Discourse, Grammar and Typology

Papers in honor of John W.M. Verhaar

Editors

Werner Abraham

T. Givón

Sandra A. Thompson

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This volume combines papers selected for their affinity with work on discourse analysis and language typology. The methodological platform is the authors' conviction that all linguistic work needs to be empirical in the sense that (1) generalizations are to be made on the basis of spoken texts in larger contexts, (2) generalizations are correct only as long as pertinent linguistic material does not contradict them, and (3) that linguistic categories and rules are of a temporal nature. In this sense, the contributions represent 'functional typological' comparison, often of languages not frequently investigated. The papers are arranged in 5 groups: Transitivity and voice; Clausal modality; Typology and discourse categories; Language and Culture; Functionality.

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 27] 1995. xx, 352 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.27

Table of Contents

Introduction | p. ix

Curriculum vitae

John W.M. Verhaar | p. xi

List of publications | p. xv

Section I: Transitivity and voice

Diathesis: The Middle, Particularly in West-Germanic

Werner Abraham | p. 3

How many Transitivisers are in Kope?

John M. Clifton | p. 49

Complement Clauses versus Relative Clauses: Some Khmer Evidence

Bernard Comrie and Kaoru Horie | p. 65

The two Prototypes of Ditransitive Verbs: The Indonesian Evidence

Bambang Purwo Kaswanti | p. 77

Section II: Clausal modality

The Assertion of High Subjective Certainty: Mufian (Papua New Guinea) Oral Narratives

Robert J. Conrad and Joshua Lukas | p. 103

On the German werden Future

Bernd Heine | p. 119

The Category ‘Event’ in Natural Discourse and Logic

Paul J. Hopper | p. 139

Section III: Typology and discourse categories

The Category ‘S’ in English Conversation

Barbara A. Fox | p. 153

A Semantic Basis for Grammatical Typology

Anna Wierzbicka | p. 179

Section IV: Language and culture

Grammatical Signs of the Divided Self: A Study of Language and Culture

John Haiman | p. 213

Language and Culture of Inner Asia's Borderland

Charles N. Li | p. 235

Section V: Functionality

Multifunctionality and the Realization Problem in Modelling Discourse Production

Susanna Cumming | p. 247

Towards an Understanding of Linguistic Evolution and the Notion ‘X has a Function Y’

Mark Durie | p. 275

“Lice he no good”: on [r] and [l] in Tok Pisin

Suzanne Romaine | p. 309

Form and Meaning in Morphology

Wiecher Zwanenburg | p. 319

Subject Index | p. 345

List of contributors and their academic affiliations | p. 351

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