From peterarkadiev at YANDEX.RU Tue Jan 7 12:20:39 2014 From: peterarkadiev at YANDEX.RU (Peter Arkadiev) Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2014 16:20:39 +0400 Subject: Yadava 1999? Message-ID: Dear colleagues, I was wondering whether anybody has the following article in the electronic form and could share it: Yadava, Yogendra P. 1999. “The Complexity of Maithili Verb Agreement,” in R. Singh (ed.), The Yearbook of South Asian Language and Linguistics (Delhi: Sage), 139–152. Thank you in advance! Best wishes for 2014! Peter -- Peter Arkadiev, PhD Institute of Slavic Studies Russian Academy of Sciences Leninsky prospekt 32-A 119334 Moscow peterarkadiev at yandex.ru http://www.inslav.ru/ob-institute/sotrudniki/279-peter-arkadiev From snaim at VJF.CNRS.FR Tue Jan 7 16:08:37 2014 From: snaim at VJF.CNRS.FR (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Samia_Na=EFm?=) Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2014 17:08:37 +0100 Subject: Just published Message-ID: Dear colleagues, we are happy to announce the publication of Base articulatoire arrière / Backing and Backness, Léonard, Jean Léo & Naïm, Samia (eds), Lincom (Studies in Phonology 01), 278 p. [ISBN 9783862884636] Cet ouvrage est issu des travaux de la conférence internationale Base articulatoire arrière qui s’est tenue à Paris en mai 2012. Le lecteur y trouvera des données linguistiques couvrant un large spectre de langues non apparentées, des critiques argumentées sur l’articulation phonologique arrière, et toute une polyphonie de modèles théoriques et descriptifs. This volume was originally designed as the proceedings from the Paris International Conference on Backing & Backness in Phonology (Institut Universitaire de France - Paris 3 UMR 7018 & LACITO-CNRS), may 2012. It progressively became an essay on Backness & Resonance, from a theoretical as much as from an empirical standpoint. The reader will be provided with plenty of linguistic data on a wide array of unrelated languages, critical insights on phonological backness, and a polyphony of theoretical and descriptive models, far beyond from a mere survey of data. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Leonard_co_Softproof 001.png Type: image/png Size: 53778 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From s.hewitt at UNESCO.ORG Wed Jan 8 12:49:31 2014 From: s.hewitt at UNESCO.ORG (Hewitt, Stephen) Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2014 12:49:31 +0000 Subject: ergative to accusative alignment In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Dear Raheleh, Georgian is thought to have originally been ergative-absolutive, but then to have developed a nominative-accusative (dative) aligned present-future series of tenses through a process of anti-passivization, while maintaining the original ergative alignment in the aorist tense series with agentive verbs only. Harris, Alice C. (1982): From ergative to active in Georgian, in: Aronson, Howard I. & Darden, Bill J. (eds.), Papers from the Second Conference on the Non-Slavic Languages of the USSR - Folia Slavica 5, 191-205. Harris, Alice C. (1985): Diachronic syntax: The Kartvelian case. Orlando: Academic Press. Harris, Alice C. (1991): Overview on the history of the Kartvelian languages, in: Harris, Alice C. (ed.), The indigenous languages of the Caucasus, Vol. I, Kartvelian languages: Delmar, New York: Caravan Books, 7-83. Harris, Alice C. (2008): On the explanation of typologically unusual structures, in: Good, Jeff (ed.), Linguistic universals and language change. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 54-76. Best Steve Hewitt From: Discussion List for ALT [mailto:LINGTYP at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Raheleh Izadi Far Sent: 08 January 2014 13:25 To: LINGTYP at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG Subject: ergative to accusative alignment Dear all, Does anybody know about languages which have changed from ergative alignment to accusative alignment? or does anybody know about the mechanisms involved in such a change? what are the studies concerning this issue? and if there are any, are they accessible online? Thank you very much in advance kind regards, Raheleh Izadifar -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dwhieb at GMAIL.COM Wed Jan 8 14:36:14 2014 From: dwhieb at GMAIL.COM (Daniel Hieber -- ============================================================ Ljuba Veselinova, Associate Professor Dept of Linguistics, Stockholm University, S-10691 Stockholm, Sweden Phone: +46-8-16-2332 Fax: +46-8-15 5389 URL : http://www2.ling.su.se/staff/ljuba/ "We learn by going where we want to go." Julia Cameron ============================================================) Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2014 14:36:14 +0000 Subject: ergative to accusative alignment In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Hi Raheleh, The mechanisms I’m aware of are: antipassive > transitive (Kartvelian) reanalysis of topic pronouns (Proto-Daghestan) extension of ergative marking to new contexts (Mayan, Kartvelian, Tibeto-Burman) The first two are discussed in Harris & Campbell (1995), and the third in Dixon (1994). Harris, Alice & Lyle Campbell. 1995. Historical syntax in cross-linguistic perspective. Cambridge University Press. Dixon, R.M.W. 1994. Ergativity. Cambridge University Press. very best, Daniel W. Hieber Graduate Student in Linguistics University of California, Santa Barbara www.danielhieber.com Omnis habet sua dona dies. ~ Martial From: Raheleh Izadi Far Sent: ‎Wednesday‎, ‎January‎ ‎8‎, ‎2014 ‎4‎:‎24‎ ‎AM To: LINGTYP at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG Dear all, Does anybody know about languages which have changed from ergative alignment to accusative alignment? or does anybody know about the mechanisms involved in such a change? what are the studies concerning this issue? and if there are any, are they accessible online? Thank you very much in advance kind regards, Raheleh Izadifar -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From mjkuemmel at WEB.DE Wed Jan 8 13:55:16 2014 From: mjkuemmel at WEB.DE (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Martin_K=FCmmel?=) Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2014 14:55:16 +0100 Subject: AW: ergative to accusative alignment In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Dear colleague, Modern Persian has accusative alignment, while Middle Persian had a kind of split ergativity with ergative alignment in the past tense. Similar cases may be found in other Iranian and Indo-Iranian languages that have generalized accusative alignment. Cf., e.g. http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/ergative-construction. Best, Martin Von: Discussion List for ALT [mailto:LINGTYP at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG] Im Auftrag von Raheleh Izadi Far Gesendet: Mittwoch, 8. Januar 2014 13:25 An: LINGTYP at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG Betreff: ergative to accusative alignment Dear all, Does anybody know about languages which have changed from ergative alignment to accusative alignment? or does anybody know about the mechanisms involved in such a change? what are the studies concerning this issue? and if there are any, are they accessible online? Thank you very much in advance kind regards, Raheleh Izadifar -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From thien at UNIMELB.EDU.AU Wed Jan 8 19:35:33 2014 From: thien at UNIMELB.EDU.AU (Nick Thieberger) Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2014 06:35:33 +1100 Subject: ergative to accusative alignment In-Reply-To: <009d01cf0c79$42c497b0$c84dc710$@web.de> Message-ID: Ngayarta languages are Accusative unlike most other Australian languages which are Ergative, see Dench, A.C. (1982) 'The development of an accusative case marking pattern in the Ngayarda languages of Western Australia', pp.43-60 in Australian Journal of Linguistics, Vol.2, no.1. or Dench, Alan (1991). "Panyjima". In R.M.W. Dixon and Barry J. Blake. *The Handbook of Australian Languages, Volume 4*. Melbourne: Oxford University Press Australia. pp. 125–244. Nick On 9 January 2014 00:55, Martin Kümmel wrote: > Dear colleague, > > > > Modern Persian has accusative alignment, while Middle Persian had a kind > of split ergativity with ergative alignment in the past tense. Similar > cases may be found in other Iranian and Indo-Iranian languages that have > generalized accusative alignment. > > Cf., e.g. http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/ergative-construction. > > > > Best, > > > > Martin > > > > > > *Von:* Discussion List for ALT [mailto:LINGTYP at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG] *Im > Auftrag von *Raheleh Izadi Far > *Gesendet:* Mittwoch, 8. Januar 2014 13:25 > *An:* LINGTYP at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG > *Betreff:* ergative to accusative alignment > > > > Dear all, > > Does anybody know about languages which have changed from ergative > alignment to accusative alignment? or does anybody know about the > mechanisms involved in such a change? what are the studies concerning this > issue? and if there are any, are they accessible online? > > Thank you very much in advance > > kind regards, > > Raheleh Izadifar > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From geoffrey.haig at UNI-BAMBERG.DE Wed Jan 8 19:40:27 2014 From: geoffrey.haig at UNI-BAMBERG.DE (Geoffrey Haig) Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2014 20:40:27 +0100 Subject: Fwd: AW: ergative to accusative alignment In-Reply-To: <009d01cf0c79$42c497b0$c84dc710$@web.de> Message-ID: Dear Raheleh, ergative to accusative is attested, and there is a vast literature related to it; a couple of pointers that might help: Claims for a shift from ergative to accusative alignment for a number of languages of Australia are discussed in e.g. Alan Dench's paper "Insubordination: the accusative revolution in Australian languages" (available on academia.edu) For West Iranian languages, relevant material is summed up in: Haig, G. 2008. Alignment change in Iranian languages. A Construction Grammar approach. Berlin: Mouton. For alignment changes in various directions in Indo-Aryan, see, among many others, Saartje Verbeke's recent monograph. For languages of Amazonia see: Gildea / Queixalós (eds.) 2010. Ergativity in Amazonia. Amsterdam: Benjamins. Best wishes Geoff *Von:*Discussion List for ALT [mailto:LINGTYP at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG] *Im Auftrag von *Raheleh Izadi Far *Gesendet:* Mittwoch, 8. Januar 2014 13:25 *An:* LINGTYP at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG *Betreff:* ergative to accusative alignment Dear all, Does anybody know about languages which have changed from ergative alignment to accusative alignment? or does anybody know about the mechanisms involved in such a change? what are the studies concerning this issue? and if there are any, are they accessible online? Thank you very much in advance kind regards, Raheleh Izadifar -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From f.meakins at UQ.EDU.AU Wed Jan 8 22:33:58 2014 From: f.meakins at UQ.EDU.AU (Felicity Meakins) Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2014 22:33:58 +0000 Subject: AW: ergative to accusative alignment In-Reply-To: <52CDA9AB.4060207@uni-bamberg.de> Message-ID: Dear Raheleh, One mechanism might be language contact. The Gurindji ergative marker became a nominative marker as a result of contact with Kriol in the formation of Gurindji Kriol which is a mixed language. This change had an intermediate stage whereby Gurindji Kriol was originally an optional ergative language and then became a (optional) marked nominative language (as the ergative marker extended to subjects of transitive clauses). Meakins, Felicity. 2009. The case of the shifty ergative marker: A pragmatic shift in the ergative marker in one Australian mixed language. In Jóhanna Barddal & Shobhana Chelliah (eds.), The Role of Semantics and Pragmatics in the Development of Case. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 59-91. ---. to appear. From absolutely optional to only nominally ergative: The life cycle of the Gurindji Kriol ergative suffix. In Nino Amiridze, Peter Arkadiev & Francesco Gardani (eds.), Borrowed Morphology. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Meakins, Felicity & Carmel O'Shannessy. 2010. Ordering arguments about: Word order and discourse motivations in the development and use of the ergative marker in two Australian mixed languages. Lingua 120.7: 1693–713. Felicity _________________________________________ FELICITY MEAKINS | ARC Research Fellow Linguistics | SLCCS | University of Queensland | Brisbane QLD 4072 | AUSTRALIA RM 517 | Gordon Greenwood Bldg (32) | ' +61 7 3365 2877 | ' +61 411 404 546 | 7 +61 7 3365 6799 | • f.meakins at uq.edu.au | web www.slccs.uq.edu.au//index.html?page=127733&pid=124851 From: Geoffrey Haig > Reply-To: Geoffrey Haig > Date: Thursday, 9 January 2014 5:40 AM To: "LINGTYP at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG" > Subject: Fwd: AW: ergative to accusative alignment Dear Raheleh, ergative to accusative is attested, and there is a vast literature related to it; a couple of pointers that might help: Claims for a shift from ergative to accusative alignment for a number of languages of Australia are discussed in e.g. Alan Dench's paper "Insubordination: the accusative revolution in Australian languages" (available on academia.edu) For West Iranian languages, relevant material is summed up in: Haig, G. 2008. Alignment change in Iranian languages. A Construction Grammar approach. Berlin: Mouton. For alignment changes in various directions in Indo-Aryan, see, among many others, Saartje Verbeke's recent monograph. For languages of Amazonia see: Gildea / Queixalós (eds.) 2010. Ergativity in Amazonia. Amsterdam: Benjamins. Best wishes Geoff Von: Discussion List for ALT [mailto:LINGTYP at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG] Im Auftrag von Raheleh Izadi Far Gesendet: Mittwoch, 8. Januar 2014 13:25 An: LINGTYP at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG Betreff: ergative to accusative alignment Dear all, Does anybody know about languages which have changed from ergative alignment to accusative alignment? or does anybody know about the mechanisms involved in such a change? what are the studies concerning this issue? and if there are any, are they accessible online? Thank you very much in advance kind regards, Raheleh Izadifar -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From W.Schulze at LRZ.UNI-MUENCHEN.DE Thu Jan 9 05:09:17 2014 From: W.Schulze at LRZ.UNI-MUENCHEN.DE (Wolfgang Schulze) Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2014 00:09:17 -0500 Subject: ergative to accusative alignment Message-ID: [Sorry, in case this post shows up twice - I had technical problems posting to Lingtyp] Dear Raheleh, I guess that you will receive hundreds of hints concerning this issue. Let me add the following reference: W. Schulze 2010. The grammaticalization of Antipassives, which is available through academia.edu (https://www.academia.edu/1802279/The_Grammaticalization_of_Antipassives). It discusses the topic with respect to Kartvelian, Sumerian, and Proto-Indoeuropean. Very best wishes, Wolfgang > Am 08.01.2014 um 13:24 schrieb Raheleh Izadi Far : > > Dear all, > > Does anybody know about languages which have changed from ergative alignment to accusative alignment? or does anybody know about the mechanisms involved in such a change? what are the studies concerning this issue? and if there are any, are they accessible online? > > Thank you very much in advance > > kind regards, > Raheleh Izadifar From tsunoda at NINJAL.AC.JP Thu Jan 9 06:04:33 2014 From: tsunoda at NINJAL.AC.JP (Tasaku Tsunoda) Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2014 15:04:33 +0900 Subject: ergative to accusative alignment In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Dear Raheleh, The following paper may be useful. Hohepa, Patrick. 