ALT News No. 25

[Johan van der Auwera]

ALT News No. 25
January 2000

1. The 1999 elections
2. Two paragraphs from the new President
3. Recently published
4. NEW GRAMMARS awaiting to be GRAMMAR NOTICEd
5. Other



1. The 1999 elections

The ALT polls closed in the middle of December last year and we can
report that 38 members took the energy to respond to all our questions.
32 members voted for the slate below. The slate is therefore accepted,
the new officers can assume their roles, and the Statutes will be
adjusted as announced in News No. 24).

President: Marianne Mithun

Secretary-Treasurer: Johan van der Auwera

Editor-in-chief: Frans Plank

Executive Committee:
(President, Secretary-Treasurer, Editor-in-Chief)
and Matthew Dryer (1999-2001)
    Gilbert Lazard (1999-2001)
    Paolo Ramat (1999-2001)
    Bernard Comrie (1999-2003)
    Scott Delancey (1999-2003)
    Maria Polinsky (1999-2003)

Editorial Board:

(Editor-in-Chief)

and Marianne Mithun (1999-2000)
    Anna Siewierska (1999-2000)
    Nicholas Evans (1999-2001)
    Aleksandr Kibrik (1999-2001)
    Edith Moravcsik (1999-2002)
    Leon Stassen (1999-2002)
    Larry Hyman (1999-2003)
    Matt Shibatani (1999-2003)
    Carmen Pensado (2000-2004)
    Dan Slobin (2000-2004)

As to the other questions, 19 members  judged the present biennial
rhythm to be best suited for ALT meetings, 11 members opted for an
annual rhythm, and 8 members were indifferent. The large majority (33
members) were also indifferent on the question of whether the ALT
meetings should be programmed in even or in odd years. And as for the
timing within the year, the results are shown below:

                    good      indifferent     bad
early June          15        10              13
late June           15        11              12
early July          12        15              11
late July           16        16               6
early August        14        14              10
late August         15        15               8
early September     17        12               9


The Executive Committee will study these figures, but it is clear that
they will have no effect on the immediate future: ALT IV is being
scheduled to take place in 2001 in Santa Barbara, in conjunction with
the LSA.


2. Two paragraphs from the new president

Earlier this month Bernard officially passed the ALT gavel to me
electronically. Like all of us, I deeply appreciate his vision and
competence in setting our Association on its course and guiding it
through its formative years. I would also like to express my gratitude
to our two other guiding lights, Frans Plank, Editor-in-Chief of our
journal Linguistic Typology, and Johan van der Auwera, our
Secretary-Treasurer. Both have contributed much more thought, skill, and
time than most of us will ever realize to ensure the birth and
subsequent health of the Association. It is an exciting time to be a
typologist, as more is learned about a wider variety of languages almost
every day. It is also a time when language typology is assuming an
ever-increasing role in the discipline as a whole, as linguists in
general are becoming aware of the range of phenomena to be understood.
We have every reason to anticipate the continuing growth and maturation
of this field and of the Association along with it.

On another matter (unrelated to the election), the University of
California at Santa Barbara is beginning to plan for the next ALT
meeting, to be held in July of 2001 in conjunction with the Linguistic
Institute sponsored by the Linguistic Society of America. The tentative
date for the ALT meeting will be July 19-22, immediately before the
meeting of the Cognitive Linguistics Association to be held July 22-27.
Further information will be distributed in the ALT News as plans are
solidified.


3. Recently published

As usual, if interested in reviewing for LT titles that are listed below
or also in the New Grammars list, contact frans.plank at uni-konstanz.de.
Ditto if titles that ought to have been listed, being required reading
for typologists (but what is not?), have been inadvertently omitted.

van den Berg, Helma (ed.) (1999). Studies in Caucasian Linguistics:
Selected Papers of the Eighth Caucasian Colloquium. (CNWS Publications,
78.) Leiden: Research School CNWS, Universiteit Leiden.

