From nrude at BALLANGRUD.COM  Thu May  1 18:28:52 2003
From: nrude at BALLANGRUD.COM (Noel Rude)
Date: Thu, 1 May 2003 11:28:52 -0700
Subject: Primary object languages & pronouns
Message-ID: <THU.1.MAY.2003.112852.0700.NRUDE@BALLANGRUD.COM>

Howdy folks!

Been off the rez for a couple of weeks but will comment now re Dan's query.
The Sahaptian languages (Nez Perce and Sahaptin) might be analyzed as
Matthew's Primary-Secondary Object languages, or so I originally thought.
The verb agrees with both subject and object, and in a ditransitive clause
the object agreement is with the dative/goal.  The case marking of nouns
also follows this pattern, e.g. the dative/goal is case marked accusative
and the patient "chômeur" is unmarked for case, as e.g. in Nez Perce (make
nothing of the word order which is extremely "free"):

(1)    'a-táamyan-a háama-na
        SAP/3-hit-PST man-ACC
        'I hit the man'

(2)    'e-'ní-ye tíim'es háama-na
        SAP/3-give-PST book man-ACC
        'I gave the man a book'

Interestingly, however, it turns out that if the patient is human then we
have the option of a "Dative Shift", e.g. nonshifted (3) and shifted (4).

(3)    'e-'ní-ye haswaláya-na miyóo?ato-px
        SAP/3-give-PST slave-ACC chief-DAT
        'I gave the/a slave to the chief'

(4)    'e-'ní-ye haswaláya miyóo?ato-na
        SAP/3-give-PST slave chief-ACC
        'I gave the chief the/a slave'

If the patient is a SAP (Speech Act Participant) there can be no Dative
Shift, as in the following from Sahaptin where only the unshifted ex. (5) is
grammatical.

(5)    pa-ní-sa=nam miyuu?-míyaw
        they-give-ASP=2SG chief-DAT
        'they are giving you to the chief'

(6)    *pa-ní-sa miyúu?-na imaná
        they-give-ASP chief-ACC you.ACC
        'they are giving the chief you'

This pattern carries over into causatives and complement constructions such
that, for example, a dative marked nominal is interpreted as lower subject
or causum, as in (7) where Dative Shift has not occurred and cannibalism is
implied.  Compare (8) where the causum is direct object.

(7)    wins-míyaw patá-sapa-tkwatan-a
        man-DAT they/3-CAUS-eat-PST
        'they made the man eat him/her/them'

(8)    patá-sapa-tkwatan-a
        they/3-CAUS-eat-PST
        'they made him/her/them eat'

Thus it looks like Dative Shift has been almost completely generalized in
Sahaptian, much more so than in, say, English.  The only place where it is
not obligatory is in those rare situations when the patient is human (where
it becomes optional for 3rd person and impossible for SAPs).  As for
terminological confusion, it would seem that as functionalists we would
explain cross-linguistic phenomena (e.g. Dative Shift) via universals of
semantic case and pragmatic function.  I think syntax is more difficult for
folks who demand a 100% mechanistic theory and are reluctant to realize that
language is where mechanism and freedom converge.  Oh, and should anyone be
interested in this Sahaptian data -- why not have a look at my paper in TSL
35.

Noel

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Everett" <dan.everett at MAN.AC.UK>
To: <FUNKNET at listserv.rice.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2003 7:33 AM
Subject: Primary object languages & pronouns


>>
>> Folks,
>>
>> Wari', Amazonian, shows agreement and syntax typical of what Dryer
>> (1986) has treated as obligatorily anti-dative or Van Valin & La
>> Polla (1997, 270ff) treat as a 'primary-object pattern'. That is, in
>> simple transitive clauses the AGENT and PATIENT both trigger
>> agreement on the verb. In di-transitive clauses, however, it is the
>> RECIPIENT/GOAL which triggers/governs agreement on the verb. The
>> PATIENT argument in these clauses appears as the object of a
>> preposition (Wari' is V-IO-O-S). Pronouns in Wari' may not bear the
>> RECIPIENT role. My question is this: Are there other languages like
>> this? Some hypothetical examples of what I mean are:
>>
>> (1) a. I hit him.
>>      b. Bill hit me.
>>      c. Mary saw you.
>>
>> In 1a-c, the verb would agree in Wari' with both subject/agent and
>> object/patient, regardless of whether these are NPs or pronouns -
>> they may also be zero, but the verb will still show agreement.
>>
>> (2) a. I gave Mary of the book. (I gave the book to Mary) - VERB
>> agrees with 'Mary' and 'I'.
>>      b. *I gave her of the book. (Even though the verb agreement will
>> be for 1 person singular and 3 singular feminine)
>>
>>
>> Again, does anyone know of other languages with this pattern?
>>
>> -- Dan
>>


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From dan.everett at MAN.AC.UK  Thu May  1 18:43:55 2003
From: dan.everett at MAN.AC.UK (Dan Everett)
Date: Thu, 1 May 2003 19:43:55 +0100
Subject: Primary object languages & pronouns
In-Reply-To: <005e01c3100f$857e32e0$6c09a8c0@lang01>
Message-ID: <THU.1.MAY.2003.194355.0100.DAN.EVERETT@MAN.AC.UK>

Folks,

While the data that Noel and others have adduced is interesting in their
own right, they do not answer my, clumsily worded no doubt, question. So
let me restate the question, hopefully more clearly this time.

