From info at eldp.soas.ac.uk Thu Jul 3 10:22:05 2003 From: info at eldp.soas.ac.uk (info) Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2003 11:22:05 +0100 Subject: Endangered Languages Documentation Programme - 2003 Call for Proposals - Reminder Message-ID: (Apologies for any cross-postings) Endangered Languages Documentation Programme 2003 Call for Proposals - Reminder Please note that the deadline for Preliminary applications to the 2003 funding round of the Endangered Languages Documentation Programme is 8th August. A full timetable, application details and forms can be found at http://www.hrelp.org/doc_home.htm. Please address any queries to Ellen Potts, Research Support Officer, at ep21 at soas.ac.uk. From sepkit at UTU.FI Wed Jul 16 03:47:15 2003 From: sepkit at UTU.FI (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Seppo_Kittil=E4?=) Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 06:47:15 +0300 Subject: Syntactic functions: Final Call for papers Message-ID: (Apologies for any cross-postings) FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS The Linguistic Association of Finland is organizing a symposium on Syntactic Functions - Focus on the Periphery to be held in Helsinki, Finland, November 14 - 15, 2003. The symposium will bring together linguists interested in questions dealing with syntactic functions. We invite papers addressing theoretical questions as well as papers taking a specific (empirical) viewpoint of one (or more) particular language(s). We especially encourage papers that concentrate on the syntactic status and description of "peripheral" constituents - such as adnominal and adverbial modifiers, adpositional phrases, converbs, adjuncts, discourse particles, various clause-size constituents etc. Possible themes include: - language specific problems in determining the syntactic function of (a) specific constituent(s) - the critical examination of principles used to define syntactic functions - the borderlines between "the core" and "the periphery" or between obligatory and optional constituents - the status of syntactic functions - are they primitives or derived? Furthermore, we warmly welcome scholars working on spoken language: What kind of syntactic functions are there in spoken language? Does the evidence from spoken language challenge the traditionally assumed syntactic functions? Other topics relating to syntactic functions are equally welcome. Invited speakers: · Christian Lehmann (University of Erfurt) · Maria Vilkuna (Research Institute for the Languages of Finland) Activities: · lectures by invited speakers · presentations by other participants (20 min + 10 min for discussion) · posters Symposium venue: House of Sciences (administered by the Federation of Finnish Learned Societies and situated in the heart of Helsinki city centre), Address: Kirkkokatu 6, Helsinki, Finland. Homepage of the symposium: Abstracts: The deadline for submission of abstracts (in English; max 500 words) is July 31, 2003. Please submit your abstract by e-mail to the following address: . The abstract should be included in the body of the message. Please indicate clearly whether your abstract is intended as a poster or a section paper. E-mail submissions are strongly recommended. If, however, you send your abstract by ordinary mail, please provide an e-mail address as a contact address. Participants will be notified about acceptance by September 1, 2003. The abstracts will be published on the web pages of the symposium: . Registration: The deadline for registration is October 1, 2003. Register by e-mail to the address above. Registration fees: · general: EUR 50 · members of the association: EUR 25 · undergraduate students free Participants from abroad are requested to pay in cash upon arrival. Participants from Finland may send the registration fee by giro account no 800013-1424850 to The Linguistic Association of Finland (SKY) / Symposium or pay in cash upon arrival. Accommodation: Please visit the web pages of the symposium at . The organizing committee (synfunct-organizers at ling.helsinki.fi): · Chair: Juhani Klemola, Department of English, University of Vaasa, P.O. Box 700, FIN-65101 Vaasa, · Other members: Marja Etelämäki, Department of Finnish, P.O. Box 4, FIN-00014 University of Helsinki, Seppo Kittilä, Department of General Linguistics, Hämeenkatu 2 A 8, FIN-20014 University of Turku, Leena Kolehmainen, Department of