1969. The accusative-to-ergative drift in Polynesian languages. Journal of the Polynesian Society, 78: 297-329. -- Tasaku Tsunoda From: Raheleh Izadi Far Reply-To: Raheleh Izadi Far Date: 2014年1月8日水曜日 21:24 To: Subject: ergative to accusative alignment Dear all, Does anybody know about languages which have changed from ergative alignment to accusative alignment? or does anybody know about the mechanisms involved in such a change? what are the studies concerning this issue? and if there are any, are they accessible online? Thank you very much in advance kind regards, Raheleh Izadifar -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From donald.killian at HELSINKI.FI Thu Jan 9 07:03:05 2014 From: donald.killian at HELSINKI.FI (Don Killian) Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2014 09:03:05 +0200 Subject: ergative to accusative alignment In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Dear Raheleh, Depending on what you might be including by ergative, there's an interesting article by Dimmendaal 2012 (http://www.uni-koeln.de/phil-fak/afrikanistik/mitarbeit/dimmendaal/Marked%20nominative%20in%20Eastern%20Sudanic%20130907%20DR%20comments.pdf) in which he postulates the origins of Marked Nominative (depending on who you ask, some consider this a subcategory of accusative alignment) in Eastern Sudanic languages. Gaahmg is particularly interesting as far as diachronic developments go, as it also has both passive and antipassive constructions and in fact can allow for both types of markers simultaneously. If you're curious, email me and I can send you an article by Tim Stirtz. Best, Don On 01/08/2014 02:24 PM, Raheleh Izadi Far wrote: > Dear all, > > Does anybody know about languages which have changed from ergative > alignment to accusative alignment? or does anybody know about the > mechanisms involved in such a change? what are the studies concerning > this issue? and if there are any, are they accessible online? > > Thank you very much in advance > > kind regards, > Raheleh Izadifar -- Don Killian Researcher in African Linguistics Department of Modern Languages PL 24 (Unioninkatu 40) FI-00014 University of Helsinki +358 (0)44 5016437 From florian.siegl at GMX.NET Thu Jan 9 08:32:56 2014 From: florian.siegl at GMX.NET (Florian Siegl) Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2014 10:32:56 +0200 Subject: ergative to accusative alignment In-Reply-To: <52CE49A9.8040105@helsinki.fi> Message-ID: A related phenomena though only partly answering the initial posting is attested on Kamtchatka. Chukchi and Koryak show ergative alignment, but not Itelmen. The Itelmen absolute case marks S as well as A and P. Whether the Itelmen transitive verbal agreement markers still follow erg-abs alignment is not settled. Itelmen is not ergative but apparently not very nominative-accusative either. See the relevant sections in Georg, Stefan & Volodin, Alexander P. 1999. Die itelmenische Sprache - Grammatik und Texte. Tunguso-Sibirca 5. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. Best wishes, Florian Siegl On 9.01.2014 9:03, Don Killian wrote: > Dear Raheleh, > > Depending on what you might be including by ergative, there's an > interesting article by Dimmendaal 2012 > (http://www.uni-koeln.de/phil-fak/afrikanistik/mitarbeit/dimmendaal/Marked%20nominative%20in%20Eastern%20Sudanic%20130907%20DR%20comments.pdf) > in which he postulates the origins of Marked Nominative (depending on > who you ask, some consider this a subcategory of accusative alignment) > in Eastern Sudanic languages. > > Gaahmg is particularly interesting as far as diachronic developments > go, as it also has both passive and antipassive constructions and in > fact can allow for both types of markers simultaneously. If you're > curious, email me and I can send you an article by Tim Stirtz. > > Best, > > Don > > > On 01/08/2014 02:24 PM, Raheleh Izadi Far wrote: >> Dear all, >> >> Does anybody know about languages which have changed from ergative >> alignment to accusative alignment? or does anybody know about the >> mechanisms involved in such a change? what are the studies concerning >> this issue? and if there are any, are they accessible online? >> >> Thank you very much in advance >> >> kind regards, >> Raheleh Izadifar > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rgriscom at UOREGON.EDU Thu Jan 9 16:16:19 2014 From: rgriscom at UOREGON.EDU (Richard Griscom) Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2014 08:16:19 -0800 Subject: ergative to accusative alignment In-Reply-To: <52CE5EB8.3060104@gmx.net> Message-ID: This is a very interesting topic, but I would also add a word of caution against making assumptions regarding entire language systems conforming to a single alignment pattern. In my opinion, alignment is best viewed as construction-specific rather than language-specific in order to avoid inaccurate generalizations across the distribution. This, of course, doesn't preclude an analysis of a shift in the alignment patterns of one or more constructions in a given language. Best, Richard On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 12:32 AM, Florian Siegl wrote: > A related phenomena though only partly answering the initial posting is > attested on Kamtchatka. Chukchi and Koryak show ergative alignment, but not > Itelmen. The Itelmen absolute case marks S as well as A and P. Whether the > Itelmen transitive verbal agreement markers still follow erg-abs alignment > is not settled. Itelmen is not ergative but apparently not very > nominative-accusative either. See the relevant sections in Georg, Stefan & > Volodin, Alexander P. 1999. Die itelmenische Sprache - Grammatik und Texte. > Tunguso-Sibirca 5. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. > > > > Best wishes, > > > > Florian Siegl > > > > > > On 9.01.2014 9:03, Don Killian wrote: > > Dear Raheleh, > > Depending on what you might be including by ergative, there's an > interesting article by Dimmendaal 2012 ( > http://www.uni-koeln.de/phil-fak/afrikanistik/mitarbeit/dimmendaal/Marked%20nominative%20in%20Eastern%20Sudanic%20130907%20DR%20comments.pdf) > in which he postulates the origins of Marked Nominative (depending on who > you ask, some consider this a subcategory of accusative alignment) in > Eastern Sudanic languages. > > Gaahmg is particularly interesting as far as diachronic developments go, > as it also has both passive and antipassive constructions and in fact can > allow for both types of markers simultaneously. If you're curious, email > me and I can send you an article by Tim Stirtz. > > Best, > > Don > > > On 01/08/2014 02:24 PM, Raheleh Izadi Far wrote: > > Dear all, > > Does anybody know about languages which have changed from ergative > alignment to accusative alignment? or does anybody know about the > mechanisms involved in such a change? what are the studies concerning > this issue? and if there are any, are they accessible online? > > Thank you very much in advance > > kind regards, > Raheleh Izadifar > > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From davalle at UTEXAS.EDU Thu Jan 9 17:51:45 2014 From: davalle at UTEXAS.EDU (Daniel Valle Arevalo) Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2014 11:51:45 -0600 Subject: ergative to accusative alignment In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Dear Raheleh, Kakataibo, a Panoan language, has developed a nominative alignment in pronouns only after extending the ergative marker. Nouns still keep the ergative alignment (Valle 2011, available on academia.edu). In terms of verbal agreement, the language is nom-acc. Valle, Daniel. 2009. El sistema de marcación de caso en kakataibo. Bachelor thesis, Universidad Nacional Mayor San Marcos, Lima. Best, Daniel On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 10:16 AM, Richard Griscom wrote: > This is a very interesting topic, but I would also add a word of caution > against making assumptions regarding entire language systems conforming to > a single alignment pattern. In my opinion, alignment is best viewed as > construction-specific rather than language-specific in order to avoid > inaccurate generalizations across the distribution. This, of course, > doesn't preclude an analysis of a shift in the alignment patterns of one or > more constructions in a given language. > > Best, > Richard > > > > On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 12:32 AM, Florian Siegl wrote: > >> A related phenomena though only partly answering the initial posting is >> attested on Kamtchatka. Chukchi and Koryak show ergative alignment, but not >> Itelmen. The Itelmen absolute case marks S as well as A and P. Whether the >> Itelmen transitive verbal agreement markers still follow erg-abs alignment >> is not settled. Itelmen is not ergative but apparently not very >> nominative-accusative either. See the relevant sections in Georg, Stefan & >> Volodin, Alexander P. 1999. Die itelmenische Sprache - Grammatik und Texte. >> Tunguso-Sibirca 5. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. >> >> >> >> Best wishes, >> >> >> >> Florian Siegl >> >> >> >> >> >> On 9.01.2014 9:03, Don Killian wrote: >> >> Dear Raheleh, >> >> Depending on what you might be including by ergative, there's an >> interesting article by Dimmendaal 2012 ( >> http://www.uni-koeln.de/phil-fak/afrikanistik/mitarbeit/dimmendaal/Marked%20nominative%20in%20Eastern%20Sudanic%20130907%20DR%20comments.pdf) >> in which he postulates the origins of Marked Nominative (depending on who >> you ask, some consider this a subcategory of accusative alignment) in >> Eastern Sudanic languages. >> >> Gaahmg is particularly interesting as far as diachronic developments go, >> as it also has both passive and antipassive constructions and in fact can >> allow for both types of markers simultaneously. If you're curious, email >> me and I can send you an article by Tim Stirtz. >> >> Best, >> >> Don >> >> >> On 01/08/2014 02:24 PM, Raheleh Izadi Far wrote: >> >> Dear all, >> >> Does anybody know about languages which have changed from ergative >> alignment to accusative alignment? or does anybody know about the >> mechanisms involved in such a change? what are the studies concerning >> this issue? and if there are any, are they accessible online? >> >> Thank you very much in advance >> >> kind regards, >> Raheleh Izadifar >> >> >> >> > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dwhieb at GMAIL.COM Thu Jan 9 18:58:08 2014 From: dwhieb at GMAIL.COM (Daniel Hieber -- ============================================================ Ljuba Veselinova, Associate Professor Dept of Linguistics, Stockholm University, S-10691 Stockholm, Sweden Phone: +46-8-16-2332 Fax: +46-8-15 5389 URL : http://www2.ling.su.se/staff/ljuba/ "We learn by going where we want to go." Julia Cameron ============================================================) Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2014 18:58:08 +0000 Subject: ergative to accusative alignment In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Richard, that’s a great point. Bickel et al. (2013) provide an excellent illustration of this issue, which they call ‘Siewierska’s Problem’ in memory of Anna and her seminal (2003) article on alignment in ditransitive constructions. There she points out that verbal person marking can show different patterns of alignment depending on whether one examines the trigger potential, morphological form, position, or conditioning factors of the person forms. Bickel et al. then show that discrepancies among these different criteria are in fact extremely common crosslinguistically. So the descriptive linguist needs to be very specific about the details of alignment, and make sure they're comparing like with like when comparing synchronic or diachronic data. References Bickel, Balthasar, Giorgio Iemmolo, Taras Zakharko & Alena Witzlack-Makarevich. 2013. Patterns of alignment in verb agreement. In Dik Bakker & Martin Haspelmath (eds.), Languages Across Boundaries: Studies in Memory of Anna Siewierska. 15-36. De Gruyter. Siewierska, Anna. 2013. Person agreement and the determination of alignment. In Dunstan Brown, Greville G. Corbett & Carole Tiberius (eds.), Agreement: A Typological Perspective. 