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1. Understanding morphology [2010]

• Haspelmath, Martin, 1963- author.
• 2nd edition. - London ; New York : Routledge, 2013.

Description

Book — xvi, 366 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Summary

• Preface to the second edition Preface to the first edition Abbreviations
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Basic concepts
• 3. Rules
• 4. Lexicon
• 5. Inflection and derivation
• 6. Productivity
• 7. Morphological trees
• 8. Inflectional paradigms
• 9. Words and phrases
• 10. Morphophonology
• 11. Morphology and valence
• 12. Frequency effects in morphology Key to comprehension exercises References Glossary of technical terms Language index Subject index.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

This new edition of Understanding Morphology has been fully revised in line with the latest research. It now includes 'big picture' questions to highlight central themes in morphology, as well as research exercises for each chapter. Understanding Morphology presents an introduction to the study of word structure that starts at the very beginning. Assuming no knowledge of the field of morphology on the part of the reader, the book presents a broad range of morphological phenomena from a wide variety of languages. Starting with the core areas of inflection and derivation, the book presents the interfaces between morphology and syntax and between morphology and phonology. The synchronic study of word structure is covered, as are the phenomena of diachronic change, such as analogy and grammaticalization. Theories are presented clearly in accessible language with the main purpose of shedding light on the data, rather than as a goal in themselves. The authors consistently draw on the best research available, thus utilizing and discussing both functionalist and generative theoretical approaches. Each chapter includes a summary, suggestions for further reading, and exercises. As such this is the ideal book for both beginning students of linguistics, or anyone in a related discipline looking for a first introduction to morphology.
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2. Understanding morphology [2002]

• Haspelmath, Martin, 1963-
• London : Arnold ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.

Description

Book — xiii, 290 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Summary

• What is morphology?
• basic concepts
• inflection and derivation
• morphological trees
• advanced inflection
• advanced derivation
• words, phrases and cl*tics
• morphophonology
• morphology and syntax
• markedness in morphology
• morphological typology.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

This introduction to morphology assumes no prior knowledge of linguistics and presents the field of morphology in an accessible and concise way. Particular emphasis is put on presenting a broad range of morphological phenomena from a wide variety of languages. Analytical notions and theoretical constructs are introduced as a way of enlightening the data, not as a goal in themselves. The theoretical orientation is ecumenical, drawing on the best research results from both functionalist and generative approaches. Since data from languages other than English are highlighted, the complexities of inflectional systems are relatively prominent in the book. After discussing the core areas of inflection and derivation, the author presents the interfaces between morphology and syntax and between morphology and phonology. Besides the synchronic study of word structure, phenomena of diachronic change such as analogy and grammaticalization are also explored in detail.
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This series provides approachable, yet authoritative introductions to all the major topics in linguistics. Ideal for students with little or no prior knowledge of linguistics, each book carefully explains the basics, emphasising understanding of the essential notions rather than arguing for a particular theoretical position. Understanding Morphology offers students an introduction to the study of word structure that starts at the very beginning. Assuming no knowledge of the field of morphology on the part of the reader, the book presents a broad range of morphological phenomena from a wide variety of languages. Starting with the core areas of inflection and derivation, the book presents the interfaces between morphology and syntax and between morphology and phonology. The synchronic study of word structure is covered as are the phenomena of diachronic change such as analogy and grammaticalization. Theories presented clearly in accessible language with the main purpose of shedding light on the data, rather than as a goal in themselves. The author consistently draws on the best research available, thus utilizing and discussing both functionalist and generative theoretical approaches.Each chapter includes a summary, suggestions for further reading, and exercises. As such this is the ideal book for both beginning students of linguistics, or anyone in a related discipline looking for a first introduction to morphology.
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3. Indefinite pronouns [1997]

• Haspelmath, Martin, 1963-
• Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1997.

Description

Book — xvi, 364 p. : ill., 1 map ; 25 cm.

Summary

Most of the world's languages have indefinite pronouns, that is, expressions such as someone, anything, and nowhere. Martin Haspelmath presents the first comprehensive and encyclopaedic investigation of indefinite pronouns in the languages of the world, mapping out the range of variation in their functional and formative properties. He shows that cross-linguistic diversity is severely constrained by a set of implicational universals and by a number of unrestricted universals. The author treats his subject matter broadly within the Humboldt-Greenberg tradition of language typology, but also considers the contribution of other theoretical approaches to an understanding of the functional and formal properties of indefinite pronouns. The book is organized into four logically ordered steps: selection of a part of grammar - indefinite pronouns - that can be identified across languages by formal and functional criteria; investigation of the properties of indefinite pronouns in a world-wide sample of forty languages; formulation of generalizations that emerge from the data, summarized in the form of an implicational map; and theoretically informed explanations of the generalizations, which go beyond system-internal statements, appealing to cognitive semantics, functional pressures, and universals of language change (especially grammaticalization).
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4. A grammar of Lezgian [1993]

• Haspelmath, Martin, 1963-
• Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 1993.

Description

Book — xx, 567 p. ; 25 cm.

5. A typological study of indefinite pronouns [microform] = (Typologische Untersuchungen zu Indefinitpronomina) [1993]

• Haspelmath, Martin, 1963-
• 1993.

Description

Book — x, 345 leaves.

6. World atlas of language structures [2005]

• Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2005.