German, P.O. Box 24, FIN-00014 University of Helsinki, Matti Miestamo, Department of General Linguistics, P.O. Box 9, FIN-00014 University of Helsinki, Jussi Ylikoski, Finno-Ugrian Languages, Fennicum, FIN-20014 University of Turku, From Julia.Ulrich at DEGRUYTER.COM Wed Jul 16 13:17:11 2003 From: Julia.Ulrich at DEGRUYTER.COM (Julia Ulrich) Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 15:17:11 +0200 Subject: Rong Chen: English Inversion. A Ground-before-Figure Construction (2003) Message-ID: New from Mouton de Gruyter! >From the Series COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS RESEARCH Series Editors: René Dirven, Ronald W. Langacker, and John R. Taylor Rong Chen ENGLISH INVERSION A Ground-before-Figure Construction 2003. xi, 333 pages. Cloth. Euro 78.00 / sFr 125.00 / approx. US$ 86.00 ISBN 3-11-017810-9 (Cognitive Linguistics Research 25) The author provides an account of English inversion, a construction that displays perplexing idiosyncrasies at the level of semantics, phonology, syntax, and pragmatics. Basing his central argument on the claim that inversion is a linguistic representation of a Ground-before-Figure model, the author develops an elegant solution to a hitherto unsolved multidimensional linguistic puzzle and, in the process, supports the theoretical position that a cognitive approach best suits the multidimensionality of language itself. Engagingly written, the book appeals to linguists of all persuasions and to any reader curious about the relationship between language and cognition. Rong Chen is Professor at California State University, San Bernardino, USA. FROM THE CONTENTS: Chapter 1: Preliminaries 1. Issues of inversion 2. Previous research 3. Relevant tenets of cognitive linguistics 4. Other issues Chapter 2: Inversion as GbF instantiation 1. The GbF model 2. LOC BE: The prototype 3. PATH Vm: From existence to motion 4. NSPAT BE: From spatiality to nonspatiality 5. A radial classification 6. The phonology of inversion: A matter of focus 7. GbF and information packaging: A comparison Chapter 3: Syntactic constraints 1. Polarity 2. Transitivity 3. Embeddedness 4. Auxiliaries 5. Weight 6. Summary Chapter 4: Inversion in discourse 1. Discourse types: A tripartite 2. Inversion in description 3. Inversion in narration 4. Inversion in exposition 5. Summary 6. Inversion in parody Chapter 5: Conclusion 1. Summary 2. GbF representation in other languages To sign up for our FREE ELECTRONIC NEWSLETTER, please visit our website at www.degruyter.de/newsletter To order, please contact SFG-Servicecenter-Fachverlage GmbH Postfach 4343 72774 Reutlingen, Germany Fax: +49 (0)7071 - 93 53 - 33 E-mail: deGruyter at s-f-g.com For USA, Canada and Mexico: Walter de Gruyter, Inc. 200 Saw Mill River Road Hawthorne, NY 10532, USA Fax: +1 (914) 747-1326 E-mail: cs at degruyterny.com Please visit our website for other publications by Mouton de Gruyter: http://www.mouton-publishers.com __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Diese E-Mail und ihre Dateianhaenge ist fuer den angegeben Empfaenger und/oder die Empfaengergruppe bestimmt. Wenn Sie diese E-Mail versehentlich trotzdem erhalten haben, setzen Sie sich bitte mit dem Absender oder Ihrem Systembetreuer in Verbindung. Diese Fusszeile bestaetigt ausserdem, dass die E-Mail auf zum Pruefzeitpunkt bekannte Viren ueberprueft wurde. This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the sender or the system manager. This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept for the presence of computer viruses. From Julia.Ulrich at DEGRUYTER.COM Mon Jul 21 07:27:09 2003 From: Julia.Ulrich at DEGRUYTER.COM (Julia Ulrich) Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 09:27:09 +0200 Subject: Cristiano Broccias: The English Change Network (2003) Message-ID: New from Mouton de Gruyter! >From the Series COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS RESEARCH Series Editors: René Dirven, Ronald W. Langacker, and John R. Taylor Cristiano Broccias THE ENGLISH CHANGE NETWORK Forcing Changes into Schemas 2003. viii, 392 pages. Cloth. Euro 84.00 / sFr 134.00/ approx. US$ 92.00 ISBN 3-11-017646-7 (Cognitive Linguistics Research 22) This book introduces the notion of change construction and systematically studies, within a Cognitive Grammar framework, the rich inventory of its instantiations in English, from well-known structures such as the so-called resultative construction