ALT News No. 37
Johan van der Auwera
auwera at chello.be
Wed Nov 23 07:57:24 UTC 2005
ALT News No. 37
November 2005
1. ALT VI, Padang (21-25 July 2005)
2. Recently Published
3. Mouton discount
Appendix 1
Appendix 2
1. ALT VI, Padang (21-25 July 2005)
1.1. Thanks
ALT VI was a most pleasant, linguistically and culturally enriching
conference. The success was due to a great many people, especially, and
for all levels of the organization, to David Gil. On the purely academic
side, we also owe a special thanks to the program committee, consisting
of Lindsay Whaley (chair), Balthasar Bickel, David Gil, Aditi Lahiri,
Brian Migliazza and Uri Tadmor. For the first time ever, the committee
was also involved in awarding five scholarships allowing junior members
to attend the conference.
1.2. The 2005 Alt Junior Award
The 2005 Alt Junior Award Commmittee consisted of William McGregor
(chair), Martin Haspelmath, Michele Loporcaro, Edith Moravcsik, Jan
Rijkhoff, and Anna Siewierska. The Committee decided to award the Junior
Prize to Matti Miestamo ("Clausal negation: a typological study",
Helsinki) and Bernhard Wälchli ("Co-compounds and natural coordination",
Stockholm). For personal reasons Bernhard Wälchli decided not to accept
the prize. Matti Miestamo accepted it and he also delivered a plenary
talk based on his work at the Padang conference. Honorable mentions went
to Oliver Iggesen ("Case-asymmetry: a world-wide typological study on
lexeme-class-dependent deviations in morphological case inventories",
Bremen), Hsiu-chuan Liao ("Transitivity and ergativity in Formosan and
Philippine languages", Hawai'i) and to Adam Saulwick("Aspect of the verb
in Rembarrnga: a polysynthetic language of northern Australia",
Melbourne). For a full report by the chairman of the committee, see
Appendix 1.
On Bernhard Wälchli's initiative, Matti Miestamo and Bernhard Wälchli
are compiling a collection of papers by postdoctoral typologists.
William McGregor has agreed to write a preface together with Hilary
Chappell. In this volume the contributors will address theoretical and
methodological issues of general interest raised but not yet fully
elaborated in their theses. It is the editor's hope that such a
publication project could be established as a tradition, a similar
volume being edited in a loose sequence by peer groups of postdoctoral
typologists. The meeting expressed its strong support.
1.3. Business Meeting on 23 July
Thanks are due to Dmitry Idiatov for taking down the minutes.
a. Membership
The secretary presented the current figures on membership. According to
the files kept by our publisher Mouton at Berlin, the end of 2004 saw
ALT with 369 regular members and 73 student members, thus yielding a
total of 442 members. Below these figures are compared with those of
2003, 2002, and 2001.
Regular Student Total
2004 369 73 442
2003 326 68 394
2002 350 71 421
2001 347 67 414
What we see from these figures is fluctuation and overall gradual
increase. Each year we do lose members, for a variety of reasons
(address changes, credit card problems, human error at any one link in
the communicative chain from member via ALT to at least two offices
within Mouton). Each year, after some e-mails between members, ALT and
Mouton, we do also regain members. When a member is in trouble, the
first step should always be an e-mail to secretary-treasurer
johan.vanderauwera at ua.ac.be. Usually, he cannot solve the problem
himself but he will put the member in contact with the right person
within Mouton. It is likely that we do again have members that
experience membership problems, for the June 2005 figures are the following:
Regular Student Total
June 2005 353 64 417
Members that have to change their status from Student to Regular are
also requested to write to the secretary-treasurer.
As in previous years, most ALT members hail from Europe (276 of the 417
members of June 2005) and from North America (79). Australia and Japan
each contribute another 20 members.
ALT officially also allows for group members, linguists that share a
journal but otherwise have full membership privileges. This scheme was
previously operational in Moscow and Tbilisi. The scheme proved to be
very impractical and financially difficult to maintain. As this moment
ALT has no group members in Georgia anymore. There are still 4 in
Russia, all in Moscow, but it is unclear what the constitution of the
Moscow groups is.
b. Finances
The treasurer presented the current figures on finances.