Description

Book — 1 online resource (xv, 695 pages) : color illustrations, chiefly color maps

Summary

• 11 Front Rounded Vowels12 Syllable Structure; 13 Tone; 14 Fixed Stress Locations; 15 Weight-Sensitive Stress; 16 Weight Factors in Weight-Sensitive Stress Systems; 17 Rhythm Types; 18 Absence of Common Consonants; 19 Presence of Uncommon Consonants; 20 Fusion of Selected Inflectional Formatives; 21 Exponence of Selected Inflectional Formatives; 22 Inflectional Synthesis of the Verb; 23 Locus of Marking in the Clause; 24 Locus of Marking in Possessive Noun Phrases; 25 Locus of Marking: Whole-language Typology; 26 Prefixing versus Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology; 27 Reduplication

• 28 Case Syncretism29 Syncretism in Verbal Person/Number Marking; Gender and Number; Articles and Pronouns; Case; Numerals; 57 Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes; 58 Obligatory Possessive Inflection; 59 Possessive Classification; 60 Genitives, Adjectives, and Relative Clauses; 61 Adjectives without Nouns; 62 Action Nominal Constructions; 63 Noun Phrase Conjunction; 64 Nominal and Verbal Conjunction; Tense and Aspect; Modality; Suppletion; 81 Order of Subject, Object, and Verb; 82 Order of Subject and Verb; 83 Order of Object and Verb; 84 Order of Object, Oblique, and Verb

• 85 Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase86 Order of Genitive and Noun; 87 Order of Adjective and Noun; 88 Order of Demonstrative and Noun; 89 Order of Numeral and Noun; 90 Order of Relative Clause and Noun; 91 Order of Degree Word and Adjective; 92 Position of Polar Question Particles; 93 Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions; 94 Order of Adverbial Subordinator and Clause; 95 Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase; 96 Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Relative Clause and Noun

• 97 Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun98-99 Alignment of Case Marking; 98 Alignment of Case Marking of Full Noun Phrases; 99 Alignment of Case Marking of Pronouns; 100 Alignment of Verbal Person Marking; 101 Expression of Pronominal Subjects; 102 Verbal Person Marking; 103 Third-Person Zero of Verbal Person Marking; 104 Order of Person Markers on the Verb; 105 Ditransitive Constructions: The Verb 'Give'; Valence and Voice; Negation and Questions; Predication; 122-123 Relativization Strategies; 122 Relativization on Subjects

CD-ROM contains an interactive electronic version of the database which allows users to zoom in on or customize maps, to display bibliographical sources, and to establish correlations between features.

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7. The world atlas of language structures [2005]

• Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2005.

Description

Book — 640 p. : maps ; 35 cm.

Summary

• I INTRODUCTION
• II THE MAPY AND ACCOMPANYING TEXTS
• III REFERENCE MATERIAL
• INDEX
• CV.
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The World Atlas of Language Structures is a book and CD combination displaying the structural properties of the world's languages. 142 world maps and numerous regional maps - all in colour - display the geographical distribution of features of pronunciation and grammar, such as number of vowels, tone systems, gender, plurals, tense, word order, and body part terminology. Each world map shows an average of 400 languages and is accompanied by a fully referenced description of the structural feature in question. The CD provides an interactive electronic version of the database which allows the reader to zoom in on or customize the maps, to display bibliographical sources, and to establish correlations between features. The book and the CD together provide an indispensable source of information for linguists and others seeking to understand human languages. The Atlas will be especially valuable for linguistic typologists, grammatical theorists, historical and comparative linguists, and for those studying a region such as Africa, Southeast Asia, North America, Australia, and Europe. It will also interest anthropologists and geographers. More than fifty authors from many different countries have collaborated to produce a work that sets new standards in comparative linguistics. No institution involved in language research can afford to be without it.
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8. Coordinating constructions [2004]

• Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub., c2004.

Description

Book — xi, 576 p. : ill., 1 map ; 23 cm.

Summary

• 1. General list of abbreviations of grammatical categories
• 2. General articles
• 3. 1. Coordinating constructions: An overview (by Haspelmath, Martin)
• 4. 2. Coordination in Mentalese (by Ohori, Toshio)
• 5. 3. Coordination: An adaptationist view (by Heath, Jeffrey)
• 6. 4. Conjunction and personal pronouns (by Bhat, D.N.S.)
• 7. Africa
• 8. 5. The grammar of conjunctive and disjunctive coordination in Iraqw (by Mous, Maarten)
• 9. 6. Coordinating constructions in Fongbe with reference to Haitian Creole (by Lefebvre, Claire)
• 10. 7. Comitative, coordinating, and inclusory constructions in Hausa (by Abdoulaye, Mahamane Laoualy)
• 11. Caucasus
• 12. 8. Coordinating constructions in Daghestanian languages (by Berg, Helma)
• 13. 9. Where coordination meets subordination: Converb constructions in Tsakhur (Daghestanian) (by Kazenin, Konstantin I.)
• 14. 10. Coordination in Chechen (by Jeschull, Liane)
• 15. Middle East
• 16. 11. Coordination in three Western Iranian languages: Vafsi, Persian and Gilaki (by Stilo, Donald)
• 17. Southeast Asia
• 18. 12. Coordination in Hakha Lai (Tibeto-Burman) (by Peterson, David A.)
• 19. 13. Conjunction and concatenation in Sgaw Karen: Familiarity, frequency, and conceptual unity (by Lord, Carol)
• 20. 14. Riau Indonesian Sama : Explorations in macrofunctionality (by Gil, David)
• 21. Pacific
• 22. 15. Coordination in Lavukaleve (by Terrill, Angela)
• 23. 16. Coordination in Oceanic languages and Proto Oceanic (by Moyse-Faurie, Claire)
• 24. 17. Coordination strategies and inclusory constructions in New Caledonian and other Oceanic languages (by Bril, Isabelle)
• 25. Americas
• 26. 18. Coordination in Upper Kuskokwim Athabaskan (by Kibrik, Andrej A.)
• 27. Language index
• 28. Name index
• 29. Subject index.
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This is the first book on coordinating constructions that adopts a broad cross-linguistic perspective. Coordination has been studied intensively in English and other major European languages, but we are only beginning to understand the range of variation that is found world-wide. This volume consists of a number of general studies, as well as fourteen case studies of coordinating constructions in languages or groups of languages: Africa (Iraqw, Fongbe, Hausa), the Caucasus (Daghestanian, Tsakhur, Chechen), the Middle East (Persian and other Western Iranian languages), Southeast Asia (Lai, Karen, Indonesian), the Pacific (Lavukaleve, Oceanic, Nelemwa), and the Americas (Upper Kuskokwim Athabaskan). A detailed introductory chapter summarizes the main results of the volume and situates them in the context of other relevant current research.
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9. Coordinating constructions [2004]

• Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub., ©2004.