to a variety of largely ignored types such as asymmetric resultatives, sublexical change constructions and mildly causal constructions. Cristiano Broccias teaches at the Universities of Genova and Pavia, Italy. FROM THE CONTENTS: Chapter 1 Introduction 1. Two constructions 2. Cognitive Grammar 3. Preview Chapter 2 Resultative constructions and change constructions 1. Resultative constructions and phrases 2. The billiard-ball model 3. The change phrase Chapter 3 Asymmetric resultatives and the change complex 1. Transitivity 2. Summary 3. Impossible combinations Chapter 4 Motion and idiosyncrasy 1. The motion scenario 2. Tight links and information retrieval 3. Lexical variation 4. Interim conclusion Chapter 5 The Force Change Schema and the Event Change Schema 1. The Force Change Schema 2. The Event Change Schema Chapter 6 The Event Force Change Schema and verb classes 1. The Event Force Change Schema 2. The lack of object orientation 3. On indeterminacy and complexity 4. Verb classes Chapter 7 at-constructions 1. The conative alternation 2. The allative and ablative scenarios 3. Pesetsky's (1995) paradox Chapter 8 Conclusion To sign up for our FREE ELECTRONIC NEWSLETTER, please visit our website at www.degruyter.de/newsletter To order, please contact SFG-Servicecenter-Fachverlage GmbH Postfach 4343 72774 Reutlingen, Germany Fax: +49 (0)7071 - 93 53 - 33 E-mail: deGruyter at s-f-g.com For USA, Canada and Mexico: Walter de Gruyter, Inc. 200 Saw Mill River Road Hawthorne, NY 10532, USA Fax: +1 (914) 747-1326 E-mail: cs at degruyterny.com Please visit our website for other publications by Mouton de Gruyter: http://www.mouton-publishers.com __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Diese E-Mail und ihre Dateianhaenge ist fuer den angegeben Empfaenger und/oder die Empfaengergruppe bestimmt. Wenn Sie diese E-Mail versehentlich trotzdem erhalten haben, setzen Sie sich bitte mit dem Absender oder Ihrem Systembetreuer in Verbindung. Diese Fusszeile bestaetigt ausserdem, dass die E-Mail auf zum Pruefzeitpunkt bekannte Viren ueberprueft wurde. This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the sender or the system manager. This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept for the presence of computer viruses. From Julia.Ulrich at DEGRUYTER.COM Mon Jul 21 10:07:22 2003 From: Julia.Ulrich at DEGRUYTER.COM (Julia Ulrich) Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 12:07:22 +0200 Subject: Liesbeth Heyvaert: A Cognitive-Functional Approach to Nominalization in English (2003) Message-ID: New from Mouton de Gruyter! >From the Series COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS RESEARCH Series Editors: René Dirven, Ronald W. Langacker, and John R. Taylor Liesbet Heyvaert A COGNITIVE-FUNCTIONAL APPROACH TO NOMINALIZATION IN ENGLISH 2003. xxiv, 290 pages. Cloth. Euro 98.00 / sFr 157.00 / approx. US$ 108.00 ISBN 3-11-017809-5 (Cognitive Linguistics Research 26) The book presents a systematic theoretical account of the fundamental constructional mechanisms that underlie deverbal nominalization in general, and it makes an original descriptive contribution by discussing a number of nominalization systems in detail. The main theoretical motif is that nom-inalization strongly calls for a functional rather than purely structural approach. The book goes more deeply into a number of functional constructs needed to model nominalization (drawn from Cognitive Grammar and Systemic-Functional Grammar) and it elaborates on the internal functional organization of nominal and clausal structure (e.g., the notions of type specification, instantiation and grounding [Langacker 1991] are discussed in detail and shown to be crucial for the analysis of deverbal nominalization). It is argued that deverbal nominalizations are basically re-classifications of verbal predicates into nominal constructions. This re-classification either applies at word rank or ! it involves the rank shift (Halliday 1966) of a clause-like unit, with its internal structure preserved (e.g., signing the contract quickly). The re-classified unit then adopts a specific nominal strategy, with some form of nominal determination and quantification (e.g,. her signing the contract quickly). The descriptive part of the book zooms in on nominalizations that are derived at word rank (deverbal -er nominals) and on nominalizations applying to 'temporal clausal heads' (e.g,. John's