Action +/- Balance (EUR)
2003
September +12.904,43
Nov 3 For ALT V -1.121,81 +11.782,62
Dec 24 Bank interest +247,26 +12.029,88
2004
March 18 Legal help -75,00 +11.954,88
May 19 Memberships fees +2,948,00 +14.902,88
Dec 24 Bank interest +279,03 +15.181,91
2005
Jan 5 From ALT V +681,02 +15.862,93
Feb 15 Legal help -95,00 +15.767,93
Ma 29 Membership fees +3.317,00 +19.084,93
Apr 11 Legal help -417,45 +18.667,48
Apr 18 For ALT VI -3.024,20 +15.643,28
Apr 18 Scholarships ALT VI -2.528,83 +13.114,45
May 20 Translation statutes -495,66 +12.618,79
May 23 Scholarships ALT VI -1.600,00 +11.018,79
June 7 Prize ALT VI -1.199,78 +9.819,01
July 11 Legal help -134,07 +9.684,94
Annually recurring items are the bank interests (credit), a percentage
of the membership fees (credit), and a fee to a Flemish legal aid
organization. Settling the accounts of ALT V caused some activities (one
as late as January 2005). The process of acquiring a legal status
necessitated some extra costs. In 2005 some of the financial action
concerned the preparation of the Padang conference (and the five
scholarships).
c. Legal Status
At the business meeting at ALT V (2003) the secretary reported on his
attempts to file ALT as a non-profit organization in Belgium. This had
proved to be difficult largely because of changes in Belgian law. 2004
actually another change in Belgian law, which further delayed the
process. During 2004 and 2005 new statutes had to be drawn up and
translated. These were tailor-made for Belgian law and they leave 'our
own' statutes fully intact, though these are renamed 'internal
regulations' vis-à-vis Belgian law. In June 2005 a request for turning
ALT into a non-profit organization was official deposited.
[As of July 26 2005, ALT is in existence a non-profit organization
according to Belgian law.]
d. Linguistic Typology
In absentia, the Editor-in-chief, Frans Plank, gave figures on
submission and acceptance rates for the ALT journal. As LT is operating
on a Five Year Plan in this respect, the next full editorial report will
be in the final issue of volume 10 (2006), allowing comparison with the
first five years of LT, as reported on in the last issue of volume 5
(2001). A draft will be in the News in due course.
In 2005 Linguistic Typology saw a page increase from 400 to 500 pages.
To pay for this, both for its production and for the editing, Frans
Plank and Mouton have agreed to propose an increase in the membership of
6 EUR. This would bring the membership fee for 2006 up to 65 EUR for
regular members and to 41 EUR for student members - prices do not
include postage costs, which vary depending on the location. The
business meeting unanimously supported the proposal.
In connection with the membership fees, Nick Evans proposed to
investigate the possibility of having two types of membership fees: one
set (both regular and student) for the 'rich countries' and another fee
or set of fees for 'developing countries'. The business meeting
unanimously supported this proposal.
e. Future ALT meetings
The business meeting dicussed what is being planned for 2007 and 2009.
ALT VII will taken place in Paris from Sept 26 to Sept 29 2007. Our host
is the Fédération Typologie et Universaux Linguistiques, under the
directorship of Stéphane Robert. The organizing committee will consists
of Stéphane Robert, M. Jocelyne Fernandez-Vest, Isabelle Bril and
Martine Vanhove. There will be pre-conference workshops on Sept 24 and
25 on Spoken French and on 'Typology and African Languages'. It appears
that French law will necessitate the presence of French as a conference
language. This issue will have to be monitored by ALT's Executive
Committee and the local organizers.