Description

Book — 1 online resource (xi, 576 pages) : illustrations, 1 map

Summary

• 1. General list of abbreviations of grammatical categories
• 2. General articles
• 3. 1. Coordinating constructions: An overview (by Haspelmath, Martin)
• 4. 2. Coordination in Mentalese (by Ohori, Toshio)
• 5. 3. Coordination: An adaptationist view (by Heath, Jeffrey)
• 6. 4. Conjunction and personal pronouns (by Bhat, D.N.S.)
• 7. Africa
• 8. 5. The grammar of conjunctive and disjunctive coordination in Iraqw (by Mous, Maarten)
• 9. 6. Coordinating constructions in Fongbe with reference to Haitian Creole (by Lefebvre, Claire)
• 10. 7. Comitative, coordinating, and inclusory constructions in Hausa (by Abdoulaye, Mahamane Laoualy)
• 11. Caucasus
• 12. 8. Coordinating constructions in Daghestanian languages (by Berg, Helma)
• 13. 9. Where coordination meets subordination: Converb constructions in Tsakhur (Daghestanian) (by Kazenin, Konstantin I.)
• 14. 10. Coordination in Chechen (by Jeschull, Liane)
• 15. Middle East
• 16. 11. Coordination in three Western Iranian languages: Vafsi, Persian and Gilaki (by Stilo, Donald)
• 17. Southeast Asia
• 18. 12. Coordination in Hakha Lai (Tibeto-Burman) (by Peterson, David A.)
• 19. 13. Conjunction and concatenation in Sgaw Karen: Familiarity, frequency, and conceptual unity (by Lord, Carol)
• 20. 14. Riau Indonesian Sama : Explorations in macrofunctionality (by Gil, David)
• 21. Pacific
• 22. 15. Coordination in Lavukaleve (by Terrill, Angela)
• 23. 16. Coordination in Oceanic languages and Proto Oceanic (by Moyse-Faurie, Claire)
• 24. 17. Coordination strategies and inclusory constructions in New Caledonian and other Oceanic languages (by Bril, Isabelle)
• 25. Americas
• 26. 18. Coordination in Upper Kuskokwim Athabaskan (by Kibrik, Andrej A.)
• 27. Language index
• 28. Name index
• 29. Subject index.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

This is the first book on coordinating constructions that adopts a broad cross-linguistic perspective. Coordination has been studied intensively in English and other major European languages, but we are only beginning to understand the range of variation that is found world-wide. This volume consists of a number of general studies, as well as fourteen case studies of coordinating constructions in languages or groups of languages: Africa (Iraqw, Fongbe, Hausa), the Caucasus (Daghestanian, Tsakhur, Chechen), the Middle East (Persian and other Western Iranian languages), Southeast Asia (Lai, Karen, Indonesian), the Pacific (Lavukaleve, Oceanic, Nelemwa), and the Americas (Upper Kuskokwim Athabaskan). A detailed introductory chapter summarizes the main results of the volume and situates them in the context of other relevant current research.
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10. Language typology and language universals : an international handbook [2001]

• Berlin ; New York : W. de Gruyter, 2001.

Description

Book — 1 online resource (xx, 854 pages)

Summary

• Preface; Subject Matter; Goals and Structure of the Handbook; Vorwort; Gegenstand des Handbuchs; Zielsetzung und Konzeption des Handbuchs; Préface ; Le sujet; L'objectif et la structure du manuel; Contents / Inhalt / Contenu ; Common abbreviations / Häufige Abkürzungen / Abréviations fréquentes ; I. Foundations: Theoretical foundations of language universals and language typology / Grundlagen: Die sprachtheoretische Fundierung von Universalienforschung und Sprachtypologie / Fondements: les bases théoriques de la typologie linguistique et de la recherche universaliste.

• 1. Language universals and language typolog
• y1. Introduction: a necessary change of perspective;
• 2. Different levels of observation and abstraction;
• 3. Some problems arising for language typology;
• 4. Universals as a solution to problems raised by typology;
• 5. Advantages of the universalist view;
• 6. The shortcomings of traditional views;
• 7. References;
• 2. Different views of language typology;
• 1. Preliminary remarks;
• 2. Typological parameters;
• 3. Theoretical concepts;
• 4. Areal typology;
• 5. References.

• II. Foundations: Points of contact between language universals/language typology and other disciplines / Grundlagen: Berührungspunkte von Universalienforschung und Sprachtypologie mit anderen Disziplinen / Fondements: les points de contact entre la recherche universaliste, la typologie linguistique et d'autres disciplines
• 3. Handlungstheorie, Kommunikationstheorie, Lebenswelt;
• 1. Prämissen;
• 2. Handlungs- und kommunikationstheoretischer Rekurs;
• 3. Universale Aspekte kommunikativen Handelns;
• 4. Zitierte Literatur;
• 4. Sprachphilosophie;
• 1. Einleitung.

