LT

[Frans Plank]

Expect, in the not-too-distant future:


LT 10-2 (2006)
Contents


Articles

Roland Pfau and Markus Steinbach
Pluralization in sign and in speech: A cross-modal typological study

Mark L. O. Van de Velde
Multifunctional agreement patterns in Bantu and 
the possibility of genderless nouns

Ekkehard König and Volker Gast
Focused assertion of identity: A typology of intensifiers


Review Article

Edith A. Moravcsik
Possible and probable languages: On a book by Frederick J. Newmeyer




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Friends of that quaint old genre, the book 
review, may also want to read on, and make their 
pick from the following list -- or also from 
previous similar listings included in the ALT 
News, with myriads of titles still unreviewed. 
(Profuse apologies for not making the last News 
with my latest listing.)

Frans Plank




Recently Published

Apart from directly commissioning reviews, LT 
solicits offers to review books -- those listed 
in this regular feature of ALT News or whichever 
others you'd like to add on your own 
understanding of the attribute "typologically 
relevant".  For purposes of book reviewing in LT, 
what matters is that REVIEWS are done from a 
distinctively typological angle, whatever angles 
the books reviewed are done from.  Reviewers so 
intentioned please get in touch with me, that is:

frans.plank at uni-konstanz.de   

Drop me a line with bibliographical particulars 
if you want to make sure your own relevant 
publications will be included in the next 
listing.  And remind your publisher to send a 
review copy to:

LINGUISTIC TYPOLOGY,
Sprachwissenschaft, Universität Konstanz,
D-78457 Konstanz, Germany.

Do feel free to offer to review grammars for LT 
too (again, from a distinctively typological 
angle).  Those grammars we are aware of are 
listed in GRAMMAR WATCH on the ALT homepage 
(updated annually).  Again, do send particulars 
of grammars not (yet) listed, published 2000 CE 
onwards. 



Aikhenvald, Alexandra Y. & R. M. W. Dixon (2006). 
Areal Diffusion and Genetic Inheritance: Problems 
in Comparative Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford 
University Press.

Anderson, Gregory D. s. (2006). Auxiliary Verb 
Constructions. (OSTLT.) Oxford: Oxford University 
Press.
[Or, as the first sentence of the book states: 
"The present volume constitutes a discussion of 
the inflectional patterns attested in auxiliary 
verb constructions among the languages of the 
world." [FP]]

Bernini, Giuliano & Marcia L. Schwartz (eds.) 
(2006). Pragmatic Organization of Discourse in 
the Languages of Europe. (EALT Eurotyp, 20-8.) 
Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

Berthele, Raphael (2006). Ort und Weg: Die 
sprachliche Raumreferenz in Varietäten des 
Deutschen, Rätoromanischen und Französischen. 
Berlin: Walter de Gruyter.

Bornkessel, Ina, Matthias Schlesewsky, Bernard 
Comrie, & Angela D. Friederici (eds.) (2006). 
Semantic Role Universals and Argument Linking: 
Theoretical, Typological, and Psycholinguistic 
Perspectives. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

Carlin, Eithne & Grace Rowicka (eds.) (2006). 
What's in a Verb? Studies in the Verbal 
Morphology of the Languages of the Americas. 
Leiden: Languages & Cultures of Native America, 
Leiden University.

Dietrich, Wolf & Haralambos Symeonidis (eds.) 
(2006). Guaraní y "Mawetí-Tupí-Guaraní": Estudios 
históricos y descriptivos sobre una familia 
lingüíatica de América del Sur.  Münster: LIT 
Verlag.

Dixon, R. M. W. & Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald (eds.) 
(2006). Complementation: A Cross-linguistic 
Typology. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Downing, Laura J. (2006). Canonical Forms in 
Prosodic Morphology. Oxford: Oxford University 
Press.

Eckardt, Regine (2006). Meaning Change in 
Grammaticalization: An Enquiry into Semantic 
Reanalysis. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Gippert, Jost, Nikolaus P. Himmelmann, Ulrike 
Mosel (eds.) (2006). Essentials of Language 
Documentation. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

Goldberg, Adele (2005). Constructions at Work: 
The Nature of Generalization in Language. Oxford: 
Oxford University Press.

Hickmann, Maya  & Stéphane Robert (2006). Space 
in Languages: Linguistic Systems    and Cognitive 
Categories. (TSL, 66.) Amsterdam: Benjamins.

Hole, Daniel, André Meinunger, & Werner Abraham 
(eds.) (2006). Datives and Other Cases: Between 
Argument Structure and Event Structure. 
Amsterdam: Benjamins.
[Part I: Intro, mostly on German;  Part II: Focus 
on German(ic);  Part III: Not on German, sorry, 
but on Albanian, Serbian, and Tagalog. [FP]]

Ko, Yong-Kun et al. (eds.). Whither Morphology in 
the New Millen[n]ium? (Morphology Monograph 
Series, 1.) Seoul: Pagijong Press.

Libert, Alan (2006). Ambipositions. (LINCOM 
Studies in Language Typology, 10.) München: 
LINCOM.

Lazard, Gilbert & Claire Moyse-Faurie (eds.) 
(2005). Linguistique typologique. Villeneuve 
d'Ascq: Presses Universitaires du Septentrion.

Loi Corvetto, Ines (ed.) (2003). Dalla 
linguistica areale alla tipologia linguistica. 
Roma: Il Calamo.

Lois, Ximena & Valentina Vapnarsky (eds.) (2006). 
Lexical Categories and Root Classes in Amerindian 
Languages. Bern: Lang.

Mel'cuk, Igor A. (2006). Aspects of the Theory of 
Morphology. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

Nishina, Yoko (2006). Satzverbindung und 
Satzreduktion: Untergeordnete Konstruktionen des 
Japanischen in sprachtypologischer Perspektive. 
(Diversitas Linguarum, 10.) Bochum: 
Universitätsverlag Dr. N. Brockmeyer.

Parkvall, Mikael (2006). Limits of Language: 
Almost Everything You didn't Know You didn't Know 
about Language and Languages. London: 
Battlebridge.
[... and about linguists and linguistics, too]

Roelcke, Thorsten (ed.) (2004). 
Variationstypologie: Ein sprachtypologisches 
Handbuch der europäischen Sprachen in Geschichte 
und Gegenwart. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter.

Rowicka, Graxyna J. & Eithne B. Carlin (eds.) 
(2006). What's in a Verb? Studies in the Verbal 
Morphology of the Languages of the Americas. 
Utrecht: LOT.

Stolz, Thomas & Cornelia Stroh (eds.) (2006).  
Possession, Quantitative Typologie und Semiotik: 
Georgisch, Irisch, Türkisch. (Diversitas 
Linguarum, 11.) Bochum: Universitätsverlag Dr. N. 
Brockmeyer.
[Contains three M.A. theses from the Universität 
Bremen, 2003-05.  If you go by the book's title 
and look forward to reading something about 
quantitative typology, semiotics, or Turkish, 
you're in for rude surprises.]

Tsunoda, Tasaku & Taro Kageyama (eds.) (2006). 
Voice and Grammatical Relations: In Honor of 
Masayoshi Shibatani. (TSL, 65.) Amsterdam: 
Benjamins.

Wali, Kashi (2005). Marathi: A Study in 
Comparative South Asian Languages. Delhi: Indian 
Institute of Language Studies.

Wohlgemut, Jan (2003). Das Diathesensystem der 
Bahasa Indonesia. Berlin: Weißensee Verlag.

Wohlgemut, Jan & Tyko Dirksmeyer (eds.) (2005). 
Bedrohte Vielfalt: Aspekte des Sprach(en)todes. 
Berlin: Weißensee Verlag.

Zeshan, Ulrike (ed.) (2005). Interrogative and 
Negative Constructions in Sign Languages. (Sign 
Language Typology Series, 1.) Nijmegen: Ishara 
Press.
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