17.388, Books: Syntax/Typology: Libert

[LINGUIST List]

LINGUIST List: Vol-17-388. Mon Feb 06 2006. ISSN: 1068 - 4875.

Subject: 17.388, Books: Syntax/Typology: Libert

Moderators: Anthony Aristar, Wayne State U <aristar at linguistlist.org>
            Helen Aristar-Dry, Eastern Michigan U <hdry at linguistlist.org>
 
Reviews (reviews at linguistlist.org) 
        Sheila Dooley, U of Arizona  
        Terry Langendoen, U of Arizona  

Homepage: http://linguistlist.org/

The LINGUIST List is funded by Eastern Michigan University, Wayne
State University, and donations from subscribers and publishers.

Editor for this issue: Megan Zdrojkowski <megan at linguistlist.org>
================================================================  

Links to the websites of all LINGUIST's supporting publishers
are available at the end of this issue. 


===========================Directory==============================  

1)
Date: 25-Jan-2006
From: Ulrich Lueders < lincom.europa at t-online.de >
Subject: Ambipositions: Libert 

	
-------------------------Message 1 ---------------------------------- 
Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2006 14:02:32
From: Ulrich Lueders < lincom.europa at t-online.de >
Subject: Ambipositions: Libert 
 



Title: Ambipositions 
Series Title: LINCOM Studies in Language Typology 13  

Publication Year: 2006 
Publisher: Lincom GmbH
	   http://www.lincom.at
	
Author: Alan Reed Libert, University of Newcastle

Paperback: ISBN: 3895867470 Pages: 106 Price: Europe EURO 42.00
Paperback: ISBN: 3895867470 Pages: 106 Price: U.S. $ 51.50
Paperback: ISBN: 3895867470 Pages: 106 Price: U.K. £ 29.40


Abstract:

Two major categories of relational words are prepositions and positions,
the difference between them having to do with whether they precede or
follow their object. There is a relatively small group of words of the same
general type which can be placed either before or after their object. 

Such words have been given the name ambipositions. A possible (though not
uncontroversial) example from English is through, e.g. he walked through
the forest and he slept the whole night through. Other examples are German
entlang and Ancient Greek peri. This book is a detailed examination of this
unusual type of word. 

Contents: 
Preface
Abbreviations
1 Introduction
2 Ambipositions with Simple Behavior
3 Meaning Differences Depending on Position
4 Ambipositions with Case Marking Differences in Different Positions
5 Differences in Types of Complement Allowed
6 Differences in Form of Prepositional and Postpositional Occurrences
7 Ambipositions from an Historical Point of View
8 Conclusion, References.

(with examples from Old and Middle English, French, Dutch, German,
Scandinavian Languages, Latin, Greek, Old Indic Languages, Modern Indic
Languages, Armenian, Baltic Languages, Polish, Estonian, Finnish, other
Finno-Saamic Languages, Hungarian, Old Georgian and Georgian, Berbice Dutch
Creole, Uralic Languages, North Arawak Languages,  Vedic, Slovenian, Italic
Languages, Sindhi, Tetelcingo Nahuatl). 



Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Syntax
                     Typology

Subject Language(s): Armenian (hye)
                     Arawak (arw)
                     Berbice Creole Dutch (brc)
                     Dutch (nld)
                     Estonian (est)
                     Finnish (fin)
                     French (fra)
                     Georgian (kat)
                     German, Standard (deu)
                     Greek (ell)
                     Hungarian (hun)
                     Latin (lat)
                     Nahuatl, Tetelcingo (nhg)
                     Polish (pol)
                     Sanskrit (san)
                     Slovenian (slv)
                     Sindhi (snd)
                     Middle English (enm)
                     Old English (ang)
                     Old Georgian (oge)

Language Family(ies): Baltic
                      East Scandinavian 
                      Finno-Lappic 
                      Indo-Aryan 
                      Italic 
                      Uralic 
                      West Scandinavian 


Written In: English  (eng)
	
See this book announcement on our website: 
http://linguistlist.org/get-book.html?BookID=18032


MAJOR SUPPORTERS

	Cambridge University Press          
		http://us.cambridge.org	

	Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd          
		http://www.continuumbooks.com	

	Edinburgh University Press          
		http://www.eup.ed.ac.uk/	

	European Language Resources Association          
		http://www.elda.org/sommaire.php	

	Georgetown University Press          
		http://www.press.georgetown.edu	

	John Benjamins          
		http://www.benjamins.com/	

	Lawrence Erlbaum Associates          
		http://www.erlbaum.com/	

	Lincom GmbH          
		http://www.lincom.at	

	MIT Press          
		http://mitpress.mit.edu/	

	Mouton de Gruyter          
		http://www.mouton-publishers.com	

	Multilingual Matters          
		http://www.multilingual-matters.com/	

	Rodopi          
		http://www.rodopi.nl/	

OTHER SUPPORTING PUBLISHERS	

	Graduate Linguistic Students' Assoc.   Umass
		http://glsa.hypermart.net/ 

	International Pragmatics Assoc.
		http://ipra-www.uia.ac.be/ipra/ 

	Kingston Press Ltd
		http://www.kingstonpress.com/ 

	Linguistic Assoc. of Finland
		http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/sky/ 

	MIT Working Papers in Linguistics
		http://web.mit.edu/mitwpl/ 

	Pacific Linguistics
		http://pacling.anu.edu.au/ 

	SIL International
		http://www.ethnologue.com/bookstore.asp 

	Utrecht Institute of Linguistics / LOT Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistic
		http://www-uilots.let.uu.nl/ 
	



-----------------------------------------------------------
LINGUIST List: Vol-17-388