339-370. Wiley-Blackwell. Daniel W. Hieber Graduate Student in Linguistics University of California, Santa Barbara www.danielhieber.com Omnis habet sua dona dies. ~ Martial From: Richard Griscom Sent: ‎Thursday‎, ‎January‎ ‎9‎, ‎2014 ‎8‎:‎16‎ ‎AM To: LINGTYP at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG This is a very interesting topic, but I would also add a word of caution against making assumptions regarding entire language systems conforming to a single alignment pattern. In my opinion, alignment is best viewed as construction-specific rather than language-specific in order to avoid inaccurate generalizations across the distribution. This, of course, doesn't preclude an analysis of a shift in the alignment patterns of one or more constructions in a given language. Best, Richard On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 12:32 AM, Florian Siegl wrote: A related phenomena though only partly answering the initial posting is attested on Kamtchatka. Chukchi and Koryak show ergative alignment, but not Itelmen. The Itelmen absolute case marks S as well as A and P. Whether the Itelmen transitive verbal agreement markers still follow erg-abs alignment is not settled. Itelmen is not ergative but apparently not very nominative-accusative either. See the relevant sections in Georg, Stefan & Volodin, Alexander P. 1999. Die itelmenische Sprache - Grammatik und Texte. Tunguso-Sibirca 5. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. Best wishes, Florian Siegl On 9.01.2014 9:03, Don Killian wrote: Dear Raheleh, Depending on what you might be including by ergative, there's an interesting article by Dimmendaal 2012 (http://www.uni-koeln.de/phil-fak/afrikanistik/mitarbeit/dimmendaal/Marked%20nominative%20in%20Eastern%20Sudanic%20130907%20DR%20comments.pdf) in which he postulates the origins of Marked Nominative (depending on who you ask, some consider this a subcategory of accusative alignment) in Eastern Sudanic languages. Gaahmg is particularly interesting as far as diachronic developments go, as it also has both passive and antipassive constructions and in fact can allow for both types of markers simultaneously. If you're curious, email me and I can send you an article by Tim Stirtz. Best, Don On 01/08/2014 02:24 PM, Raheleh Izadi Far wrote: Dear all, Does anybody know about languages which have changed from ergative alignment to accusative alignment? or does anybody know about the mechanisms involved in such a change? what are the studies concerning this issue? and if there are any, are they accessible online? Thank you very much in advance kind regards, Raheleh Izadifar -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From f.meakins at UQ.EDU.AU Thu Jan 9 22:45:15 2014 From: f.meakins at UQ.EDU.AU (Felicity Meakins) Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2014 22:45:15 +0000 Subject: AW: ergative to accusative alignment Message-ID: Dear Raheleh, One mechanism might be language contact. The Gurindji ergative marker became a nominative marker as a result of contact with Kriol in the formation of Gurindji Kriol which is a mixed language. This change had an intermediate stage whereby Gurindji Kriol was originally an optional ergative language and then became a (optional) marked nominative language (as the ergative marker extended to subjects of transitive clauses). Meakins, Felicity. 2009. The case of the shifty ergative marker: A pragmatic shift in the ergative marker in one Australian mixed language. In Jóhanna Barddal & Shobhana Chelliah (eds.), The Role of Semantics and Pragmatics in the Development of Case. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 59-91. ---. to appear. From absolutely optional to only nominally ergative: The life cycle of the Gurindji Kriol ergative suffix. In Nino Amiridze, Peter Arkadiev & Francesco Gardani (eds.), Borrowed Morphology. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Meakins, Felicity & Carmel O'Shannessy. 2010. Ordering arguments about: Word order and discourse motivations in the development and use of the ergative marker in two Australian mixed languages. Lingua 120.7: 1693–713. Felicity _________________________________________ FELICITY MEAKINS | ARC Research Fellow Linguistics | SLCCS | University of Queensland | Brisbane QLD 4072 | AUSTRALIA RM 517 | Gordon Greenwood Bldg (32) | ' +61 7 3365 2877 | ' +61 411 404 546 | 7 +61 7 3365 6799 | • f.meakins at uq.edu.au | web www.slccs.uq.edu.au//index.html?page=127733&pid=124851 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The case of the shifty ergative marker: A > pragmatic shift in the ergative marker in one Australian mixed language. In > Jóhanna Barddal & Shobhana Chelliah (eds.), *The Role of Semantics and > Pragmatics in the Development of Case.* Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 59-91. > > ---. to appear. From absolutely optional to only nominally ergative: The > life cycle of the Gurindji Kriol ergative suffix. In Nino Amiridze, Peter > Arkadiev & Francesco Gardani (eds.), *Borrowed Morphology*. Berlin: > Mouton de Gruyter. > > Meakins, Felicity & Carmel O'Shannessy. 2010. 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URL: From spike at UOREGON.EDU Fri Jan 10 18:16:11 2014 From: spike at UOREGON.EDU (Spike Gildea) Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 10:16:11 -0800 Subject: ergative to accusative alignment In-Reply-To: <52cef1fa.aa13450a.77fb.5a58@mx.google.com> Message-ID: The idea that alignment is a property of constructions rather than languages is especially important to remember when looking at the creation of innovative main clause constructions, as the alignment of the new constructions need not match the alignment of the pre-existing constructions. A good example of innovative constructions with both ergative-absolutive and nominative-accusative patterns -- which I know much better myself (and have described in more detail in Gildea 2012) -- is the Cariban family: the etymologically oldest main clause alignment system is has hierarchical indexation on the verb, but alongside modern reflexes of this main clause type, there are innovative main clauses in mutliple Cariban languages that have ergative-absolutive alignment patterns (from three to five distinct etymological source constructions), as well several more innovative main clauses that have nominative-accusative alignment patterns (again from three to four distinct etymological source constructions). Most languages have at least two different main clause constructions, each belonging to a different alignment category, and several have three or more. Given that the original main clause construction in Proto-Cariban did not have ergative alignment (at least not as most linguists define ergative pattern), these examples do not show a change from ergative to accusative alignment, but rather the creation of new constructions with accusative alignment *regardless* of the alignment of the old main clause constructions. So we should be asking two completely different questions, both relevant to the original question. First, can languages with ergative-absolutive main clauses innovate a new kind of main clause that is nominative-accusative? The answer to this is clearly yes, as many of the posts here have already indicated. To the examples already given, I think we should add the example of someMayan languages, in which the older type of main clause construction has ergative-absolutive personal indexation on the verb, but nominalizations have nominative indexation (they are possessed by A and S); reanalysis of a biclausal construction with a main verb (> auxiliary) and nominalization (> new main verb) leads to split alignment, with the old system ergative-absolutive and the new system nominative-accusative. For what it's worth, the creation of innovative ergative-absolutive main clauses from older biclausal constructions is also well-attested, so there is no particular directionality to this mechanism. Second, do individual constructions change internally such that ergative-absolutive alignment properties can become nominative-accusative alignment properties? Here again, the answer is yes. In the passive-to-ergative reanalysis in Cariban (Gildea 1997), the innovative ergative main clause has absolutive verbal indexation, ergative case-marking, and absolutive control of coreference with subjects of corrdinate clauses, reflexive possessors, etc. In some languages, these new ergative main clauses have changed such that control of coreference is now with the A/S. This is still early in the process of shift, though, so no morphological changes are attested. In Indic, the older verb agrees with the absolutive for animacy, but this has been replaced by nominative agreement for person and number in, e.g., Nepali. This leaves a situation in which the only ergative pattern remaining in the construction is the ergative case-marker. At this point, we still call it an "ergative construction" (and some would also call Nepali and "ergative Language"), but this does raise the question of whether that notion should be more graded, as the construction (and the language) clearly has fewer ergative patterns today than its ancestors did in the past. If one believes the historical scenarios posited in Estival & Myhill's 1988 list of language constructions that have shifted from ergative-absolutive to nominative-accusative, then there are multiple examples of loss of even this last hold-out, the ergative case-marker, removing all ergative-absolutive patterns from a construction that once has several. And in another side note, this mechanism may be more directional than the reanalyses I discussed first. I am aware of very few cases of a nominative-accusative construction gaining ergative properties incrementally in the other direction, i.e., innovating an ergative case-marker in an existing construction, then innovating absolutive verbal indexation, then finally shifting control of coreference from the nominative to the absolutive argument. All of these are logically possible, but I only know of a handful of cases where an ergative case-marker was added to a construction that did not have one (always in a minor construction, and always when the dominant construction in main clauses already had that ergative marker), and I don't know of any examples where a pre-existing construction added absolutive indexation, nor shifted from nominative to absolutive control of coreference. I discussed this apparent asymmetry in directionality in a proceedings paper bout 10 years back (Gildea 2004), and as of Queixalós & Gildea 2010, no new examples had come along, but I still have not followed up satisfactorily to really test the empirical basis of that assertion. I would welcome examples, if anyone has suggestions. Best, Spike Gildea, Spike. 2004.Are there universal cognitive motivations for ergativity? /L'ergativité en Amazonie/, v. 2, ed. by F. Queixalós, 1-37. Brasília: CNRS, IRD and the Laboratório de Línguas Indígenas, UnB. Accessible online at: http://celia.cnrs.fr/FichExt/Documents%20de%20travail/Ergativite/Introductions_ergativite.htm Gildea, Spike.2012. Linguistic Studies in the Cariban Family/./ /Handbook of South American Languages/, ed. by Lyle Campbell & Veronica Grondona, 441-494.Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Queixalós, Francesc & Spike Gildea.2010. Manifestations of Ergativity in Amazonia. /Ergativity in Amazonia/, ed. by Spike Gildea & Francesc Queixalós, 1-25./Typological Studies in Language/, v. 89. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. On 1/9/14, 10:58 AM, "Daniel Hieber -- ============================================================ Ljuba Veselinova, Associate Professor Dept of Linguistics, Stockholm University, S-10691 Stockholm, Sweden Phone: +46-8-16-2332 Fax: +46-8-15 5389 URL : http://www2.ling.su.se/staff/ljuba/ "We learn by going where we want to go." Julia Cameron ============================================================" wrote: > Richard, that’s a great point. Bickel et al. (2013) provide an > excellent illustration of this issue, which they call ‘Siewierska’s > Problem’ in memory of Anna and her seminal (2003) article on alignment > in ditransitive constructions. There she points out that verbal person > marking can show different patterns of alignment depending on whether > one examines the trigger potential, morphological form, position, or > conditioning factors of the person forms. Bickel et al. then show that > discrepancies among these different criteria are in fact extremely > common crosslinguistically. So the descriptive linguist needs to be > very specific about the details of alignment, and make sure they're > comparing like with like when comparing synchronic or diachronic data. > > References > Bickel, Balthasar, Giorgio Iemmolo, Taras Zakharko & Alena > Witzlack-Makarevich. 2013. Patterns of alignment in verb agreement. In > Dik Bakker & Martin Haspelmath (eds.), /Languages Across Boundaries: > Studies in Memory of Anna Siewierska./ 15-36. De Gruyter. > > Siewierska, Anna. 2013. Person agreement and the determination of > alignment. In Dunstan Brown, Greville G. Corbett & Carole Tiberius > (eds.), /Agreement: A Typological Perspective/. 339-370. Wiley-Blackwell. > > > Daniel W. Hieber > Graduate Student in Linguistics > University of California, Santa Barbara > www.danielhieber.com > > Omnis habet sua dona dies. ~ Martial > > *From:* Richard Griscom > *Sent:* ‎Thursday‎, ‎January‎ ‎9‎, ‎2014 ‎8‎:‎16‎ ‎AM > *To:* LINGTYP at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG > > > This is a very interesting topic, but I would also add a word of > caution against making assumptions regarding entire language systems > conforming to a single alignment pattern. In my opinion, alignment is > best viewed as construction-specific rather than language-specific in > order to avoid inaccurate generalizations across the distribution. > This, of course, doesn't preclude an analysis of a shift in the > alignment patterns of one or more constructions in a given language. > > Best, > Richard > > > > On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 12:32 AM, Florian Siegl > wrote: > > A related phenomena though only partly answering the initial > posting is attested on Kamtchatka. Chukchi and Koryak show > ergative alignment, but not Itelmen. The Itelmen absolute case > marks S as well as A and P. Whether the Itelmen transitive verbal > agreement markers still follow erg-abs alignment is not settled. > Itelmen is not ergative but apparently not very > nominative-accusative either. See the relevant sections in Georg, > Stefan & Volodin, Alexander P. 1999. Die itelmenische Sprache - > Grammatik und Texte. Tunguso-Sibirca 5. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. > > Best wishes, > > Florian Siegl > > > > > On 9.01.2014 9:03, Don Killian wrote: > > Dear Raheleh, > > Depending on what you might be including by ergative, there's > an interesting article by Dimmendaal 2012 > (http://www.uni-koeln.de/phil-fak/afrikanistik/mitarbeit/dimmendaal/Marked%20nominative%20in%20Eastern%20Sudanic%20130907%20DR%20comments.pdf) > in which he postulates the origins of Marked Nominative > (depending on who you ask, some consider this a subcategory of > accusative alignment) in Eastern Sudanic languages. > > Gaahmg is particularly interesting as far as diachronic > developments go, as it also has both passive and antipassive > constructions and in fact can allow for both types of markers > simultaneously. If you're curious, email me and I can send > you an article by Tim Stirtz. > > Best, > > Don > > > On 01/08/2014 02:24 PM, Raheleh Izadi Far wrote: > > Dear all, > > Does anybody know about languages which have changed from > ergative > alignment to accusative alignment? or does anybody know > about the > mechanisms involved in such a change? what are the studies > concerning > this issue? and if there are any, are they accessible online? > > Thank you very much in advance > > kind regards, > Raheleh Izadifar > > > > From gil at EVA.MPG.DE Sun Jan 12 14:19:14 2014 From: gil at EVA.MPG.DE (David Gil) Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2014 23:19:14 +0900 Subject: query: ludlings Message-ID: Dear all, I have a quick question about ludlings (also known as "secret languages", "word games", etc.) Most or all ludlings described to date are defined in terms of an operation whose domain is, at most, that of the word (eg. "reverse the order of segments in each word"). Occasionally, the domain is smaller, such as the syllable (eg. "insert a [b] into each syllable"). My question: Is anybody familiar with a ludling defined in terms of an operation whose domain is LARGER than that of the word? I used to think such ludlings were impossible, and I suspect that many indeed are (eg. "reverse the order of words in a sentence"). However, today I came across what seems to be a ludling, in Papuan Malay, that inserts a fixed element at the end of (what seems to be) each intonational phrase. So I'm wondering whether such ludlings have been described before. Thanks, David -- David Gil Department of Linguistics Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology Deutscher Platz 6, D-04103 Leipzig, Germany Telephone: 49-341-3550321 Fax: 49-341-3550333 Email: gil at eva.mpg.de Webpage: http://www.eva.mpg.de/~gil/ From zsh9986 at 163.COM Sun Jan 19 22:55:13 2014 From: zsh9986 at 163.COM (zhou) Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 06:55:13 +0800 Subject: Textbooks for cognitive linguistics and functional grammar Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, Next semester, I will be giving two new courses , one is cognitive linguistics and the other is functional grammar, focusing on the discourse / syntax interaction, to the first year MA students of linguistics, I am now choosing the suitable textbooks for these two courses. So I am wondering what textbooks are good for the students who do not have a very good ground knowledge for linguistics, in regard to the its content and organizations, according to your teaching experience. Thank you in advance. Best regards! 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You mean to focus on the "discourse/syntax interaction" - you will find that in Langacker's view language is not divisible into modules such as "phonetics, phonology, lexicon, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics" (page 13 of Langacker cited in the link above) as in other approaches to language - in fact, he only uses the term "syntax" when speaking of formal approaches which argue for the "autonomy of syntax" (with which he disagrees). As for functional grammar this is an umbrella term that applies to a great variety of linguistic sub-branches (see for instance HERE ) so you will most likely have to make a choice in favor of one of these. I hope this helps you a small bit further in your search. Best, Steffen Haurholm-Larsen University of Bern, Switzerland PhD student Den 1/20/14 6:00 AM, LINGTYP automatic digest system skrev: > There is 1 message totaling 44 lines in this issue. > > Topics of the day: > > 1. Textbooks for cognitive linguistics and functional grammar > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 06:55:13 +0800 > From: zhou > Subject: Textbooks for cognitive linguistics and functional grammar > > Dear Colleagues, > Next semester, I will be giving two new courses , one is cognitive linguistics and the other is functional grammar, focusing on the discourse / syntax interaction, to the first year MA students of linguistics, I am now choosing the suitable textbooks for these two courses. So I am wondering what textbooks are good for the students who do not have a very good ground knowledge for linguistics, in regard to the its content and organizations, according to your teaching experience. > Thank you in advance. > Best regards! > > > Shihong Zhou > Linguisitcs Instit > > ------------------------------ > > End of LINGTYP Digest - 12 Jan 2014 to 19 Jan 2014 (#2014-6) > ************************************************************ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sivakalyan.princeton at GMAIL.COM Mon Jan 20 10:20:38 2014 From: sivakalyan.princeton at GMAIL.COM (Siva Kalyan) Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 21:20:38 +1100 Subject: Textbooks for cognitive linguistics and functional grammar In-Reply-To: <52DCBDE9.2060107@isw.unibe.ch> Message-ID: There is also an abridged version called "Essentials of Cognitive Grammar", which contains only the first six chapters (but thus excludes the bits on discourse) Siva On Monday, 20 January 2014, Steffen Haurholm-Larsen wrote: > Dear Shihong Zhou, > > A very accessible introduction to cognitive grammar is given by the > "founding father" of that sub-branch of linguistics HERE. > You mean to focus on the "discourse/syntax interaction" - you will find > that in Langacker's view language is not divisible into modules such as > "phonetics, phonology, lexicon, morphology, syntax, semantics, and > pragmatics" (page 13 of Langacker cited in the link above) as in other > approaches to language - in fact, he only uses the term "syntax" when > speaking of formal approaches which argue for the "autonomy of syntax" > (with which he disagrees). > > As for functional grammar this is an umbrella term that applies to a > great variety of linguistic sub-branches (see for instance HERE) > so you will most likely have to make a choice in favor of one of these. > > I hope this helps you a small bit further in your search. > > Best, > > Steffen Haurholm-Larsen > University of Bern, Switzerland > PhD student > > > > > Den 1/20/14 6:00 AM, LINGTYP automatic digest system skrev: > > There is 1 message totaling 44 lines in this issue. > > Topics of the day: > > 1. Textbooks for cognitive linguistics and functional grammar > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 06:55:13 +0800 > From: zhou > Subject: Textbooks for cognitive linguistics and functional grammar > > Dear Colleagues, > Next semester, I will be giving two new courses , one is cognitive linguistics and the other is functional grammar, focusing on the discourse / syntax interaction, to the first year MA students of linguistics, I am now choosing the suitable textbooks for these two courses. So I am wondering what textbooks are good for the students who do not have a very good ground knowledge for linguistics, in regard to the its content and organizations, according to your teaching experience. > Thank you in advance. > Best regards! > > > Shihong Zhou > Linguisitcs Instit > > ------------------------------ > > End of LINGTYP Digest - 12 Jan 2014 to 19 Jan 2014 (#2014-6) > ************************************************************ > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From pa2 at SOAS.AC.UK Mon Jan 20 18:54:37 2014 From: pa2 at SOAS.AC.UK (Peter Austin) Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 13:54:37 -0500 Subject: APLL7 conference 16-17 May 2014 Message-ID: Final Call for Abstracts -- APLL7 ** Deadline extended to 1st February 2014 ** Abstracts are invited for the seventh Austronesian and Papuan Languages and Linguistics international conference (APLL7) to be held at SOAS, University of London, on 16-17th May 2014. 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Synchronic, diachronic, areal, and typological studies are equally welcome. Possible topics include: Form of nominalizations: Lexical and grammatical nominalizations Event nominalizations and argument nominalizations V-based and N-based nominalizations Nominalization morphology and nominalization markers Internal and external syntax of nominalizations (to what extent are they nominal externally and verbal internally?) Use/function of nominalizations: NP-use (referential function) Modification-use (relativization, N-complementation and V-complementation, adverbials, clause chaining) Pragmaticization of nominalizations 　Desubordination/insubordination (i.e. nominalizations taking on sentential functions) Being a treasure trove of nominalizations with a rich inventory of structures and varied usage patterns, South America is a natural focus of the workshop, but we strongly encourage the participation of linguists working on both Central and North American languages. Publication of a volume based on the studies presented in the workshop is planned, similar to Nominalization in Asian Languages: Diachronic and Typological Perspectives edited by Foong Ha Yap, Karen Grunow-Hårsta and Janick Wrona (2011). One-page abstracts should be sent to nominalizationpucp at gmail.com. Abstract deadline: March 31, 2014. This is the first of the international workshops supported and planned biennially by PUCP’s recently launched Digital Archive of Peruvian Languages. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From chao.li at AYA.YALE.EDU Mon Jan 27 21:46:19 2014 From: chao.li at AYA.YALE.EDU (Chao Li) Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 16:46:19 -0500 Subject: English monomorphemic and polymorphemic words Message-ID: Dear All, I was wondering whether anyone was aware of any systemic study of the number of English monomorphemic and polymorphemic words. 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Peter -- Peter Arkadiev, PhD Institute of Slavic Studies Russian Academy of Sciences Leninsky prospekt 32-A 119334 Moscow peterarkadiev at yandex.ru http://www.inslav.ru/ob-institute/sotrudniki/279-peter-arkadiev From snaim at VJF.CNRS.FR Tue Jan 7 16:08:37 2014 From: snaim at VJF.CNRS.FR (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Samia_Na=EFm?=) Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2014 17:08:37 +0100 Subject: Just published Message-ID: Dear colleagues, we are happy to announce the publication of Base articulatoire arri?re / Backing and Backness, L?onard, Jean L?o & Na?m, Samia (eds), Lincom (Studies in Phonology 01), 278 p. [ISBN 9783862884636] Cet ouvrage est issu des travaux de la conf?rence internationale Base articulatoire arri?re qui s?est tenue ? Paris en mai 2012. Le lecteur y trouvera des donn?es linguistiques couvrant un large spectre de langues non apparent?es, des critiques argument?es sur l?articulation phonologique arri?re, et toute une polyphonie de mod?les th?oriques et descriptifs. 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URL: From s.hewitt at UNESCO.ORG Wed Jan 8 12:49:31 2014 From: s.hewitt at UNESCO.ORG (Hewitt, Stephen) Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2014 12:49:31 +0000 Subject: ergative to accusative alignment In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Dear Raheleh, Georgian is thought to have originally been ergative-absolutive, but then to have developed a nominative-accusative (dative) aligned present-future series of tenses through a process of anti-passivization, while maintaining the original ergative alignment in the aorist tense series with agentive verbs only. Harris, Alice C. (1982): From ergative to active in Georgian, in: Aronson, Howard I. & Darden, Bill J. (eds.), Papers from the Second Conference on the Non-Slavic Languages of the USSR - Folia Slavica 5, 191-205. Harris, Alice C. (1985): Diachronic syntax: The Kartvelian case. Orlando: Academic Press. Harris, Alice C. (1991): Overview on the history of the Kartvelian languages, in: Harris, Alice C. (ed.), The indigenous languages of the Caucasus, Vol. I, Kartvelian languages: Delmar, New York: Caravan Books, 7-83. Harris, Alice C. (2008): On the explanation of typologically unusual structures, in: Good, Jeff (ed.), Linguistic universals and language change. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 54-76. Best Steve Hewitt From: Discussion List for ALT [mailto:LINGTYP at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Raheleh Izadi Far Sent: 08 January 2014 13:25 To: LINGTYP at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG Subject: ergative to accusative alignment Dear all, Does anybody know about languages which have changed from ergative alignment to accusative alignment? or does anybody know about the mechanisms involved in such a change? what are the studies concerning this issue? and if there are any, are they accessible online? Thank you very much in advance kind regards, Raheleh Izadifar -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dwhieb at GMAIL.COM Wed Jan 8 14:36:14 2014 From: dwhieb at GMAIL.COM (Daniel Hieber -- ============================================================ Ljuba Veselinova, Associate Professor Dept of Linguistics, Stockholm University, S-10691 Stockholm, Sweden Phone: +46-8-16-2332 Fax: +46-8-15 5389 URL : http://www2.ling.su.se/staff/ljuba/ "We learn by going where we want to go." Julia Cameron ============================================================) Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2014 14:36:14 +0000 Subject: ergative to accusative alignment In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Hi Raheleh, The mechanisms I?m aware of are: antipassive > transitive (Kartvelian) reanalysis of topic pronouns (Proto-Daghestan) extension of ergative marking to new contexts (Mayan, Kartvelian, Tibeto-Burman) The first two are discussed in Harris & Campbell (1995), and the third in Dixon (1994). Harris, Alice & Lyle Campbell. 