                              48         49         50                      
51                              52                       53                      
       54                       55                       56                      

      Down
1.
2. PREP + CONJ
3. Autonym for some New World Spanish speakers
4. Org. for enthusiasts of mental functions and behaviors
5. Ling. theory of Gazdar, Klein, Pullum and Sag
6. If you don’t have time to learn a natural language, you might try this one
7. Functionalist Givón
8. Angry slumberer?
9. Morpheme with limited combinatorial behavior
10. With 52 across, core arg. distinction
13. Verbum dicendi, after metathesis
18. With pi-, a man from Manila
20. Sister to Ind. or Slav.
22. Non-harmonizing Mongolic language
      
24. Non-profit assoc. of German research units
25. Org. for enthusiasts of cross-linguistic comparison
26. Mp.DEF (Español)
27. Infix with abt and umt?
28. Merged with 54 across in most SE American English dialects
29. Combines with “wife” and “bride” (underlying form)
30. Swadesh list word
33. Speakers of Romani
35. Postal and Johnson’s “___ Pair Grammar”
36. With 21 across, core arg. distinction
37. Structuralist Jakobson
39. Member of a minimal set which distinguishes at least 10 English vowels and diphthongs
40. Syntactician’s reference to some clause
41. Verbum dicendi, uninflecting form
42. Org. for enthusiasts of meaning in context
44. Home to all living vertical scripts
45. Antonym of “Labour”?
46. Cardinal numeral
49. Impatient? (abbr.)
   

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G T O O L A R G E A
C O N T I N U A N T
M I N I M A L I S M
A C C E N T M A R K

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