Das Nachleben des Antipassivs: Alignment-Verschiebung und Transitivität

Three examples are presented of reanalyses of antipassives as or in the direction of ordinary transitive constructions, from Tsez, Chukchi, and Mayan languages. In all cases, an antipassive construction remains in the language or language family concerned, thus presenting empirical evidence of reanalysis to parallel earlier hypothesized reconstructions of antipassives to explain synchronic idiosyncrasiesDie folgende Untersuchung erörtert drei Beispiele einer Reanalyse von Antipassiven als oder in Richtung einer üblichen transitiven Konstruktion, und zwar in der tsesischen, der tschuktschischen und den mayanischen Sprachen. In allen Beispielen bleibt das Antipassiv in der jeweiligen Sprache bzw. der jeweiligen Sprachfamilie erhalten, was einen empirischen Beweis für die Reanalyse neben früher hypothetisch aufgestellten Rekonstruktionen des Antipassivs als Erklärung von synchronischen Eigenarten bietet

A Grammar of Akajeru

A Grammar of Akajeru describes aspects of the grammatical system and lexicon of Akajeru, a traditional dialect of the North Andamanese language, as it was reportedly used around the beginning of the twentieth century. It is based primarily on the fragments of this variety provided by the British anthropologist Alfred R. Radcliffe-Brown and scattered among the published results of his anthropological research carried out on the islands between 1906 and 1908. These are supplemented by published lists of 46 anatomical terms and 28 toponyms collected by Edward Horace Man, Officer in Charge of the Andamanese 1875–79. The book provides a linguistic analysis of all the extant Akajeru material, plus items identified by Radcliffe-Brown as ‘North Andaman’ without further specification, his few records of Akabo and Akakhora and Man’s few records of Akakhora, which together constitute all the documentation of these other traditional North Andamanese dialects. It includes a grammatical sketch of Akajeru, a list of all the words that were recorded, together with an English-Akajeru finder list, and a comparison between Akajeru and Present-day Andamanese, an Akajeru-based variety with elements from all the other traditional dialects of North Andamanese that is today remembered by only three people

A Grammar of Akajeru

A Grammar of Akajeru describes aspects of the grammatical system and lexicon of Akajeru, a traditional dialect of the North Andamanese language, as it was reportedly used around the beginning of the twentieth century. It is based primarily on the fragments of this variety provided by the British anthropologist Alfred R. Radcliffe-Brown and scattered among the published results of his anthropological research carried out on the islands between 1906 and 1908. These are supplemented by published lists of 46 anatomical terms and 28 toponyms collected by Edward Horace Man, Officer in Charge of the Andamanese 1875–79. The book provides a linguistic analysis of all the extant Akajeru material, plus items identified by Radcliffe-Brown as ‘North Andaman’ without further specification, his few records of Akabo and Akakhora and Man’s few records of Akakhora, which together constitute all the documentation of these other traditional North Andamanese dialects. It includes a grammatical sketch of Akajeru, a list of all the words that were recorded, together with an English-Akajeru finder list, and a comparison between Akajeru and Present-day Andamanese, an Akajeru-based variety with elements from all the other traditional dialects of North Andamanese that is today remembered by only three people

Pragmatic Binding: Demonstratives as Anaphors in Dutch

Proceedings of the Twenty-Third Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: General Session and Parasession on Pragmatics and Grammatical Structure (1997

Subject and Object Control: Syntax, Semantics, Pragmatics

Proceedings of the Tenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1984), pp. 450-46

Topics, Grammaticalized Topics, and Subjects

Proceedings of the Fourteenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1988), pp. 265-27

Japanese and the Other Languages of the World

マックスプランク進化人類学研究所/カリフォルニア大学サンタバーバラ校Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig and University of California, Santa Barbara言語類型論は日本語等の個別言語を通言語的変異に照らして位置づけるための1つの方法を提供してくれる。本論では個々の特徴の生起頻度と複数の特徴の相関関係の強さの両方を検証するために,WALS(『言語構造の世界地図』)を研究手段に用いて言語間変動の問題を考察する。日本語と英語は言語類型論的に非常に異なるものの,通言語的変異を総合的に見ると,どちらの言語も同じ程度に典型的であることが明らかになる。また,日本語が一貫して主要部後続型の語順を取ることは,異なる構成素の語順に見られる強い普遍的相関性の反映であるというよりむしろ,日本語の偶発的な性質であると主張できる。最後に,WALSの守備範囲を超えた現象として,多様な意味関係を一様に表す日本語の名詞修飾構造,および類例がないほど豊かな日本語授与動詞の体系に触れ,それらを世界の他の言語との関係で位置づけることで本稿を締めくくる。Linguistic typology provides a means of locating individual languages, such as Japanese, against the background of cross-linguistic variation. The body of the article addresses this issue using the World Atlas of Language Structures (WALS) as a research tool, for testing both the frequency of individual features and the strength of correlations between features. It is shown that while Japanese and English are typologically very different from one another, they are about equally typical in terms of overall cross-linguistic variation. The consistent head-final nature of Japanese is argued to be a contingent feature of Japanese rather than a reflection of strong universal correlations across different constituent order features. Moving beyond the material presented in WALS, the article concludes by situating both the Japanese unified noun-modifying construction and the language\u27s unusually rich system of verbs of giving with respect to other languages of the world