Perspectives on Grammar Writing
Edited by Thomas E. Payne and David J. Weber
[Benjamins Current Topics, 11] 2007. viii, 218 pp.
Thomas E. Payne
List of John Benjamins publications for which Thomas E. Payne plays a role.
Titles
Subjects Syntax | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Perspectives on Grammar Writing
Edited by Thomas E. Payne and David J. Weber
Special issue of Studies in Language 30:2 (2006) iv, 227 pp.
Subjects Functional linguistics | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
2014 Conspiring motivations for causative and passive isomorphism: Data from Xibe On Diversity and Complexity of Languages Spoken in Europe and North and Central Asia, Suihkonen, Pirkko and Lindsay J. Whaley (eds.), pp. 91–108 | Article
In many languages a single morphological category exists that expresses both causative and passive functions. Such “causative/passive isomorphism” appears anomalous from the point of view of much work in linguistic typology in that a causative is often considered a “valence increasing”… read more
2012 Topic marking and the construction of narrative in Xibe Argument Structure and Grammatical Relations: A crosslinguistic typology, Suihkonen, Pirkko, Bernard Comrie and Valery Solovyev (eds.), pp. 151–176 | Article
Xibe is a Tungus-Manchu language spoken in Xinjiang Uygur [Uighur] Autonomous Region in Northwestern China. In this paper we present a corpusbased study of the structural and discourse-functional behavior of the particle da in spoken Xibe. From a structural perspective, we observe that da may occur… read more
2007 A grammar as a communicative act, or what does a grammatical description really describe? Perspectives on Grammar Writing, Payne, Thomas E. and David J. Weber (eds.), pp. 127–142 | Article
A descriptive grammar is a document that is intended to communicate important and complex patterns of knowledge within a speech community. Previous conceptions of linguistic grammars have emphasized a metaphor in which the internal grammar of a language is perceived as a “machine” that transforms… read more
2006 Introduction Perspectives on Grammar Writing, Payne, Thomas E. and David J. Weber (eds.), pp. 235–243 | Article
A grammatical description is an essential component of any program of language documentation and preservation. With over half the languages in the world currently in danger of extinction within a century, the need for descriptive grammars is more critical than ever. Potential grammar writers often… read more
2006 A grammar as a communicative act: or : What does a grammatical description really describe? Perspectives on Grammar Writing, Payne, Thomas E. and David J. Weber (eds.), pp. 367–383 | Article
A descriptive grammar is a document that is intended to communicate important and complex patterns of knowledge within a speech community. Previous conceptions of linguistic grammars have emphasized a metaphor in which the internal grammar of a language is perceived as a “machine” that transforms… read more
1997 Voice in Seko Padang Essays on Language Function and Language Type: Dedicated to T. Givón, Bybee, Joan L., John Haiman and Sandra A. Thompson (eds.), pp. 423–436 | Article
1994 The pragmatics of voice in a Philippine language: Actor-focus and goal-focus in Cebuano narrative Voice and Inversion, Givón, T. (ed.), pp. 317–364 | Article
1988 Referential Distance and Discourse Structure in Yagua Studies in Language 12:2, pp. 345–392 | Article
1982 Role and Reference Related Subject Properties and Ergativity in Yup'Ik Eskimo and Tagalog Studies in Language 6:1, pp. 75–106 | Article