First the syntactic context: Wari' is a primary object language. This
means (for me, I am not claiming that it represents what others have
said about these languages, for now at least) that the GOAL/RECIPIENT
argument governs object agreement on the verb and the
THEME/PATIENT/UNDERGOER argument appears as the object of a preposition,
in di-transitive constructions. This pattern is not all that unusual. I
was not asking if other languages have this pattern. I know there are.

But in that context, the restriction is this: a Wari' pronoun may encode
POSSESSOR, ACTOR, or UNDERGOER (whether the UNDERGOER is the object of a
verb or a preposition), but a Wari' pronoun may never encode the
RECIPIENT argument. *This* is what struck me as unusual. Martin
Haspelmath tells me he has never seen such a case. And Matthew Dryer
also says that he is not aware of such a restriction.

Now, the research I am finishing up is actually not even about that
directly. The research in which this arises tries to show that a class
of periphrastic expressions in Wari' are pronouns (in fact, the
pronominal paradigm in Wari' is 100% periphrastic) and *one* of the
dozen or so arguments I give is that these pronouns are prohibited from
bearing the RECIPIENT role, whereas parts of the expression in isolation
are not so constrained. I relate this to similar (but non-identical)
restrictions in other languages. I would have been pleased, to find
exactly the Wari' restriction in another language, because that would
have strengthened my argument. But even without it, restrictions on
grammatical relations are not uncommon for pronouns.

That was the point of my question. The research in which it arises
concerns the general case of categories that are neither words nor
phrases but have properties of both, what some researchers have called
'mixed categories', but which I prefer to call 'Liminal Categories'. If
anyone wants to see the paper, it will be on my website next week.

Best,

Dan

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Professor of Phonetics and Phonology
Department of Linguistics
Arts Building
University of Manchester
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From kmsnyder at BABEL.LING.UPENN.EDU  Thu May  1 18:57:40 2003
From: kmsnyder at BABEL.LING.UPENN.EDU (Kieran Snyder)
Date: Thu, 1 May 2003 14:57:40 -0400
Subject: Primary object languages & pronouns
In-Reply-To: <005e01c3100f$857e32e0$6c09a8c0@lang01> from "Noel Rude" at May
 1, 2003 11:28:52 am
Message-ID: <THU.1.MAY.2003.145740.0400.KMSNYDER@BABEL.LING.UPENN.EDU>

hi noel,

thanks for the interesting data. in (4) below, i can't help but notice the
unusual ACC marking on `chief' (where i would expect DAT) and the
complete lack of marking on `slave' (where i would expect ACC), suggesting
that it is more than a straightforward shift of (3) as such.

> Interestingly, however, it turns out that if the patient is human then we
> have the option of a "Dative Shift", e.g. nonshifted (3) and shifted (4).
>
> (3)    'e-'n�-ye haswal�ya-na miy�o?ato-px
>         SAP/3-give-PST slave-ACC chief-DAT
>         'I gave the/a slave to the chief'
>
> (4)    'e-'n�-ye haswal�ya miy�o?ato-na
>         SAP/3-give-PST slave chief-ACC
>         'I gave the chief the/a slave'

i've been looking at the pragmatics of these constructions in a variety of
languages, and i'm wondering whether you have examples of constructions
like (3) and (4) on larger discourse contexts. if so i'd love to have a
look.

> As for
> terminological confusion, it would seem that as functionalists we would
> explain cross-linguistic phenomena (e.g. Dative Shift) via universals of
> semantic case and pragmatic function.  I think syntax is more difficult for
> folks who demand a 100% mechanistic theory and are reluctant to realize that
> language is where mechanism and freedom converge.

of course, languages that do not exhibit dative shift have other ways of
expressing the pragmatic functions typically associated with it. :)

(i.e. there doesn't have to be a universal 1:1 correspondence between
a particular function and an associated syntactic form, which makes it
harder to explain the availability of a particular form in terms of
its function.)

kieran


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Harvard University Press

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La sémantique du prédicat en mwotlap (Vanuatu)

Collection Linguistique de la Société de Linguistique de Paris, vol. 84. 
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[xx + 388 pp; 35 tables, 50 figures, 2 maps, 2 indexes]


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English abstract
The semantics of predicates in Mwotlap, Vanuatu

  Mwotlap (Motlav) is an unwritten language spoken by about 1800 people in the Banks Is., Vanuatu; it belongs to the Oceanic branch of the Austronesian family. Besides presenting the first grammatical description of this endangered language, this book investigates more specifically the semantic mechanisms associated with predicates.
  The paradigm of Tense-Aspect-Modality ("TAM") markers receives special attention. These morphemes appear to be compatible not only with verbs, but also with all adjectives and nouns, which is typologically remarkable. The dimension of tense—in the strict, deictic sense of the word—is not relevant in Mwotlap: the system only makes explicit the domains of aspect and modality, combined with positive-negative polarity. The result of this alchemy is an impressive list of no less than twenty-six TAM markers, nineteen positive (e.g. Perfect, Preterite, Complete, Aorist, Prospective, Apprehensional…) and seven negative (e.g. Negative potential, Prohibitive…). The heart of this study consists in systematically describing, illustrating and interpreting each of these twenty-six mechanisms, both at sentence and discourse level. A theoretical and synthetic chapter finally reassembles the spare parts of the "TAM machine", with the aim to understand its general architecture and organizing principles. Throughout the analysis, careful attention is being paid to the many ways in which the morphological marking of the predicate contributes to the speaker's functional and pragmatic strategies.

  a.. As a member of the French Laboratoire des Langues et Civilisations à Tradition Orale (LACITO-CNRS, Paris), Alexandre François is carrying out research into the endangered languages of Vanuatu. He has published Araki: a disappearing language of Vanuatu. (Pacific Linguistics 522).

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Résumé en français

La sémantique du prédicat en mwotlap (Vanuatu)
  Langue mélanésienne de tradition orale, le mwotlap (motlav) appartient à la branche océanienne de la famille austronésienne ; il est actuellement parlé par environ 1800 locuteurs, au nord de l'archipel du Vanuatu. Tout en décrivant cette langue pour la première fois, l'ouvrage cherche plus particulièrement à y étudier les mécanismes sémantiques associés à la fonction prédicative. 

  La réflexion se développe autour de l'analyse détaillée d'un riche paradigme de marques de temps-aspect-mode ("marqueurs TAM"). Une des originalités typologiques du mwotlap est de rendre ces marques compatibles non seulement avec les verbes, mais aussi avec les adjectifs et les noms. Si le temps grammatical n'est jamais codé en tant que tel, en revanche, chaque élément de ce paradigme TAM cumule des valeurs d'aspect, de modalité, et de polarité ; il en résulte pas moins de vingt-six marqueurs en tout – dix-neuf affirmatifs (ex. Parfait, Prétérit, Accompli, Aoriste, Prospectif, Évitatif…) et sept négatifs (ex. Potentiel négatif, Prohibitif…). Pour chaque morphème pris séparément, l'analyse tente de modéliser l'opération abstraite commune à tous ses emplois dans le discours, ainsi que les conditions et les limites de la variation sémantique. La cohérence du système est constamment explorée, de façon à en esquisser l'architecture globale, et à en dégager les principes sous-jacents. L'ouvrage s'achève par une réflexion sur la manière dont le marquage morphologique du prédicat contribue aux stratégies pragmatiques mises en oeuvre par l'énonciateur.

  a.. Alexandre François est Chargé de Recherches au LACITO-CNRS (Langues et Civilisations à Tradition Orale). Ses recherches portent sur les langues menacées du Vanuatu. Il a publié Araki: a disappearing language of Vanuatu. (Pacific Linguistics 522).

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François, Alexandre. 2003. La sémantique du prédicat en mwotlap (Vanuatu). 
Collection Linguistique de la Société de Linguistique de Paris, vol. 84. 
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A Methodology for the Investigation of Translations and Comparable Texts

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Euro 68.00 [D] / sFr 109.00 / approx. US$ 75.00
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Text, Translation, Computational Processing 5)


The intuition that translations are somehow different from texts that are not translations has been around for many years, but most of the common linguistic frameworks are not comprehensive enough to account for the wealth and complexity of linguistic phenomena that make a translation a special kind of text.

The present book provides a novel methodology for investigating the specific linguistic properties of translations. As this methodology is both corpus-based and driven by a functional theory of language, it is powerful enough to account for the multi-dimensional nature of cross-linguistic variation in translations and cross-lingually comparable texts.

Elke Teich teaches at the University of Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany.

>From the Contents:

1 Introduction
1.1 Goals
1.2 Motivation
1.3 Methods
1.4 Road map through this book

2 State-of-the-art
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Multilingual research: objectives and methods
2.3 Hawkins' comparative typology of English and German
2.4 Doherty's research on English-German contrasts in translations
2.5 Baker's universal features of translations
2.6 Contrastive linguistics: register analysis
2.7 Summary and conclusions

3 Theory and Model of cross-linguistic variation
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Systemic Functional Linguistics: theory and model
3.3 Model of multilinguality
3.4 Summary and envoi

4 System: English--German grammatical contrasts and commonalities
4.1 Introduction
4.2 The grammar of the clause
4.3 Other ranks
4.4 Summary of major contrasts and commonalities

5 Text: English--German parallel, multilingually comparable and monolingually comparable texts
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Hypotheses and their testing
5.3 Analyses and interpretation of hypotheses
5.4 Summary and conclusions

6 Summary and conclusions
6.1 Summary: Cross-linguistic variation in multilingual texts
6.2 Assessment of the methodology
6.3 Envoi: Other contexts of application and issues for future research



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Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 14:37:17 -0500
Subject: New Editor of Cognitive Linguistics
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The International Cognitive Linguistics Association is
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the editorship of Cognitive Linguistics. She will
take on responsibility for new submissions to the journal in
January 2004.

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From nrude at BALLANGRUD.COM  Thu May  1 18:28:52 2003
From: nrude at BALLANGRUD.COM (Noel Rude)
Date: Thu, 1 May 2003 11:28:52 -0700
Subject: Primary object languages & pronouns
Message-ID: <THU.1.MAY.2003.112852.0700.NRUDE@BALLANGRUD.COM>

Howdy folks!

Been off the rez for a couple of weeks but will comment now re Dan's query.
The Sahaptian languages (Nez Perce and Sahaptin) might be analyzed as
Matthew's Primary-Secondary Object languages, or so I originally thought.
The verb agrees with both subject and object, and in a ditransitive clause
the object agreement is with the dative/goal.  The case marking of nouns
also follows this pattern, e.g. the dative/goal is case marked accusative
and the patient "ch?meur" is unmarked for case, as e.g. in Nez Perce (make
nothing of the word order which is extremely "free"):

(1)    'a-t?amyan-a h?ama-na
        SAP/3-hit-PST man-ACC
        'I hit the man'

(2)    'e-'n?-ye t?im'es h?ama-na
        SAP/3-give-PST book man-ACC
        'I gave the man a book'

Interestingly, however, it turns out that if the patient is human then we
have the option of a "Dative Shift", e.g. nonshifted (3) and shifted (4).

(3)    'e-'n?-ye haswal?ya-na miy?o?ato-px
        SAP/3-give-PST slave-ACC chief-DAT
        'I gave the/a slave to the chief'

(4)    'e-'n?-ye haswal?ya miy?o?ato-na
        SAP/3-give-PST slave chief-ACC
        'I gave the chief the/a slave'

If the patient is a SAP (Speech Act Participant) there can be no Dative
Shift, as in the following from Sahaptin where only the unshifted ex. (5) is
grammatical.

(5)    pa-n?-sa=nam miyuu?-m?yaw
        they-give-ASP=2SG chief-DAT
        'they are giving you to the chief'

(6)    *pa-n?-sa miy?u?-na iman?
        they-give-ASP chief-ACC you.ACC
        'they are giving the chief you'

This pattern carries over into causatives and complement constructions such
that, for example, a dative marked nominal is interpreted as lower subject
or causum, as in (7) where Dative Shift has not occurred and cannibalism is
implied.  Compare (8) where the causum is direct object.

(7)    wins-m?yaw pat?-sapa-tkwatan-a
        man-DAT they/3-CAUS-eat-PST
        'they made the man eat him/her/them'

(8)    pat?-sapa-tkwatan-a
        they/3-CAUS-eat-PST
        'they made him/her/them eat'

Thus it looks like Dative Shift has been almost completely generalized in
Sahaptian, much more so than in, say, English.  The only place where it is
not obligatory is in those rare situations when the patient is human (where
it becomes optional for 3rd person and impossible for SAPs).  As for
terminological confusion, it would seem that as functionalists we would
explain cross-linguistic phenomena (e.g. Dative Shift) via universals of
semantic case and pragmatic function.  I think syntax is more difficult for
folks who demand a 100% mechanistic theory and are reluctant to realize that
language is where mechanism and freedom converge.  Oh, and should anyone be
interested in this Sahaptian data -- why not have a look at my paper in TSL
35.

Noel

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Everett" <dan.everett at MAN.AC.UK>
To: <FUNKNET at listserv.rice.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2003 7:33 AM
Subject: Primary object languages & pronouns


>>
>> Folks,
>>
>> Wari', Amazonian, shows agreement and syntax typical of what Dryer
>> (1986) has treated as obligatorily anti-dative or Van Valin & La
>> Polla (1997, 270ff) treat as a 'primary-object pattern'. That is, in
>> simple transitive clauses the AGENT and PATIENT both trigger
>> agreement on the verb. In di-transitive clauses, however, it is the
>> RECIPIENT/GOAL which triggers/governs agreement on the verb. The
>> PATIENT argument in these clauses appears as the object of a
>> preposition (Wari' is V-IO-O-S). Pronouns in Wari' may not bear the
>> RECIPIENT role. My question is this: Are there other languages like
>> this? Some hypothetical examples of what I mean are:
>>
>> (1) a. I hit him.
>>      b. Bill hit me.
>>      c. Mary saw you.
>>
>> In 1a-c, the verb would agree in Wari' with both subject/agent and
>> object/patient, regardless of whether these are NPs or pronouns -
>> they may also be zero, but the verb will still show agreement.
>>
>> (2) a. I gave Mary of the book. (I gave the book to Mary) - VERB
>> agrees with 'Mary' and 'I'.
>>      b. *I gave her of the book. (Even though the verb agreement will
>> be for 1 person singular and 3 singular feminine)
>>
>>
>> Again, does anyone know of other languages with this pattern?
>>
>> -- Dan
>>


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Department of Linguistics
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M13 9PL
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Department Fax: 44-161-275-3187
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'Speech is the best show man puts on' - Whorf


From dan.everett at MAN.AC.UK  Thu May  1 18:43:55 2003
From: dan.everett at MAN.AC.UK (Dan Everett)
Date: Thu, 1 May 2003 19:43:55 +0100
Subject: Primary object languages & pronouns
In-Reply-To: <005e01c3100f$857e32e0$6c09a8c0@lang01>
Message-ID: <THU.1.MAY.2003.194355.0100.DAN.EVERETT@MAN.AC.UK>

Folks,

While the data that Noel and others have adduced is interesting in their
own right, they do not answer my, clumsily worded no doubt, question. So
let me restate the question, hopefully more clearly this time.

First the syntactic context: Wari' is a primary object language. This
means (for me, I am not claiming that it represents what others have
said about these languages, for now at least) that the GOAL/RECIPIENT
argument governs object agreement on the verb and the
THEME/PATIENT/UNDERGOER argument appears as the object of a preposition,
in di-transitive constructions. This pattern is not all that unusual. I
was not asking if other languages have this pattern. I know there are.

But in that context, the restriction is this: a Wari' pronoun may encode
POSSESSOR, ACTOR, or UNDERGOER (whether the UNDERGOER is the object of a
verb or a preposition), but a Wari' pronoun may never encode the
RECIPIENT argument. *This* is what struck me as unusual. Martin
Haspelmath tells me he has never seen such a case. And Matthew Dryer
also says that he is not aware of such a restriction.

Now, the research I am finishing up is actually not even about that
directly. The research in which this arises tries to show that a class
of periphrastic expressions in Wari' are pronouns (in fact, the
pronominal paradigm in Wari' is 100% periphrastic) and *one* of the
dozen or so arguments I give is that these pronouns are prohibited from
bearing the RECIPIENT role, whereas parts of the expression in isolation
are not so constrained. I relate this to similar (but non-identical)
restrictions in other languages. I would have been pleased, to find
exactly the Wari' restriction in another language, because that would
have strengthened my argument. But even without it, restrictions on
grammatical relations are not uncommon for pronouns.

That was the point of my question. The research in which it arises
concerns the general case of categories that are neither words nor
phrases but have properties of both, what some researchers have called
'mixed categories', but which I prefer to call 'Liminal Categories'. If
anyone wants to see the paper, it will be on my website next week.

Best,

Dan

.........................
Dan Everett
Professor of Phonetics and Phonology
Department of Linguistics
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University of Manchester
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From kmsnyder at BABEL.LING.UPENN.EDU  Thu May  1 18:57:40 2003
From: kmsnyder at BABEL.LING.UPENN.EDU (Kieran Snyder)
Date: Thu, 1 May 2003 14:57:40 -0400
Subject: Primary object languages & pronouns
In-Reply-To: <005e01c3100f$857e32e0$6c09a8c0@lang01> from "Noel Rude" at May
 1, 2003 11:28:52 am
Message-ID: <THU.1.MAY.2003.145740.0400.KMSNYDER@BABEL.LING.UPENN.EDU>

hi noel,

thanks for the interesting data. in (4) below, i can't help but notice the
unusual ACC marking on `chief' (where i would expect DAT) and the
complete lack of marking on `slave' (where i would expect ACC), suggesting
that it is more than a straightforward shift of (3) as such.

> Interestingly, however, it turns out that if the patient is human then we
> have the option of a "Dative Shift", e.g. nonshifted (3) and shifted (4).
>
> (3)    'e-'n?-ye haswal?ya-na miy?o?ato-px
>         SAP/3-give-PST slave-ACC chief-DAT
>         'I gave the/a slave to the chief'
>
> (4)    'e-'n?-ye haswal?ya miy?o?ato-na
>         SAP/3-give-PST slave chief-ACC
>         'I gave the chief the/a slave'

i've been looking at the pragmatics of these constructions in a variety of
languages, and i'm wondering whether you have examples of constructions
like (3) and (4) on larger discourse contexts. if so i'd love to have a
look.

> As for
> terminological confusion, it would seem that as functionalists we would
> explain cross-linguistic phenomena (e.g. Dative Shift) via universals of
> semantic case and pragmatic function.  I think syntax is more difficult for
> folks who demand a 100% mechanistic theory and are reluctant to realize that
> language is where mechanism and freedom converge.

of course, languages that do not exhibit dative shift have other ways of
expressing the pragmatic functions typically associated with it. :)

(i.e. there doesn't have to be a universal 1:1 correspondence between
a particular function and an associated syntactic form, which makes it
harder to explain the availability of a particular form in terms of
its function.)

kieran


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Subject: ICLC-8: registration deadlines & enquiries
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8th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference:

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From tomasello at EVA.MPG.DE  Thu May  8 12:01:32 2003
From: tomasello at EVA.MPG.DE (Michael Tomasello)
Date: Thu, 8 May 2003 14:01:32 +0200
Subject: Book Notice
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CONSTRUCTING A LANGUAGE:
A USAGE-BASED THEORY OF LANGUAGE ACQUISITION

Harvard University Press

Michael Tomasello

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CHAPTER 1: USAGE-BASED LINGUISTICS

CHAPTER 2: ORIGINS OF LANGUAGE
2.1. Phylogenetic Origins
2.2. Ontogenetic Origins
2.3. Children?s First Utterances
2.4. Summary

CHAPTER 3: WORDS
3.1. Early Words and their Uses
3.2. Processes of Word Learning
3.3. Theories of Word Learning
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CHAPTER 4: EARLY SYNTACTIC CONSTRUCTIONS
4.1. The Nature of Constructions
4.2. Early Constructional Islands
4.3. Marking Syntactic Roles
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CHAPTER 5: ABSTRACT SYNTACTIC CONSTRUCTIONS
5.1. Abstract Constructions
5.2. Constructing Constructions
5.3. Constraining Constructions
5.4. Theories of Syntactic Development
5.5. Summary

CHAPTER 6: NOMINAL AND CLAUSAL CONSTRUCTIONS
6.1. Reference and Nominals
6.2. Predication and Clauses
6.3. Learning Morphology
6.4. Summary

CHAPTER 7: COMPLEX CONSTRUCTIONS AND DISCOURSE
7.1. Complex Constructions
7.2. Conversation and Narrative
7.3. Summary

CHAPTER 8: BIOLOGICAL, CULTURAL, AND ONTOGENETIC PROCESSES
8. 1. Dual Inheritance
8.2. Psycholinguistic Processes of Acquisition
8.3. Psycholinguistic Processes of Production
8.4. The Development of Linguistic Representation
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CHAPTER 9: TOWARDS A PSYCHOLOGY OF LANGUAGE ACQUISITION


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Summer School: Cognitive and Functional Approaches to Language
9 to 12 June 2003, University of San Marino, Republic of San Marino

The School will examine two of the main approaches to the study of
language: functionalism and cognitivism, it will analyze
compatibility, analogies and possible differences. The functionalist
school, which dates back to the early historic tradition, studies,
since the beginning of the last century, the relationship between
form and linguistic function and proposes an approach to language
which is strictly linked to its use and context. Cognitive linguistics is
a more recent branch that developed in the last 30 years within the
North-American cognitive movement, some of whose fundaments it
will then criticize. Cognitive linguistics also focuses on the
importance of the relation between form and function, and it
individuates in particular the cognitive schemes subjected to
thought, perception and language, which determine the linguistic
form. Unlike other theories that study language essentially as a
formal and autonomous process, both cognitive and functional
linguistics strictly correlate syntactic structure and semantic
organization as dependant one from the other, refusing the
hypothesis of language as separated and independent from other
cognitive and perceptive mechanisms.

The lecturers are: William Croft, Holger Diessel, Martin Haspelmath,
Michael Tomasello.

E-mail enquiries: pcenci at unirsm.sm

Website: http://www.unirsm.sm/dcom/Dipartimento/dsscinglese.htm

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From alex.francois at FREE.FR  Tue May 13 10:59:56 2003
From: alex.francois at FREE.FR (Alex Francois)
Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 12:59:56 +0200
Subject: Book notice (Mwotlap)
Message-ID: <TUE.13.MAY.2003.125956.0200.ALEX.FRANCOIS@FREE.FR>

 (Apologies for cross-posting)

Alexandre FRAN?OIS
La s?mantique du pr?dicat en mwotlap (Vanuatu)

Collection Linguistique de la Soci?t? de Linguistique de Paris, vol. 84. 
Leuven, Paris: Peeters. 

[xx + 388 pp; 35 tables, 50 figures, 2 maps, 2 indexes]


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English abstract
The semantics of predicates in Mwotlap, Vanuatu

  Mwotlap (Motlav) is an unwritten language spoken by about 1800 people in the Banks Is., Vanuatu; it belongs to the Oceanic branch of the Austronesian family. Besides presenting the first grammatical description of this endangered language, this book investigates more specifically the semantic mechanisms associated with predicates.
  The paradigm of Tense-Aspect-Modality ("TAM") markers receives special attention. These morphemes appear to be compatible not only with verbs, but also with all adjectives and nouns, which is typologically remarkable. The dimension of tense?in the strict, deictic sense of the word?is not relevant in Mwotlap: the system only makes explicit the domains of aspect and modality, combined with positive-negative polarity. The result of this alchemy is an impressive list of no less than twenty-six TAM markers, nineteen positive (e.g. Perfect, Preterite, Complete, Aorist, Prospective, Apprehensional?) and seven negative (e.g. Negative potential, Prohibitive?). The heart of this study consists in systematically describing, illustrating and interpreting each of these twenty-six mechanisms, both at sentence and discourse level. A theoretical and synthetic chapter finally reassembles the spare parts of the "TAM machine", with the aim to understand its general architecture and organizing principles. Throughout the analysis, careful attention is being paid to the many ways in which the morphological marking of the predicate contributes to the speaker's functional and pragmatic strategies.

  a.. As a member of the French Laboratoire des Langues et Civilisations ? Tradition Orale (LACITO-CNRS, Paris), Alexandre Fran?ois is carrying out research into the endangered languages of Vanuatu. He has published Araki: a disappearing language of Vanuatu. (Pacific Linguistics 522).

