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	ix
Curriculum vitae John W.M. Verhaar, S.J.	xi
List of publications	xv
Section I: Transitivity and voice
Diathesis: The Middle, Particularly in West-Germanic Werner Abraham	3
How many Transitivisers are in Kope? John M. Clifton	49
Complement Clauses versus Relative Clauses: Some Khmer Evidence Bernard Comrie and Kaoru Horie	65
The two Prototypes of Ditransitive Verbs: The Indonesian Evidence Bambang Purwo Kaswanti	77
Section II: Clausal modality
The Assertion of High Subjective Certainty: Mufian (Papua New Guinea) Oral Narratives Robert J. Conrad and Joshua Lukas	103
On the German werden Future Bernd Heine	119
The Category ‘Event’ in Natural Discourse and Logic Paul J. Hopper	139
Section III: Typology and discourse categories
The Category ‘S’ in English Conversation Barbara A. Fox	153
A Semantic Basis for Grammatical Typology Anna Wierzbicka	179
Section IV: Language and culture
Grammatical Signs of the Divided Self: A Study of Language and Culture John Haiman	213
Language and Culture of Inner Asia's Borderland Charles N. Li	235
Section V: Functionality
Multifunctionality and the Realization Problem in Modelling Discourse Production Susanna Cumming	247
Towards an Understanding of Linguistic Evolution and the Notion ‘X has a Function Y’ Mark Durie	275
“Lice he no good”: on [r] and [l] in Tok Pisin Suzanne Romaine	309
Form and Meaning in Morphology Wiecher Zwanenburg	319
Subject Index	345
List of contributors and their academic affiliations	351

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Subjects

Linguistics

Functional linguistics

Discourse studies

Typology

Pragmatics

BIC Subject: CF – Linguistics

BISAC Subject: LAN009000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General

U.S. Library of Congress Control Number: 94044089