• 2. Die wissenschaftstheoretische Diskussion des Universalienbegriff
• s3. Syntaktische Universalien;
• 4. Semantische Universalien;
• 5. Pragmatische Universalien;
• 6. Zusammenfassung;
• 7. Zitierte Literatur;
• 5. Sciences cognitives et Intelligence Artificielle;
• 1. Périodisation;
• 2. Les postulats de la recherche cognitive;
• 3. Les deux principaux paradigmes;
• 4. Incidences sur la linguistique;
• 5. La sémantique cognitive;
• 6. Perspectives;
• 7. Références;
• 6. Künstliche Sprachen und Universalsprachen;
• 1. Begriffsklärungen;
• 2. Geschichtlicher Abriss;
• 3. Beispiele für einzelne Universalsprachen.

• 4. Charakteristika von Universalsprache
• n5. Leistungen und Grenzen;
• 6. Zitierte Literatur;
• 7. Biological foundations of language;
• 1. Introduction;
• 2. Linguistic studies;
• 3. Animal 'language' experiments;
• 4. Language deprivation;
• 5. Aphasic and dysphasic syndromes;
• 6. Brain-imaging procedures;
• 7. Evolutionary studies;
• 8. Conclusions;
• 9. References;
• 8. Linguistics and Genetics: Systematic parallels;
• 1. Basics;
• 2. Language as a metaphor in molecular biology;
• 3. Some of the linguistic vocabulary used in the texts of microbiology.

This series of HANDBOOKS OF LINGUISTICS AND COMMUNICATION SCIENCE is designed to illuminate a field which not only includes general linguistics and the study of linguistics as applied to specific languages, but also covers those more recent areas which have developed from the increasing body of research into the manifold forms of communicative action and interaction. For "classic" linguistics there appears to be a need for a review of the state of the art which will provide a reference base for the rapid advances in research undertaken from a variety of theoretical standpoints, while in the more recent branches of communication science the handbooks will give researchers both an verview and orientation. To attain these objectives, the series will aim for a standard comparable to that of the leading handbooks in other disciplines, and to this end will strive for comprehensiveness, theoretical explicitness, reliable documentation of data and findings, and up-to-date methodology. The editors, both of the series and of the individual volumes, and the individual contributors, are committed to this aim. The languages of publication are English, German, and French. The main aim of the series is to provide an appropriate account of the state of the art in the various areas of linguistics and communication science covered by each of the various handbooks; however no inflexible pre-set limits will be imposed on the scope of each volume. The series is open-ended, and can thus take account of further developments in the field. This conception, coupled with the necessity of allowing adequate time for each volume to be prepared with the necessary care, means that there is no set time-table for the publication of the whole series. Each volume will be a self-contained work, complete in itself. The order in which the handbooks are published does not imply any rank ordering, but is determined by the way in which the series is organized; the editor of the whole series enlist a competent editor for each individual volume. Once the principal editor for a volume has been found, he or she then has a completely free hand in the choice of co-editors and contributors. The editors plan each volume independently of the others, being governed only by general formal principles. The series editor only intervene where questions of delineation between individual volumes are concerned. It is felt that this (modus operandi) is best suited to achieving the objectives of the series, namely to give a competent account of the present state of knowledge and of the perception of the problems in the area covered by each volume.
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11. Language typology and language universals : an international handbook [2001 -]

• Berlin : New York : W. de Gruyter, 2001-

Description

Book — v. ; 28 cm.

Summary

This series of HANDBOOKS OF LINGUISTICS AND COMMUNICATION SCIENCE is designed to illuminate a field which not only includes general linguistics and the study of linguistics as applied to specific languages, but also covers those more recent areas which have developed from the increasing body of research into the manifold forms of communicative action and interaction. For "classic" linguistics there appears to be a need for a review of the state of the art which will provide a reference base for the rapid advances in research undertaken from a variety of theoretical standpoints, while in the more recent branches of communication science the handbooks will give researchers both an verview and orientation. To attain these objectives, the series will aim for a standard comparable to that of the leading handbooks in other disciplines, and to this end will strive for comprehensiveness, theoretical explicitness, reliable documentation of data and findings, and up-to-date methodology. The editors, both of the series and of the individual volumes, and the individual contributors, are committed to this aim. The languages of publication are English, German, and French. The main aim of the series is to provide an appropriate account of the state of the art in the various areas of linguistics and communication science covered by each of the various handbooks; however no inflexible pre-set limits will be imposed on the scope of each volume. The series is open-ended, and can thus take account of further developments in the field. This conception, coupled with the necessity of allowing adequate time for each volume to be prepared with the necessary care, means that there is no set time-table for the publication of the whole series. Each volume will be a self-contained work, complete in itself. The order in which the handbooks are published does not imply any rank ordering, but is determined by the way in which the series is organized; the editor of the whole series enlist a competent editor for each individual volume. Once the principal editor for a volume has been found, he or she then has a completely free hand in the choice of co-editors and contributors. The editors plan each volume independently of the others, being governed only by general formal principles. The series editor only intervene where questions of delineation between individual volumes are concerned. It is felt that this (modus operandi) is best suited to achieving the objectives of the series, namely to give a competent account of the present state of knowledge and of the perception of the problems in the area covered by each volume.
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12. Language typology and language universals : an international handbook. Volume 2 / 2. Halbband / herausgegeben von Martin Haspelmath [and others] = La typologie des langues et les universaux linguistiques : manuel international. Tome 2 / édité par Martin Haspelmath [and others]. [2001]

• Berlin ; New York : W. de Gruyter, 2001.

Description

Book — 1 online resource

Summary

• Inhalt / Contenu ; X. Syntactic Typology / Syntaktische Typologie / Typologie syntaxique ;
• 64. Word order typology;
• 1. Historical overview;
• 2. Heads;
• 3. Major constituents of the clause;
• 4. References;
• 65. Le marquage diffeŕentiel de l'objet;
• 1. Introduction;
• 2. Formes de la variation;
• 3. Corrélats de la variation;
• 4. Variations connexes;
• 5. Facteurs associés;
• 6. Abréviations spéciales;
• 7. Références;
• 66. Causatives;
• 1. Definitions;
• 2. Formal types of causatives;
• 3. Causative and related categories;
• 4. Syntax of causative constructions;
• 5. The semantics of causative verbs.

