reciprocals

Fri Jun 13 17:51:54 UTC 2008

Dear LINGTYP-ers,

Below is an announcement of an important new publication from Benjamins: 
Vladimir Nedjalkov's monumental compendium on reciprocal constructions
(http://www/benjamins.com).

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 This is a five volume set. Please excuse the length of the posting.

 Reciprocal Constructions

 Edited by Vladimir P. Nedjalkov
Institute for Linguistic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences,
with the assistance of Emma S. Geniusiene and Zlatka Guentchéva

 Typological Studies in Language 71

 2007. xxiii, 2219 pp. (5 vols.)

 Hardbound
978 90 272 2983 0 / EUR 350.00 / USD 525.00

This monograph constitutes the first comprehensive investigation of
 reciprocal constructions and related phenomena in the world's languages. 
Reciprocal constructions (of the type "The two boys hit each other", "The 
poets admire each other's poems") have often been the
subject of language-particular studies, but it is only in this work that a 
truly global comparative picture emerges.

Nine stage-setting chapters dealing with general and theoretical matters are 
followed by 40 chapters containing in-depth descriptions of reciprocals in 
individual languages by renowned specialists. The introductory papers
provide a conceptual and terminological framework that allows the authors of 
the individual chapters to characterize their languages in comparable terms, 
making it easy for the reader to see points of commonality between languages 
and constructions that have never been compared before. This set of volumes 
is an indispensable starting
 point and will be a lasting reference work for any future studies of 
reciprocals.

 Table of contents:

 List of contributors

Foreword by Bernard Comrie

Preface by Vladimir Nedjalkov

Abbreviations

Part I. Typological aspects of the investigation of reciprocals

1. Overview of the research.
   Definitions of terms,
   framework, and
   related issues
   Vladimir P. Nedjalkov

2. Lexical reciprocals as a
   means of expressing
   reciprocal situations
   Jurij P. Knjazev

3. Encoding of the reciprocal
   meaning
   Vladimir P. Nedjalkov

4. Sociativity, conjoining,
   reciprocity and the Latin
   prefix com-
   Anna A. Zaliznjak and
   Alexei D. Shmelev

5. Polysemy of reciprocal
   markers
   Vladimir P. Nedjalkov

6. Reciprocal and polyadic
  (Remarkable reciprocals in
   Bantu)
   Elena S. Maslova

7. Reciprocal derivation
   involving non-verbals
   Vladimir P. Nedjalkov

8. Questionnaire on
   reciprocals
   Vladimir P. Nedjalkov and
   Emma S. Geniusiene

9. Some typologically
   relevant properties of
   reciprocal markers and
   arrangement of the
   subsequent chapters
   Emma S. Geniusiene

Part II. Reflexive-reciprocal polysemy of reciprocal markers

A. Verbal and pronominal reciprocal markers
10. Reciprocal and reflexive
    constructions in German
    Björn Wiemer and Vladimir
    P. Nedjalkov

11. Reciprocal and reflexive
    constructions in Polish
    Björn Wiemer

12. Reciprocal and reflexive
    constructions in French
    Zlatka Guentchéva and
    Nicole Rivière

13. Reciprocal and reflexive
    constructions in Bulgarian
    Iordan Penchev

14. Reciprocal and reflexive
    constructions in
    Lithuanian (with
    references to Latvian)
    Emma S. Geniusiene

15. Reciprocal constructions
    in Russian
    Jurij P. Knjazev

16. Reciprocals in Vedic
    Leonid Kulikov

17. Reciprocal, comitative,
    sociative, and reflexive
    in Kabardian
    Konstantin I. Kazenin

18. Reciprocal, reflexive, and
    sociative in Adyghe
    Alexander Letuchiy

19. Reciprocals in West
    Greenlandic Eskimo
    Michael Fortescue

B. Verbal reciprocal marker only
20. Reciprocals and reflexives
    in North Arawak languages
    of the Upper Rio Negro
   (Warekena, Bare, Baniwa of
   Içana)
   Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald

C. Pronominal reciprocal
   marker only
21. Reciprocal constructions
    in Djaru
    Tasaku Tsunoda

Part III. Sociative-reciprocal polysemy of reciprocal markers

A. Verbal and pronominal
   reciprocal markers
22. Reciprocal, sociative, and
    comitative constructions
    in Tagalog
    Lina I. Shkarban and
    Gennadij E. Rachkov