Bhatt, Rakesh Mohan (1999). Verb Movement and the Syntax of Kashmiri.
Dordrecht: Kluwer.

Bickford, J. Albert (1998). Tools for Analyzing the World's Languages:
Morphology and Syntax. Arlington: SIL.

Branner, David Prager (2000). Problems in Comparative Chinese
Dialectology: The Classification of Miin and Hakka. Berlin: Mouton de
Gruyter.

Chung, Sandra (1998). The Design of Agreement: Evidence from Chamorro.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Comrie, Bernard (1999). Coreference in Grammar and Discourse. Oxford:
Blackwell.

Crevels, Mily (1999). Concession: A typological study. Ph.D.
dissertation, Universiteit van Amsterdam.

Cristofaro, Sonia & Paolo Ramat (eds.) (1999). Introduzione alla
tipologia linguistica. Roma: Carocci.

Daley, Karen A. (1998). Vietnamese Classifiers in Narrative Texts.
Arlington: SIL.

Diessel, Holger (1999). Demonstratives: Form, Function, and
Grammaticalization. (TSL, 42.) Amsterdam: Benjamins.

Dixon, R. M. W. & Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald (eds.) (2000). Changing
Valency: Case Studies in Transitivity. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press.

Erelt, Matti (ed.) (1999), Estonian: Typological Studies III. (Tartu
Ülikooli Eesti Keele Õppetooli Toimetised, 11.)  Tartu: Tartu Ülikooli
Kirjastuse trükikoda.

Frajzyngier, Zygmunt & Traci S. Curl (eds.) (2000). Reflexives: Forms
and Functions. (TSL, 40.) Amsterdam: Benjamins.

Frajzyngier, Zygmunt & Traci S. Curl (eds.) (2000). Reciprocals: Forms
and Functions. (TSL, 41.) Amsterdam: Benjamins.

Guéron, Jacqueline & Anne Zribi-Hertz (eds.) (1998). La grammaire de la
possession. Paris: Université Paris X, Nanterre.

Hombert, Jean-Marie & Larry Hyman (eds.) (1999). Bantu Historical
Linguistics: Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives. Stanford: CSLI.

Hovdhaugen, Even & Ulrike Mosel (eds.) (1999). Negation in Oceanic
Languages: Typological Studies. München: Lincom Europa.

Ineichen, Gustav (1999). Typologie und Sprachvergleich im Romanischen:
Aufsätze 1973–1998. (Studia Romanica, 97.) Heidelberg: Winter.

International Phonetic Association (1999). Handbook of the International
Phonetic Association: A Guide to the Use of the International Phonetic
Alphabet. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Jablonski, Nina G. & Leslie C. Aiello (eds.) (1998). The Origin and
Diversification of Language. San Francisco: California Academy of
Sciences.

Koval', A. I. & B. A. Njalibuli (1997). Glagol fula v tipologiceskom
osvescenii. Moskva: Russkie slovari.

Lust, Barbara C., Kashi Wali, James W. Gair, & K. V. Subbarao (eds.)
(1999). Lexical Anaphors and Pronouns in Selected South Asian Languages:
A Principled Typology. (EALT, 22.) Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

McConvell, Patrick & Nicholas Evans (eds.) (1997). Archaeology and
Linguistics: Aboriginal Australia in Global Perspective. Melbourne:
Oxford University Press.

Marchello-Nizia, Christiane (1999). Le français en diachronie: Douze
siècles d'évolution. Paris: Ophrys.

Matsumura, Kazuto (ed.) (1998). Studies in Endangered Languages. Tokyo:
Hituzi Syobo.

Nowak, Elke (ed.) (1999). "Languages Different in All their Sounds ..."
Descriptive Approaches to Indigenous Languages of the Americas 1500 to
1850. Münster: Nodus.

Polgárdi, Krisztina (1998). Vowel Harmony: An Account in Terms of
Government and Optimality. The Hague: Holland Academic Graphics.