• 6. Diachronic sources of causative affixe
• s7. Special abbreviations;
• 8. References;
• 67. The passive voice;
• 1. Introduction;
• 2. Morphology of the passive voice;
• 3. Syntax of the passive construction;
• 4. Functions of the passive voice;
• 5. Derived vs. basic status of the passive voice;
• 6. Cross-linguistic distribution of the passive voice;
• 7. The passive in relation to some other grammatical phenomena;
• 8. Special abbreviations;
• 9. References;
• 68. Verbal reflexives and the middle voice;
• 1. Verbal reflexives vs. reflexive pronouns;
• 2. Morphological types of verbal reflexives.

• 3. Syntactic types of verbal reflexive
• s4. Polysemy of verbal reflexive markers;
• 5. Accounts of the polysemy; the middle voice;
• 6. Valence-increasing vs. valence-decreasing languages;
• 7. Special abbreviations;
• 8. References;
• 69. Resultative constructions;
• 1. Introduction;
• 2. Distinctions between the resultative and contiguous categories;
• 3. The resultative form;
• 4. Agent-oriented resultative;
• 5. Resultative proper and statives;
• 6. Principal resultative meanings;
• 7. Restrictions on resultative formation;
• 8. Polysemy of resultative markers.

• 9. The agentive complement (AC) with Patient-oriented resultative
• s10. Abbreviations;
• 11. References;
• 70. Existential constructions;
• 1. Overview;
• 2. Conventional analyses;
• 3. Extended view of the existential;
• 4. The locative proform;
• 5. The existential and the predicate locative;
• 6. A theoretical proposal;
• 7. The 'have' existential;
• 8. 'My helicopter is';
• 9. Summary;
• 10. Special abbreviations;
• 11. References;
• 71. Predicative possession;
• 1. Definition of the domain;
• 2. Major types of predicative possession;
• 3. Transitivization;
• 4. Adjectivalization;
• 5. Correlations of the Possessive Typology.

• 6. Reference
• s72. Adnominal possession;
• 1. Adnominal possession and possessive noun phrases: prototypical cases;
• 2. Structural types of possessive noun phrases;
• 3. Functions of possessors within PNPs and possessor-article incompatibility;
• 4. Splits in the possession area;
• 5. Grammaticalization patterns;
• 6. Connections with other grammatical phenomena;
• 7. Special abbreviations;
• 8. References;
• 73. Internal and external possessors;
• 1. Basic distinctions;
• 2. Typical properties of external possessors;
• 4. Areal patterns;
• 5. Theoretical issues;
• 6. References;
• 74. Complement clauses;
• 1. Introduction.

This series of HANDBOOKS OF LINGUISTICS AND COMMUNICATION SCIENCE is designed to illuminate a field which not only includes general linguistics and the study of linguistics as applied to specific languages, but also covers those more recent areas which have developed from the increasing body of research into the manifold forms of communicative action and interaction. For "classic" linguistics there appears to be a need for a review of the state of the art which will provide a reference base for the rapid advances in research undertaken from a variety of theoretical standpoints, while in the more recent branches of communication science the handbooks will give researchers both an verview and orientation. To attain these objectives, the series will aim for a standard comparable to that of the leading handbooks in other disciplines, and to this end will strive for comprehensiveness, theoretical explicitness, reliable documentation of data and findings, and up-to-date methodology. The editors, both of the series and of the individual volumes, and the individual contributors, are committed to this aim. The languages of publication are English, German, and French. The main aim of the series is to provide an appropriate account of the state of the art in the various areas of linguistics and communication science covered by each of the various handbooks; however no inflexible pre-set limits will be imposed on the scope of each volume. The series is open-ended, and can thus take account of further developments in the field. This conception, coupled with the necessity of allowing adequate time for each volume to be prepared with the necessary care, means that there is no set time-table for the publication of the whole series. Each volume will be a self-contained work, complete in itself. The order in which the handbooks are published does not imply any rank ordering, but is determined by the way in which the series is organized; the editor of the whole series enlist a competent editor for each individual volume. Once the principal editor for a volume has been found, he or she then has a completely free hand in the choice of co-editors and contributors. The editors plan each volume independently of the others, being governed only by general formal principles. The series editor only intervene where questions of delineation between individual volumes are concerned. It is felt that this (modus operandi) is best suited to achieving the objectives of the series, namely to give a competent account of the present state of knowledge and of the perception of the problems in the area covered by each volume.
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13. Converbs in cross-linguistic perspective : structure and meaning of adverbial verb forms-- adverbial participles, gerunds [1995]

• Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 1995.

Description

Book — x, 565 p. ; 24 cm.

Summary

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14. Loanwords in the world's languages : a comparative handbook [2009]

• Berlin, Germany : De Gruyter Mouton, c2009.

Description

Book — xxi, 1081 p. : maps ; 25 cm.