1995. Historical syntax in cross-linguistic perspective. Cambridge University Press. Dixon, R.M.W. 1994. Ergativity. Cambridge University Press. very best, Daniel W. Hieber Graduate Student in Linguistics University of California, Santa Barbara www.danielhieber.com Omnis habet sua dona dies. ~ Martial From: Raheleh Izadi Far Sent: ?Wednesday?, ?January? ?8?, ?2014 ?4?:?24? ?AM To: LINGTYP at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG Dear all, Does anybody know about languages which have changed from ergative alignment to accusative alignment? or does anybody know about the mechanisms involved in such a change? what are the studies concerning this issue? and if there are any, are they accessible online? Thank you very much in advance kind regards, Raheleh Izadifar -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From mjkuemmel at WEB.DE Wed Jan 8 13:55:16 2014 From: mjkuemmel at WEB.DE (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Martin_K=FCmmel?=) Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2014 14:55:16 +0100 Subject: AW: ergative to accusative alignment In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Dear colleague, Modern Persian has accusative alignment, while Middle Persian had a kind of split ergativity with ergative alignment in the past tense. Similar cases may be found in other Iranian and Indo-Iranian languages that have generalized accusative alignment. Cf., e.g. http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/ergative-construction. Best, Martin Von: Discussion List for ALT [mailto:LINGTYP at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG] Im Auftrag von Raheleh Izadi Far Gesendet: Mittwoch, 8. Januar 2014 13:25 An: LINGTYP at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG Betreff: ergative to accusative alignment Dear all, Does anybody know about languages which have changed from ergative alignment to accusative alignment? or does anybody know about the mechanisms involved in such a change? what are the studies concerning this issue? and if there are any, are they accessible online? Thank you very much in advance kind regards, Raheleh Izadifar -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From thien at UNIMELB.EDU.AU Wed Jan 8 19:35:33 2014 From: thien at UNIMELB.EDU.AU (Nick Thieberger) Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2014 06:35:33 +1100 Subject: ergative to accusative alignment In-Reply-To: <009d01cf0c79$42c497b0$c84dc710$@web.de> Message-ID: Ngayarta languages are Accusative unlike most other Australian languages which are Ergative, see Dench, A.C. (1982) 'The development of an accusative case marking pattern in the Ngayarda languages of Western Australia', pp.43-60 in Australian Journal of Linguistics, Vol.2, no.1. or Dench, Alan (1991). "Panyjima". In R.M.W. Dixon and Barry J. Blake. *The Handbook of Australian Languages, Volume 4*. Melbourne: Oxford University Press Australia. pp. 125?244. Nick On 9 January 2014 00:55, Martin K?mmel wrote: > Dear colleague, > > > > Modern Persian has accusative alignment, while Middle Persian had a kind > of split ergativity with ergative alignment in the past tense. Similar > cases may be found in other Iranian and Indo-Iranian languages that have > generalized accusative alignment. > > Cf., e.g. http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/ergative-construction. > > > > Best, > > > > Martin > > > > > > *Von:* Discussion List for ALT [mailto:LINGTYP at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG] *Im > Auftrag von *Raheleh Izadi Far > *Gesendet:* Mittwoch, 8. Januar 2014 13:25 > *An:* LINGTYP at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG > *Betreff:* ergative to accusative alignment > > > > Dear all, > > Does anybody know about languages which have changed from ergative > alignment to accusative alignment? or does anybody know about the > mechanisms involved in such a change? what are the studies concerning this > issue? and if there are any, are they accessible online? > > Thank you very much in advance > > kind regards, > > Raheleh Izadifar > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From geoffrey.haig at UNI-BAMBERG.DE Wed Jan 8 19:40:27 2014 From: geoffrey.haig at UNI-BAMBERG.DE (Geoffrey Haig) Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2014 20:40:27 +0100 Subject: Fwd: AW: ergative to accusative alignment In-Reply-To: <009d01cf0c79$42c497b0$c84dc710$@web.de> Message-ID: Dear Raheleh, ergative to accusative is attested, and there is a vast literature related to it; a couple of pointers that might help: Claims for a shift from ergative to accusative alignment for a number of languages of Australia are discussed in e.g. Alan Dench's paper "Insubordination: the accusative revolution in Australian languages" (available on academia.edu) For West Iranian languages, relevant material is summed up in: Haig, G. 2008. Alignment change in Iranian languages. A Construction Grammar approach. Berlin: Mouton. For alignment changes in various directions in Indo-Aryan, see, among many others, Saartje Verbeke's recent monograph. For languages of Amazonia see: Gildea / Queixal?s (eds.) 2010. Ergativity in Amazonia. Amsterdam: Benjamins. Best wishes Geoff *Von:*Discussion List for ALT [mailto:LINGTYP at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG] *Im Auftrag von *Raheleh Izadi Far *Gesendet:* Mittwoch, 8. Januar 2014 13:25 *An:* LINGTYP at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG *Betreff:* ergative to accusative alignment Dear all, Does anybody know about languages which have changed from ergative alignment to accusative alignment? or does anybody know about the mechanisms involved in such a change? what are the studies concerning this issue? and if there are any, are they accessible online? Thank you very much in advance kind regards, Raheleh Izadifar -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From f.meakins at UQ.EDU.AU Wed Jan 8 22:33:58 2014 From: f.meakins at UQ.EDU.AU (Felicity Meakins) Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2014 22:33:58 +0000 Subject: AW: ergative to accusative alignment In-Reply-To: <52CDA9AB.4060207@uni-bamberg.de> Message-ID: Dear Raheleh, One mechanism might be language contact. The Gurindji ergative marker became a nominative marker as a result of contact with Kriol in the formation of Gurindji Kriol which is a mixed language. This change had an intermediate stage whereby Gurindji Kriol was originally an optional ergative language and then became a (optional) marked nominative language (as the ergative marker extended to subjects of transitive clauses). Meakins, Felicity. 2009. The case of the shifty ergative marker: A pragmatic shift in the ergative marker in one Australian mixed language. In J?hanna Barddal & Shobhana Chelliah (eds.), The Role of Semantics and Pragmatics in the Development of Case. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 59-91. ---. to appear. From absolutely optional to only nominally ergative: The life cycle of the Gurindji Kriol ergative suffix. In Nino Amiridze, Peter Arkadiev & Francesco Gardani (eds.), Borrowed Morphology. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Meakins, Felicity & Carmel O'Shannessy. 2010. Ordering arguments about: Word order and discourse motivations in the development and use of the ergative marker in two Australian mixed languages. Lingua 120.7: 1693?713. Felicity _________________________________________ FELICITY MEAKINS | ARC Research Fellow Linguistics | SLCCS | University of Queensland | Brisbane QLD 4072 | AUSTRALIA RM 517 | Gordon Greenwood Bldg (32) | ' +61 7 3365 2877 | ' +61 411 404 546 | 7 +61 7 3365 6799 | ? f.meakins at uq.edu.au | web www.slccs.uq.edu.au//index.html?page=127733&pid=124851 From: Geoffrey Haig > Reply-To: Geoffrey Haig > Date: Thursday, 9 January 2014 5:40 AM To: "LINGTYP at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG" > Subject: Fwd: AW: ergative to accusative alignment Dear Raheleh, ergative to accusative is attested, and there is a vast literature related to it; a couple of pointers that might help: Claims for a shift from ergative to accusative alignment for a number of languages of Australia are discussed in e.g. Alan Dench's paper "Insubordination: the accusative revolution in Australian languages" (available on academia.edu) For West Iranian languages, relevant material is summed up in: Haig, G. 2008. Alignment change in Iranian languages. A Construction Grammar approach. Berlin: Mouton. For alignment changes in various directions in Indo-Aryan, see, among many others, Saartje Verbeke's recent monograph. For languages of Amazonia see: Gildea / Queixal?s (eds.) 2010. Ergativity in Amazonia. Amsterdam: Benjamins. Best wishes Geoff Von: Discussion List for ALT [mailto:LINGTYP at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG] Im Auftrag von Raheleh Izadi Far Gesendet: Mittwoch, 8. Januar 2014 13:25 An: LINGTYP at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG Betreff: ergative to accusative alignment Dear all, Does anybody know about languages which have changed from ergative alignment to accusative alignment? or does anybody know about the mechanisms involved in such a change? what are the studies concerning this issue? and if there are any, are they accessible online? Thank you very much in advance kind regards, Raheleh Izadifar -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Very best wishes, Wolfgang > Am 08.01.2014 um 13:24 schrieb Raheleh Izadi Far : > > Dear all, > > Does anybody know about languages which have changed from ergative alignment to accusative alignment? or does anybody know about the mechanisms involved in such a change? what are the studies concerning this issue? and if there are any, are they accessible online? > > Thank you very much in advance > > kind regards, > Raheleh Izadifar From tsunoda at NINJAL.AC.JP Thu Jan 9 06:04:33 2014 From: tsunoda at NINJAL.AC.JP (Tasaku Tsunoda) Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2014 15:04:33 +0900 Subject: ergative to accusative alignment In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Dear Raheleh, The following paper may be useful. Hohepa, Patrick. 1969. The accusative-to-ergative drift in Polynesian languages. Journal of the Polynesian Society, 78: 297-329. -- Tasaku Tsunoda From: Raheleh Izadi Far Reply-To: Raheleh Izadi Far Date: 2014?1?8???? 21:24 To: Subject: ergative to accusative alignment Dear all, Does anybody know about languages which have changed from ergative alignment to accusative alignment? or does anybody know about the mechanisms involved in such a change? what are the studies concerning this issue? and if there are any, are they accessible online? Thank you very much in advance kind regards, Raheleh Izadifar -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Best, Don On 01/08/2014 02:24 PM, Raheleh Izadi Far wrote: > Dear all, > > Does anybody know about languages which have changed from ergative > alignment to accusative alignment? or does anybody know about the > mechanisms involved in such a change? what are the studies concerning > this issue? and if there are any, are they accessible online? > > Thank you very much in advance > > kind regards, > Raheleh Izadifar -- Don Killian Researcher in African Linguistics Department of Modern Languages PL 24 (Unioninkatu 40) FI-00014 University of Helsinki +358 (0)44 5016437 From florian.siegl at GMX.NET Thu Jan 9 08:32:56 2014 From: florian.siegl at GMX.NET (Florian Siegl) Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2014 10:32:56 +0200 Subject: ergative to accusative alignment In-Reply-To: <52CE49A9.8040105@helsinki.fi> Message-ID: A related phenomena though only partly answering the initial posting is attested on Kamtchatka. Chukchi and Koryak show ergative alignment, but not Itelmen. The Itelmen absolute case marks S as well as A and P. Whether the Itelmen transitive verbal agreement markers still follow erg-abs alignment is not settled. Itelmen is not ergative but apparently not very nominative-accusative either. See the relevant sections in Georg, Stefan & Volodin, Alexander P. 1999. Die itelmenische Sprache - Grammatik und Texte. Tunguso-Sibirca 5. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. Best wishes, Florian Siegl On 9.01.2014 9:03, Don Killian wrote: > Dear Raheleh, > > Depending on what you might be including by ergative, there's an > interesting article by Dimmendaal 2012 > (http://www.uni-koeln.de/phil-fak/afrikanistik/mitarbeit/dimmendaal/Marked%20nominative%20in%20Eastern%20Sudanic%20130907%20DR%20comments.pdf) > in which he postulates the origins of Marked Nominative (depending on > who you ask, some consider this a subcategory of accusative alignment) > in Eastern Sudanic languages. > > Gaahmg is particularly interesting as far as diachronic developments > go, as it also has both passive and antipassive constructions and in > fact can allow for both types of markers simultaneously. If you're > curious, email me and I can send you an article by Tim Stirtz. > > Best, > > Don > > > On 01/08/2014 02:24 PM, Raheleh Izadi Far wrote: >> Dear all, >> >> Does anybody know about languages which have changed from ergative >> alignment to accusative alignment? or does anybody know about the >> mechanisms involved in such a change? what are the studies concerning >> this issue? and if there are any, are they accessible online? >> >> Thank you very much in advance >> >> kind regards, >> Raheleh Izadifar > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rgriscom at UOREGON.EDU Thu Jan 9 16:16:19 2014 From: rgriscom at UOREGON.EDU (Richard Griscom) Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2014 08:16:19 -0800 Subject: ergative to accusative alignment In-Reply-To: <52CE5EB8.3060104@gmx.net> Message-ID: This is a very interesting topic, but I would also add a word of caution against making assumptions regarding entire language systems conforming to a single alignment pattern. In my opinion, alignment is best viewed as construction-specific rather than language-specific in order to avoid inaccurate generalizations across the distribution. This, of course, doesn't preclude an analysis of a shift in the alignment patterns of one or more constructions in a given language. Best, Richard On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 12:32 AM, Florian Siegl wrote: > A related phenomena though only partly answering the initial posting is > attested on Kamtchatka. Chukchi and Koryak show ergative alignment, but not > Itelmen. The Itelmen absolute case marks S as well as A and P. Whether the > Itelmen transitive verbal agreement markers still follow erg-abs alignment > is not settled. Itelmen is not ergative but apparently not very > nominative-accusative either. See the relevant sections in Georg, Stefan & > Volodin, Alexander P. 1999. Die itelmenische Sprache - Grammatik und Texte. > Tunguso-Sibirca 5. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. > > > > Best wishes, > > > > Florian Siegl > > > > > > On 9.01.2014 9:03, Don Killian wrote: > > Dear Raheleh, > > Depending on what you might be including by ergative, there's an > interesting article by Dimmendaal 2012 ( > http://www.uni-koeln.de/phil-fak/afrikanistik/mitarbeit/dimmendaal/Marked%20nominative%20in%20Eastern%20Sudanic%20130907%20DR%20comments.pdf) > in which he postulates the origins of Marked Nominative (depending on who > you ask, some consider this a subcategory of accusative alignment) in > Eastern Sudanic languages. > > Gaahmg is particularly interesting as far as diachronic developments go, > as it also has both passive and antipassive constructions and in fact can > allow for both types of markers simultaneously. If you're curious, email > me and I can send you an article by Tim Stirtz. > > Best, > > Don > > > On 01/08/2014 02:24 PM, Raheleh Izadi Far wrote: > > Dear all, > > Does anybody know about languages which have changed from ergative > alignment to accusative alignment? or does anybody know about the > mechanisms involved in such a change? what are the studies concerning > this issue? and if there are any, are they accessible online? > > Thank you very much in advance > > kind regards, > Raheleh Izadifar > > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From davalle at UTEXAS.EDU Thu Jan 9 17:51:45 2014 From: davalle at UTEXAS.EDU (Daniel Valle Arevalo) Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2014 11:51:45 -0600 Subject: ergative to accusative alignment In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Dear Raheleh, Kakataibo, a Panoan language, has developed a nominative alignment in pronouns only after extending the ergative marker. Nouns still keep the ergative alignment (Valle 2011, available on academia.edu). In terms of verbal agreement, the language is nom-acc. Valle, Daniel. 2009. El sistema de marcaci?n de caso en kakataibo. Bachelor thesis, Universidad Nacional Mayor San Marcos, Lima. Best, Daniel On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 10:16 AM, Richard Griscom wrote: > This is a very interesting topic, but I would also add a word of caution > against making assumptions regarding entire language systems conforming to > a single alignment pattern. In my opinion, alignment is best viewed as > construction-specific rather than language-specific in order to avoid > inaccurate generalizations across the distribution. This, of course, > doesn't preclude an analysis of a shift in the alignment patterns of one or > more constructions in a given language. > > Best, > Richard > > > > On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 12:32 AM, Florian Siegl wrote: > >> A related phenomena though only partly answering the initial posting is >> attested on Kamtchatka. Chukchi and Koryak show ergative alignment, but not >> Itelmen. The Itelmen absolute case marks S as well as A and P. Whether the >> Itelmen transitive verbal agreement markers still follow erg-abs alignment >> is not settled. Itelmen is not ergative but apparently not very >> nominative-accusative either. See the relevant sections in Georg, Stefan & >> Volodin, Alexander P. 1999. Die itelmenische Sprache - Grammatik und Texte. >> Tunguso-Sibirca 5. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. >> >> >> >> Best wishes, >> >> >> >> Florian Siegl >> >> >> >> >> >> On 9.01.2014 9:03, Don Killian wrote: >> >> Dear Raheleh, >> >> Depending on what you might be including by ergative, there's an >> interesting article by Dimmendaal 2012 ( >> http://www.uni-koeln.de/phil-fak/afrikanistik/mitarbeit/dimmendaal/Marked%20nominative%20in%20Eastern%20Sudanic%20130907%20DR%20comments.pdf) >> in which he postulates the origins of Marked Nominative (depending on who >> you ask, some consider this a subcategory of accusative alignment) in >> Eastern Sudanic languages. >> >> Gaahmg is particularly interesting as far as diachronic developments go, >> as it also has both passive and antipassive constructions and in fact can >> allow for both types of markers simultaneously. If you're curious, email >> me and I can send you an article by Tim Stirtz. >> >> Best, >> >> Don >> >> >> On 01/08/2014 02:24 PM, Raheleh Izadi Far wrote: >> >> Dear all, >> >> Does anybody know about languages which have changed from ergative >> alignment to accusative alignment? or does anybody know about the >> mechanisms involved in such a change? what are the studies concerning >> this issue? and if there are any, are they accessible online? >> >> Thank you very much in advance >> >> kind regards, >> Raheleh Izadifar >> >> >> >> > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dwhieb at GMAIL.COM Thu Jan 9 18:58:08 2014 From: dwhieb at GMAIL.COM (Daniel Hieber -- ============================================================ Ljuba Veselinova, Associate Professor Dept of Linguistics, Stockholm University, S-10691 Stockholm, Sweden Phone: +46-8-16-2332 Fax: +46-8-15 5389 URL : http://www2.ling.su.se/staff/ljuba/ "We learn by going where we want to go." Julia Cameron ============================================================) Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2014 18:58:08 +0000 Subject: ergative to accusative alignment In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Richard, that?s a great point. Bickel et al. (2013) provide an excellent illustration of this issue, which they call ?Siewierska?s Problem? in memory of Anna and her seminal (2003) article on alignment in ditransitive constructions. There she points out that verbal person marking can show different patterns of alignment depending on whether one examines the trigger potential, morphological form, position, or conditioning factors of the person forms. Bickel et al. then show that discrepancies among these different criteria are in fact extremely common crosslinguistically. So the descriptive linguist needs to be very specific about the details of alignment, and make sure they're comparing like with like when comparing synchronic or diachronic data. References Bickel, Balthasar, Giorgio Iemmolo, Taras Zakharko & Alena Witzlack-Makarevich. 2013. Patterns of alignment in verb agreement. In Dik Bakker & Martin Haspelmath (eds.), Languages Across Boundaries: Studies in Memory of Anna Siewierska. 15-36. De Gruyter. Siewierska, Anna. 2013. Person agreement and the determination of alignment. In Dunstan Brown, Greville G. Corbett & Carole Tiberius (eds.), Agreement: A Typological Perspective. 339-370. Wiley-Blackwell. Daniel W. Hieber Graduate Student in Linguistics University of California, Santa Barbara www.danielhieber.com Omnis habet sua dona dies. ~ Martial From: Richard Griscom Sent: ?Thursday?, ?January? ?9?, ?2014 ?8?:?16? ?AM To: LINGTYP at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG This is a very interesting topic, but I would also add a word of caution against making assumptions regarding entire language systems conforming to a single alignment pattern. In my opinion, alignment is best viewed as construction-specific rather than language-specific in order to avoid inaccurate generalizations across the distribution. This, of course, doesn't preclude an analysis of a shift in the alignment patterns of one or more constructions in a given language. Best, Richard On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 12:32 AM, Florian Siegl wrote: A related phenomena though only partly answering the initial posting is attested on Kamtchatka. Chukchi and Koryak show ergative alignment, but not Itelmen. The Itelmen absolute case marks S as well as A and P. Whether the Itelmen transitive verbal agreement markers still follow erg-abs alignment is not settled. Itelmen is not ergative but apparently not very nominative-accusative either. See the relevant sections in Georg, Stefan & Volodin, Alexander P. 1999. Die itelmenische Sprache - Grammatik und Texte. Tunguso-Sibirca 5. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. Best wishes, Florian Siegl On 9.01.2014 9:03, Don Killian wrote: Dear Raheleh, Depending on what you might be including by ergative, there's an interesting article by Dimmendaal 2012 (http://www.uni-koeln.de/phil-fak/afrikanistik/mitarbeit/dimmendaal/Marked%20nominative%20in%20Eastern%20Sudanic%20130907%20DR%20comments.pdf) in which he postulates the origins of Marked Nominative (depending on who you ask, some consider this a subcategory of accusative alignment) in Eastern Sudanic languages. Gaahmg is particularly interesting as far as diachronic developments go, as it also has both passive and antipassive constructions and in fact can allow for both types of markers simultaneously. If you're curious, email me and I can send you an article by Tim Stirtz. Best, Don On 01/08/2014 02:24 PM, Raheleh Izadi Far wrote: Dear all, Does anybody know about languages which have changed from ergative alignment to accusative alignment? or does anybody know about the mechanisms involved in such a change? what are the studies concerning this issue? and if there are any, are they accessible online? Thank you very much in advance kind regards, Raheleh Izadifar -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From f.meakins at UQ.EDU.AU Thu Jan 9 22:45:15 2014 From: f.meakins at UQ.EDU.AU (Felicity Meakins) Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2014 22:45:15 +0000 Subject: AW: ergative to accusative alignment Message-ID: Dear Raheleh, One mechanism might be language contact. The Gurindji ergative marker became a nominative marker as a result of contact with Kriol in the formation of Gurindji Kriol which is a mixed language. This change had an intermediate stage whereby Gurindji Kriol was originally an optional ergative language and then became a (optional) marked nominative language (as the ergative marker extended to subjects of transitive clauses). Meakins, Felicity. 2009. The case of the shifty ergative marker: A pragmatic shift in the ergative marker in one Australian mixed language. In J?hanna Barddal & Shobhana Chelliah (eds.), The Role of Semantics and Pragmatics in the Development of Case. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 59-91. ---. to appear. From absolutely optional to only nominally ergative: The life cycle of the Gurindji Kriol ergative suffix. In Nino Amiridze, Peter Arkadiev & Francesco Gardani (eds.), Borrowed Morphology. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Meakins, Felicity & Carmel O'Shannessy. 2010. Ordering arguments about: Word order and discourse motivations in the development and use of the ergative marker in two Australian mixed languages. Lingua 120.7: 1693?713. Felicity _________________________________________ FELICITY MEAKINS | ARC Research Fellow Linguistics | SLCCS | University of Queensland | Brisbane QLD 4072 | AUSTRALIA RM 517 | Gordon Greenwood Bldg (32) | ' +61 7 3365 2877 | ' +61 411 404 546 | 7 +61 7 3365 6799 | ? f.meakins at uq.edu.au | web www.slccs.uq.edu.au//index.html?page=127733&pid=124851 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From raheleh.izadifar at GMAIL.COM Fri Jan 10 16:17:53 2014 From: raheleh.izadifar at GMAIL.COM (Raheleh Izadi Far) Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 19:47:53 +0330 Subject: AW: ergative to accusative alignment In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Dear all, especially the linguists who answered my email, thank you very much for all the comments, answers, links, references and also articles sent to me. best wishes, Raheleh Izadifar , PhD student, BuAli Sina University, Iran On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 2:15 AM, Felicity Meakins wrote: > Dear Raheleh, > > One mechanism might be language contact. The Gurindji ergative marker > became a nominative marker as a result of contact with Kriol in the > formation of Gurindji Kriol which is a mixed language. This change had an > intermediate stage whereby Gurindji Kriol was originally an optional > ergative language and then became a (optional) marked nominative language > (as the ergative marker extended to subjects of transitive clauses). > > Meakins, Felicity. 2009. The case of the shifty ergative marker: A > pragmatic shift in the ergative marker in one Australian mixed language. In > J?hanna Barddal & Shobhana Chelliah (eds.), *The Role of Semantics and > Pragmatics in the Development of Case.* Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 59-91. > > ---. to appear. From absolutely optional to only nominally ergative: The > life cycle of the Gurindji Kriol ergative suffix. In Nino Amiridze, Peter > Arkadiev & Francesco Gardani (eds.), *Borrowed Morphology*. Berlin: > Mouton de Gruyter. > > Meakins, Felicity & Carmel O'Shannessy. 