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Essays on Language Function and Language Type
Dedicated to T. Givón
Editors
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
Published online on 13 January 2012
Published online on 13 January 2012
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
- Instead of an Introduction | pp. 1–2
- From His Colleagues | pp. 3–12
- His Publications | pp. 13–22
- The Essays | pp. 23–24
- Semantic Aspects of Morphological TypologyJoan L. Bybee | p. 25
- The Typology of Predicate Case MarkingBernard Comrie | p. 39
- Grammaticalization and the Gradience of Categories: Relator Nouns and Postpositions in Tibetan and BurmeseScott DeLancey | p. 51
- A Typology of Argument-Determined ConstructionsR.M.W. Dixon and Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald | p. 71
- Are Grammatical Relations Universal?Matthew S. Dryer | p. 115
- Introducing Ergative Word Order via Reanalysis: Word Order Change in the Cariban FamilySpike Gildea | p. 145
- Living in Three LanguagesColette Grinevald | p. 163
- Self-Abasement in Language: A Case Study on the Viability of a MetaphorJohn Haiman | p. 181
- The Misumalpan Causative ConstructionKenneth L. Hale | p. 199
- On Attributive Possession in KabiyeBernd Heine and Kézié Koyenzi Lébikaza | p. 217
- When ‘Grammar’ and Discourse Clash: The Problem of Source ConflictsPaul J. Hopper | p. 231
- A Dynamic Account of Grammatical FunctionRonald W. Langacker | p. 249
- On Zero AnaphoraCharles N. Li | p. 275
- Head-Marking and ObjecthoodFrank Lichtenberk | p. 301
- Participant and Event Anaphora in Newspaper ArticlesCarol Lord and Kathleen Dahlgren | p. 323
- Lexical Affixes and Morphological TypologyMarianne Mithun | p. 357
- Versatile NominalizationsMichael Noonan | p. 373
- The Maasai External Possessor ConstructionDoris L. Payne | p. 395
- Voice in Seko PadangThomas E. Payne and Thomas Laskowske | p. 423
- Mind, Code and TextDan I. Slobin | p. 437
- Index | pp. 469–480
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