Rouveret, Alain (ed.) (1998). "Etre" et "Avoir": Syntaxe, sémantique,
typologie. Saint-Denis: Presses Universitaires de Vincennes.

Sagart, Laurent (1999). The Roots of Old Chinese. Amsterdam: Benjamins.

Schroeder, Christoph (1999). The Turkish Nominal Phrase in Spoken
Discourse. (Turcologica, 40.) Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.

Sultanov, Vüqar (1997). Azerbaycan dilinde valentlik deyihen
kateqoriyalar. [Valency-changing Categories in Azeri: Diathesis,
Causative.] Baki: Elm.

Vaux, Bert & Justin Cooper (1999). Introduction to Linguistic Field
Methods. München: Lincom.

Vogel, Petra M. & Bernard Comrie (eds.) (1999). Approaches to the
Typology of Word Classes. (EALT, 23.) Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

Wierzbicka, Anna (1999). Emotions across Languages and Cultures:
Diversity and Universals. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Wilson, Stephen (1999). Coverbs and Complex Predicates in Wagiman.
Stanford, Cal.: Center for the Study of Language and Information.

Yamamoto, Mutsumi (1999). Animacy and Reference: A Cognitive Approach to
Corpus Linguistics. Amsterdam: Benjamins.




4. NEW GRAMMARS
   awaiting to be GRAMMAR NOTICEd


In future (A)LT will provide its member/reader-ship the service of
bringing newly published grammars of individual languages as well as
surveys of families or areas to their attention.

The responsibility for this service is areally/genetically divided as
follows:

Larry Hyman:  Sub-Saharan Africa
hyman at socrates.berkeley.edu

Anna Siewierska: North Africa, Near and Middle East
A.Siewierska at lancaster.ac.uk

Frans Plank:  Eurasia (minus The Caucasus and Uralic & Slavic)
frans.plank at uni-konstanz.de

Edith Moravcsik:  Uralic and Slavic
edith at uwm.edu

Sasha Kibrik:  The Caucasus
kibrik at philol.msu.ru

Matt Shibatani:  South and South East Asia
matt at kobe-u.ac.jp

Malcolm Ross:  Pacific (minus Australia)
malcolm.ross at anu.edu.au

Nick Evans: Australia
n.evans at linguistics.unimelb.edu.au

Marianne Mithun:  The Americas
mithun at humanitas.ucsb.edu

Wolfgang Schellinger:  the rest
wolfgang.schellinger at uni-konstanz.de


The aforementioned will collect references of grammars or surveys that
come or are brought to their attention--and they'll appreciate it if you
all join in the bringing part!  These will then periodically be
distributed on the LINGTYP list.  Below is the first instalment.

It is hoped that in return readers of LT/ALT News will put these
grammars to good typological use.  In particular you are invited, and
indeed expected, to send in typologically minded GRAMMAR NOTICES--of any
kind, format, or length--for those grammars that you've had an
opportunity to peruse.  That is, individual grammars will not be
assigned to individual noticers:  the more notices per grammar the
better;  and authors of grammars themselves are also welcome to send
what they think is the typological quintessence of "their"
languages/grammars.

These Grammar Notices should be sent directly to the LINGTYP list
(lingtyp at listserv.linguistlist.org).  We trust LINGTYP won't be sued for
libel as a result.  Eventually, notices deemed worth preserving for
posterity in print will be published in LT, perhaps in revised form.

Although you are free to grammar-notice in any style you deem
typologically relevant, Edith Moravcsik suggests these concise
Guidelines for Grammar Noticers (and they could conceivably be even
conciser by omitting her "second"):

Regarding what is typologically significant about a language: I think
three things.  First, characteristics that serve as implicantia, at
least statistically (such as S,V,O order, adposition order, N-G order,
etc.). Second, characteristics that would be predicted given other
features of a language (such as postpositions in a VSO language).
Third, characteristics that are very unusual all by themselves--such as
no nasals or no voiceless stops or no adpositions.  So, all in all:
features that predict others; and features that go against what is
predicted/expected.