As for ALT VIII (2009), so far ALT has received a strong expression of
interest in organizing this from linguists at Berkeley, who would
schedule it to fall during the LSA Linguistics Institute. A more
detailed bid will be coming in next year, but for now here is their
proposal:
"Berkeley is planning to submit a proposal to host the ALT 8 meeting in
2009. The LSA Linguistics Institute, directed by Andrew Garrett, will
be held here then, and the organizers enthusiastically welcome the
prospect of holding ALT 8 during the Institute. The exact dates we
propose will depend on the Institute's dates, which depend on the UC
Berkeley 2009 academic calendar, not yet published. We will avoid
conflicting with the International Pragmatics Association meeting to be
held in Melbourne July 12-17, 2009 and the International Cognitive
Linguistics Association to be held in Berkeley that same summer. The
Institute's title is "Linguistic Structures and Language Ecologies",
where by 'ecology', to quote the Institute proposal "we have in mind
the three major interlocking dimensions of context: hyman physical and
psychological contexts (including cognitive, perceptual, kinesic, and
articulatory system); demographic and social contexts (including the
role of ideologies and identities in language choice, language use in
interactional settings, and the social dynamics of languages within and
across populations characterized by a variety of demographic profiles);
and historical and geographic contexts (the historical trajectories of
languages in relation to the places where and periods when they are
spoken, and to the communities that speak them) ... We all agree that
to address these problems cogently it is essential to have a precise,
sophisticated understanding of all aspects of linguistic structure on
the one hand (semantics, syntax, morphology, phonology, phonetics) and
the various dimensions of linguistic ecology on the other hand." This
obviously resonates well with typology and our formal proposal will
provide for some conference events bringing together typology and
language ecologies."
Apart from the Berkeley bid, there had been some initial discussion of
receiving a bid from Mexico. However, the relevant Mexican linguists
would now like to hold this over for a later year.
f. The 2005 Elections
The business meeting also took note of the slates prepared by the
Nominating Committee.
The Nominating Committee, consisting of Tasaku Tsunoda (chair), Claude
Hagège, Edith Moravcsik and Maria Polinsky tried to propose a slate for
the offices to be renewed.
The Executive Committee needed three new members for a duration of 4
years. The nominees were Alexandra Aikhenvald, Balthasar Bickel, and
Anna Siewierska. All have accepted.
The Editorial Board also needed three new members. The selection process
was not finished yet.
[The process was finalized on November 22 2005. The nominees are Joan
Bresnan, Larry Hyman, and Stephen Levinson. They have all accepted.]
These slates are offered to the membership in a separate message.
This is the appropriate moment to thank Oesten Dahl, William Foley and
Vera Podlesskaya for their years on the Executive Committee, and Matt
Shibatani and Nick Evans for their service on the Editorial Board.
[In the months following the Padang meeting, the Executive Committee
furthermore agreed to having Marianne Mithun on board as a special
editor. In the words of editor-in-chief Frans Plank, "LT continues to
get many submissions focusing on American lgs, and there are few people
(if any) as competent and as willing as Marianne to help review these.
It's good for typology (and LT) to be so excellently connected with
American linguistics."]
Members are requested to express their vote on the ballot in the next
message and send it back to johan.vanderauwera at ua.ac.be by January 3 2006.
2. Recently Published
Apart from directly commissioning reviews, LT solicits offers to review
books -- those listed in this regular feature of ALT News or whichever
others you'd like to add on your own understanding of the attribute
"typologically relevant". For purposes of book reviewing in LT, what
matters is that REVIEWS are done from a distinctively typological angle,
whatever angles the books reviewed are done from. Reviewers so
intentioned please get in touch with me, that is:
frans.plank at uni-konstanz.de <mailto:frans.plank at uni-konstanz.de>
Drop me a line with bibliographical particulars if you want to make sure
your own relevant publications will be included in the next listing.
And remind your publisher to send a review copy to:
LINGUISTIC TYPOLOGY,
Sprachwissenschaft, Universität Konstanz,
D-78457 Konstanz, Germany.
Do feel free to offer to review grammars for LT too (again, from a
distinctively typological angle). Those grammars we are aware of are
listed in GRAMMAR WATCH on the ALT homepage (updated annually). Again,
do send particulars of grammars not (yet) listed, published 2000 CE
onwards.
Amidu, Assibi Apatewon (2001). Argument and Predicate Relations in
Kiswahili: A New Analysis of Transitiveness in Bantu. (Grammatische
Analysen afrikanischer Sprachen, 18.) Köln: Rüdiger Köppe.
Anderson, Stephen R. (2005). Aspects of the Theory of Clitics. Oxford:
Oxford University Press.
Baerman, Matthew, Dunstan Brown, & Greville G. Corbett (2005). The
Syntax-Morphology Interface: A Study of Syncretism. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press.
