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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=FR link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Hi everyone,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> I’d like to stress that, after the monographs on Nahuatl written in the XVIth and XVIIth centuries by, among others, Alonso de Molina, Andres de Olmos, or on Guarani by Luis de Montoya, work on incorporation and polysynthesis, became more and more important in Europe due to the discovery of these morphosyntactic features by Pierre du Ponceau, who invented these technical terms, first applying them to Nahuatl, and thus showing what outstanding contributions Amerindian languages were able to make to language studies. There is, therefore, a tradition referring to the study of these characteristics, and this went as far as prompting linguists to add the polysynthetic type to Schlegel’s and Humboldt’s famous three types, to wit isolating, agglutinative and inflectional, which, long before Greenberg, laid the foundations of linguistic typology. This research tradition on polysynthesis and incorporation is illustrated by many works, giving the lie, by the way, to Martin’s assertion that “these terms have no clear definition in typology, because they rely on the notion of word”. Among such works, there are for example, if I may mention them, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:14.0pt'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>-<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>CH, « Lexical suffixes and incorporation in Mainland Comox », <i>Forum Linguisticum</i>, Vol. 3, n°1, August 1978, 57-71.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:14.0pt'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>-<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>CH, « On noun incorporation in universal grammar (further comments on a previous article) », <i>Forum Linguisticum,</i> Vol. 4, n°3, Apr. 1980, 241-245.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:14.0pt'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>-<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>CH, « Incorporation nominale et suffixation lexicale : essai de typologie et cas particulier du comox (Colombie britannique) », <i>Bulletin de la Société de Linguistique de Paris</i>, tome 72, fasc. </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>1, 1977, 319-340.</span><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:14.0pt'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>-<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> <span lang=EN-US>CH</span></span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> « Language as a faculty, languages as “contingent” manifestations and humans as function builders », <i>Reconnecting Language. Morphology and Syntax in Functional Perspective,</i> « Current Issues in Linguistic Theory » series, 154, Amsterdam/Philadelphia, John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1997, 29-47.</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Cheers,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Claude<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> Lingtyp [mailto:lingtyp-bounces@listserv.linguistlist.org</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>] <b>De la part de</b> Plank<br><b>Envoyé :</b> lundi 4 juillet 2016 12:35</span><span lang=EN-US> these terms have no clear definition in typology, because they rely on the notion of "word"</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><br><b>À :</b> Enrique L. Palancar; <LINGTYP@LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG><br><b>Objet :</b> Re: [Lingtyp] Americanist contributions to typology<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>The paper by Antoine that Enrique mentions is specifially on what is nowadays called "associated motion", something where Australia and South America have been leading the way. The paper -- and it's probably the longest we've ever had -- is in LT 20(1) 2016, an issue that was regrettably held up by production hiccups, but is to finally hit your screens and/or mailboxes this month. ToC attached.<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>In its early days (17-18th century) typology, and simultaneously language evolution, was a subject for "conjectural historians", and seriously Americas-informed factually-based typologising arguably only began with the likes of James Burnett (see below a passage from a handbook article for his actual language coverage) and Peter Stephen Du Ponceau. I'd say grappling with <b>polysynthesis/incorporation/Einverleibun</b>g was the first really significant typological contribution whose chief inspiration was American, superseding what had been speculated about the typological and evolutionary status of holistic event designations, aka impersonal/subjectless sentences. Very early, certain <b>sound/phoneme inventories</b>, lacking labials that just about everybody else loved and acquired early, were also perceived as a typological challenge from the Americas, calling for corrections of facile generalisations. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>(Good) typology is so driven by (deep) knowledge about languages. Good of Mark to recall Sapir. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Frans<o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>