Summary

• Notational conventions
• Acknowledgments
• List of authors
• General chapters: I. The loanword typology project and the world loanword database / Martin Haspelmath and Uri Tadmor
• II. Lexical borrowing: Concepts and issues / Martin Haspelmath
• III. Loanwords in the world's languages: Findings and results / Uri Tadmor
• THE LANGUAGES: 1. Loanwords in Swahili / Thilo C. Schadeberg
• 2. Loanwords in Iraqw, a Cush*tic language of Tanzania / Maarten Mous and Martha Qorro
• 3. Loanwords in Gawwada, a Cush*tic language of Ethiopia / Mauro Tosco
• 4. Loanwords in Hausa, a Chadic language in West Africa / Ari Awagana and H. Ekkehard Wolff, with Doris Löhr
• 5. Loanwords in Kanuri, a Saharan language / Doris Löhr and H. Ekkehard Wolff, with Ari Awagana
• 6. Loanwords in Tarifiyt, a Berber language of Morocco / Maarten Kossmann
• 7. Loanwords in Seychelles Creole / Susanne Michaelis with Marcel Rosalie
• 8. Loanwords in Romanian / Kim Schulte
• 9. Loanwords in Selice Romani, an Indo-Aryan language of Slovakia / Viktor Elšík
• 10. Loanwords in Lower Sorbian, a Slavic language of Germany / Hauke Bartels
• 11. Loanwords in Old High German / Roland Schuhmann
• 12. Loanwords in Dutch / Nicoline van der Sijs
• 13. Loanwords in British English / Anthony Grant
• 14. Loanwords in Kildin Saami, a Uralic language of northern Europe / Michael Riessler
• 15. Loanwords in Bezhta, a Nakh-Daghestanian of the North Caucasus / Bernard Comrie and Madzhid Khalilov
• 16. Loanwords in Archi, a Nakh-Daghestanian of the North Caucasus / Marina Chumakina
• 17. Loanwords in Manange, a Tibeto-Burman language of Nepal / Kristine A. Hildebrandt
• 18. Loanwords in Ket, a Yeniseian language of Siberia / Edward Vajda
• 19. Loanwords in Sakha (Yakut), a Turkic language of Siberia / Brigitte Pakendorf and Innokentij N. Novgorodov
• 20. Loanwords in Oroqen, a Tungusic language of China / Fengxiang Li and Lindsay J. Whaley --

• Loanwords in Japanese / Christopher K. Schmidt
• 22. Loanwords in Mandarin Chinese / Thekla Wiebusch and Uri Tadmor
• 23. Loanwords in Thai / Titima Suthiwan and Uri Tadmor
• 24. Loanwords in Vietnamese / Mark J. Alves
• 25. Loanwords in White Hmong / Martha Ratliff
• 26. Loanwords in Ceq Wong, an Austroasiatic language of Peninsular Malaysia / Nicole Kruspe
• 27. Loanwords in Indonesian / Uri Tadmor
• 28. Loanwords in Malagasy / Alexander Adelaar
• 29. Loanwords in Takia, an Oceanic language of Papua New Guinea / Malcolm Ross
• 30. Loanwords in Hawaiian / 'Ōiwi Parker Jones
• 31. Loanwords in Gurindji, a Pama-Nyungan language of Australia / Patrick McConvell
• 32. Loanwords in Yaqui, a Uto-Aztecan language of Mexico / Zarina Estrada Fernández
• 33. Loanwords in Zinacantán Tzotzil, a Mayan language of Mexico / Cecil H. Brown
• 34. Loanwords in Q'eqchi', a Mayan language of Guatemala / Søren Wichmann and Kerry Hull
• 35. Loanwords in Otomi, an Otomanguean language of Mexico / Ewald Hekking and Dik Bakker
• 36. Loanwords in Saramaccan, an English-based creole of Suriname / Jeff Good
• 37. Loanwords in Imbabura Quechua / Jorge Gómez Rendón and Willem Adelaar
• 38. Loanwords in Kali'na, a Cariban language of French Guiana / Odile Renault-Lescure
• 39. Loanwords in Hup, a Nadahup language of Amazonia / Patience Epps
• 40. Loanwords in Wichí, a Mataco-Mataguayan language of Argentina / Alejandra Vidal and Verónica Nercesian
• 41. Loanwords in Mapudungun, a language of Chile and Argentina / Lucía A. Golluscio.

This book is the first work to address the question of what kinds of words get borrowed in a systematic and comparative perspective. It studies lexical borrowing behavior on the basis of a world-wide sample of 40 languages, both major languages and minor languages, and both languages with heavy borrowing and languages with little lexical influence from other languages. The book is the result of a five-year project bringing together a unique group of specialists of many different languages and areas. The introductory chapters provide a general up-to-date introduction to language contact at the word level, as well as a presentation of the project's methodology. All the chapters are based on samples of 1000-2000 words, elicited by a uniform meaning list of 1460 meanings. The combined database, comprising over 70,000 words, is published online at the same time as the book is published. For each word, information about loanword status is given in the database, and the 40 case studies in the book describe the social and historical contact situations in detail. The final chapter draws general conclusions about what kinds of words tend to get borrowed, what kinds of word meanings are particularly resistant to borrowing, and what kinds of social contact situations lead to what kinds of borrowing situations.
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15. Loanwords in the world's languages : a comparative handbook [2009]

• Berlin, Germany : De Gruyter Mouton, [2009]

