[Lingtyp] Studies of discourse in ergative languages

Sat Jan 9 00:24:28 UTC 2016

Dear Tasaku,

Here are a few further contributions to the bibliography of "Discourse in
Ergative Languages":

Hopper, Paul J. 1988 “How ergative is Malay?” Studies in Austronesian
Linguistics, ed. R. McGinn, 441-454. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press.

Hopper, Paul J. 1987 “Stability and change in VN/NV Alternating Languages:
A study in pragmatics and linguistic typology.” In M. Bertuccelli Papi and
J.Verscheuren, eds., The Pragmatic Perspective, 455-476. Amsterdam: John
Benjamins.

Hopper, Paul J. 1986 “Discourse function and typological shift: A
typological study of the VS/SV alternation.” In W. P. Lehmann, ed.,
Language Typology 1985. Papers from the Linguistic Typology Symposium,
Moscow, 9-13 December 1985. Amsterdam: John Benjamins BV, 1986, 123-141.
(Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 47)

Hopper, Paul J. 1983 “Ergative, passive, and active in Malay narrative
discourse.” In F. Klein-Andreu, ed., Discourse Perspectives on Syntax,
64-87. New York: Academic Press.

Hopper, Paul J. 1980 “Some discourse sources of ergativity.” University of
Hawaii Working Papers in Linguistics 11:2, 137‐153.

Hopper, Paul J. 1979 “Aspect and foregrounding in discourse.” In T. Givon,
ed., Discourse and Syntax. New York: Academic Press, 213-241.

They can be downloaded from my pages in Academia.edu, or I will be glad to
send you or anyone else a pdf copy.

With best wishes,

Paul

> 8 January 2016, Tasaku Tsunoda
>
> Ergativity discourse bibliography: updated version of 8 January 2016
>
> Happy New Year to all.
> I plan to continue compiling this bibliography. Please contact me if you
> have any useful information.
>
> ========================================================
>
>     The following people kindly provided the following information:
>
> William Croft, Matthew Dryer, Daniel Everett, Spike Gildea, Geoffrey Haig,
> Siva Kalyan, Gilbert Lazard, Marianne Mithun, Elke Nowak and Eva
> Schultze-Berndt.
>
>
> VÃ¡zquez Ãlvarez, Juan JesÃºs and Roberto Zavala Maldonado. 2013. La
> estructura argumental preferida en el chol, una lengua agentiva.
> Proceedings of the 2013 Conference on the Indigenous Languages of Latin
> America (CILLA). Ausitn: University of Texas.
> http://www.ailla.utexas.org/site/cilla6_toc.html
> <http://www.ailla.utexas.org/site/cilla6_toc.html>
>
> Cooreman, Ann. 1988. Ergativity in Dyirbal discourse. Linguistics
> 26:717-46.
>
> Croft, William. 2007. Intonation units and grammatical structure in
> Wardaman
> and in cross-linguistic perspective. Australian Journal of Linguistics
> Volume 27, Issue 1: 1-39.
>
> Dryer, Matthew S. 1991. What determines antipassive in Dyirbal? In
> Yongkyoon
> No & Mark Libucha (eds.), ESCOL '90 (Proceedings of the Seventh Eastern
> States Conference on Linguistics), 90-101. Columbus: The Ohio State
> University.
>
> Everett, Caleb. 2009. A reconsideration of the motivations for preferred
> argument structure. Studies in Language, Volume 33, Number 1: 1-24.
>
> Haig, Geoffrey & Stefan Schnell. Forthcoming. The discourse basis of
> ergativity revisited. Language.
>
> Lazard, Gilbert. 2015. Two possible universals: The Major Biactant
> Construction; the twofold notion of subject. Linguistic Typology 19(1)
> 111-130.
>
> Mithun, Marianne. 1994. The implications of ergativity for a Philippine
> voice system. In Barbara Fox & Paul J. Hopper (eds.), Voice[:] Form and
> function, 247-277. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
>
> Mithun, Marianne. Forthcoming. Grammatical relations in Hiligaynon. In
> Alena
> Witzlack-Makarevich & Balthasar Bickel (eds.), Grammatical relations in
> the
> languages of the world. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
>
> Nowak, Elke. 2002. Creating discourse in Inuktitut. In Elke Nowak (ed.),
> Morphology in comparison (Working Papers in Linguistics 37), 38-69.
> Berlin:
> Institute for Language and Communication, Technical University of Berlin.
>
> Nowak, Elke. 2009. Arguments and information management in Inuktitut. In
> Nicole Tersis & Marc-Antoine Mahieu (eds.), Variations on polysynthesis:
> The
> Eskimo-Aleut languages, 201-213. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
>
> Schultze-Berndt, Eva. 2015. Agents in focus[:] â€œOptionalâ€ ergativity
> in
> Jaminjung and information structure. Presented at ISSLAC2, Paris, 2-4
> December 2015.
>
> PÃ©rez Vail, JosÃ© Reginaldo. 2014. La inversiÃ³n y obviaciÃ³n en el mam
> de
> CajolÃ¡. Mexico, D.F.: CIESAS MA Thesis.
> http://repositorio.ciesas.edu.mx/handle/123456789/326
> <http://repositorio.ciesas.edu.mx/handle/123456789/326>
>
>
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-- 
Paul J. Hopper,
Paul Mellon Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Humanities
Department of English,
Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences,
Carnegie Mellon University,
Pittsburgh, PA 15213,

Adjunct Professor of Linguistics,
University of Pittsburgh

Publications: <http://carnegie-mellon.academia.edu/PaulHopper>
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