If you are curious about which particular features have gone on record
as allegedly predicting others, and which are probably very unusual by
themselves, try this address:

http://www.ling.uni-konstanz.de/pages/proj/sprachbau.htm

The Universals Archive (at this address) also welcomes your
contributions: corrections, additions, counterexamples, etc. (send to:
frans.plank at uni-konstanz.de).


Grammars and Family/Area Surveys Recently Published

SUBSAHARAN AFRICA

Bender, Lionel M. (1998). The Nilo-Saharan Languages. München: Lincom
Europa.

Bodomo, Adams (1997). The Structure of Dagaare. (Stanford Monographs in
African Languages.) Stanford: CSLI.

Heath, Jeffrey (1998).  A Grammar of Koyra Chiini: The Songhay of
Timbuktu. (MGL, 19.) Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

Mugane, John M. (1997). A Paradigmatic Grammar of Gikuyu. Stanford:
CSLI.

Reh, Mechthild (1996). Anywa Language: Description and Internal
Reconstructions. (Nilo-Saharan, 11.) Köln: Rüdiger Köppe.


NORTH AFRICA, NEAR AND MIDDLE EAST

Allen, James P. (1999). Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language
and Culture of Hieroglyphs. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Ambros, Arne A. (1999). Bon0ornu, kif int? Einführung in die maltesische
Sprache. Wiesbaden: Reichert.

Bender, Lionel M. (1999). The Omotic Languages: Comparative Morphology
and Lexicon. München: Lincom Europa.

Borg, Albert & Marie Azzopardi-Alexander (1997). Maltese. (Descriptive
Grammars.) London: Routledge.

Buccellati, Giorgio (1996). A Structural Grammar of Babylonian.
Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.

Hetzron, Robert (ed.) (1998). The Semitic Languages. (Routledge Language
Family Descriptions.) London: Routledge.

Huehnergard, John (1997). A Grammar of Akkadian. (Harvard Semitic
Studies,45.) Atlanta, Georgia: Scholars Press.

Huehnergard, John (1998). Key to A Grammar of Akkadian. (Harvard Semitic
Studies, 46.) Atlanta, Georgia: Scholars Press.

Kammerzell, Frank (1998). Minimalgrammatik der mittelägyptischen
Sprache. Göttingen: Seminar für Ägyptologie und Koptologie,
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen.

Khan, Geoffrey (1999). A Grammar of Neo-Aramaic: The Dialect of the Jews
of Arbel. (Handbuch der Orientalistik, I-47.) Leiden: Brill.

Muraoka, T. & Belazel Porten (1997). Grammar of Egyptian Aramaic.
(Handbuch der Orientalistik.) Leiden: Brill.

Saeed, John (1999). Somali. (London Oriental and African Language
Library, 10.) Amsterdam: Benjamins.

Schuh, Russell G. (1998). A Grammar of Miya. (University of California
Publications in Linguistics, 130.) Berkeley: University of California
Press.

Seminara, Stefano (1998). L'accadico di Emar. Roma: Università degli
Studi di Roma "La Sapienza", Dipartimento di Studi orientali.

Sivan, Daniel (1997). Grammar of the Ugaritic Language. (Handbuch der
Orientalistik, I, 28.) Leiden: Brill.


EURASIA

Abondolo, Daniel (ed.) (1997). The Uralic Languages. (Routledge Language
Family Descriptions.) London: Routledge.

Ambrazas, Vytautas (ed.) (1997). Lithuanian Grammar. Vilnius: Baltos
lankos.

Braunmüller, Kurt (1998). De nordiske språk. [North Germanic.] Oslo:
Novus.

Edel'man, D. I. (ed.) (1999). Jazyki mira: Dardskie i nuristanskie
jazyki. Moskva: Indrik.

Giacalone, Anna & Paolo Ramat (eds.) (1997). The Indo-European
Languages. (Routledge Language Family Descriptions.) London: Routledge.