Description

Book — 1 online resource (xxi, 1081 pages) : maps

Summary

• Notational conventions
• Acknowledgments
• List of authors
• General chapters: I. The loanword typology project and the world loanword database / Martin Haspelmath and Uri Tadmor
• II. Lexical borrowing: Concepts and issues / Martin Haspelmath
• III. Loanwords in the world's languages: Findings and results / Uri Tadmor
• THE LANGUAGES: 1. Loanwords in Swahili / Thilo C. Schadeberg
• 2. Loanwords in Iraqw, a Cush*tic language of Tanzania / Maarten Mous and Martha Qorro
• 3. Loanwords in Gawwada, a Cush*tic language of Ethiopia / Mauro Tosco
• 4. Loanwords in Hausa, a Chadic language in West Africa / Ari Awagana and H. Ekkehard Wolff, with Doris Löhr
• 5. Loanwords in Kanuri, a Saharan language / Doris Löhr and H. Ekkehard Wolff, with Ari Awagana
• 6. Loanwords in Tarifiyt, a Berber language of Morocco / Maarten Kossmann
• 7. Loanwords in Seychelles Creole / Susanne Michaelis with Marcel Rosalie
• 8. Loanwords in Romanian / Kim Schulte
• 9. Loanwords in Selice Romani, an Indo-Aryan language of Slovakia / Viktor Elšík
• 10. Loanwords in Lower Sorbian, a Slavic language of Germany / Hauke Bartels
• 11. Loanwords in Old High German / Roland Schuhmann
• 12. Loanwords in Dutch / Nicoline van der Sijs
• 13. Loanwords in British English / Anthony Grant
• 14. Loanwords in Kildin Saami, a Uralic language of northern Europe / Michael Riessler
• 15. Loanwords in Bezhta, a Nakh-Daghestanian of the North Caucasus / Bernard Comrie and Madzhid Khalilov
• 16. Loanwords in Archi, a Nakh-Daghestanian of the North Caucasus / Marina Chumakina
• 17. Loanwords in Manange, a Tibeto-Burman language of Nepal / Kristine A. Hildebrandt
• 18. Loanwords in Ket, a Yeniseian language of Siberia / Edward Vajda
• 19. Loanwords in Sakha (Yakut), a Turkic language of Siberia / Brigitte Pakendorf and Innokentij N. Novgorodov
• 20. Loanwords in Oroqen, a Tungusic language of China / Fengxiang Li and Lindsay J. Whaley.

• Loanwords in Japanese / Christopher K. Schmidt
• 22. Loanwords in Mandarin Chinese / Thekla Wiebusch and Uri Tadmor
• 23. Loanwords in Thai / Titima Suthiwan and Uri Tadmor
• 24. Loanwords in Vietnamese / Mark J. Alves
• 25. Loanwords in White Hmong / Martha Ratliff
• 26. Loanwords in Ceq Wong, an Austroasiatic language of Peninsular Malaysia / Nicole Kruspe
• 27. Loanwords in Indonesian / Uri Tadmor
• 28. Loanwords in Malagasy / Alexander Adelaar
• 29. Loanwords in Takia, an Oceanic language of Papua New Guinea / Malcolm Ross
• 30. Loanwords in Hawaiian / 'Ōiwi Parker Jones
• 31. Loanwords in Gurindji, a Pama-Nyungan language of Australia / Patrick McConvell
• 32. Loanwords in Yaqui, a Uto-Aztecan language of Mexico / Zarina Estrada Fernández
• 33. Loanwords in Zinacantán Tzotzil, a Mayan language of Mexico / Cecil H. Brown
• 34. Loanwords in Q'eqchi', a Mayan language of Guatemala / Søren Wichmann and Kerry Hull
• 35. Loanwords in Otomi, an Otomanguean language of Mexico / Ewald Hekking and Dik Bakker
• 36. Loanwords in Saramaccan, an English-based creole of Suriname / Jeff Good
• 37. Loanwords in Imbabura Quechua / Jorge Gómez Rendón and Willem Adelaar
• 38. Loanwords in Kali'na, a Cariban language of French Guiana / Odile Renault-Lescure
• 39. Loanwords in Hup, a Nadahup language of Amazonia / Patience Epps
• 40. Loanwords in Wichí, a Mataco-Mataguayan language of Argentina / Alejandra Vidal and Verónica Nercesian
• 41. Loanwords in Mapudungun, a language of Chile and Argentina / Lucía A. Golluscio.

This book is the first work to address the question of what kinds of words get borrowed in a systematic and comparative perspective. It studies lexical borrowing behavior on the basis of a world-wide sample of 40 languages, both major languages and minor languages, and both languages with heavy borrowing and languages with little lexical influence from other languages. The book is the result of a five-year project bringing together a unique group of specialists of many different languages and areas. The introductory chapters provide a general up-to-date introduction to language contact at the word level, as well as a presentation of the project's methodology. All the chapters are based on samples of 1000-2000 words, elicited by a uniform meaning list of 1460 meanings. The combined database, comprising over 70,000 words, is published online at the same time as the book is published. For each word, information about loanword status is given in the database, and the 40 case studies in the book describe the social and historical contact situations in detail. The final chapter draws general conclusions about what kinds of words tend to get borrowed, what kinds of word meanings are particularly resistant to borrowing, and what kinds of social contact situations lead to what kinds of borrowing situations.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)

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• EBSCO Academic Comprehensive Collection

16. Languages across boundaries : studies in memory of Anna Siewierska [2013]

• Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, ©2013.

Description

Book — 1 online resource (xix, 400 pages) : illustrations

Summary

• Frontmatter
• Preface
• Contents
• Contributors
• Bibliography of Anna Siewierska
• Person by other means / Baerman, Matthew ; Corbett, Greville G.
• Patterns of alignment in verb agreement / Bickel, Balthasar ; Iemmolo, Giorgio ; Zakharko, Taras ; Witzlack-Makarevich, Alena
• Human themes in Spanish ditransitive constructions / Comrie, Bernard
• The generic use of the second person singular pronoun in Mandinka / Creissels, Denis
• The referential hierarchy: reviewing the evidence in diachronic perspective / Cristofaro, Sonia
• Agreement as anaphora, anaphora as coreference / Croft, William
• Towards a distributional typology of human impersonal pronouns, based on data from European languages / Gast, Volker ; Auwera, Johan van der
• Partial coreference / Hampe, Beate ; Lehmann, Christian
• Argument indexing: a conceptual framework for the syntactic status of bound person forms / Haspelmath, Martin
• Peculiarities and origins of the Russian referential system / Kibrik, Andrej A.
• Alignment preferences in basic and derived ditransitives / Malchukov, Andrej L.
• Prosody and independence: free and bound person marking / Mithun, Marianne
• The origin and evolution of case-suppletive pronouns: Eurasian evidence / Nichols, Johanna
• Suppletion in person forms: the role of iconicity and frequency / Siewierska, Anna ; Bakker, Dik
• Index.

