Matti Miestamo
List of John Benjamins publications in which Matti Miestamo is involved.
Journal
ISSN 2772-3720 | E‑ISSN 2772‑3739
Titles
Negation in Uralic Languages
Edited by Matti Miestamo, Anne Tamm and Beáta Wagner-Nagy
The grammaticalized expression of negation is a linguistic universal. This volume deals with negation in the Uralic language family in a typological perspective. As in no other major language family before, a comprehensive typological questionnaire provides the basis for the chapters documenting… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 108] 2015. ix, 667 pp.
Language Complexity: Typology, contact, change
Edited by Matti Miestamo, Kaius Sinnemäki and Fred Karlsson
Language complexity has recently attracted considerable attention from linguists of many different persuasions. This volume – a thematic selection of papers from the conference Approaches to Complexity in Language, held in Helsinki, August 2005 – is the first collection of articles devoted to the… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 94] 2008. xiv, 356 pp.
2025 Asymmetry in temporal specification between affirmation and negation: Adverbials and tense-aspect neutralization Studies in Language 49:3, pp. 501–545 | Article
One cross-linguistically recurrent asymmetry between affirmation and negation is the neutralization of tense-aspect distinctions in negatives. A functional explanation proposed for this is that in their typical discourse context negatives have less need for temporal specification than… read more
2022 Drastic demographic events triggered the Uralic spread Diachronica 39:4, pp. 490–524 | Article
The widespread Uralic family offers several advantages for tracing prehistory: a firm absolute chronological anchor point in an ancient contact episode with well-dated Indo-Iranian; other points of intersection or diagnostic non-intersection with early Indo-European (the Late… read more
2015 Negation in Skolt Saami Negation in Uralic Languages, Miestamo, Matti, Anne Tamm and Beáta Wagner-Nagy (eds.), pp. 353–376 | Article
This chapter describes negation in Skolt Saami in a typological perspective. In the standard negation construction, the negative marker is a negative auxiliary verb and the lexical verb appears in a non-finite form. Negative imperatives employ a special form for the negative auxiliary. The copula… read more
2015 Negation in Uralic languages – Introduction Negation in Uralic Languages, Miestamo, Matti, Anne Tamm and Beáta Wagner-Nagy (eds.), pp. 1–42 | Article
2009 Negation Grammar, Meaning and Pragmatics, Brisard, Frank, Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren (eds.), pp. 208–229 | Article
2008 Introduction: The problem of language complexity Language Complexity: Typology, contact, change, Miestamo, Matti, Kaius Sinnemäki and Fred Karlsson (eds.), pp. vii–xiv | Miscellaneous
2008 Grammatical complexity in cross-linguistic perspective Language Complexity: Typology, contact, change, Miestamo, Matti, Kaius Sinnemäki and Fred Karlsson (eds.), pp. 23–41 | Article
In this paper, I address theoretical and methodological issues in the cross-linguistic study of grammatical complexity. I identify two different approaches to complexity: the absolute one – complexity as an objective property of the system, and the relative one – complexity as cost/difficulty to… read more
2006 Negation Handbook of Pragmatics: 2006 Installment, Verschueren, Jef and Jan-Ola Östman (eds.), pp. 1–25 | Article
2006 John A. Hawkins. Efficiency and complexity in grammars Functions of Language 13:2, pp. 277–284 | Article
2006 Zygmunt Frajzyngier and Erin Shay (2003). Explaining Language Structure through Systems Interaction Studies in Language 30:3, pp. 617–626 | Miscellaneous
2001 Negation Handbook of Pragmatics: 1999 Installment, Verschueren, Jef, Jan-Ola Östman, Jan Blommaert † and Chris Bulcaen (eds.), pp. 1–25 | Article