Greenberg, Joseph H. (2000). Indo-European and its Closest Relatives:
The Eurasiatic Language Family. Vol. 1: Grammar. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press.

Halwachs, Dieter W. (1998). Amaro vakeripe Roman. Unsere Sprache ist
Roman: Texte, Glossar und Grammatik der burgenländischen
Romani-Variante. Klagenfurt: Drava.

Johanson, Lars, & Éva Ágnes Csató (eds.) (1998). The Turkic Languages.
(Routledge Language Family Descriptions.) London: Routledge.

Kämpfe, Hans-Rainer & Alexander P. Volodin (1995). Abriß der
Tschuktschischen Grammatik auf der Basis der Schriftsprache.
(Tunguso-Sibirica, 1.) Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.

Kornfilt, Jaklin (1997). Turkish. (Descriptive Grammars.) London:
Routledge.

Liver, Ricarda (1999). Rätoromanisch: Eine Einführung in das
Bündnerromanische. Tübingen: Narr.

Mathiassen, Terje (1997). A Short Grammar of Latvian. Columbus, Ohio:
Slavica.

Price, Glanville (ed.) (1998). Encyclopedia of the Languages of Europe.
Oxford: Blackwell.

Privitera, Joseph F. (1998). Basic Sicilian: A Brief Reference Grammar.
Mellen.

Sammallahti, Pekka (1998). The Saami Languages: An Introduction.
Karasjok: Davvi Girji.

Selcan, Zülfü (1998). Grammatik der Zaza-Sprache, Nord-Dialekt
(Dersim-Dialekt). Berlin: Wissenschaft und Technik.

Volodin, A. P. (ed.) (1997). Jazyki mira: Paleoaziatskie jazyki. Moskva:
Indrik. [including Burushaski, by D. I. Edelman;  Ainu, by V. M.
Alpatov.]

Werner, Heinrich (1998). Abriss der kottischen Grammatik.
(Tunguso-Sibirica, 4.) Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.

Werner, Heinrich (1997). Die ketische Sprache. (Tunguso-Sibirica, 3.)
Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.


THE CAUCASUS

van den Berg, Helma (1998). A Grammar of Hunzib with Texts and Lexicon.
München: Lincom Europa.

Kibrik, A. E. (ed.) (1999). Elementy caxurskogo jazyka v tipologiceskom
osvescenii. Moskva: Nasledie.

Schulze, Wolfgang (1997). Tsakhur. (Languages of the World/Materials,
133.) München: LINCOM.

Alekseev, M. E. (ed.) (1999). Jazyki mira: Kavkazskie jazyki. Moskva:
Indrik.


SOUTH AND SOUTH EAST ASIA

Bhat, D. N. S. & M. S. Ningomba (1997). Manipuri Grammar. München:
Lincom Europa.

Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi (1997). A Grammar of Meithei. (Mouton Grammar
Library, 17.) Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

Denwood, Philip (1999). Tibetan. (London Oriental and African Language
Library, 3.) Amsterdam: Benjamins.

Dettmer, Hans Adalbert (1997). Ainu Grammatik. Teil II: Erläuterungen
und Register B. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.

Gair, James W. (1998). Studies in South Asian Linguistics: Sinhala and
other South Asian Languages. New York: Oxford University Press.

Guoqiao, Zheng & Long Yaohong (1998). The Dong Language in Guizhow
Province, China. (Translated by D. Norman Geary.) Arlington: SIL.

Nagaraja, K. S. (1999). Korku Language: Grammar, Texts, and Vocabulary.
Tokyo: Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Institute for the Study of
Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa.

Nguyên Dình-Hoà (1997). Vietnamese: Tiêng Viêt Không San Phân. (London:
Oriental and African Language Library, 9.) Amsterdam: Benjamins.

Noonan, Michael, with Ram Prasad Bhulanja, Jag Man Chhantyal, & William
Pagliuca (1999). Chantyal Dictionary and Texts. [with a typological
sketch].  Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

Schiffman, Harold F. (1999). A Reference Grammar of Spoken Tamil.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Sohn, Ho-min (1999). The Korean Language. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press.