This book is dedicated to Anna Siewierska, who died, far too young, in 2011. It contains 15 contributions by 20 linguists who may be counted among the foremost scholars in the field of linguistic typology. All of these articles discuss a topic that is prominent in Anna's work, whose journal articles and monographs on the passive, on word order, and on the category of person are standard literature in these respective fields. Mindful of Anna's last monograph, Person, the majority of the contributions in this volume discuss free and bound person forms, argument indexing, reference tracking systems, impersonals, and related issues, such as suppletion and incompleteness in person paradigms, the origin of referential systems, dependent versus independent marking, and referential hierarchies. Other topics are grammatical alignment, grammatical voice, ditransitives, and word order. Most of the contributions take a broad, typological perspective. Others give a more in depth treatment, based on data from a specific language, notably Spanish, Russian, Mandinka, and Mohawk. The book contains a complete bibliography of Anna Siewierska's linguistic production.
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• EBSCO Academic Comprehensive Collection

17. Egyptian-Coptic linguistics in typological perspective [2015]

• Berlin ; Munich ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton [formerly Mouton, The Hague], [2015]

Description

Book — x, 578 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Summary

This volume presents the Egyptian-Coptic language in cross-linguistic (`typological') perspective. It is aimed at linguists of all stripes, especially typologists, historical linguists, and specialists in Egyptian-Coptic, Afroasiatic languages, or African languages. Uniquely, the contributions are written by both typologists and experts of Egyptian-Coptic and typologists. The former provide case studies dealing with particular aspects of the various phases of the Egyptian-Coptic language (e.g., COLLIER on conditional constructions), while the latter situate Egyptian-Coptic data in cross-linguistic perspective (e.g., those by GUELDEMANN and GENSLER). The volume also includes an introductory section that includes an overview of the Egyptian-Coptic language (HASPELMATH), a sketch of its sociohistorical setting (GROSSMAN & RICHTER), its relationship with language typology (RICHTER), and the way in which Egyptian-Coptic data should be presented to nonspecialists, focusing on transliteration and glossing (GROSSMAN & HASPELMATH). This is the first book to bring together language typology and the Egyptian-Coptic language in an explicit fashion.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)
This volume presents the Egyptian-Coptic language in cross-linguistic perspective. It is aimed at linguists of all stripes, especially typologists, historical linguists, and specialists in Egyptian-Coptic, Afroasiatic languages, or African languages. The book is the first to bring together language typology and the Egyptian-Coptic language in an explicit fashion.
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18. The atlas of Pidgin and Creole language structures [2013]

• First edition. - Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.

Description

Book — xlviii, 522 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 29 cm.

Summary

• 1. Word Order
• 2. Nominal Categories
• 3. Nominal Syntax
• 4. Verbal Categories
• 5. Argument Marking
• 6. Clausal Syntax
• 7. Complex Sentences
• 8. Negation, Questions, and Focusing
• 9. Lexicon
• 10. Phonology
• 11. Sociolinguistics
• References
• Index.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

The Atlas presents full colour maps of the distribution among the pidgins and creoles of 130 structural linguistic features drawn from their phonology, syntax, morphology, and lexicons. In addition there are some maps with relevant sociolinguistic features. The languages include pidgins, creoles, and other contact languages based on English, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish, and French and languages from Africa, Asia, Australia, and the Americas. Each map is accompanied by a detailed description and discussion of the feature. The project is the successor to the successful World Atlas of Language Structures and draws on the same linguistic, cartographic, and computing knowledge and skills of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig. The Atlas is published alongside a three-volume Survey of Pidgins and Creoles which describes the histories and linguistic characteristics of 76 languages. The books have been designed, edited, and written by the world's leading experts in the field and represent the most systematic and comprehensive guide ever published to the world's pidgins, creoles and mixed languages. Individually and together the books are a unique resource of outstanding value for linguists of all persuasions throughout the world.
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19. Studies in ditransitive constructions : a comparative handbook [2010]

• Berlin ; New York : De Gruyter Mouton, 2010.

Description

Book — xviii, 772 p. ; 25 cm.

Summary

This rich volume deals comprehensively with cross-linguistic variation in the morphosyntax of ditransitive constructions: constructions formed with verbs (like give) that take Agent, Theme and Recipient arguments. For the first time, a broadly cross-linguistic perspective is adopted. The present volume, consisting of an overview article and twenty-odd in-depth studies of ditransitive constructions in individual languages from different continents, arose from the conference on ditransitive constructions held at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (Leipzig) in 2007. It opens with the editors' survey article providing an overview of cross-linguistic variation in ditransitive constructions, followed by the questionnaire on ditransitive constructions, compiled by the editors in order to elicit various properties of these patterns. The editors' overview discusses formal properties of ditransitive constructions as well as behavioral (or syntactic) and lexical properties (i.e., the extension of ditransitive constructions across different verb classes). The volume includes 23 contributions describing properties of ditransitive constructions in languages from all over the world, written by leading experts. Care has been taken that the contributions to the volume will be representative of structural, geographic and genealogical diversity in the domain of ditransitive constructions. Thus the present volume provides a unique source of information on typological diversity of ditransitive constructions. It is expected that it will be of central interest to all scholars and advanced students of linguistics, especially to those working in the field of language typology and comparative syntax.
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• De Gruyter

20. The atlas of Pidgin and Creole language structures online [2013]

• Leipzig : Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, 2013.

Description

Map — 1 online resource (1 atlas) : color illustrations, color maps

Online

• bibpurl.oclc.org
• apics-online.info