playing the piano) and finite clauses. Of the gerundive and finite types of nominalization, those that function in factive contexts are focused on. In the analysis of deverbal -er nominals a case is made for a 'subject' analysis of the system and an elaborate discussion of the clausal middle construction (e.g., this book reads easily) - which is argued to show systematic resemblances with non-agentive -er nominals - is included. Of the remaining nominalization types (John's playing the p! iano; playing the piano; the fact that he plays the piano; that he pla ys the piano), especially the nominal behaviour (e.g., proper name vs. common noun strategy) and - in the case of gerundive nominals - the various structural and semantic subtypes that can be distinguished among them are discussed. Liesbet Heyvaert teaches at the University of Leuven, Belgium. >From the Contents: Part I Towards a theoretical-descriptive approach to nominalization 1. Introduction 2. Theoretical assumptions 3. Nominalization 4. The functional organization of nominal and clause Part II Deverbal -er suffixation: Towards a descriptive position 5. Deverbal -er suffixation: Towards a descriptive position 6. The middle construction 7. Amultifunctional approach to -er nominalization Part III Factive nominalization 8. Factive nominalization: Towards a descriptive position 9. A functional analysis of factive nominalizations as nominal constructions 10. 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Please address any queries to Ellen Potts, Research Support Officer, at ep21 at soas.ac.uk. From sepkit at UTU.FI Wed Jul 16 03:47:15 2003 From: sepkit at UTU.FI (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Seppo_Kittil=E4?=) Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 06:47:15 +0300 Subject: Syntactic functions: Final Call for papers Message-ID: (Apologies for any cross-postings) FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS The Linguistic Association of Finland is organizing a symposium on Syntactic Functions - Focus on the Periphery to be held in Helsinki, Finland, November 14 - 15, 2003. The symposium will bring together linguists interested in questions dealing with syntactic functions. We invite papers addressing theoretical questions as well as papers taking a specific (empirical) viewpoint of one (or more) particular language(s). We especially encourage papers that concentrate on the syntactic status and description of "peripheral" constituents - such as adnominal and adverbial modifiers, adpositional phrases, converbs, adjuncts, discourse particles, various clause-size constituents etc. Possible themes include: - language specific problems in determining the syntactic function of (a) specific constituent(s) - the critical examination of principles used to define syntactic functions - the borderlines between "the core" and "the periphery" or between obligatory and optional constituents - the status of syntactic functions - are they primitives or derived? Furthermore, we warmly welcome scholars working on spoken language: What kind of syntactic functions are there in spoken language? Does the evidence from spoken language challenge the traditionally assumed syntactic functions? Other topics relating to syntactic functions are equally welcome. Invited speakers: ? Christian Lehmann (University of Erfurt) ? Maria Vilkuna (Research Institute for the Languages of Finland) Activities: ? lectures by invited speakers ? presentations by other participants (20 min + 10 min for discussion) ? posters Symposium venue: House of Sciences (administered by the Federation of Finnish Learned Societies and situated in the heart of Helsinki city centre), Address: Kirkkokatu 6, Helsinki, Finland. Homepage of the symposium: Abstracts: The deadline for submission of abstracts (in English; max 500 words) is July 31, 2003. Please submit your abstract by e-mail to the following address: . The abstract should be included in the body of the message. Please indicate clearly whether your abstract is intended as a poster or a section paper. E-mail submissions are strongly recommended. If, however, you send your abstract by ordinary mail, please provide an e-mail address as a contact address. Participants will be notified about acceptance by September 1, 2003. The abstracts will be published on the web pages of the symposium: . Registration: The deadline for registration is October 1, 2003. Register by e-mail to the address above. Registration fees: ? general: EUR 50 ? members of the association: EUR 25 ? undergraduate students free Participants from abroad are requested to pay in cash upon arrival. Participants from Finland may send the registration fee by giro account no 800013-1424850 to The Linguistic Association of Finland (SKY) / Symposium or pay in cash upon arrival. Accommodation: Please visit the web pages of the symposium at . The organizing committee (synfunct-organizers at ling.helsinki.fi): ? Chair: Juhani Klemola, Department of English, University of Vaasa, P.O. Box 700, FIN-65101 Vaasa, ? Other members: Marja Etel?m?ki, Department of Finnish, P.O. Box 4, FIN-00014 University of Helsinki, Seppo Kittil?, Department of General Linguistics, H?meenkatu 2 A 8, FIN-20014 University of Turku, Leena Kolehmainen, Department of German, P.O. Box 24, FIN-00014 University of Helsinki, Matti Miestamo, Department of General Linguistics, P.O. Box 9, FIN-00014 University of Helsinki, Jussi Ylikoski, Finno-Ugrian Languages, Fennicum, FIN-20014 University of Turku, From Julia.Ulrich at DEGRUYTER.COM Wed Jul 16 13:17:11 2003 From: Julia.Ulrich at DEGRUYTER.COM (Julia Ulrich) Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 15:17:11 +0200 Subject: Rong Chen: English Inversion. A Ground-before-Figure Construction (2003) Message-ID: New from Mouton de Gruyter! >From the Series COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS RESEARCH Series Editors: Ren? Dirven, Ronald W. Langacker, and John R. Taylor Rong Chen ENGLISH INVERSION A Ground-before-Figure Construction 2003. xi, 333 pages. Cloth. Euro 78.00 / sFr 125.00 / approx. US$ 86.00 ISBN 3-11-017810-9 (Cognitive Linguistics Research 25) The author provides an account of English inversion, a construction that displays perplexing idiosyncrasies at the level of semantics, phonology, syntax, and pragmatics. Basing his central argument on the claim that inversion is a linguistic representation of a Ground-before-Figure model, the author develops an elegant solution to a hitherto unsolved multidimensional linguistic puzzle and, in the process, supports the theoretical position that a cognitive approach best suits the multidimensionality of language itself. Engagingly written, the book appeals to linguists of all persuasions and to any reader curious about the relationship between language and cognition. Rong Chen is Professor at California State University, San Bernardino, USA. FROM THE CONTENTS: Chapter 1: Preliminaries 1. Issues of inversion 2. Previous research 3. Relevant tenets of cognitive linguistics 4. Other issues Chapter 2: Inversion as GbF instantiation 1. The GbF model 2. LOC BE: The prototype 3. PATH Vm: From existence to motion 4. NSPAT BE: From spatiality to nonspatiality 5. A radial classification 6. The phonology of inversion: A matter of focus 7. GbF and information packaging: A comparison Chapter 3: Syntactic constraints 1. Polarity 2. Transitivity 3. Embeddedness 4. Auxiliaries 5. Weight 6. Summary Chapter 4: Inversion in discourse 1. Discourse types: A tripartite 2. Inversion in description 3. Inversion in narration 4. Inversion in exposition 5. Summary 6. Inversion in parody Chapter 5: Conclusion 1. Summary 2. GbF representation in other languages To sign up for our FREE ELECTRONIC NEWSLETTER, please visit our website at www.degruyter.de/newsletter To order, please contact SFG-Servicecenter-Fachverlage GmbH Postfach 4343 72774 Reutlingen, Germany Fax: +49 (0)7071 - 93 53 - 33 E-mail: deGruyter at s-f-g.com For USA, Canada and Mexico: Walter de Gruyter, Inc. 200 Saw Mill River Road Hawthorne, NY 10532, USA Fax: +1 (914) 747-1326 E-mail: cs at degruyterny.com Please visit our website for other publications by Mouton de Gruyter: http://www.mouton-publishers.com __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Diese E-Mail und ihre Dateianhaenge ist fuer den angegeben Empfaenger und/oder die Empfaengergruppe bestimmt. Wenn Sie diese E-Mail versehentlich trotzdem erhalten haben, setzen Sie sich bitte mit dem Absender oder Ihrem Systembetreuer in Verbindung. Diese Fusszeile bestaetigt ausserdem, dass die E-Mail auf zum Pruefzeitpunkt bekannte Viren ueberprueft wurde. This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the sender or the system manager. This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept for the presence of computer viruses. From Julia.Ulrich at