Functional-Historical Approaches to Explanation
In honor of Scott DeLancey
Editors
| Boise State University
| SIL International
| Australian National University
| University of Oregon
Contributions from both well-known practitioners and new voices in the areas of language typology, historical linguistics, and function-based approaches to language description define this volume, as does its foci in two major geographical areas — southeast Asia and northwestern North America. All of the papers appeal, in one way or another, to functional-historical approaches to explanation. Behind this appeal lies an assumption that languages are selective in their development in ways that are dependent upon the communicative tasks to which they are put. As such, language function accounts for both variation and historical development over time.
[Typological Studies in Language, 103] 2013. xviii, 294 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
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Introduction | pp. ix–viii
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Part I. Typological studies
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Non-aprioristic typology as a discovery toolZygmunt Frajzyngier | pp. 3–26
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Chorophorics, or the difference between place as an entity and place as a position in spaceClaude Hagège | pp. 27–42
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On the diachrony of the ‘Ethical Dative’T. Givón | pp. 43–66
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Part II. Contributions to historical linguistics
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Biactantial agreement in the Gongduk transitive verb in the broader Tibeto-Burman contextGeorge L. van Driem | pp. 69–82
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The dinguist’s dilemma: Regular and sporadic l/d interchange in Sino-Tibetan and elsewhereJames A. Matisoff | pp. 83–104
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Part III. TAME and case alignment
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Person-sensitive TAME marking in Galo: Historical origins and functional motivationMark W. Post | pp. 107–130
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Agent case marking in SahaptianVirginia Beavert and Joana Jansen | pp. 131–152
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Part IV. Multi-clause constructions
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The Kurtöp -si construction: Converbs, clause-chains and verb serializationGwendolyn Hyslop | pp. 155–178
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Verb serialization in Ede from a diachronic perspectiveTam Nguyen | pp. 179–194
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Tense-aspect morphology from nominalizers in NewarCarol Genetti | pp. 195–220
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Part V. Functional motivation and extension
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Predicting reference form: A Pear Story Study of information status, thematic role and animacy in Meithei (Manipuri, Meiteiron)Shobhana L. Chelliah | pp. 223–236
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Causation as “functional sink” in Northern PaiuteTim Thornes | pp. 237–258
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The challenge of Maa ‘Away’Doris L. Payne | pp. 259–282
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Name index | pp. 283–286
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Language index | pp. 287–290
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Subject index | pp. 291–294
Cited by
Cited by 3 other publications
Frajzyngier, Zygmunt & Amina Mettouchi
2015.
In Corpus-based Studies of Lesser-described Languages [Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 68],
► pp. 257 ff. 
Givón, T.
2015.
In The Diachrony of Grammar,
Kuteva, Tania, Bernd Heine, Bo Hong, Haiping Long, Heiko Narrog & Seongha Rhee
2019.
In World Lexicon of Grammaticalization,
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Subjects & Metadata
BIC Subject: CFF – Historical & comparative linguistics
BISAC Subject: LAN009000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General