Research Catalog

Title

Essays on language function and language type : dedicated to T. Givón / edited by Joan Bybee, John Haiman, Sandra A. Thompson.

Publication

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins, [1997], ©1997.

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Additional Authors

• Givón, Talmy, 1936-
• Bybee, Joan L.
• Haiman, John.
• Thompson, Sandra A.

Description

vi, 478 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Subjects

• Typology (Linguistics)
• Functionalism (Linguistics)
• Grammar, Comparative and general

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliography of Talmy Givón: p. [13]-21.
• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

• Semantic Aspects of Morphological Typology / Joan Bybee -- The Typology of Predicate Case Marking / Bernard Comrie -- Grammaticalization and the Gradience of Categories: Relator Nouns and Postpositions in Tibetan and Burmese / Scott DeLancey -- A Typology of Argument-Determined Constructions / R. M. W. Dixon and Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald -- Are Grammatical Relations Universal? / Matthew S. Dryer -- Introducing Ergative Word Order via Reanalysis: Word Order Change in the Cariban Family / Spike Gildea -- Living in Three Languages / Colette Grinevald -- Self-Abasement in Language: A Case Study on the Viability of a Metaphor / John Haiman -- The Misumalpan Causative Construction / Ken Hale -- On Attributive Possession in Kabiye / Bernd Heine and Kezie Lebikaza -- When 'Grammar' and Discourse Clash: The Problem of Source Conflicts / Paul J. Hopper -- A Dynamic Account of Grammatical Function / Ronald W. Langacker -- On Zero Anaphora / Charles N. Li --
• Head-Marking and Objecthood / Frantisek Lichtenberk -- Participant and Event Anaphora in Newspaper Articles / Carol Lord and Kathleen Dahlgren -- Lexical Affixes and Morphological Typology / Marianne Mithun -- Versatile Nominalizations / Michael Noonan -- The Maasai External Possessor Construction / Doris L. Payne -- Voice in Seko Padang / Thomas E. Payne and Thomas Laskowske -- Mind, Code, and Text / Dan I. Slobin.

ISBN

• 9027221685 (Eur.)
• 1556195222 (U.S. : alk. paper)

LCCN

97007390

OCLC

ocm36485862

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries