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--></style></head><body bgcolor=white lang=JA link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"MS PGothic";color:black;mso-fareast-language:JA'>Dear Martin,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"MS PGothic";color:black;mso-fareast-language:JA'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"MS PGothic";color:black;mso-fareast-language:JA'> Thank you for your response.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"MS PGothic";color:black;mso-fareast-language:JA'> I am happy to hear that you think the term </span><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"MS PGothic";color:black;mso-fareast-language:JA'>“<span lang=EN-US>mermaid construction</span>”<span lang=EN-US> is beautiful and that you have found </span>“<span lang=EN-US>mermaid construction</span>”<span lang=EN-US> intriguing. These effects are exactly what I intended when I coined the term </span>“<span lang=EN-US>mermaid constriction</span>”<span lang=EN-US>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"MS PGothic";color:black;mso-fareast-language:JA'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"MS PGothic";color:black;mso-fareast-language:JA'> The back cover of the book states as follows.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"MS PGothic";color:black;mso-fareast-language:JA'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"MS PGothic";color:black;mso-fareast-language:JA'>==============================================================<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"MS PGothic";color:black;mso-fareast-language:JA'>This volume examines the unusual mermaid construction in eighteen languages of Asia and Africa. This construction looks biclausal superficially, but it is monoclausal syntactically. Its prototype has a compound predicate which contains an independent noun, and its predicate has a modal, evidential, aspectual, temporal, stylistic or discourse-related meaning. This volume shows how a noun may be reanalyzed to become a constituent of a predicate.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"MS PGothic";color:black;mso-fareast-language:JA'>==============================================================<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"MS PGothic";color:black;mso-fareast-language:JA'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"MS PGothic";color:black;mso-fareast-language:JA'> The book advertisement states as follows.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"MS PGothic";color:black;mso-fareast-language:JA'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"MS PGothic";color:black;mso-fareast-language:JA'>==============================================================<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"MS PGothic";color:black;mso-fareast-language:JA'>This volume provides detailed studies of the crosslinguistically unusual mermaid construction in seventeen languages of Asia, including Modern Standard Japanese, and one language of Africa. This construction appears to be absent in languages of Europe, Oceania and the Americas. The name — mermaid construction — alludes to its paradoxical make-up, where the structure closely resembling a verb-predicate clause ends with what may look like a noun-predicate clause. Superficially it looks biclausal; however, syntactically it is monoclausal. It has a compound predicate which contains an independent noun, a clitic or an affix derived from a noun, or a nominalizer. Its compound predicate has a modal, evidential, aspectual, temporal, stylistic or discourse-related meaning. The paradox is resolved from a diachronic perspective insofar as a biclausal structure is reanalyzed as a monoclausal one. This volume shows how a noun may be reanalyzed to become a constituent of a predicate. It constitutes an important contribution to research on grammaticalization and in particular, the grammaticalization of nouns and more generally, to the typology of syntactic reanalysis.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"MS PGothic";color:black;mso-fareast-language:JA'>==============================================================<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"MS PGothic";color:black;mso-fareast-language:JA'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"MS PGothic";color:black;mso-fareast-language:JA'> I hope that these two texts will make you even more interested in this phenomenon and this book.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"MS PGothic";color:black;mso-fareast-language:JA'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"MS PGothic";color:black;mso-fareast-language:JA'>Best wishes,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"MS PGothic";color:black;mso-fareast-language:JA'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"MS PGothic";color:black;mso-fareast-language:JA'>Tasaku Tsunoda<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"lr oSVbN","serif";color:black;mso-fareast-language:JA'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0mm 0mm 0mm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"MS Mincho";color:black'>送信元</span></b><b><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>: </span></b><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Martin Haspelmath <haspelmath@shh.mpg.de><br></span><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"MS Mincho";color:black'>日付</span></b><b><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>: </span></b><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>2020</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"MS Mincho";color:black'>年</span><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>9</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"MS Mincho";color:black'>月</span><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>9</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"MS Mincho";color:black'>日水曜日</span><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'> 17:46<br></span><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"MS Mincho";color:black'>宛先</span></b><b><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>: </span></b><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>TasakuTsunoda <tasakutsunoda@nifty.com><br><b>Cc: </b>"lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org" <lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org><br></span><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"MS Mincho";color:black'>件名</span></b><b><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>: </span></b><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Re: [Lingtyp] Publication announcement: Mermaid construction</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span lang=EN-US>Very intriguing! <o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>The beautiful term „mermaid construction“ reminds me of the older term „pied piper construction“. Can you briefly explain what it is?<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Martin<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><br><br><o:p></o:p></span></p><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span lang=EN-US>Am 09.09.2020 um 08:40 schrieb TasakuTsunoda <tasakutsunoda@nifty.com>:<o:p></o:p></span></p></blockquote></div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:JA'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:JA'> 2020/09/09</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:JA'>Dear Colleagues,</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:JA'> </span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:JA'> I am happy to announce that the following book has been published.</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:JA'> </span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:JA'>Tsunoda, Tasaku (ed.). 2020. <i>Mermaid construction: A compound-predicate construction with biclausal appearance. </i>(Comparative Handbooks of Linguistics 6). Berlin & Boston: De Gruyter Mouton.</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:JA'> </span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"MS Mincho";mso-fareast-language:JA'> </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:JA'>For information on this book, please see the following site: </span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"MS Mincho";mso-fareast-language:JA'> </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:JA'>https://www.degruyter.com/view/title/568273?tab_body=toc</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:JA'> </span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:JA'> I add that the following book was published in 2018.</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:JA'> </span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:JA'>Tsunoda, Tasaku (ed.). 2018. <i>Levels in clause linkage</i>. (Comparative Handbooks of Linguistics 2). Berlin & Boston: De Gruyter Mouton.</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:JA'> </span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"MS Mincho";mso-fareast-language:JA'> </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:JA'>For information on this book, please see the following site: </span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"MS Mincho";mso-fareast-language:JA'> </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:JA'>https://www.degruyter.com/view/title/524272</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:JA'> </span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:JA'>Best wishes,</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:JA'> </span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:JA'>Tasaku Tsunoda</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:JA'> </span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:JA'>_______________________________________________<br>Lingtyp mailing list<br>Lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org<br>http://listserv.linguistlist.org/mailman/listinfo/lingtyp<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></blockquote></div></body></html>