Basbøll, Hans (2005). The Phonology of Danish. Oxford: Oxford University
Press.
[There is a brief section "The Danish language typologically [...]" on
page 8, but the remaining 595 pages are but an elaboration of this
theme, in extenso covering everything which so endears Danish to the
foreign tongue and ear: the innumerable vowels, the vanished
consonants, and last but not least that lone survivor of radical
reductionism, the stød. [FP]]
Chaara, Fadoua (2003). Die Interaktion der Aspektsemantik mit dem
Lexikon im Marokkanisch-Arabischen. (Lincom Studies in Afroasiatic
Linguistics, 11.) München: Lincom Europa.
Culicover, Peter W. & Ray Jackendoff (2005). Simpler Syntax. Oxford:
Oxford University Press.
[Covers one score languages. From the Index: Arabic 342, Bantu 191,
Bulgarian 321, Catalan 263, Chinese 71-2, 324-6, 337, Chukchi 75, Dogrib
391, Dutch 38, 80, 83, 294, 342, 351, 501, French 80, 81-2, 193, 325,
501, German 22, 38, 59, 80, 83, 202, 229-30, 248, 259, 269, 294, 319,
342, 351, 459, 460, 501, Greek 249, 342, Hebrew 202, 249, 365, Icelandic
229-30, 261, 262, Italian 22, 77, 171, 195, 342, Korean 77, 223, 249,
351, 501, Latin 319, 529, Maltese 501, Mandarin 501, Mohawk 74-5,
Norwegian 387, Onondaga 74, Romance 171, Russian 249, 261, 319,
Serbo-Croatian 261, 262, Spanish 227, Swedish 38, Turkish 188, Universal
Grammar 11-4, 37, 39-42, 52, 118, 143-7, 231-2, 300, 332, 334, 338, 352,
390, 526-9, Urdu 249. Where's English?]
De Groot, Casper & Kees Hengeveld (eds.) (2005). Morphosyntactic
Expression in Functional Grammar. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Dezsö, László (2005). A magyar nyelvtan tipológiai jellemzése:
Válogatott írások. Typological Characterization of Hungarian Grammar.
Nyíregyháza: Kiadja a Nyíregyházi Föiskola.
Dressler, Wolfgang U., Dieter Kastovsky, Oskar Pfeiffer, & Franz Rainer,
with Francesco Gardani & Markus A. Pöchtrager (eds.) (2005). Morphology
and its Demarcations: selected Papers from the 11th Morphology Meeting,
Vienna, February 2004. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
[Mostly on affix vs. clitic and compound vs. derivative.]
Farrell, Patrick (2005). Grammatical Relations. Oxford: Oxford
University Press.
[Inaugurates the (black and red) series Oxford Surveys in Syntax and
Morphology. Not to be confused with the (black and lilac) Cambridge
Research Surveys in Linguistics. The colour they share -- being in
C/OUP's black books, as it were -- means these are serious books, not to
be confused with those books by the same publishers which are in lighter
colours and "assume no prior knowledge of the topic, of linguistics, of
anything".]
Frajzyngier, Zygmunt & Mohammed Munkaila (2004). Grammatical and
Semantic Relations in Hausa: The Categories 'Point of View', 'Goal' and
'Affected Object'. (Grammatische Analysen afrikanischer Sprachen, 24.)
Köln: Köppe.
Givón, Talmy & Boniface Kawasha (2001?). Indiscrete Grammatical
Relations: The Lunda Passive. (Technical Reports, 01-05.) Eugene OR:
Institute of Cognitive and Decision Sciences, University of Oregon.
Goddard, Cliff (2005). The Languages of East and Southeast Asia: An
Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Hanke, Thomas (2005). Bildungsweisen von Numeralia: Eine typologische
Untersuchung. (Berliner Beiträge zur Linguistik, 3.) Berlin: Weissensee.
Hansson, Gunnar (2001). Theoretical and typological issues in consonant
harmony.
Doctoral dissertation, University of California, Berkeley.
Haspelmath, Martin, Matthew S. Dryer, David Gil, & Bernard Comrie, with
Hans-Jörg Bibiko, Hagen Jung, & Claudia Schmidt (eds.) (2005). The World
Atlas of Language Structures. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Heine, Bernd & Tania Kuteva (2005). Language Contact and Grammatical
Change. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. & Eva F. Schultze-Berndt (eds.) (2005).
Secondary Predication and Adverbial Modification: The Typology of
Depictives. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Kayne, Richard S. (2005). Movement and Silence. Oxford: Oxford
University Press.
['Collection of (12) recent essays'.]
König, Christa (2002). Kasus im Ik. (Nilo-Saharan: Linguistic Analyses
and Documentation (NISA), 17.) Köln: Rüdiger Köppe. ISBN 3-89645-135-9.
Pp 626. [Reviews/Follow-ups: Alexandra Aikhenvald, Studies in Language
29 (2005) 200-207.]
Kroeger, Paul R. (2005). Analyzing Grammar: An Introduction. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press.
Levin, Beth & Malka Rappaport Hovav (2005). Argument Realization.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Lykowska, Laura (2002). Temporal Relation Markers in Amharic. (Studies
of the Department of African Languages and Cultures, 28.) Warsaw:
Institute of Oriental Studies, Warsaw University. Pp 124.
McClelland, Clive W. (2000). The Interrelations of Syntax, Narrative,
Structure and Prosody in a Berber Language. (Studies in Linguistics and
Semiotics, 8.) Lewiston NY & Lampeter UK: Edwin Mellen Press. ISBN
0-7734-7740-3. Pp xxi, 371.
Mengistu Amberber (2001).Verb Classes and Transitivity in Amharic.
(Lincom Studies in Afroasiatic Linguistics, 6.) München: Lincom Europa.
ISBN 3-89586-505-8. Pp 160.
Nasukawa, Kuniya (2005). A Unified Approach to Nasality and Voicing.
Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Newmeyer, Frederick J. (2005). Possible and Probable Languages: A Generative Perspective on Linguistic Typology. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Nurse, Derek (2000). Inheritance, Contact and Change in Two East African
Languages. With contributions on tones by Gérard Philippson.
(Sprachkontakt in Afrika/Language Contact in Africa, 4.) Köln: Rüdiger
Köppe. ISBN 3-89645-270-3. Pp 277.
[Deals with Daiso (E56) and Ilwana (E701). Has many notes on various
Cushitic influences. Reviews/Follow-ups: Reinhard Klein-Arendt, Journal
of African Languages and Linguistics 25 (2004) 186-189.]]
Obeng, Samuel Gyasi (2001). African Anthroponymy: An Ethnopragmatic and
Morphophonological Study of Personal Names in Akan and Some African
Societies. (Lincom Studies in Anthropology, 8.) München: Lincom Europa.
ISBN 3-89586-431-5.
Oliveira, Márcia Santos Duarte de (2005). Perguntas de constituinte em
Ibibio e a teoria de tipo oracional: aspectos da periferia à esquerda
com ênfase em foco. (Lincom Studies in African Linguistics, 55.)
München: Lincom Europa. ISBN 3-89586-799-3. Pp 375.
Seifart, Frank (2005). The structure and use of shape-based noun classes
in Miraña (North West Amazon). Doctoral dissertation, Radboud
Universiteit Nijmegen. (Available in the MPI Series in Psycholinguistics.)
Spitulnik, Debra A. (2001). Levels of Semantic Structuring in Bemba Noun
Classification. (Lincom Studies in African Linguistics, 50.) München:
Lincom Europa. ISBN 3-89586-689-X.
Tallerman, Maggie (2005). Understanding Syntax. 2nd edn. London: Hodder
Arnold.
Ven, Jostein (2000). Swahili Verbal Expressions and Their Interaction
with Argument Structure in the Derivation of Verb Forms. (Working Papers
in Linguistics, 33.) Trondheim: Department of Linguistics, Norwegian
University of Science and Technology (NTNU).
[Publication of the author's Candidate of Philosophy (Masters) thesis,
Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 1999.]
Vinokurova, Nadezhda (2005). Lexical categories and argument structure:
A study with reference to Sakha. Doctoral dissertation, Universiteit
Utrecht. (Available from LOT, Utrecht.)
