<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><!--StartFragment--><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; font-size: 11px; "><span style="font-size: 18px; "><b>Recently
Published and of Typological Interest</b></span><span style="font-size: 13px; "><b>
/ ix 2011<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; font-size: 11px; "><span style="font-size: 13px; "><b> <o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; font-size: 11px; "><span style="font-size: 13px; "><b>New publications of
potential typological interest are periodically advertised on the lingtyp
list. Apart from directly commissioning reviews, <i>LT</i></b></span><span style="font-size: 13px; "><b> solicits offers from lingtypists to review books –
those listed here or whichever others you’d like to add on your own
understanding of the attribute “typologically relevant”. (And do construe
its scope liberally!) For purposes of book reviewing in <i>LT</i></b></span><span style="font-size: 13px; "><b>, what matters is that REVIEWS are done from a
distinctively typological angle, from whatever angles the books reviewed are
done. Prospective reviewers so intentioned please get in touch.</b></span><span style="font-size: 13px; "><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; font-size: 11px; "><span style="font-size: 13px; "><b> </b></span><span style="font-size: 13px; "><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; font-size: 11px; "><span style="font-size: 13px; "><b>Drop me a line with
bibliographical particulars if you want to make sure your own relevant
publications will be included in the next listing. The most
effective indication of the existence of a new relevant book is the receipt of
a review copy; do remind your publisher to send one to:</b></span><span style="font-size: 13px; "><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 14pt; line-height: 150%; font-size: 11px; "><span style="font-size: 13px; "><b> </b></span><span style="font-size: 13px; "><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 2cm; line-height: 150%; font-size: 11px; "><span style="font-size: 13px; "><b>LINGUISTIC TYPOLOGY,<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 2cm; line-height: 150%; font-size: 11px; "><span style="font-size: 13px; "><b>Sprachwissenschaft,<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 2cm; line-height: 150%; font-size: 11px; "><span style="font-size: 13px; "><b>Universität Konstanz,<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 2cm; line-height: 150%; font-size: 11px; "><span style="font-size: 13px; "><b>78457 Konstanz, Germany.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 14pt; line-height: 150%; font-size: 11px; "><span style="font-size: 13px; "><b> </b></span><span style="font-size: 13px; "><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; font-size: 11px; "><span style="font-size: 13px; "><b>Regrettably, many
previously listed titles have remained unreviewed in <i>LT. </i></b></span><span style="font-size: 13px; "><b>However, typological publications can have long shelf-lives,
and you’re welcome to make your pick and review now what has been listed before
and is not past the sell-by date. </b></span><span style="font-size: 13px; "><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; font-size: 11px; "><span style="font-size: 13px; "><b> </b></span><span style="font-size: 13px; "><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; font-size: 11px; "><span style="font-size: 13px; "><b>Do feel free to
also offer to review <u>grammars</u> for <i>LT</i></b></span><span style="font-size: 13px; "><b> (again, from a distinctively typological
angle). Some are included in our listings here, but eventually THE
GRAMMAR WATCH on the ALT website should pick up again where we left off a while
ago. </b></span><span style="font-size: 13px; "><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; font-size: 11px; "><span style="font-size: 13px; "><b> </b></span><span style="font-size: 13px; "><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="right" style="text-align: right; line-height: 150%; font-size: 11px; "><span style="font-size: 13px; "><b>Frans Plank<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="right" style="text-align: right; line-height: 150%; font-size: 11px; "><span style="font-size: 13px; "><b><a href="mailto:frans.plank@uni-konstanz.de"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none">frans.plank@uni-konstanz.de</span></a><o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; font-size: 11px; "> <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; font-size: 11px; "><span style="font-size: 13px; "> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; font-size: 11px; "><span style="font-size: 13px; ">Bazzanella, Carla,
with Rosa Pugliese & Erling Strudsholm. 2011. <i>Numeri per parlare: Da
'quattro chiacchiere' a 'grazie mille'</i></span><span style="font-size: 13px; ">.