DEGRUYTER.COM Mon Jul 21 07:27:09 2003 From: Julia.Ulrich at DEGRUYTER.COM (Julia Ulrich) Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 09:27:09 +0200 Subject: Cristiano Broccias: The English Change Network (2003) Message-ID: New from Mouton de Gruyter! >From the Series COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS RESEARCH Series Editors: Ren? Dirven, Ronald W. Langacker, and John R. Taylor Cristiano Broccias THE ENGLISH CHANGE NETWORK Forcing Changes into Schemas 2003. viii, 392 pages. Cloth. Euro 84.00 / sFr 134.00/ approx. US$ 92.00 ISBN 3-11-017646-7 (Cognitive Linguistics Research 22) This book introduces the notion of change construction and systematically studies, within a Cognitive Grammar framework, the rich inventory of its instantiations in English, from well-known structures such as the so-called resultative construction to a variety of largely ignored types such as asymmetric resultatives, sublexical change constructions and mildly causal constructions. Cristiano Broccias teaches at the Universities of Genova and Pavia, Italy. FROM THE CONTENTS: Chapter 1 Introduction 1. Two constructions 2. Cognitive Grammar 3. Preview Chapter 2 Resultative constructions and change constructions 1. Resultative constructions and phrases 2. The billiard-ball model 3. The change phrase Chapter 3 Asymmetric resultatives and the change complex 1. Transitivity 2. Summary 3. Impossible combinations Chapter 4 Motion and idiosyncrasy 1. The motion scenario 2. Tight links and information retrieval 3. Lexical variation 4. Interim conclusion Chapter 5 The Force Change Schema and the Event Change Schema 1. The Force Change Schema 2. The Event Change Schema Chapter 6 The Event Force Change Schema and verb classes 1. The Event Force Change Schema 2. The lack of object orientation 3. On indeterminacy and complexity 4. Verb classes Chapter 7 at-constructions 1. The conative alternation 2. The allative and ablative scenarios 3. Pesetsky's (1995) paradox Chapter 8 Conclusion To sign up for our FREE ELECTRONIC NEWSLETTER, please visit our website at www.degruyter.de/newsletter To order, please contact SFG-Servicecenter-Fachverlage GmbH Postfach 4343 72774 Reutlingen, Germany Fax: +49 (0)7071 - 93 53 - 33 E-mail: deGruyter at s-f-g.com For USA, Canada and Mexico: Walter de Gruyter, Inc. 200 Saw Mill River Road Hawthorne, NY 10532, USA Fax: +1 (914) 747-1326 E-mail: cs at degruyterny.com Please visit our website for other publications by Mouton de Gruyter: http://www.mouton-publishers.com __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Diese E-Mail und ihre Dateianhaenge ist fuer den angegeben Empfaenger und/oder die Empfaengergruppe bestimmt. Wenn Sie diese E-Mail versehentlich trotzdem erhalten haben, setzen Sie sich bitte mit dem Absender oder Ihrem Systembetreuer in Verbindung. Diese Fusszeile bestaetigt ausserdem, dass die E-Mail auf zum Pruefzeitpunkt bekannte Viren ueberprueft wurde. This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the sender or the system manager. This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept for the presence of computer viruses. From Julia.Ulrich at DEGRUYTER.COM Mon Jul 21 10:07:22 2003 From: Julia.Ulrich at DEGRUYTER.COM (Julia Ulrich) Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 12:07:22 +0200 Subject: Liesbeth Heyvaert: A Cognitive-Functional Approach to Nominalization in English (2003) Message-ID: New from Mouton de Gruyter! >From the Series COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS RESEARCH Series Editors: Ren? Dirven, Ronald W. Langacker, and John R. Taylor Liesbet Heyvaert A COGNITIVE-FUNCTIONAL APPROACH TO NOMINALIZATION IN ENGLISH 2003. xxiv, 290 pages. Cloth. Euro 98.00 / sFr 157.00 / approx. US$ 108.00 ISBN 3-11-017809-5 (Cognitive Linguistics Research 26) The book presents a systematic theoretical account of the fundamental constructional mechanisms that underlie deverbal nominalization in general, and it makes an original descriptive contribution by discussing a number of nominalization systems in detail. The main theoretical motif is that nom-inalization strongly calls for a functional rather than purely structural approach. The book goes more deeply into a number of functional constructs needed to model nominalization (drawn from Cognitive Grammar and Systemic-Functional Grammar) and it elaborates on the internal functional organization of nominal and clausal structure (e.g., the notions of type specification, instantiation and grounding [Langacker 1991] are discussed in detail and shown to be crucial for the analysis of deverbal nominalization). It is argued that deverbal nominalizations are basically re-classifications of verbal predicates into nominal constructions. This re-classification either applies at word rank or ! it involves the rank shift (Halliday 1966) of a clause-like unit, with its internal structure preserved (e.g., signing the contract quickly). The re-classified unit then adopts a specific nominal strategy, with some form of nominal determination and quantification (e.g,. her signing the contract quickly). The descriptive part of the book zooms in on nominalizations that are derived at word rank (deverbal -er nominals) and on nominalizations applying to 'temporal clausal heads' (e.g,. John's playing the piano) and finite clauses. Of the gerundive and finite types of nominalization, those that function in factive contexts are focused on. In the analysis of deverbal -er nominals a case is made for a 'subject' analysis of the system and an elaborate discussion of the clausal middle construction (e.g., this book reads easily) - which is argued to show systematic resemblances with non-agentive -er nominals - is included. Of the remaining nominalization types (John's playing the p! iano; playing the piano; the fact that he plays the piano; that he pla ys the piano), especially the nominal behaviour (e.g., proper name vs. common noun strategy) and - in the case of gerundive nominals - the various structural and semantic subtypes that can be distinguished among them are discussed. Liesbet Heyvaert teaches at the University of Leuven, Belgium. >From the Contents: Part I Towards a theoretical-descriptive approach to nominalization 1. Introduction 2. Theoretical assumptions 3. Nominalization 4. The functional organization of nominal and clause Part II Deverbal -er suffixation: Towards a descriptive position 5. Deverbal -er suffixation: Towards a descriptive position 6. The middle construction 7. Amultifunctional approach to -er nominalization Part III Factive nominalization 8. Factive nominalization: Towards a descriptive position 9. A functional analysis of factive nominalizations as nominal constructions 10. 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Beesley (Xerox Research Center Europe) and Lauri Karttunen (Palo Alto Research Center);paper ISBN: 1-57586-434-7, $40.00, cloth ISBN: 1-57586-433-9, $85.00, 528 pages, copyright 2003 by CSLI Publications. http://cslipublications.stanford.edu , email: pubs at csli.stanford.edu. To order this book, contact The University of Chicago Press. Call their toll free order number 1-800-621-2736 (U.S. & Canada only) or order online at http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ (use the search feature to locate the book, then order). Book description: The finite-state paradigm is increasingly popular, and natural-language applications based on the theory are elegant, robust, and efficient. This book is a practical guide to finite-state theory and to the use of the Xerox finite-state programming languages lexc and xfst. It explains how to write morphological analyzer/generators and tokenizers for words in natural languages such as English, French, Arabic, Finnish, Hungarian, Malay, Korean, etc. The text provides graded introductions, examples, and exercises that are suitable for individual study or formal courses. Natural-language words are typically formed of morphemes concatenated together, as in un+guard+ed+ly and over+critic+al, but some languages also exhibit non-concatenative processes such as interdigitation and reduplication. When morphemes are combined together into new words, they often display alternations in their pronunciation or spelling, as when swim+ing becomes swimming, take+ing becomes taking and die+ing becomes dying. Finite-state morphology assumes that both the word-formation rules (morphotactics) and the morpho-phonological alternation rules can be modeled as finite-state machines. The lexc and xfst command-line applications are widely tested, having been used commercially by Xerox and its partners, and in research by over 80 licensees. The book includes a non-commercial license and a CD-ROM with the Xerox finite-state software compiled for the Solaris, Linux, Windows, and Macintosh OS X operating systems. ------------------------------