[Lingtyp] New Volume 'Finiteness and Nominalization'

[claudine at vjf.cnrs.fr]

Dear colleagues,

We are happy to announce that the volume entitled ‘Finiteness and
Nominalization’ has just been published.
Please find attached the electronic leaflet for our volume.

Best regards,

Claudine and Zarina


Table of Contents

Finiteness and nominalization: An overview
Claudine Chamoreau and Zarina Estrada-Fernández

PART I. Finiteness, nominalization and information structure
Finiteness, nominalization, and information structure: Convergence and
divergence
Walter Bisang
Exploring finiteness and non-finiteness in Pima Bajo (Uto-Aztecan)
Zarina Estrada-Fernández
PART II. Correlation between continuum of finiteness and scale from
dependent to independent clause
Finiteness in Haruai
Bernard Comrie
Non-finite chain-medial clauses on the continuum of finiteness in Purepecha
Claudine Chamoreau

PART III. Nominalization structures and their relation to the scale of
finiteness
The evolution of grammatical nominalizations in Cahita languages
Albert Álvarez González
On the tightrope between infinitives and action nouns: The case of Otomi
nominalizations
Enrique L. Palancar
Referential markers in Oceanic nominalized constructions
Claire Moyse-Faurie
The role of nominalization in theticity: A Sikuani contribution
Francesc Queixalós
On non-finiteness and canonical imperatives
Bernd Heine

PART IV. Diachronic process: re-finitization and finitization
Nominalization and re-finitization
T. Givón
Shifting finiteness in nominalization: From definitization to refinitization
Marianne Mithun
The Manner converb in Beja (Cushitic) and its refinitization
Martine Vanhove
On finitization
Françoise Rose


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Claudine Chamoreau
Directrice de recherche
CEMCA       - CNRS-MAEDI (UMIFRE 16, USR 3337)
SeDyL-CELIA - CNRS (UMR 8202)- INALCO - IRD (UMR 135)
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