[Lingtyp] finiteness

Mon May 5 11:30:56 UTC 2025

Hi Nigel and all,

For what it's worth, I have worked on non-finiteness in Australian
languages based mostly on Nicolaeva's (2013) criteria. The work is in the
form of a PhD thesis chapter and a few presentations which I have available
online on ResearchGate. The presentations are below; the first reference
should be most relevant to your query. Anyone who is interested in the
thesis (chapter) itself is welcome to contact me for a copy. (Some of my
terminology, like 'small verb' has changed since I've worked on this.)

Luk, E. (2021). A typological survey of non-finite clause linkage in
Australian languages. Presented at the workshop Emerging Topics in Typology
(ETT). Online, 25 October–22 November. https://lirias.kuleuven.be/3753116

Luk, E. (2022). Between complex predicates and clause linkage: A typology
of northern Australian languages. Poster presented at the 14th Conference
of the Association of Linguistic Typology (ALT 2022). Austin, USA, 15–17
December. https://lirias.kuleuven.be/4006491

Luk, E. (2023). Multifunctional converbs in Australian languages. Presented
at the 56th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE 2023).
Athens, Greece, 29 August–1 September.
http://dx.doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.25422.64326
Best wishes,
Ellison

On Mon, 5 May 2025 at 13:00, Nigel Vincent via Lingtyp <
lingtyp at listserv.linguistlist.org> wrote:

> Thanks to everyone who has answered my query so far for their helpful
> suggestions. I have had one more from Françoise Rose, who says she can't
> manage it to post on the Lingtyp list and asks me to do it for her in case
> people other than me are interested. Here it is:
>
> Chamoreau, Claudine & Estrada-Fernández, Zarina (eds.). 2016. *Finiteness
> and Nominalization* (Typological Studies in Language). Vol. 113.
> Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company. (doi:
> 10.1075/tsl.113 [doi.org]
> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://doi.org/10.1075/tsl.113__;!!PDiH4ENfjr2_Jw!GFs0oCVWn7MnCwr4G1Isek3H-ntiwTfRoC2dkN2VD059X4Y2NA35OqkEBqVbuRdNBa7-b0_BebVzUN8Sru8hBH0Ji3OrDHCD6dB1PjUpEg$>)
> (
> http://www.jbe-platform.com/content/books/9789027267023 [jbe-platform.com]
> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://www.jbe-platform.com/content/books/9789027267023__;!!PDiH4ENfjr2_Jw!GFs0oCVWn7MnCwr4G1Isek3H-ntiwTfRoC2dkN2VD059X4Y2NA35OqkEBqVbuRdNBa7-b0_BebVzUN8Sru8hBH0Ji3OrDHCD6dCh3MuUSA$>
> )
> Looks to be very relevant.
> Best
> Nigel
>
>
> Professor Nigel Vincent, FBA MAE
> Professor Emeritus of General & Romance Linguistics
> The University of Manchester
>
> Linguistics & English Language
> School of Arts, Languages and Cultures
> The University of Manchester
>
>
>
>
> https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/researchers/nigel-vincent(f973a991-8ece-453e-abc5-3ca198c869dc).html
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> *From:* Lingtyp <lingtyp-bounces at listserv.linguistlist.org> on behalf of
> Östen Dahl via Lingtyp <lingtyp at listserv.linguistlist.org>
> *Sent:* 05 May 2025 11:18 AM
> *To:* Christian Lehmann <christian.lehmann at uni-erfurt.de>;
> lingtyp at listserv.linguistlist.org <lingtyp at listserv.linguistlist.org>
> *Subject:* Re: [Lingtyp] finiteness
>
>
> Dear Nigel, Christian and all,
>
>
>
> I assume that Christian is referring to one or both of two papers of mine
> from the 1970’s: “On Sloppy Identity [drive.google.com]
> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dBLUKpvo8CC0o14LMCUDubqz5ex2o1jJ/view?usp=sharing__;!!PDiH4ENfjr2_Jw!ASzu9_SseKlDubdVx8GJo0LlDmLtf1YDEHRj0P6joc3H4sE11M1MzV7kpRs-_CpL9LiGSVTkeqnF_Aoq1ULjihSPfh2s_YK_XTchvw$>”
> and “How to open a sentence: Abstraction in natural language
> [drive.google.com]
> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TlK3XXtkbBLtXHwUudlLqFA0SGUbftEk/view?usp=sharing__;!!PDiH4ENfjr2_Jw!ASzu9_SseKlDubdVx8GJo0LlDmLtf1YDEHRj0P6joc3H4sE11M1MzV7kpRs-_CpL9LiGSVTkeqnF_Aoq1ULjihSPfh2s_YJ3cXuW7Q$>”.
> P     lease tell me if there are any problems with the links.
>
>
>
> Best,
>
> Östen
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> *Från:* Lingtyp <lingtyp-bounces at listserv.linguistlist.org> *För *Christian
> Lehmann via Lingtyp
> *Skickat:* den 5 maj 2025 10:47
> *Till:* lingtyp at listserv.linguistlist.org
> *Ämne:* Re: [Lingtyp] finiteness
>
>
>
> Dear Nigel,
>
> allow me to remind you of two concepts which, to my mind, have proved
> fruitful both in the descriptive analysis and the typology of non-finite
> constructions:
>
>    1. the open proposition/clause
>    2. the oriented proposition/clause.
>
> The webpage
> https://www.christianlehmann.eu/ling/lg_system/func_domains/nexion/nexion_index.php?open=open_proposition
> [christianlehmann.eu]
> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.christianlehmann.eu/ling/lg_system/func_domains/nexion/nexion_index.php?open=open_proposition__;!!PDiH4ENfjr2_Jw!ASzu9_SseKlDubdVx8GJo0LlDmLtf1YDEHRj0P6joc3H4sE11M1MzV7kpRs-_CpL9LiGSVTkeqnF_Aoq1ULjihSPfh2s_YJYJ8sjHg$>
> is on #1 and takes you to #2.
>
> Unless I am mistaken, concept #1 was introduced into linguistics by Östen
> Dahl. Both concepts have been used, i.a., by Nikolaus Himmelmann in his
> analysis of the Philippine voice system (http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/files/24331/AP15NF-Himmelmann(1991).pdf)
> [publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de]
> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/files/24331/AP15NF-Himmelmann(1991).pdf)__;!!PDiH4ENfjr2_Jw!ASzu9_SseKlDubdVx8GJo0LlDmLtf1YDEHRj0P6joc3H4sE11M1MzV7kpRs-_CpL9LiGSVTkeqnF_Aoq1ULjihSPfh2s_YIuQauG-w$>
> .
>
> Best,
> Christian
>
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