Steever, Sanford B. (1998). The Dravidian Languages. (Routledge Language
Family Descriptions.) London: Routledge.

Van Driem, George (1997). Languages of the Himalayas: An Ethnolinguistic
Handbook. (Handbuch der Orientalistik.) Brill: Leiden.


PACIFIC

Berry, Keith & Christine Berry (1999). A Description of Abun: A West
Papuan Language of Irian Jaya. (Pacific Linguistics, B-115.) Canberra:
Australian National University.

Besnier, Niko (1999). Tuvaluan. (Descriptive Grammars.) London:
Routledge.

Crowley, Terry (1998). An Erromangan (Sye) Grammar. (Oceanic Linguistics
Special Publications, 27.) Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press.

Crowley, Terry (1999). Ura: A Disappearing Language of Southern Vanuatu.
Pacific Linguistics, C-156.) Canberra: Australian National University.

Davis, Philip w., John W. Baker, Walter L. Spitz, & Mihyun Baek (1999).
A Grammar of Yogad. München: Lincom Europa.

Donohue, Mark (1999). A Grammar of Tukang Besi. (Mouton Grammar Library,
20.) Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

Farr,  Cynthia J. M. (1999). The Interface between Syntax and Discourse
in Korafe: A Papuan Language of Papua New Guinea. (Pacific Linguistics,
C-148.) Canberra: Australian National University.

Foster, John (1997). Nga Kupu Whakamarama: Maori Grammar. Reed.

Heeschen, Volker (1998). An Ethnographic Grammar of the Eipo Language
Spoken in the Central Mountains of Irian Jaya (West New Guinea),
Indonesia. (Mensch, Kultur und Umwelt im zentralen Bergland von
West-Neuguinea, 23.) Berlin: Diedrich Reimer.

Klamer, Marian (1998). A Grammar of Kambera. (MGL, 18.) Berlin: Mouton
de Gruyter.

Lynch, John (1998). Pacific Languages: An Introduction. Honolulu:
University of Hawai'i Press.

Ozanne-Rivierre, Françoise (1998). Le nyelâyu de Balade
(Nouvelle-Calédonie). (Langues et cultures du Pacifique, 12.) Paris:
Peeters.

Reesink, Ger P. (1999). A Grammar of Hatam, Irian Jaya, Indonesia.
(Pacific Linguistics, C-146.) Canberra: Australian National University.

Solnit, David (1997). Eastern Kayah Li: Grammar, Texts, Glossary.
Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press.


AUSTRALIA

Blake, Barry J. (1999). Wathawurrung and the Colac Language of
Southern Victoria. (Pacific Linguistics.) Canberra: Australian National
University .

Bowe, Heather & Stephen Morey (1999). The Yorta Yorta (Bangerang)
Language of the Murray Goulburn Including Yabula Yabula. (Pacific
Linguistics, C-154.) Canberra: Australian National University.

Dench, Alan (1999). Yingkarta. München: Lincom Europa.

Dixon, R. M. W. & Barry J. Blake (eds.) (1999). Handbook of Australian
Languages, Vol. 5. Melbourne: Oxford University Press.  (Bunaba, by Alan
Rumsey;  Ndjebbana, by Graham McKay;  Kugu Nganhcara, by Steve Johnson &
Ian Smith.)

Hercus,  L.A. (1999). A Grammar  of the Wirangu Language from the West
Coast of South Australia. (Pacific Linguistics, C-150.) Canberra:
Australian National University.

Nordlinger, Rachel (1998). A Grammar of Wambaya, Northern Territory
(Australia). (Pacific Linguistics, C-140.) Canberra: Australian National
University.


THE AMERICAS

Andrews, Kenneth R. (1998). Shawnee Grammar. München: Lincom Europa.

Campbell, Lyle (1997). American Indian Languages: The Historical
Linguistics of Native America. New York: Oxford University Press.