23. Reciprocal constructions
    in Udehe
    Irina Nikolaeva

24. Reciprocals, sociatives,
    and competitives in
    Karachay-Balkar
    Vladimir P. Nedjalkov and
    Igor'V. Nedjalkov

25. Reciprocal, sociative, and
    competitive constructions
    in Japanese
    Vladimir M. Alpatov and
    Vladimir P. Nedjalkov

26. Reciprocals, sociatives,
    comitatives, and
    assistives in Yakut
    Igor' V. Nedjalkov and
    Vladimir P. Nedjalkov

27. Reciprocals, sociatives,
    comitatives, and
    assistives in Tuvan
    Klara B. Kuular

28. Reciprocals, assistives,
    and plural in Kirghiz
    Vladimir P. Nedjalkov

29. Reciprocal, sociative,
    and assistive
    constructions in Buryat
    and Khalkha-Mongol
    Vladimir P. Nedjalkov,
    Elena K. Skribnik, Evgenij
    A. Kuzmenkov and
    Natalija S. Yakhontova

B. Verbal reciprocal marker
   only
30. Reciprocal and sociative,
    reflexive and reciprocal
    in Tariana: Their genetic
    and areal properties
    Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald

31. Reciprocal constructions
    in Bolivian Quechua
    Simon van de Kerke

Part IV. Reflexive-reciprocal-
         sociative polysemy of
         reciprocal markers.
         Verbal reciprocal
         marker only

32. Reciprocal constructions
    in Warrungu
    Tasaku Tsunoda

Part V. Sociative-reciprocal-
        iterative polysemy of
        reciprocal markers

A. Verbal and pronominal
   reciprocal markers
33. Reciprocal constructions
    in Indonesian
    Aleksandr K. Ogloblin and
    Vladimir P. Nedjalkov

B. Verbal reciprocal marker
   only
34. Polysemy of the reciprocal
    marker in Nêlêmwa
    Isabelle Bril

35. Reciprocal, sociative,
    reflexive, and iterative
    constructions in
    East Futunan
    Claire Moyse-Faurie

Part VI. Non-prototypical
         polysemy

A. Verbal and pronominal
   reciprocal markers
36. Reciprocals and related
    meanings in To'aba'ita
    Frantisek Lichtenberk

B. Verbal reciprocal marker
   only
37. Reciprocals in Mundari
    Toshiki Osada

Part VII. Monosemous
          reciprocal markers

A. Verbal and pronominal
   reciprocal markers
38. Reciprocal and sociative
    constructions in Evenki
    (with an appendix on
    Manchu)
    Igor'V. Nedjalkov and
    Vladimir P. Nedjalkov

39. Reciprocal and sociative
    constructions in Even
    Andrej Malchukov

40. Reciprocal constructions
    in Chukchi (with an
    appendix on Koryak)
    Vladimir P. Nedjalkov

41. Reciprocal constructions
    in Nivkh (Gilyak)
    Galina A. Otaina and
    Vladimir P. Nedjalkov

B. Verbal reciprocal marker
   only
42. Reciprocals and sociatives
    in Ainu
    Vladimir M. Alpatov, Anna
    Ju. Bugaeva and Vladimir
    P. Nedjalkov

43. Reciprocals in Itelmen
    (Kamchadal)
    Aleksandr P. Volodin

44. Reciprocals in Yukaghir
    languages
    Elena S. Maslova

45. Reciprocal, response
    reciprocal, and
    distributive constructions
  in Cashinahua
  Eliane Camargo

C. Mostly pronominal
   reciprocal markers
46. Reciprocal and sociative
    constructions in Bamana
    Valentin Vydrin

47. Reciprocal constructions
    in Vietnamese
    Igor S. Bystrov and Nonna
    V. Stankevich

48. Reciprocal constructions
    in Ancient Chinese
    Sergej E. Yakhontov

49. Reciprocal constructions
    in Modern Chinese
    Monique Hoa, Vladimir P.
    Nedjalkov and Tamara N.
    Nikitina

Part VIII. Assessments

50. Comments
    Martin Haspelmath

Name index
Vladimir M. Alpatov and Sergej A. Krylov

Language index
Vladimir M. Alpatov and Sergej A. Krylov

Subject index
Vladimir M. Alpatov and Sergej A. Krylov