Essays on Language Function and Language Type

Dedicated to T. Givón

Editors

Joan L. Bybee

| University of New Mexico

John Haiman

| Macalester College

Sandra A. Thompson

| University of California

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In their subject matter and in their theoretical orientation all the papers in this volume reflect the powerful influence of T. Givón. Most of them deal with questions of morphosyntactic typology, pragmatics, and grammaticalization theory. Many of them are directly based on extensive fieldwork on local languages of the Americas, Africa, Asia, and the Pacific. Others are based on statistical analyses of extensive written and spoken corpora of texts.

[Not in series, 82] 1997. vi, 480 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/z.82

Table of Contents

Instead of an Introduction	1
From His Colleagues	3
His Publications	13
The Essays	23
Semantic Aspects of Morphological Typology Joan L. Bybee	25
The Typology of Predicate Case Marking Bernard Comrie	39
Grammaticalization and the Gradience of Categories: Relator Nouns and Postpositions in Tibetan and Burmese Scott DeLancey	51
A Typology of Argument-Determined Constructions R.M.W. Dixon and Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald	71
Are Grammatical Relations Universal? Matthew S. Dryer	115
Introducing Ergative Word Order via Reanalysis: Word Order Change in the Cariban Family Spike Gildea	145
Living in Three Languages Colette Grinevald	163
Self-Abasement in Language: A Case Study on the Viability of a Metaphor John Haiman	181
The Misumalpan Causative Construction Kenneth L. Hale	199
On Attributive Possession in Kabiye Bernd Heine and Kézié Koyenzi Lébikaza	217
When ‘Grammar’ and Discourse Clash: The Problem of Source Conflicts Paul J. Hopper	231
A Dynamic Account of Grammatical Function Ronald W. Langacker	249
On Zero Anaphora Charles N. Li	275
Head-Marking and Objecthood Frank Lichtenberk	301
Participant and Event Anaphora in Newspaper Articles Carol Lord and Kathleen Dahlgren	323
Lexical Affixes and Morphological Typology Marianne Mithun	357
Versatile Nominalizations Michael Noonan	373
The Maasai External Possessor Construction Doris L. Payne	395
Voice in Seko Padang Thomas E. Payne and Thomas Laskowske	423
Mind, Code and Text Dan I. Slobin	437
Index	469

Cited by

Cited by 3 other publications

Essegbey, James & Adrienne Bruyn

2020. In Advances in Contact Linguistics [Contact Language Library, 57], ► pp. 38 ff.

Kuteva, Tania, Bernd Heine, Bo Hong, Haiping Long, Heiko Narrog & Seongha Rhee

2019. In World Lexicon of Grammaticalization,

Willems, Klaas

2016. The universality of categories and meaning: a Coserian perspective. Acta Linguistica Hafniensia 48:1 ► pp. 110 ff.

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Subjects

Linguistics

Functional linguistics

Theoretical linguistics

Typology

BIC Subject: CF – Linguistics

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

U.S. Library of Congress Control Number: 97007390 | Marc record