John Haiman †
List of John Benjamins publications in which John Haiman † is involved.
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ISSN 0167-7373
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Evolution of Communication
An international multidisciplinary journal
General Editor: Harold Gouzoules
ISSN 1387-5337 | E‑ISSN 1569‑9757
Cambodian: Khmer
John Haiman †
Cambodian is in many respects a typical Southeast Asian language, whose syntax at least on first acquaintance seems to approximate that of any SVO pidgin. On closer acquaintance, however, because of the richness of its idioms, the language seems to be a forbiddingly alien form of “Desesperanto” – a… read more[London Oriental and African Language Library, 16] 2011. xix, 425 pp.
Essays on Language Function and Language Type: Dedicated to T. Givón
Edited by Joan L. Bybee, John Haiman † and Sandra A. Thompson
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… read more[Not in series, 82] 1997. vi, 480 pp.
Clause Combining in Grammar and Discourse
Edited by John Haiman † and Sandra A. Thompson
Traditionally the study of syntax is restricted to the study of what goes on within the boundaries of the prosodic sentence. Although the nature of clause combining within a prosodic sentence has always been a central concern of traditional syntax (in GG, e.g. it underlies important research on… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 18] 1988. xiii, 442 pp.
Iconicity in Syntax: Proceedings of a symposium on iconicity in syntax, Stanford, June 24–26, 1983
Edited by John Haiman †
The papers in this volume all explore one kind of functional explanation for various aspects of linguistic form – iconicity: linguistic forms are frequently the way they are because they resemble the conceptual structures they are used to convey, or, linguistic structures resemble each other… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 6] 1985. vi, 402 pp.
Switch Reference and Universal Grammar: Proceedings of a symposium on switch reference and universal grammar, Winnipeg, May 1981
Edited by John Haiman † and Pamela Munro
Canonical switch-reference is an inflectional category of the verb, which indicates whether or not its subject is identical with the subject of some other verb. Switch-reference may be analyzed from a structural or a functional point of view. Functionally, switch-reference is a device for… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 2] 1983. xv, 337 pp.
Hua: A Papuan Language of the Eastern Highlands of New Guinea
John Haiman †
There is no country in the world where as many different languages are spoken as in New Guinea, approximately a fifth of the languages in the world. Most of these so-called Papuan languages seem to be unrelated to languages spoken elsewhere. The present work is the first truly comprehensive study… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 5] 1980. lvii, 550 pp.
2009 Decorative symmetry in ritual (and everyday) language Formulaic Language: Volume 2. Acquisition, loss, psychological reality, and functional explanations, Corrigan, Roberta, Edith A. Moravcsik, Hamid Ouali and Kathleen Wheatley (eds.), pp. 567–588 | Article
2004 Review of Fonagy (2001): Languages within language: An evolutive approach Studies in Language 28:1, pp. 246–252 | Review
2003 Nouns, verbs and syntactic backsliding in Khmer Studies in Language 27:3, pp. 505–528 | Article
One of the difficulties in parsing Khmer is that morphosyntactic clues about the category membership of words are either lacking or misleading. In particular, words which seem to have the status of deverbal nominalizations because of a derivational infix -Vm(n)- are in fact “still”functioning as… read more
2002 Systematization and the origin of rules: The case of subject–verb inversion in questions Studies in Language 26:3, pp. 573–593 | Article
One of the design features of language is its systematicity: to a considerable extent, the rules of grammar relate not to the world outside, but only to other rules. They exist in autonomy from external motivations. Subject-verb inversion in the Germanic languages as a marker of interrogatives is a… read more
2002 The symmetry of counterfactuals Complex Sentences in Grammar and Discourse: Essays in honor of Sandra A. Thompson, Bybee, Joan L. and Michael Noonan (eds.), pp. 101–124 | Article