2010. Ordering arguments about: > Word order and discourse motivations in the development and use of the > ergative marker in two Australian mixed languages. *Lingua *120.7: > 1693?713. > > Felicity > > _________________________________________ > > FELICITY MEAKINS | ARC Research Fellow > > Linguistics | SLCCS | University of Queensland | > > Brisbane QLD 4072 | AUSTRALIA > > RM 517 | Gordon Greenwood Bldg (32) | > > ' +61 7 3365 2877 | ' +61 411 404 546 | 7 +61 7 3365 6799 | * > f.meakins at uq.edu.au | > > web www.slccs.uq.edu.au//index.html?page=127733&pid=124851 > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From spike at UOREGON.EDU Fri Jan 10 18:16:11 2014 From: spike at UOREGON.EDU (Spike Gildea) Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 10:16:11 -0800 Subject: ergative to accusative alignment In-Reply-To: <52cef1fa.aa13450a.77fb.5a58@mx.google.com> Message-ID: The idea that alignment is a property of constructions rather than languages is especially important to remember when looking at the creation of innovative main clause constructions, as the alignment of the new constructions need not match the alignment of the pre-existing constructions. A good example of innovative constructions with both ergative-absolutive and nominative-accusative patterns -- which I know much better myself (and have described in more detail in Gildea 2012) -- is the Cariban family: the etymologically oldest main clause alignment system is has hierarchical indexation on the verb, but alongside modern reflexes of this main clause type, there are innovative main clauses in mutliple Cariban languages that have ergative-absolutive alignment patterns (from three to five distinct etymological source constructions), as well several more innovative main clauses that have nominative-accusative alignment patterns (again from three to four distinct etymological source constructions). Most languages have at least two different main clause constructions, each belonging to a different alignment category, and several have three or more. Given that the original main clause construction in Proto-Cariban did not have ergative alignment (at least not as most linguists define ergative pattern), these examples do not show a change from ergative to accusative alignment, but rather the creation of new constructions with accusative alignment *regardless* of the alignment of the old main clause constructions. So we should be asking two completely different questions, both relevant to the original question. First, can languages with ergative-absolutive main clauses innovate a new kind of main clause that is nominative-accusative? The answer to this is clearly yes, as many of the posts here have already indicated. To the examples already given, I think we should add the example of someMayan languages, in which the older type of main clause construction has ergative-absolutive personal indexation on the verb, but nominalizations have nominative indexation (they are possessed by A and S); reanalysis of a biclausal construction with a main verb (> auxiliary) and nominalization (> new main verb) leads to split alignment, with the old system ergative-absolutive and the new system nominative-accusative. For what it's worth, the creation of innovative ergative-absolutive main clauses from older biclausal constructions is also well-attested, so there is no particular directionality to this mechanism. Second, do individual constructions change internally such that ergative-absolutive alignment properties can become nominative-accusative alignment properties? Here again, the answer is yes. In the passive-to-ergative reanalysis in Cariban (Gildea 1997), the innovative ergative main clause has absolutive verbal indexation, ergative case-marking, and absolutive control of coreference with subjects of corrdinate clauses, reflexive possessors, etc. In some languages, these new ergative main clauses have changed such that control of coreference is now with the A/S. This is still early in the process of shift, though, so no morphological changes are attested. In Indic, the older verb agrees with the absolutive for animacy, but this has been replaced by nominative agreement for person and number in, e.g., Nepali. This leaves a situation in which the only ergative pattern remaining in the construction is the ergative case-marker. At this point, we still call it an "ergative construction" (and some would also call Nepali and "ergative Language"), but this does raise the question of whether that notion should be more graded, as the construction (and the language) clearly has fewer ergative patterns today than its ancestors did in the past. If one believes the historical scenarios posited in Estival & Myhill's 1988 list of language constructions that have shifted from ergative-absolutive to nominative-accusative, then there are multiple examples of loss of even this last hold-out, the ergative case-marker, removing all ergative-absolutive patterns from a construction that once has several. And in another side note, this mechanism may be more directional than the reanalyses I discussed first. I am aware of very few cases of a nominative-accusative construction gaining ergative properties incrementally in the other direction, i.e., innovating an ergative case-marker in an existing construction, then innovating absolutive verbal indexation, then finally shifting control of coreference from the nominative to the absolutive argument. All of these are logically possible, but I only know of a handful of cases where an ergative case-marker was added to a construction that did not have one (always in a minor construction, and always when the dominant construction in main clauses already had that ergative marker), and I don't know of any examples where a pre-existing construction added absolutive indexation, nor shifted from nominative to absolutive control of coreference. I discussed this apparent asymmetry in directionality in a proceedings paper bout 10 years back (Gildea 2004), and as of Queixal?s & Gildea 2010, no new examples had come along, but I still have not followed up satisfactorily to really test the empirical basis of that assertion. I would welcome examples, if anyone has suggestions. Best, Spike Gildea, Spike. 2004.Are there universal cognitive motivations for ergativity? /L'ergativit? en Amazonie/, v. 2, ed. by F. Queixal?s, 1-37. Bras?lia: CNRS, IRD and the Laborat?rio de L?nguas Ind?genas, UnB. Accessible online at: http://celia.cnrs.fr/FichExt/Documents%20de%20travail/Ergativite/Introductions_ergativite.htm Gildea, Spike.2012. Linguistic Studies in the Cariban Family/./ /Handbook of South American Languages/, ed. by Lyle Campbell & Veronica Grondona, 441-494.Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Queixal?s, Francesc & Spike Gildea.2010. Manifestations of Ergativity in Amazonia. /Ergativity in Amazonia/, ed. by Spike Gildea & Francesc Queixal?s, 1-25./Typological Studies in Language/, v. 89. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. On 1/9/14, 10:58 AM, "Daniel Hieber -- ============================================================ Ljuba Veselinova, Associate Professor Dept of Linguistics, Stockholm University, S-10691 Stockholm, Sweden Phone: +46-8-16-2332 Fax: +46-8-15 5389 URL : http://www2.ling.su.se/staff/ljuba/ "We learn by going where we want to go." Julia Cameron ============================================================" wrote: > Richard, that?s a great point. Bickel et al. (2013) provide an > excellent illustration of this issue, which they call ?Siewierska?s > Problem? in memory of Anna and her seminal (2003) article on alignment > in ditransitive constructions. There she points out that verbal person > marking can show different patterns of alignment depending on whether > one examines the trigger potential, morphological form, position, or > conditioning factors of the person forms. Bickel et al. then show that > discrepancies among these different criteria are in fact extremely > common crosslinguistically. So the descriptive linguist needs to be > very specific about the details of alignment, and make sure they're > comparing like with like when comparing synchronic or diachronic data. > > References > Bickel, Balthasar, Giorgio Iemmolo, Taras Zakharko & Alena > Witzlack-Makarevich. 2013. Patterns of alignment in verb agreement. In > Dik Bakker & Martin Haspelmath (eds.), /Languages Across Boundaries: > Studies in Memory of Anna Siewierska./ 15-36. De Gruyter. > > Siewierska, Anna. 2013. Person agreement and the determination of > alignment. In Dunstan Brown, Greville G. Corbett & Carole Tiberius > (eds.), /Agreement: A Typological Perspective/. 339-370. Wiley-Blackwell. > > > Daniel W. Hieber > Graduate Student in Linguistics > University of California, Santa Barbara > www.danielhieber.com > > Omnis habet sua dona dies. ~ Martial > > *From:* Richard Griscom > *Sent:* ?Thursday?, ?January? ?9?, ?2014 ?8?:?16? ?AM > *To:* LINGTYP at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG > > > This is a very interesting topic, but I would also add a word of > caution against making assumptions regarding entire language systems > conforming to a single alignment pattern. In my opinion, alignment is > best viewed as construction-specific rather than language-specific in > order to avoid inaccurate generalizations across the distribution. > This, of course, doesn't preclude an analysis of a shift in the > alignment patterns of one or more constructions in a given language. > > Best, > Richard > > > > On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 12:32 AM, Florian Siegl > wrote: > > A related phenomena though only partly answering the initial > posting is attested on Kamtchatka. Chukchi and Koryak show > ergative alignment, but not Itelmen. The Itelmen absolute case > marks S as well as A and P. Whether the Itelmen transitive verbal > agreement markers still follow erg-abs alignment is not settled. > Itelmen is not ergative but apparently not very > nominative-accusative either. See the relevant sections in Georg, > Stefan & Volodin, Alexander P. 1999. Die itelmenische Sprache - > Grammatik und Texte. Tunguso-Sibirca 5. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. > > Best wishes, > > Florian Siegl > > > > > On 9.01.2014 9:03, Don Killian wrote: > > Dear Raheleh, > > Depending on what you might be including by ergative, there's > an interesting article by Dimmendaal 2012 > (http://www.uni-koeln.de/phil-fak/afrikanistik/mitarbeit/dimmendaal/Marked%20nominative%20in%20Eastern%20Sudanic%20130907%20DR%20comments.pdf) > in which he postulates the origins of Marked Nominative > (depending on who you ask, some consider this a subcategory of > accusative alignment) in Eastern Sudanic languages. > > Gaahmg is particularly interesting as far as diachronic > developments go, as it also has both passive and antipassive > constructions and in fact can allow for both types of markers > simultaneously. If you're curious, email me and I can send > you an article by Tim Stirtz. > > Best, > > Don > > > On 01/08/2014 02:24 PM, Raheleh Izadi Far wrote: > > Dear all, > > Does anybody know about languages which have changed from > ergative > alignment to accusative alignment? or does anybody know > about the > mechanisms involved in such a change? what are the studies > concerning > this issue? and if there are any, are they accessible online? > > Thank you very much in advance > > kind regards, > Raheleh Izadifar > > > > From gil at EVA.MPG.DE Sun Jan 12 14:19:14 2014 From: gil at EVA.MPG.DE (David Gil) Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2014 23:19:14 +0900 Subject: query: ludlings Message-ID: Dear all, I have a quick question about ludlings (also known as "secret languages", "word games", etc.) Most or all ludlings described to date are defined in terms of an operation whose domain is, at most, that of the word (eg. "reverse the order of segments in each word"). Occasionally, the domain is smaller, such as the syllable (eg. "insert a [b] into each syllable"). My question: Is anybody familiar with a ludling defined in terms of an operation whose domain is LARGER than that of the word? I used to think such ludlings were impossible, and I suspect that many indeed are (eg. "reverse the order of words in a sentence"). However, today I came across what seems to be a ludling, in Papuan Malay, that inserts a fixed element at the end of (what seems to be) each intonational phrase. So I'm wondering whether such ludlings have been described before. Thanks, David -- David Gil Department of Linguistics Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology Deutscher Platz 6, D-04103 Leipzig, Germany Telephone: 49-341-3550321 Fax: 49-341-3550333 Email: gil at eva.mpg.de Webpage: http://www.eva.mpg.de/~gil/ From zsh9986 at 163.COM Sun Jan 19 22:55:13 2014 From: zsh9986 at 163.COM (zhou) Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 06:55:13 +0800 Subject: Textbooks for cognitive linguistics and functional grammar Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, Next semester, I will be giving two new courses , one is cognitive linguistics and the other is functional grammar, focusing on the discourse / syntax interaction, to the first year MA students of linguistics, I am now choosing the suitable textbooks for these two courses. So I am wondering what textbooks are good for the students who do not have a very good ground knowledge for linguistics, in regard to the its content and organizations, according to your teaching experience. Thank you in advance. Best regards! 