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R?sum? en fran?ais

La s?mantique du pr?dicat en mwotlap (Vanuatu)
  Langue m?lan?sienne de tradition orale, le mwotlap (motlav) appartient ? la branche oc?anienne de la famille austron?sienne ; il est actuellement parl? par environ 1800 locuteurs, au nord de l'archipel du Vanuatu. Tout en d?crivant cette langue pour la premi?re fois, l'ouvrage cherche plus particuli?rement ? y ?tudier les m?canismes s?mantiques associ?s ? la fonction pr?dicative. 

  La r?flexion se d?veloppe autour de l'analyse d?taill?e d'un riche paradigme de marques de temps-aspect-mode ("marqueurs TAM"). Une des originalit?s typologiques du mwotlap est de rendre ces marques compatibles non seulement avec les verbes, mais aussi avec les adjectifs et les noms. Si le temps grammatical n'est jamais cod? en tant que tel, en revanche, chaque ?l?ment de ce paradigme TAM cumule des valeurs d'aspect, de modalit?, et de polarit? ; il en r?sulte pas moins de vingt-six marqueurs en tout ? dix-neuf affirmatifs (ex. Parfait, Pr?t?rit, Accompli, Aoriste, Prospectif, ?vitatif?) et sept n?gatifs (ex. Potentiel n?gatif, Prohibitif?). Pour chaque morph?me pris s?par?ment, l'analyse tente de mod?liser l'op?ration abstraite commune ? tous ses emplois dans le discours, ainsi que les conditions et les limites de la variation s?mantique. La coh?rence du syst?me est constamment explor?e, de fa?on ? en esquisser l'architecture globale, et ? en d?gager les principes sous-jacents. L'ouvrage s'ach?ve par une r?flexion sur la mani?re dont le marquage morphologique du pr?dicat contribue aux strat?gies pragmatiques mises en oeuvre par l'?nonciateur.

  a.. Alexandre Fran?ois est Charg? de Recherches au LACITO-CNRS (Langues et Civilisations ? Tradition Orale). Ses recherches portent sur les langues menac?es du Vanuatu. Il a publi? Araki: a disappearing language of Vanuatu. (Pacific Linguistics 522).

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Fran?ois, Alexandre. 2003. La s?mantique du pr?dicat en mwotlap (Vanuatu). 
Collection Linguistique de la Soci?t? de Linguistique de Paris, vol. 84. 
Leuven, Paris: Peeters. xx + 388 pp.   
ISBN 90-429-1271-5.

  Price:  38 euros.

  Orders may be placed directly on-line at the following address: 
  http://www.peeters-leuven.be/boekoverz.asp?nr=7519
  or by email  PEETERS at peeters-leuven.be 
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From Julia.Ulrich at DEGRUYTER.COM  Tue May 20 16:02:53 2003
From: Julia.Ulrich at DEGRUYTER.COM (Julia Ulrich)
Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 18:02:53 +0200
Subject: Elke Teich: Cross-Linguistic Variation in System and Text
Message-ID: <TUE.20.MAY.2003.180253.0200.JULIA.ULRICH@DEGRUYTER.COM>

New from Mouton de Gruyter!

>From the series
TEXT, TRANSLATION, COMPUTATIONAL PROCESSING
Series Editors: Annely Rothkegel and John Laffling


Elke Teich
CROSS-LINGUISTIC VARIATION IN SYSTEM AND TEXT
A Methodology for the Investigation of Translations and Comparable Texts

2003. x, 276 pages. Cloth.
Euro 68.00 [D] / sFr 109.00 / approx. US$ 75.00
ISBN 3-11-017615-7
Text, Translation, Computational Processing 5)


The intuition that translations are somehow different from texts that are not translations has been around for many years, but most of the common linguistic frameworks are not comprehensive enough to account for the wealth and complexity of linguistic phenomena that make a translation a special kind of text.

The present book provides a novel methodology for investigating the specific linguistic properties of translations. As this methodology is both corpus-based and driven by a functional theory of language, it is powerful enough to account for the multi-dimensional nature of cross-linguistic variation in translations and cross-lingually comparable texts.

Elke Teich teaches at the University of Saarland, Saarbr?cken, Germany.

