3 Functional works from John Benjamins

[Paul Peranteau]

These three books which are functionally oriented are now available:

Between Grammar and Lexicon
Ellen CONTINI-MORAVA (University of Virginia) and Yishai TOBIN (Ben-Gurion
University of the Negev) (eds.)
Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 183
US & Canada: 1 55619 960 0 / USD 95.00 (Hardcover)
Rest of world:90 272 3689 5 / NLG 190.00 (Hardcover)

This volume has its origins in a theme session entitled: "Lexical and
Grammatical Classification: Same or Different?" from the Fifth
International Cognitive Linguistics Conference. It includes theme session
presentations, additional papers from that conference, and several invited
contributions. All the articles explore the relationship between lexical
and grammatical categories, both illustrating the close interaction, as
well as questioning the strict dichotomy, between them. This volume
promotes a holistic view of classification reflecting functional,
cognitive, communication, and sign-oriented approaches to language which
have been applied to both the grammar and the lexicon.
The volume is divided into two parts. Part I, Number and Gender Systems
Across Languages, is further subdivided into three sections: (1) Noun
Classification; (2) Number Systems; and (3) Gender Systems. Part II, Verb
Systems and Parts of Speech Across Languages, is divided into two
sections: (1) Tense and Aspect and (2) Parts of Speech. The analyses
represent a diverse range of languages and language families: Bantu
(Swahili), Guaykuruan (Pilagá), Indo-European (English, Russian, Polish,
Bulgarian, Macedonian, Spanish) and Semitic (Hebrew).
Contributions by: Edna Andrews; Ellen Contini-Morava; Marina Gorlach;
Walter Hirtle; Laura Janda; Bob de Jonge; Pablo Isaac Kirtchuck; Flora
Klein-Andreu; Lori Morris; Ricardo Otheguy; Dorit Ravid; Mary Ellen Ryder;
Yitzhak Shlesinger; Nancy Stern; Yishai Tobin.

Tense-Aspect, Transitivity and Causativity.
Essays in honour of Vladimir Nedjalkov.
Werner ABRAHAM (University of Groningen) and Leonid KULIKOV (University of
Leiden) (eds.)
Studies in Language Companion Series 50
US & Canada: 1 55619 936 8 / USD 95.00 (Hardcover)
Rest of world: 90 272 3053 6 / NLG 190.00 (Hardcover)

This collection presents typological work on tense, aspect, and epistemic
modality in a variety of languages and against the background of different
schools of thinking, among which the St. Petersburg Typological School
developed and so masterfully implemented by the Petersburg linguist,
Vladimir Petrovich Nedjalkov. The volume honors this reputed scholar for
his life work. It is in mainly this spirit (and the EUROTYPE spirit) that
the following scholars have contributed to the volume: T.Tsunoda on
Warrungu (Australian indigeneous language), L. Kulikov on Vedic, K. Kiryu
on Japanese, Korean and Newari, N. Sumbatova on Svan (from the Kartvelian
group), T.Bulygina & A. Shmelev on Russian, W. Boeder on Georgian, R.
Thieroff on aorist and imperfect in European languages, Y. Poupynin on
Russian, L. Johanson on Kipchak Turkic, I. Dolinina on Russian, N.
Kozintseva on Old and Modern Eastern Armenian, Ch. Lee on Korean, W.
Abraham on split ergative languages and German, G. Silnitsky on Russian,
V. Plungian on Russian, E. Rakhilina on Russian, and K. Ebert on Kalmyk.

Demonstratives.
Form, function and grammaticalization.
Holger DIESSEL (Max Planck Institute, Leipzig)
Typological Studies in Language 42
US & Canada: 1 55619 656 3 / USD 75.00 (Hardcover) 1 55619 657 1 / USD
29.95 (Paperback)
Rest of world: 90 272 2942 2 / NLG 150.00 (Hardcover) 90 272 2943 0 / NLG
60.00 (Paperback)

All languages have demonstratives, but their form, meaning and use vary
tremendously across the languages of the world. This book presents the
first large-scale analysis of demonstratives from a cross-linguistic and
diachronic perspective. It is based on a representative sample of 85
languages. The first part of the book analyzes demonstratives from a
synchronic point of view, examining their morphological structures,
semantic features, syntactic functions, and pragmatic uses in spoken and
written discourse. The second part concentrates on diachronic issues, in
particular on the development of demonstratives into grammatical markers.
Across languages demonstratives provide a frequent historical source for
definite articles, relative and third person pronouns, nonverbal copulas,
sentence connectives, directional preverbs, focus markers, expletives, and
many other grammatical markers. The book describes the different
mechanisms by which demonstratives grammaticalize and argues that the
evolution of grammatical markers from demonstratives is crucially distinct
from other cases of grammaticalization.


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