Roma: Laterza.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; font-size: 11px; "><span style="font-size: 13px; "> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; font-size: 11px; "><span style="font-size: 13px; "> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; font-size: 11px; "><span style="font-size: 13px; ">Bowern, Claire. 2011. <i>Sivisa
Titan: Sketch grammar, texts, vocabulary based on material collected by P.
Josef Meier and Po Minis</i></span><span style="font-size: 13px; "> (Oceanic
Linguistics Special Publication No. 38). Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; font-size: 11px; "><span style="font-size: 13px; "> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; font-size: 11px; "><span style="font-size: 13px; "> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; font-size: 11px; "><span style="font-size: 13px; ">Dalrymple, Mary &
Irina Nikolaeva. 2011. <i>Objects and information structure</i></span><span style="font-size: 13px; ">. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; font-size: 11px; "><span style="font-size: 13px; ">[In many languages,
the objects of transitive verbs are either marked by grammatical case or
agreement on the verb, or they remain unmarked: this is differential object
marking. This book is a cross-linguistic study of how differential object
marking is affected by information structure, the structuring of the utterance
in accordance with the informational value of its elements and contextual factors.
Marked objects tend to be associated with old information or information that
the sentence is about, while unmarked objects tend to express new information.
The book also sheds light on grammatical patterning in languages with
differential object marking: in some languages marked and unmarked objects have
identical grammatical properties, whereas in other languages marked objects are
more active in syntax. Finally, it provides a theory of the historical changes
that lead to the emergence of various patterns of differential object marking.]<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; font-size: 11px; "><span style="font-size: 13px; "> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; font-size: 11px; "><span style="font-size: 13px; "> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 11px; "><span style="font-size: 13px; ">Diewald, Gabriele &
Elena Smirnova (eds.). 2011. <i>Linguistic realization of evidentiality in
European languages</i></span><span style="font-size: 13px; ">. Berlin: De
Gruyter Mouton.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; font-size: 11px; "><span style="font-size: 13px; "> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; font-size: 11px; "><span style="font-size: 13px; "> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; font-size: 11px; "><span style="font-size: 13px; ">Dimmendaal, Gerrit J.
2011. <i>Historical linguistics and the comparative study of African languages</i></span><span style="font-size: 13px; ">. Amsterdam: Benjamins.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; font-size: 11px; "><span style="font-size: 13px; "> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; font-size: 11px; "><span style="font-size: 13px; "> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; font-size: 11px; "><span style="font-size: 13px; ">Dindelegan, Gabriela
Pană (ed.). 2011. <i>Gramatica de bază a limbii române. </i></span><span style="font-size: 13px; ">Bucureşti: Academia Română.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; font-size: 11px; "><span style="font-size: 13px; "> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; font-size: 11px; "><span style="font-size: 13px; "> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; font-size: 11px; "><span style="font-size: 13px; ">Dixon, R. M. W. 2011. <i>I
am a linguist</i></span><span style="font-size: 13px; ">. Leiden: Brill.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; font-size: 11px; "><span style="font-size: 13px; ">[<i>I am a Linguist</i></span><span style="font-size: 13px; "> provides a fascinating account of the academic
adventures of multi-faceted linguist, R.M.W. (Bob) Dixon. There is fieldwork
(and lengthy grammars) on Dyirbal, Yidiñ and other Aboriginal languages of
Australia, the Boumaa dialect of Fijian, and Jarawara from the dense jungles of
Amazonia. Theoretical studies include adjective classes, ergativity and
complement clauses. There are also detective novels, science fiction stories,
and pioneering work on blues and gospel discography. Interspersed with the
autobiographical narrative are explanations of how linguistics is a scientific
discipline, of the development of universities, of diminishing academic
standards, and of the treatment of Aboriginal people in Australia. The book is
written in an easy, accessible style with numerous illustrative anecdotes. It
will be an inspiration to young linguists and of interest to the general reader
curious about what a scientific linguist does. [Publishers]]<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; font-size: 11px; "><span style="font-size: 13px; "> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; font-size: 11px; "><span style="font-size: 13px; "> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; font-size: 11px; "><span style="font-size: 13px; ">Do, Tu-Anh. 2011. <i>Typologie
der tonalen Systeme in den Sprachen des südostasiatischen Festlandes.</i></span><span style="font-size: 13px; "> Berlin: LIT.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; font-size: 11px; "><span style="font-size: 13px; "> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; font-size: 11px; "><span style="font-size: 13px; "> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; font-size: 11px; "><span style="font-size: 13px; ">Evans, Nicholas, Alice
Gaby, Stephen C. Levinson, & Asifa Majid (eds.). 2011. <i>Reciprocals and
semantic typology</i></span><span style="font-size: 13px; ">. Amsterdam:
Benjamins.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; font-size: 11px; "><span style="font-size: 13px; "> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; font-size: 11px; "><span style="font-size: 13px; "> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; font-size: 11px; "><span style="font-size: 13px; ">Gijn, Rik van,
Katharina Haude, & Pieter Muysken (eds.). 2011.<i> Subordination in native
South American languages</i></span><span style="font-size: 13px; ">. Amsterdam:
Benjamins.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; font-size: 11px; "><span style="font-size: 13px; "> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; font-size: 11px; "><span style="font-size: 13px; "> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; font-size: 11px; "><span style="font-size: 13px; ">Givón, T. 2011. <i>Ute
reference grammar</i></span><span style="font-size: 13px; ">. Amsterdam:
Benjamins.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; font-size: 11px; "><span style="font-size: 13px; "> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; font-size: 11px; "><span style="font-size: 13px; "> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; font-size: 11px; "><span style="font-size: 13px; ">Güldemann, Tom. 2008. <i>Quotative
indexes in African languages: A synchronic and diachronic survey </i></span><span style="font-size: 13px; ">(EALT 34). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; font-size: 11px; "><span style="font-size: 13px; "> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; font-size: 11px; "><span style="font-size: 13px; "> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; font-size: 11px; "><span style="font-size: 13px; ">Haselow, Alexander.
2011. <i>Typological changes in the lexicon: Analytic tendencies in English
noun formation</i></span><span style="font-size: 13px; ">. Berlin: De Gruyter
Mouton.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; font-size: 11px; "><span style="font-size: 13px; ">[This
is the first study of the typological change of English from a synthetic
towards an analytic language that focuses exclusively on the lexical domain of
the language. It presents an innovative approach to linguistic typology by
focusing on the different encoding techniques used in the lexicon, providing a
theoretical framework for the description of structural types (synthetic,
analytic) and encoding techniques (fusional, isolating, agglutinative,
incorporating) found in the lexicon of a language. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; font-size: 11px; "><span style="font-size: 13px; ">It
is argued that, in the case of English, the change from syntheticity to
analyticity did not only affect its inflectional system and the encoding of
grammatical information, but also the derivational component. Based on a
cognitive approach to derivation, the book provides empirical evidence for a
considerable decline in the use of synthetic structures and a trend towards
higher degrees of analyticity in a specific lexical domain of English, the
formation of nouns by means of derivation. The full extent of this change surfaced
during the transition from Old English to early Middle English, but it was
later partly reversed though influence from French. The typological shift was
thus the result of a global structural reorganization of the language that
resulted in a fundamental change of the structure of words. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; font-size: 11px; "><span style="font-size: 13px; ">The
book also presents a comprehensive account of the historical development of
nominal derivation from the beginnings of Old English until the end of the
early Middle English period. Based on empirical data from written sources the
study documents the frequency of use of all Germanic-based derivational
morphemes for nominalizations over different subperiods and discusses their origin
as well as important changes of their semantic and morphological properties.
[Publishers]]<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; font-size: 11px; "><span style="font-size: 13px; "> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; font-size: 11px; "><span style="font-size: 13px; "> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; font-size: 11px; "><span style="font-size: 13px; ">Ikegami, Yoshihiko.
2007. <i>Sprachwissenschaft des Tuns und Werdens: Typologie der japanischen
Sprache und Kultur</i></span><span style="font-size: 13px; ">. Berlin: LIT.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; font-size: 11px; "><span style="font-size: 13px; "> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; font-size: 11px; "><span style="font-size: 13px; "> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; font-size: 11px; "><span style="font-size: 13px; ">Jung, Hakyung. 2011. <i>The
syntax of the </i></span><span style="font-size: 13px; ">be<i>-possessive:
Parametric variation and surface diversities</i></span><span style="font-size: 13px; ">. Amsterdam: Benjamins.<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; font-size: 11px; "><span style="font-size: 13px; "><i> <o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; font-size: 11px; "><span style="font-size: 13px; "> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; font-size: 11px; "><span style="font-size: 13px; ">Khabirov, Valerij P.
2010. <i>Sintagmatičeskaja morfologija kontaktnogo jazyka sango</i></span><span style="font-size: 13px; ">. Ekaterinburg: Uralskij gospeduniversitet. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; font-size: 11px; "><span style="font-size: 13px; ">[The book is devoted
to the description of the grammatical system of one of the most dynamic
languages (lingua franca) of Africa. The structure of Contact Sango with its
reduced morphology can adequately be described on the basis of syntactic data.
The description of Sango grammar starts from the description of the verbal
paradigm in a minimal utterance on the basis of the syntactic information it
gives. The book consists of 4 parts: I. Introduction; 2. Phonology of Sango; 3.
Syntagmatic morphology (with types of minimal utterances); 4. Derivation and
Compounding. At the end of the book there are texts in Sango and Ngbandi which
is considered to be the base language of Contact Sango. [Author]]<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; font-size: 11px; "><span style="font-size: 13px; "> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; font-size: 11px; "><span style="font-size: 13px; "> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; font-size: 11px; "><span style="color: black; font-size: 13px; "></span><span style="font-size: 13px; ">Kibort, Anna & Greville G. Corbett (eds.). 2011. <i>Features:
Perspectives on a key notion in linguistics.</i></span><span style="font-size: 13px; "> Oxford: Oxford University Press.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; font-size: 11px; "><span style="font-size: 13px; "><i> <o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; font-size: 11px; "><span style="font-size: 13px; "> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; font-size: 11px; "><span style="font-size: 13px; ">Lemaréchal, Alain.
2010. <i>Comparative grammar and typology: Essays on the historical grammar of
the Austronesian languages</i></span><span style="font-size: 13px; ">. Leuven:
Peeters.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; font-size: 11px; "><span style="font-size: 13px; "> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; font-size: 11px; "><span style="font-size: 13px; "> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; font-size: 11px; "><span style="font-size: 13px; ">Lomashvili, Leila.
2011. <i>Complex predicates: The syntax-morphology interface</i></span><span style="font-size: 13px; ">. Amsterdam: Benjamins.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; font-size: 11px; "><span style="font-size: 13px; ">[Focus on causatives
and applicatives in South Caucasian.]<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; font-size: 11px; "><span style="font-size: 13px; "><i> <o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; font-size: 11px; "><span style="font-size: 13px; "><i> <o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; font-size: 11px; "><span style="color: black; font-size: 13px; "></span><span style="font-size: 13px; ">McWhorter, John H. 2011. <i>Linguistic simplicity and
complexity: Why do languages undress?</i></span><span style="font-size: 13px; ">
Belin: De Gruyter Mouton.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; font-size: 11px; "><span style="font-size: 13px; ">[In
John McWhorter’s <i>Defining Creole</i></span><span style="font-size: 13px; ">
anthology of 2005, his collected articles conveyed the following theme: His
hypothesis that creole languages are definable not just in the sociohistorical
sense, but in the grammatical sense. His publications since the 1990s have
argued that all languages of the world that lack a certain three traits
together are creoles (i.e. born as pidgins a few hundred years ago and fleshed
out into real languages). He also argued that in light of their pidgin birth,
such languages are less grammatically complex than others, as the result of
their recent birth as pidgins. These two claims have been highly controversial among
creolists as well as other linguists.
In this volume, <i>Linguistic Simplicity and Complexity,</i></span><span style="font-size: 13px; ">McWhorter gathers articles he has written since then,
in the wake of responses from a wide range of creolists and linguists. These
articles represent a considerable divergence in direction from his earlier work.]<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; font-size: 11px; "><span style="font-size: 13px; "> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; font-size: 11px; "><span style="font-size: 13px; "> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; font-size: 11px; "><span style="font-size: 13px; ">Malchukov, Andrej,
Martin Haspelmath, & Bernard Comrie (eds.). 2010. <i>Studies in
ditransitive constructions: A comparative handbook</i></span><span style="font-size: 13px; ">. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; font-size: 11px; "><span style="font-size: 13px; "> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; font-size: 11px; "><span style="font-size: 13px; "> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; font-size: 11px; "><span style="font-size: 13px; ">Malchukov, Andrej
& Anna Siewierska (eds.). 2011. <i>Impersonal constructions: A
cross-linguistic perspective</i></span><span style="font-size: 13px; ">.
Amsterdam: Benjamins.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; font-size: 11px; "><span style="font-size: 13px; "> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; font-size: 11px; "><span style="font-size: 13px; "> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; font-size: 11px; "><span style="font-size: 13px; ">Miola, Emanuele &
Paolo Ramat (eds.). 2011. <i>Language contact and language decay:
Socio-political and linguistic perspectives</i></span><span style="font-size: 13px; ">. Pavia: IUSS Press.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; font-size: 11px; "><span style="font-size: 13px; "> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; font-size: 11px; "><span style="font-size: 13px; "> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; font-size: 11px; "><span style="font-size: 13px; ">Morey, Stephen. 2010. <i>Turung:
A variety of Singpho language spoken in Assam </i></span><span style="font-size: 13px; ">(Pacific Linguistics 614). Canberra: Australian
National University.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; font-size: 11px; "><span style="font-size: 13px; "> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; font-size: 11px; "><span style="font-size: 13px; "> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; font-size: 11px; "><span style="font-size: 13px; ">Peterson, John. 2011. <i>A
grammar of Kharia.</i></span><span style="font-size: 13px; "> Leiden: Brill.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; font-size: 11px; "><span style="font-size: 13px; ">Kharia, spoken in
central-eastern India, is a member of the southern branch of the Munda family,
which forms the western branch of the Austro-Asiatic phylum, stretching from
central India to Vietnam. The present study provides the most extensive
description of Kharia to date and covers all major areas of the grammar. Of particular
interest in the variety of Kharia described here, is that there is no evidence
for assuming the existence of parts-of-speech, such as noun, adjective and
verb. Rather functions such as reference, modification and predication are
expressed by one of two syntactic structures, referred to here as
“syntagmas”. [Publishers]]<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; font-size: 11px; "><span style="font-size: 13px; "> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; font-size: 11px; "><span style="font-size: 13px; "> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; font-size: 11px; "><span style="font-size: 13px; ">Puglielli, Annarita
& Mara Frascarelli. 2011. <i>Linguistic analysis: From data to theory. </i></span><span style="font-size: 13px; ">Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; font-size: 11px; "><span style="font-size: 13px; ">[This
book reconsiders the classic topics of linguistic analysis and reflects on
universal aspects of language from a typological and comparative perspective.
The aim is to show the crucial interactions which occur at the different levels
of grammar (phonology, morphology, lexicon, syntax and pragmatics), illustrating
their various roles in the structural organization of the sentence and exploring
how interface relations contribute to yield interpretation in typologically
different languages. The structural analysis is set within the Generative
framework of grammar, though theoretical tenets are the outcome, rather than
the starting point, of a study based on the observation of data. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; font-size: 11px; "><span style="font-size: 13px; ">As
the basic intent is to show different phenomena across a wide range of
languages, a 'semi-guided' method has been adopted in order to facilitate
comprehension and assist the reader in the identification of language
universals. For every topic, the discussion of previous literature is followed
by cross-linguistic evidence so that theory can be checked against data and the
relevant generalizations drawn. Ultimately, this approach reveals that grammar
is based on a very limited number of universal principles, which operate
yielding different effects at the different levels of the grammar. It implies
that a real understanding of the language-system can only be derived from a
comparative analysis in which the notion of interface plays a crucial role. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; font-size: 11px; "><span style="font-size: 13px; ">The
seven chapters in the volume deal with categories and functions, argument
structure, syntactic functions, the structure of noun phrases, adverbial
modification, information structure and illocutive force. Throughout, the
observation of data from 74 languages is a crucial element in the formulation
and understanding of theoretical tenets. [Publishers]]<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; font-size: 11px; "><span style="font-size: 13px; "> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; font-size: 11px; "><span style="font-size: 13px; "> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; font-size: 11px; "><span style="font-size: 13px; ">Rose, Françoise. 2011.
<i>Grammaire de l'émérillon teko, une langue tupi-guarani de Guyane Française</i></span><span style="font-size: 13px; ">. Leuven: Peeters.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; font-size: 11px; "><span style="font-size: 13px; ">[Cet ouvrage constitue
la première description de l’émérillon teko, langue d’une petite communauté
amérindienne vivant dans la forêt amazonienne de Guyane française. Il s’agit
d’une langue à tradition orale en danger d’extinction. <br>
De nombreux domaines sont traités, de la phonologie à l’analyse du discours en
passant par la morphosyntaxe. L’analyse est illustrée par un grand nombre
d’exemples tirés d’un corpus constitué de textes spontanés recueillis auprès de
locuteurs sur le terrain. <br>
La grammaire offre, le long de ses 17 chapitres, un excellent panorama des
structures d’une langue de la famille tupi-guarani, une des plus importantes
d’Amérique du Sud. L'émérillon forme par ailleurs un spécimen représentatif des
langues d’Amazonie. <br>
Cet ouvrage se veut donc une grammaire de référence de l’émérillon qui, par son
orientation à la fois comparative et typologique, intéressera tout autant les
typologues que les amérindianistes, ainsi que toute personne curieuse de
découvrir une langue jusque-là inconnue. [Publishers]]<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; font-size: 11px; "><span style="font-size: 13px; "> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; font-size: 11px; "><span style="font-size: 13px; "> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; font-size: 11px; "><span style="font-size: 13px; ">Siemund, Peter (ed.).
2011. <i>Linguistic universals and language variation</i></span><span style="font-size: 13px; ">. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; font-size: 11px; "><span style="font-size: 13px; "> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; font-size: 11px; "><span style="font-size: 13px; "> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; font-size: 11px; "><span style="font-size: 13px; ">Stolz, Thomas,
Cornelia Stroh, & Aina Urdze. 2011. <i>Total reduplication: The areal
linguistics of a potential universal </i></span><span style="font-size: 13px; ">(Studia
typologica 8). Berlin: Akademie-Verlag.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; font-size: 11px; "><span style="font-size: 13px; "><i> <o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; font-size: 11px; "><span style="font-size: 13px; "><i> <o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; font-size: 11px; "><span style="font-size: 13px; ">Yap, Foong Ha, Karen
Grunow-Hårsta, & Janick Wrona (eds.). 2011. <i>Nominalization in Asian
languages: Diachronc and typological perspectives</i></span><span style="font-size: 13px; ">. Amsterdam: Benjamins.</span><i> <span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; font-size: 11px; "><span style="color: black; font-size: 13px; "> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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