Wälchli, Bernhard (2005). Co-compounds and Natural Coordination.
(OSTLT.) Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Wheeler, Max W. (2005). The Phonology of Catalan. Oxford: Oxford
University Press.
3. Mouton discount
An updated list of the discounted books that Mouton offers to ALT
members is found in the second appendix. Send your orders to the
Secretary-Treasurer.
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Nick Evans[President]
Linguistics
University of Melbourne tel +61 3 8344 8988
Parkville Victoria fax +61 3 8344 8990
Australia
E-mail: n.evans at linguistics.unimelb.edu.au
Frans Plank [Editor-in-chief, Linguistic Typology]
Sprachwissenschaft
Universität Konstanz
D-78457 Konstanz tel + 49 7531 88 26 56
Germany fax + 49 7531 88 27 41
E-mail: frans.plank at uni-konstanz.de
Johan van der Auwera [Secretary-Treasurer]
Linguistiek
Universiteit Antwerpen
B-2610 Antwerpen tel + 32 3 820 27 76
Belgium fax + 32 3 820 27 62
E-mail: johan.vanderauwera at ua.ac.be
On the WEB: http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fss/organisations/alt/
Webmaster : Peter Kahrel p.kahrel at lancaster.ac.uk
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Appendix 1:
Report on ALT Junior Prize, 1999-2004
As all members of the ALT are aware, the Junior Prize was not awarded in
the previous triennium, due to the very small number of entries - just
three for the years 1999-2001. This time, for the 2002-2004 period, ten
theses were entered into the competition. Three times as many as in the
previous period. This is an excellent and encouraging development, which
hopefully signals an overall greater interest in linguistic typology
amongst young linguists, and bodes well for the future of the Prize.
As a consequence, the Jury was faced with 13 theses to evaluate (there
was one subsequent withdrawal) no small number. The competition was
tough, and all of the theses were relevant to typology, and of a very
high standard. We members of the jury learnt a lot from the theses, and
thank the competitors for the opportunity to read and evaluate their work.
The theses treated a rich and impressive range of methodologies and topics:
* One thesis treated phonological typology, dealing with consonantal
processes;
* Two theses were rather more descriptive than typological in
orientation, dealing with an Australian and a Tibeto-Burman
language - nevertheless, both managed to combine the perspectives
to a greater or lesser degree;
* Three theses focussed primarily on grammaticalisation phenomena,
of motion and posture verbs, tense and aspect systems, and topic
and focus markers - again these works all spelt out typological
relevance;
* The remaining theses - i.e. half of them - dealt with
morphosyntactic typology:
o Verbal suppletion (1)
o Compounding (1)
o Negation (1)
o Case marking and transitivity, with four theses, is clearly
still the most popular topic, and was treated from a raft of
perspectives.
It was not easy to evaluate the merits of this diverse set of works, and
we had to bear in mind that the competition was a typological one. We
thus looked for the most significant contribution to linguistic
typology, that contributed most in terms of new ideas, methods, or
findings, or that provided the nicest challenges to existing ideas.
With these considerations in mind, it was clear that two theses stood
out: Matti Miestamo's 2003 University of Helsinki thesis Clause
negation: a typological study and Bernhard Wälchli's Stockholm
University thesis Co-compounds and natural coordination. The prize was
awarded to both, but for personal reasons Bernhard Wälchli did not
accept the prize. It was thus awarded to Matti Miestamo, who delivered
plenary at the Padang conference on his research.
Aside from this, three other theses were outstanding, and worthy of
honorary mentions. These are (in alphabetical order):
1. Oliver Iggesen (PhD, Universität Bremen) Case-asymmetry: a
world-wide typological study on lexeme-class-dependent deviations
in morphological case inventories - an impressive cross-linguistic
investigation of language-internal asymmetries in morphological
cases according to different classes of nominals.
2. Hsiu-chuan Liao (PhD, University of Hawai'i) Transitivity and
ergativity in Formosan and Philippine languages - of particular
significance to typology given the problematic position of
Formosan and Philippine languages in linguistic typologies and the
variety of different analyses that have been suggested;
3. Adam Saulwick (PhD, University of Melbourne) Aspect of the verb in
Rembarrnga: a polysynthetic language of northern Australia -
primarily descriptive, but includes an extensive and carefully
argued evaluation of the typology of noun incorporation in
relation to data from a language, and implications to linguistic
theory.
Congratulations Matti, Bernhard, Oliver, Hsiu, and Adam for your
inspiring work.
To return to Matti's prizewinning thesis: this thesis represents a
significant typological investigation of standard negation constructions
in a representative sample of languages - providing along the way good
discussion of sampling methods - that improves on existing typologies.
It also proposes functional explanations for some features of negation
constructions, and explores correlates with other grammatical phenomena.
In short, as one member of the Jury said, "a very thorough, thoughtful,
insightful, profound analysis". A revised version of the thesis has been
accepted for publication in the Mouton series Empirical Approaches to
Language Typology, and is scheduled to appear about now.
I thank the members of the jury for their efforts in reading and
reporting on the theses.
Bill McGregor
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Appendix 2
Discount rates for members of the Association for Language Typology
(ALT)
I. Empirical Approaches to Language Typology (EALT),
edited by Georg Bossong and Bernard Comrie
Title /
ISBN
Price
Member's Price
Ramat: Linguistic
Typology
EUR 86.00 / *US$ 112.00 EUR 45.00
1987. xii,244 p. Cloth. . ISBN 3-11-010678-7
Empirical Approaches to Language Typology 1
Geniusiené: The Typology of Reflexives
EUR 137.00 / *US$ 177.80
EUR 46.00
1987. xx, 435 p. Cloth. . ISBN 3-11-010677-9
Empirical Approaches to Language Typology 2
Wanner: The Development of Romance Clitic Pronouns
EUR 196.00 / *US$ 253.40 EUR 63.00
1987. xxxvi, 662 p. Cloth. . ISBN 3-11-010847-X
Empirical Approaches to Language Typology 3
Cooreman: Transitivity and Discourse Continuity in Chamorro Narratives
EUR 86.00 / *US$ 112.00 EUR 43.00
1987. x, 246 p. Cloth. . ISBN 3-11-011307-4
Empirical Approaches to Language Typology 4
Hewitt: The Typology of Subordination in Georgian and
Abkhaz EUR 110.00 / *US$ 142.80
EUR 44.00
1987. xvi, 288 p. Cloth. . ISBN 3-11-010709-0
Empirical Approaches to Language Typology 5
Schwegler: Analyticity and
Syntheticity EUR
110.00 / *US$ 142.80 EUR 44.00
1990. xvi, 290 p. Cloth. . ISBN 3-11-011245-0
Empirical Approaches to Language Typology 6
Payne: The Pragmatics of Word
Order EUR
110.00 / *US$ 142.80 EUR 44.00
1990. xiv, 298 p. Cloth. . ISBN 3-11-012207-3
Empirical Approaches to Language Typology 7
Toward a Typology of European Languages (Bechert / Bernini / Buridant,
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1990. x, 388 p. Cloth. . ISBN 3-11-012108-5
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Paradigms (Plank, ed.)
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Meaning and Grammar (Kefer / Auwera,
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Müller-Gotama: Grammatical
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Tense, Aspect and Action (Bache / Basbøll / Lindberg,
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Converbs in Cross-Linguistic Perspective (Haspelmath / König,
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The Grammar of Inalienability (Chappell / McGregor,
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Nowak: Transforming the
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Bernini / Ramat: Negative Sentences in the Languages of
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Wetzer: The Typology of Adjectival
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Kortmann: Adverbial
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Lazard:
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Squartini: Verbal Periphrases in
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Lexical Anaphors and Pronouns in Selected South Asian Languages:
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Typology and Second Language Acquisition (Ramat,
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Romance Objects Transitivity in Romance Languages (Fiorentino,
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Complex Predicates in Oceanic Languages (Bril / Ozanne-Rivierre,
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Carlson: A Grammar of
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Evans: A Grammar of
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Childs: A Grammar of
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Miller: A Grammar of Jamul
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Harvey: A Grammar of Gaagudju
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Maslova: A Grammar of Kolyma Yukaghir
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Terrill: A Grammar of
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Voort: A Grammar of
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Heath: A Grammar of Tamashek (Tuareg of Mali)
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