2000 Symmetrical Compounds in Khmer Studies in Language 24:3, pp. 483–514 | Article
Binomial coordinate compounds like English give and take are frequent in Khmer. Once the semantic motivation of these is opaque, the ones that survive are predominantly those which manifest some formal symmetry in the structure of their conjoined roots. The result is that Khmer has an enormous… read more
1999 From doing to saying Evolution of Communication 3:2, pp. 185–205 | Article
Exclamations, manners of speaking, performative verbs, and vocal gestures such as laughter frequently cannot be "translated" into propositional language without losing their identity as actions in some way. But not all exclamations, performatives, and vocal gestures are alike in this respect. Some… read more
1999 Action, Speech, and Grammar: The Sublimation Trajectory Form Miming Meaning, Nänny, Max and Olga Fischer (eds.), pp. 37–58 | Article
1999 Auxiliation in Khmer the Case of Baan Studies in Language 23:1, pp. 149–172 | Article
From a typological perspective, the most striking — and perhaps the only noteworthy — feature of the auxiliation of the main verb baan 'get' in Khmer is that it migrates from V2 to V1 position, contravening the general tendency for grammatical morphemes to remain frozen in the same position where… read more
1998 The Metalinguistics of Ordinary Language: Some Case Studies Evolution of Communication 2:1, pp. 117–135 | Article
1998 Possible Origins of Infixation in Khmer Studies in Language 22:3, pp. 597–617 | Article
The existence of infixation in Austroasiatic has always been treated as a given: one of such antiquity that it has been proposed as a possible index of genetic affiliation with Austronesian. Nor does the comparative method allow the reconstruction of a typologically more plausible set of prefixes… read more
1997 Self-Abasement in Language: A Case Study on the Viability of a Metaphor Essays on Language Function and Language Type: Dedicated to T. Givón, Bybee, Joan L., John Haiman † and Sandra A. Thompson (eds.), pp. 181–198 | Article
1995 Moods and MetaMessages: Alienation as a Mood Modality in Grammar and Discourse, Bybee, Joan L. and Suzanne Fleischman (eds.), pp. 329–346 | Article
1995 Grammatical Signs of the Divided Self: A Study of Language and Culture Discourse, Grammar and Typology: Papers in honor of John W.M. Verhaar, Abraham, Werner, T. Givón and Sandra A. Thompson (eds.), pp. 213–234 | Article
1994 Ritualization and the development of language Perspectives on Grammaticalization, Pagliuca, William (ed.), pp. 3–28 | Article
1991 From V/2 to subject clitics: evidence from Northern Italian Approaches to Grammaticalization: Volume II. Types of grammatical markers, Traugott, Elizabeth Closs and Bernd Heine (eds.), pp. 135–158 | Article
1990 Schizophrenic complementizers Studies in Typology and Diachrony: Papers presented to Joseph H. Greenberg on his 75th birthday, Croft, William A., Suzanne Kemmer and Keith Denning (eds.), pp. 79–94 | Article
1989 Alienation in Grammar Studies in Language 13:1, pp. 129–170 | Article
1988 Inconsequential clauses in Hua and the typology of clauses Clause Combining in Grammar and Discourse, Haiman, John † and Sandra A. Thompson (eds.), pp. 49–70 | Article
1988 Incorporation, parallelism, and focus Studies in Syntactic Typology, Hammond, Michael, Edith A. Moravcsik and Jessica Wirth (eds.), pp. 303–320 | Article
1988 Introduction Clause Combining in Grammar and Discourse, Haiman, John † and Sandra A. Thompson (eds.), pp. ix–xiii | Miscellaneous
1987 On Some Origins of Medial Verb Morphology in Papuan Languages Studies in Language 11:2, pp. 347–364 | Article
1985 Symmetry Iconicity in Syntax: Proceedings of a symposium on iconicity in syntax, Stanford, June 24–26, 1983, Haiman, John † (ed.), pp. 73–96 | Article
1985 Introduction Iconicity in Syntax: Proceedings of a symposium on iconicity in syntax, Stanford, June 24–26, 1983, Haiman, John † (ed.), pp. 1–10 | Miscellaneous
1983 On some origins of switch-reference marking Switch Reference and Universal Grammar: Proceedings of a symposium on switch reference and universal grammar, Winnipeg, May 1981, Haiman, John † and Pamela Munro (eds.), pp. 105–128 | Article
1978 A Study in Polysemy Studies in Language 2:1, pp. 1–34 | Article