Languages Across Boundaries: Studies in Memory of Anna Siewierska

Published by De Gruyter Mouton 2013

Languages Across Boundaries

Studies in Memory of Anna Siewierska

Edited by: Dik Bakker and Martin Haspelmath

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110331127

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About this book

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.

Reviews

"In all, the contributions to this volume do much to advance the field of typology. I believe any typologist would be remiss not to have this book on their shelf, especially given its reasonable price. I strongly recommend this book to anyone with an interest in person or typology, and I suspect that it will soon become an important and much-referenced book in the field."
Malgorzata Cavar, Sara Couture in: Linguist List 26.542

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Preface Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	v
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xi
Bibliography of Anna Siewierska Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xii
Person by other means Matthew Baerman and Greville G. Corbett Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Patterns of alignment in verb agreement Balthasar Bickel, Giorgio Iemmolo, Taras Zakharko and Alena Witzlack-Makarevich Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
Human themes in Spanish ditransitive constructions Bernard Comrie Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	37
The generic use of the second person singular pronoun in Mandinka Denis Creissels Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	53
The referential hierarchy: reviewing the evidence in diachronic perspective Sonia Cristofaro Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	69
Agreement as anaphora, anaphora as coreference William Croft Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	95
Towards a distributional typology of human impersonal pronouns, based on data from European languages Volker Gast and Johan van der Auwera Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	119
Partial coreference Beate Hampe and Christian Lehmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	159
Argument indexing: a conceptual framework for the syntactic status of bound person forms Martin Haspelmath Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	197
Peculiarities and origins of the Russian referential system Andrej A. Kibrik Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	227
Alignment preferences in basic and derived ditransitives Andrej L. Malchukov Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	263
Prosody and independence: free and bound person marking Marianne Mithun Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	291
The origin and evolution of case-suppletive pronouns: Eurasian evidence Johanna Nichols Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	313
Suppletion in person forms: the role of iconicity and frequency Anna Siewierska and Dik Bakker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	347
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	397

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Audience: Research Libraries, Scholars in the Field of Linguistic Typology
Pages
- Front matter: 19
- Main content: 400
Keywords: Linguistic Typology; Person and Pronouns; Grammatical Alignment; Grammatical Voice

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Published: September 3, 2013
ISBN: 9783110331127

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Published: August 19, 2013
ISBN: 9783110331035