From phonosemantics at earthlink.net Fri Aug 1 09:36:13 2008 From: phonosemantics at earthlink.net (jess tauber) Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 05:36:13 -0400 Subject: More on the Yahgan -nchi Message-ID: It's beginning to look as if the morpheme -nchi in Yahgan is some sort of marker of successful or attempted transfer or disruption of social loyalties, obligations, or 'unity' more abstractly. When used alone, without further case suffixes, it quite often appears in contexts where there is a disturbance of the peace- sedition, murder, riot, stirring up the masses, not observing customs, taboos, caused by agents creating the situation, in order to alter the social configuration in their favor- authorities, whether official or self-appointed, generally frown on this sort of thing. People in a culture have their particular beliefs and routines, laws, rights and obligations, depending on their positions within the system according to age, gender, faith, family, career, offices, ranks, etc. If nothing pops up, deadly daily dullness. Each link or bond ties one dynamically into a larger coherent and smoothly operating hierarchical social structure that gets you through your life without to many knocks, at least ideally. There may be tests and contests, choices of role-filling to be made when responsibilities aren't automatically doled out, but even these are often lawful, regulated, at least when in public and the authorities are around. But plenty goes on outside this context too, where people become unbound by the usual rules because they don't 'work' for or apply to them- in their economic, social, religious, political or other activities or beliefs, needs, wants, or capacities. There is always a tension between the two poles along any given dimension- and it seems the borderlines between them are the domains of the morpheme -nchi. In the simplest constructions the marked party is given the opportunity either to break away from the conventional (perhaps to join a new set of conventions), or to return to it after a time away In many instances we find the unexpected choice or outcome. Also there is often a sense that the routinized expectations and behaviors have been subject to a great deal of corruption, necessitating their overthrow and replacement by a newer, cleaner system, at least in the eyes of those promoting the latter. Social fabrics, like real ones, wear out, fray, and fall apart unless repaired, or need replacing. Once this social flux is introduced into the depicted scene, -nchi does not need to be repeated, and other case-system elements may appear on the affected NP's, until a new disruption is being noted. Is it possibly some sort of mutated marker of discourse discontinuity? -nchi is also found on possessors in possessive constructions, and I'm starting to wonder whether in this context it marks alienability, even in some kinship terms. Clearly, this usage isn't honorific in nature. Any pointers would be most welcome here. Thanks. Jess Tauber phonosemantics at earthlink.net From aberez at umail.ucsb.edu Fri Aug 1 20:29:44 2008 From: aberez at umail.ucsb.edu (Andrea L. Berez) Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 13:29:44 -0700 Subject: Call for Papers: Colloquium on GIS and Geography in Language Documentation Message-ID: Call for Papers for a themed session on all aspects of geography and geographic information systems (GIS) in Language Documentation, to be submitted as part of the 1st International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation at the University of Hawai'i, March 12-14 2009. The main conference website is at http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/ICLDC09 . ABSTRACT DEADLINE: 1 SEPTEMBER 2008. We are welcoming abstracts for a themed session on geography and the use of geographic information systems (GIS) in language documentation and conservation. Topics may include: - the role of geographic knowledge in language maintenance programs - the use of GIS technology in linguistic fieldwork - the digitization and/or dissemination of legacy place-based linguistic data - any other topic on the relationship between language documentation, conservation, geography and/or GIS. Presentation format: Papers will be allowed 20 minutes with 10 minutes of question time. Abstract submission: Abstracts must be first submitted directly to the session organizer, Andrea Berez, at aberez at umail.ucsb.edu by September 1, 2008. Once the session has been organized, accepted abstracts will be submitted to the main conference website. Please note that the deadline for abstracts for this themed session is earlier than the deadline for the main conference. Maximum abstract length is 400 words. Please send your abstract as a pdf attachment to aberez at umail.ucsb.edu . More information about the 1st International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation can be found at the conference website, at http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/ICLDC09 . ----------------------------- Andrea Berez PhD student, Dept. of Linguistics University of California, Santa Barbara http://www.uweb.ucsb.edu/~aberez/ Co-moderator, Academics with Long Distance Partners http://www.academics-ldp.net From paul at benjamins.com Thu Aug 7 18:46:09 2008 From: paul at benjamins.com (Paul Peranteau) Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2008 14:46:09 -0400 Subject: New Benjamins title - Lpez-Couso & Seoane: Rethinking Message-ID: Grammaticalization Comments: To: FUNKNET at rice.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Rethinking Grammaticalization. New perspectives & Theoretical and Empirical Issues in Grammaticalization Edited by Mar�a Jos� L�pez-Couso and Elena Seoane University of Santiago de Compostella In collaboration with Teresa Fanego 2 volume set Typological Studies in Language 76-77 2008. xxi, 327 pp. + index & x, 350 pp. + index Hardbound 978 90 272 2991 5 / EUR 225.00 / USD 338.00 This book set contains the following volumes: Rethinking Grammaticalization: New perspectives L�pez-Couso, Mar�a Jos� and Elena Seoane (eds.) 2008. x, 355 pp. Theoretical and Empirical Issues in Grammaticalization Seoane, Elena and Mar�a Jos� L�pez-Couso (eds.) 2008. x, 367 pp. These two volumes offer a selection of papers from the Third International Conference New Reflections on Grammaticalization, held in Santiago de Compostela in July 2005. From the rich programme of the conference (over 120 papers), the twelve contributions included in this volume were carefully selected to reflect the state of current research in grammaticalization and suggest possible directions for future investigations in the field. Combining theoretical discussions with the analysis of particular test cases from a wide range of languages from various language families, the selected papers focus on such central questions as the need for a broader notion of grammaticalization, the distorting effects of grammaticalization on grammar, the areal perspective in grammaticalization and the relevance of contact-induced change to grammaticalization. Other topics discussed include the development of markers of textual connectivity and the emergence of cardinal numerals and numeral systems. Contents of the two volumes: VOLUME 1 Rethinking Grammaticalization New perspectives Edited by Mar�a Jos� L�pez-Couso and Elena Seoane University of Santiago de Compostela In collaboration with Teresa Fanego Typological Studies in Language 76 2008. x, 355 pp. Hardbound 978 90 272 2988 5 / EUR 110.00 / USD 165.00 http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=TSL%2076 Table of contents Address list vii�viii Preface ix�x Introduction: New perspectives on grammaticalization Mar�a Jos� L�pez-Couso and Elena Seoane 1�13 Grammaticalization and the areal factor: The perspective of East and mainland Southeast Asian languages Walter Bisang 15�35 On the grammaticalization of 'come' and 'go' into markers of textual connectivity Philippe Bourdin 37�59 Grammaticalization, typology and semantics: Expanding the agenda Zygmunt Frajzyngier 61�102 Mismatch: Grammar distortion and grammaticalization Livio Gaeta 103�127 Areal convergence in grammaticalization processes Anna Giacalone-Ramat 129�167 The grammaticalization of nominalizers in Japanese and Korean: A contrastive study Kaoru Horie 169�187 On the frills of grammaticalization Tania A. Kuteva 189�217 Nominalizations in Bodic languages Michael Noonan 219�237 On the rise and fall of Korean nominalizers Seongha Rhee 239�264 The grammaticalization of clausal nominalizers in Burmese Andrew Simpson 265�288 The grammaticalization cline of cardinal numerals and numeral systems Ferdinand von Mengden 289�308 The development of nominalizers in East Asian and Tibeto-Burman languages Foong Ha Yap and Stephen Matthews 309�341 Index of names 343�347 Index of languages 348�349 Index of subjects 350�355 VOLUME 2: Theoretical and Empirical Issues in Grammaticalization Edited by Elena Seoane and Mar�a Jos� L�pez-Couso University of Santiago de Compostela In collaboration with Teresa Fanego Typological Studies in Language 77 2008. x, 367 pp. Hardbound 978 90 272 2989 2 / EUR 115.00 / USD 173.00 http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=TSL%2077 Table of contents Preface Introduction: Further reflections on grammaticalization Elena Seoane and Mar�a Jos� L�pez-Couso Swedish m� and the (de)grammaticalization debate Peter Andersson 'Where grammar and lexis meet:' Composite predicates in English Laurel J. Brinton On the grammaticalization and (inter)subjectivity of evidential (semi-)auxiliaries in Spanish Bert Cornillie Semantic, syntactic and constructional restrictions in the diachronic rise of modal particles in German: A corpus-based study on the formation of a grammaticalization channel Gabriele Diewald and Gisella Ferraresi Double indirect object marking in Spanish and Italian Andreas Dufter and Elisabeth Stark The emergence of particle clusters in Dutch: Grammaticalization under adverse conditions Jack Hoeksema Antigrammaticalization, antimorphologization and the case of Tura Dmitry Idiatov Can grammaticalization be parameterized? Jurgen Klausenburger Possessive adjectives as a source of intensifiers Ekkehard K�nig and Letizia Vezzosi Information structure and grammaticalization Christian Lehmann From speech-situation evocation to hypotaxis: The case of Latin quamvis 'although' Torsten Leuschner Grammaticalization waves: The Russian subjunctive mood and person/number marking Jens N�rg�rd-S�rensen Discourse frequency and the collapse of the adposition vs. affix distinction in Lakota Regina Pustet On the grammaticalization of the Spanish expression puede que Mar�a Jos� Rodr�guez Espi�eira and Bel�n L�pez Meirama On the history and present behaviour of subordinating that with adverbial conjunctions in English Guenter Rohdenburg The regrammaticalization of linking elements in German Heide Wegener Language index Name index Subject index ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject classification Linguistics Historical linguistics Morphology Syntax Theoretical linguistics Typology Paul Peranteau (paul at benjamins.com) General Manager John Benjamins Publishing Company 763 N. 24th St. Philadelphia PA 19130 Phone: 215 769-3444 Fax: 215 769-3446 John Benjamins Publishing Co. website: http://www.benjamins.com From phonosemantics at earthlink.net Wed Aug 13 18:46:55 2008 From: phonosemantics at earthlink.net (jess tauber) Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 14:46:55 -0400 Subject: How common are zero marked instruments/locations when cased forms also exist? Message-ID: Hi again. As Yahgan is a differential case marking language one would expect there to be more than one object case mark. I'm finding, though, that the same may be true for instruments and locations. The zero-marked locations seem generally to be glossed as 'at', unless the verb sense shifts it away from this, while those with locative suffix -un/-an are mostly 'in'. There seems to be a differentiation too between case-marked forms in -a:ki or -a, more generally instrumental in sense, versus the zero-marked forms, which have a broader semantic range of 'with, using' (such as ingredients, parts, etc. as well as instruments). The zero-marked forms appear to be more greatly affected by the verb semantics here as well. Does this sort of thing seem familiar to any of you from the languages you've worked with? Thanks. Jess Tauber phonosemantics at earthlink.net From paul at benjamins.com Thu Aug 14 15:00:51 2008 From: paul at benjamins.com (Paul Peranteau) Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 11:00:51 -0400 Subject: New Benjamins title: Mller/Klinge Message-ID: Essays on Nominal Determination From morphology to discourse management Edited by Henrik Høeg Müller and Alex Klinge Copenhagen Business School Studies in Language Companion Series 99 2008. xviii, 369 pp. Hardbound 978 90 272 3110 9 / EUR 110.00 / USD 165.00 http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=SLCS%2099 This volume brings together scholars of diverse theoretical persuasions who all share an interest in capturing the role that nominal determination and reference assignment play in the complicated interplay between thought, language and communication. The articles can be divided roughly into five main areas of concern: the conceptual level of determination; the emergence and function of articles; their semantic contribution to nominal interpretation; the morphology and syntax of determiners; and the interplay and contrasts between articles, demonstratives and possessives. Thus, linguistic and philosophical issues in the subject field of nominal determination are addressed at all interface levels between morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics. This volume shows that different theoretical frameworks may be brought fruitfully together in the effort to formulate new analyses of well-known problems, but also to raise new questions and point to new areas which may prove interesting topics for future research both in functional and formal paradigms. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Table of contents Contributors vii–viii The editors ix Introduction Henrik Høeg Müller and Alex Klinge xi–xviii Determiners and definiteness: Functional semantics and structural differentiation Peter Harder 1–25 Articles, definite and indefinite Michael Herslund 27–43 Typological correlations in nominal determination in Romance Elisabeth Stark 45–63 A stranger in the house: The French article de Marc Wilmet 65–78 Determination in endocentric and exocentric languages: With evidence primarily from Danish and Italian Iørn Korzen 79–99 Bare predicate nominals in Romance languages Roberto Zamparelli 101–130 Definiteness effect and the role of the coda in existential constructions Manuel Leonetti 131–162 Determination of N2 modifiers in Spanish nominal syntagmatic compounds Henrik Høeg Müller 163–188 Reference to individuals, person, and the variety of mapping parameters Giuseppe Longobardi 189–211 English th- forms Judy B. Bernstein 213–232 Stating the case for þ- root and hw- root determiners Alex Klinge 233–263 On certain differences between noun phrases and clauses Naoki Fukui and Mihoko Zushi 265–286 Determination, nominalisation and conceptual processing Helle Dam-Jensen 287–308 The semantics and pragmatics of the possessive determiner Georges Kleiber 309–336 Reference, determiners and descriptive content Thorstein Fretheim and Nana Aba Appiah Amfo 337–364 Index 365–369 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject classification Linguistics Discourse studies Pragmatics Semantics Theoretical linguistics Paul Peranteau (paul at benjamins.com) General Manager John Benjamins Publishing Company 763 N. 24th St. Philadelphia PA 19130 Phone: 215 769-3444 Fax: 215 769-3446 John Benjamins Publishing Co. website: http://www.benjamins.com From harald at bombo.se Thu Aug 14 22:53:49 2008 From: harald at bombo.se (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Harald_Hammarstr=F6m?=) Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 00:53:49 +0200 Subject: Call for Participation: 14th Himalayan Languages Symposium, Gothenburg, Sweden 21-23 August 2008 Message-ID: [Apologies for cross-posting, though if you get this call multiple times, you are exactly the kind of person who would be interested.] 14th Himalayan Languages Symposium University of Gothenburg 21-23 August 2008 http://www.lingfil.uu.se/personal/anjusaxena/hls/ The Himalayan Languages Symposium brings together scholars working on languages and language communities of the greater Himalayan region: north-western and north-eastern India, Nepal, Bhutan and the Tibetan Plateau, northern Burma and Sichuan, and Nuristan, Baltistan and the Burushaski-speaking area in the west. 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From hdls at unm.edu Sat Aug 23 18:20:53 2008 From: hdls at unm.edu (High Desert Linguistics Society) Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2008 12:20:53 -0600 Subject: HDLS-8 Call for Abstracts (Deadline Extension) Message-ID: Hello everyone, Below you will find the call for abstracts for HDLS-8, the deadline for which has been extended to Friday, August 29th. Many thanks, Evan Ashworth Secretary, High Desert Linguistics Society Department of Linguistics University of New Mexico --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Eighth High Desert Linguistics Society Conference (HDLS-8) will be held at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, November, 6-8, 2008. 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If your abstract has special fonts or characters, please send your abstract as a PDF. Please be advised that shortly after the conference a call for proceedings will be announced. Poster Session - Participants will be given a space approximately 6' by 4' to display their work. Notification of acceptance will be sent out by September 2nd, 2008. If you have any questions or need for further information please contact us at hdls at unm.edu with ''HDLS-8 Conference'' in the subject line. You may also call Grandon Goertz, 505-277-6764 or Evan Ashworth, 505-228-4751. The HDLS mailing address is: HDLS, Department of Linguistics, MSC03 2130, 1 University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM. 87131-0001 USA From jdantonio at uem.br Sat Aug 30 00:06:24 2008 From: jdantonio at uem.br (Juliano Desiderato Antonio) Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 21:06:24 -0300 Subject: epistemic modality and evidentiality in brazilian portuguese Message-ID: Hi all. I have a doubt about items like "eu acho que..." (I think that...), "é óbvio que..." (it's obvious that...". It seems to me that these items are markers of epistemic modality, but there are papers which treat them as evidentiality markers because they might present an inference of the speaker. . é óbvio que não tem colesterol, . porque é de origem vegetal. (... it's obvious that it does not contain cholesterol . because it comes from plant.) . eu acho que o deficiente mental sofre muito preconceito, (... I think that mentally disabled people go through a lot of prejudice) I'd like to know if it is possible to consider these items only epistemic modality markers. Thanks. Juliano -- Esta mensagem foi verificada pelo sistema de antiv�rus e acredita-se estar livre de perigo. From phonosemantics at earthlink.net Fri Aug 1 09:36:13 2008 From: phonosemantics at earthlink.net (jess tauber) Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 05:36:13 -0400 Subject: More on the Yahgan -nchi Message-ID: It's beginning to look as if the morpheme -nchi in Yahgan is some sort of marker of successful or attempted transfer or disruption of social loyalties, obligations, or 'unity' more abstractly. When used alone, without further case suffixes, it quite often appears in contexts where there is a disturbance of the peace- sedition, murder, riot, stirring up the masses, not observing customs, taboos, caused by agents creating the situation, in order to alter the social configuration in their favor- authorities, whether official or self-appointed, generally frown on this sort of thing. People in a culture have their particular beliefs and routines, laws, rights and obligations, depending on their positions within the system according to age, gender, faith, family, career, offices, ranks, etc. If nothing pops up, deadly daily dullness. Each link or bond ties one dynamically into a larger coherent and smoothly operating hierarchical social structure that gets you through your life without to many knocks, at least ideally. There may be tests and contests, choices of role-filling to be made when responsibilities aren't automatically doled out, but even these are often lawful, regulated, at least when in public and the authorities are around. But plenty goes on outside this context too, where people become unbound by the usual rules because they don't 'work' for or apply to them- in their economic, social, religious, political or other activities or beliefs, needs, wants, or capacities. There is always a tension between the two poles along any given dimension- and it seems the borderlines between them are the domains of the morpheme -nchi. In the simplest constructions the marked party is given the opportunity either to break away from the conventional (perhaps to join a new set of conventions), or to return to it after a time away In many instances we find the unexpected choice or outcome. Also there is often a sense that the routinized expectations and behaviors have been subject to a great deal of corruption, necessitating their overthrow and replacement by a newer, cleaner system, at least in the eyes of those promoting the latter. Social fabrics, like real ones, wear out, fray, and fall apart unless repaired, or need replacing. Once this social flux is introduced into the depicted scene, -nchi does not need to be repeated, and other case-system elements may appear on the affected NP's, until a new disruption is being noted. Is it possibly some sort of mutated marker of discourse discontinuity? -nchi is also found on possessors in possessive constructions, and I'm starting to wonder whether in this context it marks alienability, even in some kinship terms. Clearly, this usage isn't honorific in nature. Any pointers would be most welcome here. Thanks. Jess Tauber phonosemantics at earthlink.net From aberez at umail.ucsb.edu Fri Aug 1 20:29:44 2008 From: aberez at umail.ucsb.edu (Andrea L. Berez) Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 13:29:44 -0700 Subject: Call for Papers: Colloquium on GIS and Geography in Language Documentation Message-ID: Call for Papers for a themed session on all aspects of geography and geographic information systems (GIS) in Language Documentation, to be submitted as part of the 1st International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation at the University of Hawai'i, March 12-14 2009. The main conference website is at http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/ICLDC09 . ABSTRACT DEADLINE: 1 SEPTEMBER 2008. We are welcoming abstracts for a themed session on geography and the use of geographic information systems (GIS) in language documentation and conservation. Topics may include: - the role of geographic knowledge in language maintenance programs - the use of GIS technology in linguistic fieldwork - the digitization and/or dissemination of legacy place-based linguistic data - any other topic on the relationship between language documentation, conservation, geography and/or GIS. Presentation format: Papers will be allowed 20 minutes with 10 minutes of question time. Abstract submission: Abstracts must be first submitted directly to the session organizer, Andrea Berez, at aberez at umail.ucsb.edu by September 1, 2008. Once the session has been organized, accepted abstracts will be submitted to the main conference website. Please note that the deadline for abstracts for this themed session is earlier than the deadline for the main conference. Maximum abstract length is 400 words. Please send your abstract as a pdf attachment to aberez at umail.ucsb.edu . More information about the 1st International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation can be found at the conference website, at http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/ICLDC09 . ----------------------------- Andrea Berez PhD student, Dept. of Linguistics University of California, Santa Barbara http://www.uweb.ucsb.edu/~aberez/ Co-moderator, Academics with Long Distance Partners http://www.academics-ldp.net From paul at benjamins.com Thu Aug 7 18:46:09 2008 From: paul at benjamins.com (Paul Peranteau) Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2008 14:46:09 -0400 Subject: New Benjamins title - Lpez-Couso & Seoane: Rethinking Message-ID: Grammaticalization Comments: To: FUNKNET at rice.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Rethinking Grammaticalization. New perspectives & Theoretical and Empirical Issues in Grammaticalization Edited by Mar?a Jos? L?pez-Couso and Elena Seoane University of Santiago de Compostella In collaboration with Teresa Fanego 2 volume set Typological Studies in Language 76-77 2008. xxi, 327 pp. + index & x, 350 pp. + index Hardbound 978 90 272 2991 5 / EUR 225.00 / USD 338.00 This book set contains the following volumes: Rethinking Grammaticalization: New perspectives L?pez-Couso, Mar?a Jos? and Elena Seoane (eds.) 2008. x, 355 pp. Theoretical and Empirical Issues in Grammaticalization Seoane, Elena and Mar?a Jos? L?pez-Couso (eds.) 2008. x, 367 pp. These two volumes offer a selection of papers from the Third International Conference New Reflections on Grammaticalization, held in Santiago de Compostela in July 2005. From the rich programme of the conference (over 120 papers), the twelve contributions included in this volume were carefully selected to reflect the state of current research in grammaticalization and suggest possible directions for future investigations in the field. Combining theoretical discussions with the analysis of particular test cases from a wide range of languages from various language families, the selected papers focus on such central questions as the need for a broader notion of grammaticalization, the distorting effects of grammaticalization on grammar, the areal perspective in grammaticalization and the relevance of contact-induced change to grammaticalization. Other topics discussed include the development of markers of textual connectivity and the emergence of cardinal numerals and numeral systems. Contents of the two volumes: VOLUME 1 Rethinking Grammaticalization New perspectives Edited by Mar?a Jos? L?pez-Couso and Elena Seoane University of Santiago de Compostela In collaboration with Teresa Fanego Typological Studies in Language 76 2008. x, 355 pp. Hardbound 978 90 272 2988 5 / EUR 110.00 / USD 165.00 http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=TSL%2076 Table of contents Address list vii?viii Preface ix?x Introduction: New perspectives on grammaticalization Mar?a Jos? L?pez-Couso and Elena Seoane 1?13 Grammaticalization and the areal factor: The perspective of East and mainland Southeast Asian languages Walter Bisang 15?35 On the grammaticalization of 'come' and 'go' into markers of textual connectivity Philippe Bourdin 37?59 Grammaticalization, typology and semantics: Expanding the agenda Zygmunt Frajzyngier 61?102 Mismatch: Grammar distortion and grammaticalization Livio Gaeta 103?127 Areal convergence in grammaticalization processes Anna Giacalone-Ramat 129?167 The grammaticalization of nominalizers in Japanese and Korean: A contrastive study Kaoru Horie 169?187 On the frills of grammaticalization Tania A. Kuteva 189?217 Nominalizations in Bodic languages Michael Noonan 219?237 On the rise and fall of Korean nominalizers Seongha Rhee 239?264 The grammaticalization of clausal nominalizers in Burmese Andrew Simpson 265?288 The grammaticalization cline of cardinal numerals and numeral systems Ferdinand von Mengden 289?308 The development of nominalizers in East Asian and Tibeto-Burman languages Foong Ha Yap and Stephen Matthews 309?341 Index of names 343?347 Index of languages 348?349 Index of subjects 350?355 VOLUME 2: Theoretical and Empirical Issues in Grammaticalization Edited by Elena Seoane and Mar?a Jos? L?pez-Couso University of Santiago de Compostela In collaboration with Teresa Fanego Typological Studies in Language 77 2008. x, 367 pp. Hardbound 978 90 272 2989 2 / EUR 115.00 / USD 173.00 http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=TSL%2077 Table of contents Preface Introduction: Further reflections on grammaticalization Elena Seoane and Mar?a Jos? L?pez-Couso Swedish m? and the (de)grammaticalization debate Peter Andersson 'Where grammar and lexis meet:' Composite predicates in English Laurel J. Brinton On the grammaticalization and (inter)subjectivity of evidential (semi-)auxiliaries in Spanish Bert Cornillie Semantic, syntactic and constructional restrictions in the diachronic rise of modal particles in German: A corpus-based study on the formation of a grammaticalization channel Gabriele Diewald and Gisella Ferraresi Double indirect object marking in Spanish and Italian Andreas Dufter and Elisabeth Stark The emergence of particle clusters in Dutch: Grammaticalization under adverse conditions Jack Hoeksema Antigrammaticalization, antimorphologization and the case of Tura Dmitry Idiatov Can grammaticalization be parameterized? Jurgen Klausenburger Possessive adjectives as a source of intensifiers Ekkehard K?nig and Letizia Vezzosi Information structure and grammaticalization Christian Lehmann From speech-situation evocation to hypotaxis: The case of Latin quamvis 'although' Torsten Leuschner Grammaticalization waves: The Russian subjunctive mood and person/number marking Jens N?rg?rd-S?rensen Discourse frequency and the collapse of the adposition vs. affix distinction in Lakota Regina Pustet On the grammaticalization of the Spanish expression puede que Mar?a Jos? Rodr?guez Espi?eira and Bel?n L?pez Meirama On the history and present behaviour of subordinating that with adverbial conjunctions in English Guenter Rohdenburg The regrammaticalization of linking elements in German Heide Wegener Language index Name index Subject index ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject classification Linguistics Historical linguistics Morphology Syntax Theoretical linguistics Typology Paul Peranteau (paul at benjamins.com) General Manager John Benjamins Publishing Company 763 N. 24th St. Philadelphia PA 19130 Phone: 215 769-3444 Fax: 215 769-3446 John Benjamins Publishing Co. website: http://www.benjamins.com From phonosemantics at earthlink.net Wed Aug 13 18:46:55 2008 From: phonosemantics at earthlink.net (jess tauber) Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 14:46:55 -0400 Subject: How common are zero marked instruments/locations when cased forms also exist? Message-ID: Hi again. As Yahgan is a differential case marking language one would expect there to be more than one object case mark. I'm finding, though, that the same may be true for instruments and locations. The zero-marked locations seem generally to be glossed as 'at', unless the verb sense shifts it away from this, while those with locative suffix -un/-an are mostly 'in'. There seems to be a differentiation too between case-marked forms in -a:ki or -a, more generally instrumental in sense, versus the zero-marked forms, which have a broader semantic range of 'with, using' (such as ingredients, parts, etc. as well as instruments). The zero-marked forms appear to be more greatly affected by the verb semantics here as well. Does this sort of thing seem familiar to any of you from the languages you've worked with? Thanks. Jess Tauber phonosemantics at earthlink.net From paul at benjamins.com Thu Aug 14 15:00:51 2008 From: paul at benjamins.com (Paul Peranteau) Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 11:00:51 -0400 Subject: New Benjamins title: Mller/Klinge Message-ID: Essays on Nominal Determination From morphology to discourse management Edited by Henrik H?eg M?ller and Alex Klinge Copenhagen Business School Studies in Language Companion Series 99 2008. xviii, 369 pp. Hardbound 978 90 272 3110 9 / EUR 110.00 / USD 165.00 http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=SLCS%2099 This volume brings together scholars of diverse theoretical persuasions who all share an interest in capturing the role that nominal determination and reference assignment play in the complicated interplay between thought, language and communication. The articles can be divided roughly into five main areas of concern: the conceptual level of determination; the emergence and function of articles; their semantic contribution to nominal interpretation; the morphology and syntax of determiners; and the interplay and contrasts between articles, demonstratives and possessives. Thus, linguistic and philosophical issues in the subject field of nominal determination are addressed at all interface levels between morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics. This volume shows that different theoretical frameworks may be brought fruitfully together in the effort to formulate new analyses of well-known problems, but also to raise new questions and point to new areas which may prove interesting topics for future research both in functional and formal paradigms. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Table of contents Contributors vii?viii The editors ix Introduction Henrik H?eg M?ller and Alex Klinge xi?xviii Determiners and definiteness: Functional semantics and structural differentiation Peter Harder 1?25 Articles, definite and indefinite Michael Herslund 27?43 Typological correlations in nominal determination in Romance Elisabeth Stark 45?63 A stranger in the house: The French article de Marc Wilmet 65?78 Determination in endocentric and exocentric languages: With evidence primarily from Danish and Italian I?rn Korzen 79?99 Bare predicate nominals in Romance languages Roberto Zamparelli 101?130 Definiteness effect and the role of the coda in existential constructions Manuel Leonetti 131?162 Determination of N2 modifiers in Spanish nominal syntagmatic compounds Henrik H?eg M?ller 163?188 Reference to individuals, person, and the variety of mapping parameters Giuseppe Longobardi 189?211 English th- forms Judy B. Bernstein 213?232 Stating the case for ?- root and hw- root determiners Alex Klinge 233?263 On certain differences between noun phrases and clauses Naoki Fukui and Mihoko Zushi 265?286 Determination, nominalisation and conceptual processing Helle Dam-Jensen 287?308 The semantics and pragmatics of the possessive determiner Georges Kleiber 309?336 Reference, determiners and descriptive content Thorstein Fretheim and Nana Aba Appiah Amfo 337?364 Index 365?369 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject classification Linguistics Discourse studies Pragmatics Semantics Theoretical linguistics Paul Peranteau (paul at benjamins.com) General Manager John Benjamins Publishing Company 763 N. 24th St. Philadelphia PA 19130 Phone: 215 769-3444 Fax: 215 769-3446 John Benjamins Publishing Co. website: http://www.benjamins.com From harald at bombo.se Thu Aug 14 22:53:49 2008 From: harald at bombo.se (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Harald_Hammarstr=F6m?=) Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 00:53:49 +0200 Subject: Call for Participation: 14th Himalayan Languages Symposium, Gothenburg, Sweden 21-23 August 2008 Message-ID: [Apologies for cross-posting, though if you get this call multiple times, you are exactly the kind of person who would be interested.] 14th Himalayan Languages Symposium University of Gothenburg 21-23 August 2008 http://www.lingfil.uu.se/personal/anjusaxena/hls/ The Himalayan Languages Symposium brings together scholars working on languages and language communities of the greater Himalayan region: north-western and north-eastern India, Nepal, Bhutan and the Tibetan Plateau, northern Burma and Sichuan, and Nuristan, Baltistan and the Burushaski-speaking area in the west. 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From hdls at unm.edu Sat Aug 23 18:20:53 2008 From: hdls at unm.edu (High Desert Linguistics Society) Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2008 12:20:53 -0600 Subject: HDLS-8 Call for Abstracts (Deadline Extension) Message-ID: Hello everyone, Below you will find the call for abstracts for HDLS-8, the deadline for which has been extended to Friday, August 29th. Many thanks, Evan Ashworth Secretary, High Desert Linguistics Society Department of Linguistics University of New Mexico --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Eighth High Desert Linguistics Society Conference (HDLS-8) will be held at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, November, 6-8, 2008. 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If your abstract has special fonts or characters, please send your abstract as a PDF. Please be advised that shortly after the conference a call for proceedings will be announced. Poster Session - Participants will be given a space approximately 6' by 4' to display their work. Notification of acceptance will be sent out by September 2nd, 2008. If you have any questions or need for further information please contact us at hdls at unm.edu with ''HDLS-8 Conference'' in the subject line. You may also call Grandon Goertz, 505-277-6764 or Evan Ashworth, 505-228-4751. The HDLS mailing address is: HDLS, Department of Linguistics, MSC03 2130, 1 University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM. 87131-0001 USA From jdantonio at uem.br Sat Aug 30 00:06:24 2008 From: jdantonio at uem.br (Juliano Desiderato Antonio) Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 21:06:24 -0300 Subject: epistemic modality and evidentiality in brazilian portuguese Message-ID: Hi all. I have a doubt about items like "eu acho que..." (I think that...), "?? ??bvio que..." (it's obvious that...". It seems to me that these items are markers of epistemic modality, but there are papers which treat them as evidentiality markers because they might present an inference of the speaker. . ?? ??bvio que n??o tem colesterol, . porque ?? de origem vegetal. (... it's obvious that it does not contain cholesterol . because it comes from plant.) . eu acho que o deficiente mental sofre muito preconceito, (... I think that mentally disabled people go through a lot of prejudice) I'd like to know if it is possible to consider these items only epistemic modality markers. Thanks. Juliano -- Esta mensagem foi verificada pelo sistema de antiv?rus e acredita-se estar livre de perigo.