>From the Contents:

1 Introduction
1.1 Goals
1.2 Motivation
1.3 Methods
1.4 Road map through this book

2 State-of-the-art
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Multilingual research: objectives and methods
2.3 Hawkins' comparative typology of English and German
2.4 Doherty's research on English-German contrasts in translations
2.5 Baker's universal features of translations
2.6 Contrastive linguistics: register analysis
2.7 Summary and conclusions

3 Theory and Model of cross-linguistic variation
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Systemic Functional Linguistics: theory and model
3.3 Model of multilinguality
3.4 Summary and envoi

4 System: English--German grammatical contrasts and commonalities
4.1 Introduction
4.2 The grammar of the clause
4.3 Other ranks
4.4 Summary of major contrasts and commonalities

5 Text: English--German parallel, multilingually comparable and monolingually comparable texts
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Hypotheses and their testing
5.3 Analyses and interpretation of hypotheses
5.4 Summary and conclusions

6 Summary and conclusions
6.1 Summary: Cross-linguistic variation in multilingual texts
6.2 Assessment of the methodology
6.3 Envoi: Other contexts of application and issues for future research



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From kemmer at RICE.EDU  Tue May 20 19:37:17 2003
From: kemmer at RICE.EDU (Suzanne Kemmer)
Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 14:37:17 -0500
Subject: New Editor of Cognitive Linguistics
Message-ID: <TUE.20.MAY.2003.143717.0500.KEMMER@RICE.EDU>

The International Cognitive Linguistics Association is
pleased to announce that Adele Goldberg has accepted
the editorship of Cognitive Linguistics. She will
take on responsibility for new submissions to the journal in
January 2004.

Suzanne Kemmer,
on behalf of the ICLA Governing Board


From francisco.ruiz at DFM.UNIRIOJA.ES  Sun May 25 07:42:39 2003
From: francisco.ruiz at DFM.UNIRIOJA.ES (Francisco Jose Ruiz De Mendoza Ibanez)
Date: Sun, 25 May 2003 08:42:39 +0100
Subject: ICLC-8: Early registration deadline May 31
Message-ID: <SUN.25.MAY.2003.084239.0100.FRANCISCO.RUIZ@DFM.UNIRIOJA.ES>

8th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference:

Cognitive Linguistics, Functionalism, Discourse Studies:
Common Ground and New Directions

July 20-25, 2003
University of La Rioja, Spain

MAIN PAGE:
http://www.unirioja.es/dptos/dfm/sub/congresos/LingCog/ICLA_20
03_Main.htm


REGISTRATION PAGE: http://www.salduieimagen.es/linguistic/

Registration fees
-Early payment (postmarked by 1 June 2003)

Member: 180 euros
Non member: 210 euros
Student: 90 euros

-Late payment (postmarked after 1 June 2003)

Member: 210 euros
Non member: 240 euros
Student: 110 euros

Donations for ICLC-8 grants are encouraged!

ENQUIRIES:

General information: francisco.ruiz at dfm.unirioja.es

Registration: congresos.citerea at mapfre.com

TIVOLI CONGRESOS
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Tel. (34) (976) 20 03 68
Fax.: (34) (976) 20 14 04
Email: congresos.citerea at mapfre.com

Schedules:

nuria.alfaro at dfm.unirioja.es (General & Poster Sessions)
francisco.santibanez at dfm.unirioja.es (Theme Sessions)

Vendor: francisco.ruiz at dfm.unirioja.es

Transportation & accommodation: lorena.perez at dfm.unirioja.es


From kemmer at RICE.EDU  Tue May 27 21:33:21 2003
From: kemmer at RICE.EDU (Suzanne Kemmer)
Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 16:33:21 -0500
Subject: ICLA Membership; website and webforms
Message-ID: <TUE.27.MAY.2003.163321.0500.KEMMER@RICE.EDU>

The International Cognitive Linguistics Association website is up and
running at :

www.rice.edu/cogling

You can access the membership web form under the link Membership (bottom
of the main page),
and from there by scrolling down to the link Web Subscription Form.

Once the form is filled in and  generated, you have to print it out and
mail or
fax it in to Mouton with your credit card info or bank info
written in.   No financial info is sent through the internet.

The above is a temporary web address. We are working to get our
regular address back in service.  I will keep the lists posted when
this is done.

Suzanne Kemmer,
on behalf of the ICLA


From kemmer at RICE.EDU  Wed May 28 20:52:20 2003
From: kemmer at RICE.EDU (Suzanne Kemmer)
Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 15:52:20 -0500
Subject: doctoral fellowship in Field Linguistics
Message-ID: <WED.28.MAY.2003.155220.0500.KEMMER@RICE.EDU>

This message was forwarded from an original sent by Zara Pybus,
zp2 at soas.ac.uk.
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Applications are invited for a PhD studentship in Field Linguistics in
the
Endangered Languages Academic Programme, SOAS, University of London.
Applicants should hold an MA degree in Linguistics from a UK university
or
equivalent institution. Area of language specialisation is open but
preference will be given to students intending to work on an endangered
language of Africa or Asia.
The studentship will include full payment of fees and a maintenance
bursary
of ?9832, renewable for a further two years.
The closing date for applications is 30th June 2003
For more details, and for an application form, please see the website
(www.hrelp.org), or contact Zara Pybus on +44 (0) 207 898 4578 or e-mail:
zp2 at soas.ac.uk.