Dixon, R. M. W. & Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald (eds.) (1999). The Amazonian
Languages. (Cambridge Language Surveys.) Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press.

Fernald, Theodore & Paul Platero (eds.) (1999). The Athabaskan
Languages: Perspectives on a Native American Language Family. Oxford:
Oxford University Press.

García Matzar, Pedro (Lolmay), & José Obispo Rodríguez Guaján (Pakal
B'alam) (1997). Rukemik ri kaqchikel chi': gramática kaqchikel.
Guatemala: Cholsamaj.

López Ixcoy, Candelaria Dominga (Saqijix) (1997). Ri ukemik ri k'ichee'
chii': gramática k'ichee'. Guatemala: Cholsamaj.

Maia, Marcus (1998). The Javae Language. München: Lincom Europa.

Mithun, Marianne (1999). The Languages of Native North America.
(Cambridge Language Surveys.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Pérez Vaíl, Eduardo Gustavo (B'aayil) & Odilio Jiménez (Ajb'ee) (1997).
Ttxoolil qyool mam: gramática mam. Guatemala: Cholsamaj.

Santos Nicolás, José Francisco (Pala's), & José Gonzalo Benito Pérez
(Waykan) (1998). Rukorb'aal poqom q'orb'al: gramática poqom (poqomam).
Guatemala: Cholsamaj.

Thiesen, Wesley (1996). Gramática del idioma Bora. Pucallpa, Perú:
Ministério de Educación & Instituto Lingüístico de Verano.

Yasugi, Yoshiho (1995). Native Middle American Languages: An
Areal-Typological Perspective. Osaka.


THE REST

Dalby, Andrew (1999). Dictionary of Languages: The Definitive Reference
to More Than 400 Languages. New York: Columbia University Press.


5. Other

5.1. Optimal Typology

The Optimal Typology Project is a collaborative research project led by
Judith Aissen at the University of California at Santa Cruz and by Joan
Bresnan at Stanford University.  The project aim is to develop a fully
explicit Optimality Theoretic approach to markedness hierarchies in
syntax, and to test it against both crosslinguistic typological research
and language-internal studies of syntactic structures.  We are currently
researching the role of the prominence hierarchies of person, animacy,
definiteness in the domains of voice, direction, nominal form, and word
order.  Funded in part by National Science Foundation Grants to each
institution, the project includes yearly activities such as seminars,
workshops, and research discussions on Optimality Theory, typology, and
syntax.

Judith Aissen: http://ling.ucsc.edu/~aissen/
               aissen at cats.ucsc.edu
Joan Bresnan:  http://www-ot.stanford.edu/bresnan/
               bresnan at stanford.edu

5.2. Cognitive Typology

A conference on Cognitive Typology will take place in Antwerp (April
12-14 2000). A website is under construction at:

http://www.ufsia.ac.be/cgct

The purpose of the conference is to bring together researchers from the
field of linguistic typology and from the domain of cognitive approaches
to language (broadly defined) to reflect on how the typological and the
cognitive enterprises in language research interrelate, what they have
to offer each other, and/or how they can join forces in view of their
shared goal of achieving an explanatory account of language.


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Marianne Mithun [President]
Department of Linguistics UCSB
University of California                 tel: + 1-805-893-4058
Santa Barbara, California 93106               + 1-805-563-1152
USA                                      fax: + 1-805-563-1948
E-mail:                             mithun at humanitas.ucsb.edu


Frans Plank [Editor-in-chief, Linguistic Typology]
Sprachwissenschaft
Universitaet Konstanz
D-78457 Konstanz                        tel + 49 7531 88 26 56
Germany                                 fax + 49 7531 88 27 41
E-mail:                            frans.plank at uni-konstanz.de


Johan van der Auwera [Secretary-Treasurer]
Linguistiek (GER)
Universiteit Antwerpen (UIA)
B-2610 Antwerpen                          tel + 32 3 820 27 76
Belgium                                   fax + 32 3 820 27 62
E-mail:                                    auwera at uia.ua.ac.be


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