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You mean to focus on the "discourse/syntax interaction" - you will find that in Langacker's view language is not divisible into modules such as "phonetics, phonology, lexicon, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics" (page 13 of Langacker cited in the link above) as in other approaches to language - in fact, he only uses the term "syntax" when speaking of formal approaches which argue for the "autonomy of syntax" (with which he disagrees). As for functional grammar this is an umbrella term that applies to a great variety of linguistic sub-branches (see for instance HERE ) so you will most likely have to make a choice in favor of one of these. I hope this helps you a small bit further in your search. Best, Steffen Haurholm-Larsen University of Bern, Switzerland PhD student Den 1/20/14 6:00 AM, LINGTYP automatic digest system skrev: > There is 1 message totaling 44 lines in this issue. > > Topics of the day: > > 1. Textbooks for cognitive linguistics and functional grammar > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 06:55:13 +0800 > From: zhou > Subject: Textbooks for cognitive linguistics and functional grammar > > Dear Colleagues, > Next semester, I will be giving two new courses , one is cognitive linguistics and the other is functional grammar, focusing on the discourse / syntax interaction, to the first year MA students of linguistics, I am now choosing the suitable textbooks for these two courses. So I am wondering what textbooks are good for the students who do not have a very good ground knowledge for linguistics, in regard to the its content and organizations, according to your teaching experience. > Thank you in advance. > Best regards! > > > Shihong Zhou > Linguisitcs Instit > > ------------------------------ > > End of LINGTYP Digest - 12 Jan 2014 to 19 Jan 2014 (#2014-6) > ************************************************************ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sivakalyan.princeton at GMAIL.COM Mon Jan 20 10:20:38 2014 From: sivakalyan.princeton at GMAIL.COM (Siva Kalyan) Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 21:20:38 +1100 Subject: Textbooks for cognitive linguistics and functional grammar In-Reply-To: <52DCBDE9.2060107@isw.unibe.ch> Message-ID: There is also an abridged version called "Essentials of Cognitive Grammar", which contains only the first six chapters (but thus excludes the bits on discourse) Siva On Monday, 20 January 2014, Steffen Haurholm-Larsen wrote: > Dear Shihong Zhou, > > A very accessible introduction to cognitive grammar is given by the > "founding father" of that sub-branch of linguistics HERE. > You mean to focus on the "discourse/syntax interaction" - you will find > that in Langacker's view language is not divisible into modules such as > "phonetics, phonology, lexicon, morphology, syntax, semantics, and > pragmatics" (page 13 of Langacker cited in the link above) as in other > approaches to language - in fact, he only uses the term "syntax" when > speaking of formal approaches which argue for the "autonomy of syntax" > (with which he disagrees). > > As for functional grammar this is an umbrella term that applies to a > great variety of linguistic sub-branches (see for instance HERE) > so you will most likely have to make a choice in favor of one of these. > > I hope this helps you a small bit further in your search. > > Best, > > Steffen Haurholm-Larsen > University of Bern, Switzerland > PhD student > > > > > Den 1/20/14 6:00 AM, LINGTYP automatic digest system skrev: > > There is 1 message totaling 44 lines in this issue. > > Topics of the day: > > 1. Textbooks for cognitive linguistics and functional grammar > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 06:55:13 +0800 > From: zhou > Subject: Textbooks for cognitive linguistics and functional grammar > > Dear Colleagues, > Next semester, I will be giving two new courses , one is cognitive linguistics and the other is functional grammar, focusing on the discourse / syntax interaction, to the first year MA students of linguistics, I am now choosing the suitable textbooks for these two courses. So I am wondering what textbooks are good for the students who do not have a very good ground knowledge for linguistics, in regard to the its content and organizations, according to your teaching experience. > Thank you in advance. > Best regards! > > > Shihong Zhou > Linguisitcs Instit > > ------------------------------ > > End of LINGTYP Digest - 12 Jan 2014 to 19 Jan 2014 (#2014-6) > ************************************************************ > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From pa2 at SOAS.AC.UK Mon Jan 20 18:54:37 2014 From: pa2 at SOAS.AC.UK (Peter Austin) Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 13:54:37 -0500 Subject: APLL7 conference 16-17 May 2014 Message-ID: Final Call for Abstracts -- APLL7 ** Deadline extended to 1st February 2014 ** Abstracts are invited for the seventh Austronesian and Papuan Languages and Linguistics international conference (APLL7) to be held at SOAS, University of London, on 16-17th May 2014. The purpose of the APLL conferences is to provide a venue for presentation of the best current research on Austronesian and Papuan languages and linguistics and to promote collaboration and research in this area. All papers will be subject to assessment by the Program Committee. Presentations will be 30 minutes followed by 10 minutes of discussion. Each individual may present up to one single authored paper and one joint paper. Abstracts should be no more than one A4 page in length including references and examples. They should be anonymous, and set in a minimum of 12pt font. They should be in .doc or .pdf format (but NOT .docx format) and the filename should start with APLL7, followed by an underscore and then first authors? surname, e.g. APLL7_bloggs.pdf. If you have a common surname, please also include initials, e.g. APLL7_jjones.pdf. Abstracts must be submitted via the EasyChair system which you can access by clicking on this link: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=apll7 If you do not have an EasyChair account already, you will need to create one when you do this. Once logged in complete your details and upload your abstract as an attachment (pdf, or doc). The extended deadline for the submission of all abstracts is Saturday 1st February 2014. Applicants will be notified of abstract acceptance by Friday 7 March 2014. For further information about the conference go to: http://www.soas.ac.uk/linguistics/events/apll7-conference/ or email apll7conference at gmail.com. From sonia.cristofaro at UNIPV.IT Sun Jan 26 23:56:24 2014 From: sonia.cristofaro at UNIPV.IT (Sonia Cristofaro) Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2014 23:56:24 +0000 Subject: Final call for papers - Syntax of the World's Languages VI (SWL6), Pavia, Italy, 8-10 September 2014 Message-ID: ***Apologies for cross-posting*** *SWL6 - FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS* Dear list members, this is to remind you that the conference `Syntax of the World's Languages 6' (SWL6) will be held in Pavia (Italy) on September 8-10, 2014. Abstracts of no more than one page (plus possibly one additional page for examples) should be sent in PDF format to swl6.conference at gmail.com by* **January 31, 2014***, with ``SWL6 abstract'' in the subject line (authors will receive notification of acceptance by March 31, 2014). Abstracts will be reviewed by an abstract reading committee including members of the organizing committee as well as several linguists working in typology and language documentation (the full list of members of the abstract reading committee and the organizing committee is available on the conference website). Submissions should be anonymous and refrain from self-reference. Please provide contact details and the title of your presentation in the body of the email. Participants may not be involved in more than two abstracts, of which at most one may be single-authored. The conference will be held in English and abstracts must be submitted in English. In the same spirit as previous conferences in this series (SWL I - Leipzig 2004, SWL II - Lancaster 2006, SWL III - Berlin 2008, SWL IV - Lyon 2010, and SWL V - Dubrovnik 2012), the conference will provide a forum for linguists working on the syntax of less widely studied languages from a variety of perspectives. The main purpose of the conference is to enlarge our knowledge and understanding of syntactic diversity. Contributions are expected to be based on first-hand data of individual languages or to adopt a broadly comparative perspective. The discussion of theoretical issues is appreciated to the extent that it helps to elucidate the data and is understandable without prior knowledge of the relevant theory. All theoretical frameworks are equally welcome, and papers that adopt a diachronic or comparative perspective are also welcome, as are papers dealing with morphological or semantic issues, as long as syntactic issues also play a major role. Invited speakers: Bjarke Frellesvig, University of Oxford http://www.orinst.ox.ac.uk/staff/ea/japanese/bfrellesvig.html Mauro Tosco, University of Turin http://www.maurotosco.net/maurotosco/Home.html The University of Pavia will also host three workshops held in connection with the conference on September 11, 2014: Ditranitive constructions in a cross-linguistic perspective Organizers: Agnes Korn and Carina Jahani http://titus.fkidg1.uni-frankfurt.de/2trans/ East Caucasian preverb and the compounding-inflection-derivation continuum Organizer: Gilles Authier http://titus.fkidg1.uni-frankfurt.de/cauc-pre.htm Voice systems in diachrony: a comparative perspective Organizer: Michela Cennamo http://voice-systems-workshop.wikidot.com Pavia is within easy reach of Milan, which has excellent flight connections to/from all major and many smaller European cities, as well as several other destinations in the world. Participants can be accommodated at moderate prices in several university colleges. For updated information on the conference program, registration, adjacent workhops and practicalities, please refer to the conference website: http://swl-6.wikidot.com/ -- -- Sonia Cristofaro Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici Sezione di Linguistica Universita' di Pavia Strada Nuova, 65 I-27100 Pavia Italia Tel. +390382984484 Fax +390382984487 E-mail: sonia.cristofaro at unipv.it -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rzariquiey at PUCP.EDU.PE Mon Jan 27 06:08:00 2014 From: rzariquiey at PUCP.EDU.PE (Roberto Zariquiey) Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 00:08:00 -0600 Subject: Workshop Nominalization in the Languages of the Americas Message-ID: ***Apologies for cross-posting*** Workshop Nominalization in the Languages of the Americas Venue: Humanities Department, Pontificia Universidad Cat?lica del Per? (Lima, Peru) Dates: 28-30 August 2014 Workshop languages: English, Spanish and Portuguese Organizers: Roberto Zariquiey and Masayoshi Shibatani Contacts: nominalizationpucp at gmail.com; rzariquiey at pucp.edu.pe Abstracts are invited for the International Workshop on Nominalization in the Languages of the Americas, to be held at Pontificia Universidad Cat?lica del Per? (PUCP), on 28-30th August 2014. We are interested in studies on nominalization from different perspectives, including both functional and formal approaches and dealing with languages of different areas/families of the Americas. Synchronic, diachronic, areal, and typological studies are equally welcome. Possible topics include: Form of nominalizations: Lexical and grammatical nominalizations Event nominalizations and argument nominalizations V-based and N-based nominalizations Nominalization morphology and nominalization markers Internal and external syntax of nominalizations (to what extent are they nominal externally and verbal internally?) Use/function of nominalizations: NP-use (referential function) Modification-use (relativization, N-complementation and V-complementation, adverbials, clause chaining) Pragmaticization of nominalizations ?Desubordination/insubordination (i.e. nominalizations taking on sentential functions) Being a treasure trove of nominalizations with a rich inventory of structures and varied usage patterns, South America is a natural focus of the workshop, but we strongly encourage the participation of linguists working on both Central and North American languages. Publication of a volume based on the studies presented in the workshop is planned, similar to Nominalization in Asian Languages: Diachronic and Typological Perspectives edited by Foong Ha Yap, Karen Grunow-H?rsta and Janick Wrona (2011). One-page abstracts should be sent to nominalizationpucp at gmail.com. Abstract deadline: March 31, 2014. This is the first of the international workshops supported and planned biennially by PUCP?s recently launched Digital Archive of Peruvian Languages. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From chao.li at AYA.YALE.EDU Mon Jan 27 21:46:19 2014 From: chao.li at AYA.YALE.EDU (Chao Li) Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 16:46:19 -0500 Subject: English monomorphemic and polymorphemic words Message-ID: Dear All, I was wondering whether anyone was aware of any systemic study of the number of English monomorphemic and polymorphemic words. 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Best wishes, Graziano Sav? -- Graziano Sav? - PhD Leiden (African Languages and Linguistics) Postdoc DoBeS-Volkswagenstiftung http://www.volkswagenstiftung.de/index.php?id=172&L=1 Based at LLACAN-CNRS http://llacan.vjf.cnrs.fr/ Personal links www.grazianosava.altervista.org http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dy8kfVR0rGo http://uni-hamburg.academia.edu/GrazianoSav%C3%A0 Blog endangeredlanguagesblog.blogspot.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Applicants are invited for the post of: SENIOR LECTURER/LECTURER IN LINGUISTICS Applicants must satisfy the following essential criteria: * PhD in Linguistics * Relevant teaching experience * Demonstrated scholarly research Candidates who possess the following will be at a distinct advantage: * Certificate in University Teaching * Specialization in Discourse Studies / Pragmatics * Experience supervising MPhil/PhD students * Evidence of prior grant acquisition * Administrative Experience within an Academic Institution * Evidence of Curriculum Development (face to face or distant delivery modes) * Evidence of contribution to the Public Service OR field of Study The successful candidate will be required to: ? Teach, research and participate in the strategic planning and management of teaching and learning, including curricula development programmes within the Department and wider Faculty; ? Contribute to the life of the University and to advance teaching, research and community outreach. For further particulars regarding the University of the West Indies and the Department of Language, Linguistics and Philosophy, visit us at www.mona.uwi.edu or http://www.mona.uwi.edu/dllp/ or write to the Head of Department at silvia.kouwenberg at uwimona.edu.jm. Applicants are required to submit a curriculum vitae (inclusive of a statement on teaching and research interests) giving full particulars of qualifications, experience, the names and addresses of three (3) referees (one of whom should be from your present organization) and copies of academic qualifications. These should be sent by electronic mail to hrmd.sed at uwimona.edu.jm for the attention of the Director, Human Resource Management Division, The University of the West Indies, Mona Campus, Kingston 7, Jamaica. The final date for receipt of applications is February 15, 2014. Candidates should encourage their referees to send in their references, preferably on official letterhead, and not wait to be asked to do so. The successful candidate is expected to assume duties on August 1, 2014. Applicants should note that UWI operates with a retirement policy which requires retirement at 65. The University of the West Indies, Mona Campus...... "Inspiring Excellence, Producing Leaders" For fu 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: