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Discourse, Grammar and Typology
Papers in honor of John W.M. Verhaar
This volume combines papers selected for their affinity with work on discourse analysis and language typology. The methodological platform is the authors' conviction that all linguistic work needs to be empirical in the sense that (1) generalizations are to be made on the basis of spoken texts in larger contexts, (2) generalizations are correct only as long as pertinent linguistic material does not contradict them, and (3) that linguistic categories and rules are of a temporal nature. In this sense, the contributions represent 'functional typological' comparison, often of languages not frequently investigated.
The papers are arranged in 5 groups: Transitivity and voice; Clausal modality; Typology and discourse categories; Language and Culture; Functionality.
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 27] 1995. xx, 352 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 8 April 2011
Published online on 8 April 2011
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
- Introduction | pp. ix–x
- Curriculum vitaeJohn W.M. Verhaar | p. xi
- List of publications | pp. xv–xx
- Section I: Transitivity and voice
- Diathesis: The Middle, Particularly in West-GermanicWerner Abraham | p. 3
- How many Transitivisers are in Kope?John M. Clifton | p. 49
- Complement Clauses versus Relative Clauses: Some Khmer EvidenceBernard Comrie and Kaoru Horie | p. 65
- The two Prototypes of Ditransitive Verbs: The Indonesian EvidenceBambang Purwo Kaswanti | p. 77
- Section II: Clausal modality
- The Assertion of High Subjective Certainty: Mufian (Papua New Guinea) Oral NarrativesRobert J. Conrad and Joshua Lukas | p. 103
- On the German werden FutureBernd Heine | p. 119
- The Category ‘Event’ in Natural Discourse and LogicPaul J. Hopper | p. 139
- Section III: Typology and discourse categories
- The Category ‘S’ in English ConversationBarbara A. Fox | p. 153
- A Semantic Basis for Grammatical TypologyAnna Wierzbicka | p. 179
- Section IV: Language and culture
- Grammatical Signs of the Divided Self: A Study of Language and CultureJohn Haiman | p. 213
- Language and Culture of Inner Asia's BorderlandCharles N. Li | p. 235
- Section V: Functionality
- Multifunctionality and the Realization Problem in Modelling Discourse ProductionSusanna Cumming | p. 247
- Towards an Understanding of Linguistic Evolution and the Notion ‘X has a Function Y’Mark Durie | p. 275
- “Lice he no good”: on [r] and [l] in Tok PisinSuzanne Romaine | p. 309
- Form and Meaning in MorphologyWiecher Zwanenburg | p. 319
- Subject Index | pp. 345–350
- List of contributors and their academic affiliations | pp. 351–352
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