Andreas Hölzl

List of John Benjamins publications for which Andreas Hölzl plays a role.

Sinitic languages are known for their SVO order and mostly isolating morphology. This study addresses eleven languages of four different areas in Hunan, Yunnan, Sichuan, and Qinghai/Gansu provinces in China that possess SOV order and developed a postnominal flagging system. This study presents a… read more
Hölzl, Andreas 2023 Diachronic changes in constructional networks: Evidence from Manchuric nominal morphologyIssues in Diachronic Construction Morphology, Norde, Muriel and Graeme Trousdale (eds.), pp. 160–186 | Article
This study investigates diachronic changes in constructional networks illustrated with examples from the Manchuric branch of Tungusic, an endangered language family spoken in Northeast Asia. Earlier studies have noted pronounced differences between this branch and the rest of the family, such as… read more
Hölzl, Andreas 2018 Constructionalization areas: The case of negation in ManchuGrammaticalization meets Construction Grammar, Coussé, Evie, Peter Andersson and Joel Olofsson (eds.), pp. 241–276 | Chapter
Heine & Kuteva (2005) proposed the concept of a grammaticalization area. Given the recent appearance of the concept of constructionalization, (Traugott & Trousdale, 2013) it seems reasonable to ask whether there are constructionalization areas as well. The paper exemplifies this concept with the… read more
Hölzl, Andreas 2015 A typology of negation in TungusicStudies in Language 39:1, pp. 118–159 | Article
Negation seems to be a universal linguistic category, yet languages differ vastly in how they express it. Tungusic languages show several interesting and typologically rare phenomena. The paper offers a typological description of negation within the whole language family from an onomasiological… read more
Schulze, Wolfgang and Andreas Hölzl 2013 Review of Malchukov & Whaley (2012): Recent Advances in Tungusic LinguisticsStudies in Language 37:2, pp. 454–462 | Review