Andreas Hölzl
List of John Benjamins publications in which Andreas Hölzl is involved.
2025 Postnominal flagging and OV in Sinitic: Areal and typological perspectives Areal Effects on Argument-Coding Patterns, Alfimova, Daria, Kirill Kozhanov and Sergey Say (eds.), pp. 778–822 | Article
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
2023 Diachronic changes in constructional networks: Evidence from Manchuric nominal morphology Issues 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
2018 Constructionalization areas: The case of negation in Manchu Grammaticalization 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
2015 A typology of negation in Tungusic Studies 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
2014 Review of Zikmundová (2013): Spoken Sibe — Morphology of the inflected parts of speech Studies in Language 38:1, pp. 211–219 | Review
2013 Review of Malchukov & Whaley (2012): Recent Advances in Tungusic Linguistics Studies in Language 37:2, pp. 454–462 | Review