Bakker / Haspelmath Languages Across Boundaries

Studies in Memory of Anna Siewierska
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-3-11-033112-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 419 Seiten

This book is dedicated to Anna Siewierska, who died, far too young, in 2011. It contains 15 contributions by 20 linguists who may be counted among the foremost scholars in the field of linguistic typology. All of these articles discuss a topic that is prominent in Anna's work, whose journal articles and monographs on the passive, on word order, and on the category of person are standard literature in these respective fields. Mindful of Anna's last monograph, Person, the majority of the contributions in this volume discuss free and bound person forms, argument indexing, reference tracking systems, impersonals, and related issues, such as suppletion and incompleteness in person paradigms, the origin of referential systems, dependent versus independent marking, and referential hierarchies. Other topics are grammatical alignment, grammatical voice, ditransitives, and word order. Most of the contributions take a broad, typological perspective. Others give a more in depth treatment, based on data from a specific language, notably Spanish, Russian, Mandinka, and Mohawk. The book contains a complete bibliography of Anna Siewierska's linguistic production.

Zielgruppe

Research Libraries, Scholars in the Field of Linguistic Typology

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bakker, Dik

Haspelmath, Martin

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Historische & Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Theoretische Linguistik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Preface;5
2;Contributors;11
3;Bibliography of Anna Siewierska;12
4;Person by other means;21
5;Patterns of alignment in verb agreement;35
6;Human themes in Spanish ditransitive constructions;57
7;The generic use of the second person singular pronoun in Mandinka;73
8;The referential hierarchy: reviewing the evidence in diachronic perspective;89
9;Agreement as anaphora, anaphora as coreference;115
10;Towards a distributional typology of human impersonal pronouns, based on data from European languages;139
11;Partial coreference;179
12;Argument indexing: a conceptual framework for the syntactic status of bound person forms;217
13;Peculiarities and origins of the Russian referential system;247
14;Alignment preferences in basic and derived ditransitives;283
15;Prosody and independence: free and bound person marking;311
16;The origin and evolution of case-suppletive pronouns: Eurasian evidence;333
17;Suppletion in person forms: the role of iconicity and frequency;367
18;Index;417