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Functional-historical approaches to explanation : in honor of Scott Delancey / Edited by Timothy J. Thornes, Boise State University ; Erik Andvik, University of Oregon ; Gwendolyn Hyslop, Australian National University ; Joana Jansen, University of Oregon.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Typological studies in language ; v. 103.
- Typological studies in language
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- DeLancey, Scott Cameron honouree., honouree.
- DeLancey, Scott Cameron.
- Explanation (Linguistics).
- Historical linguistics.
- Functionalism (Linguistics).
- Typology (Linguistics).
- Genre:
- Festschriften.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 294 pages ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2013]
- Contents:
- 1 Introduction p. ix
- 2 Part I. Typological studies
- 3 Non-aprioristic typology as a discovery tool p. 3 / Zygmunt Frajzyngier
- 4 Chorophorics, or the difference between place as an entity and place as a position in space p. 27 / Claude Hagège
- 5 On the diachrony of the 'Ethical Dative' p. 43 / T. Givón
- 6 Part II. Contributions to historical linguistics
- 7 Biactantial agreement in the Gongduk transitive verb in the broader Tibeto-Burman context p. 69 / George L. van Driem
- 8 The\dinguist's dilemma p. 83 / James A. Matisoff
- 9 Part III. TAME and case alignment
- 10 Person-sensitive TAME marking in Galo p. 107 / Mark W. Post
- 11 Agent case marking in Sahaptian p. 131 / Virginia Beavert; Joana Jansen
- 12 Part IV. Multi-clause constructions
- 13 The\Kurtöp - si construction p. 155 / Gwendolyn Hyslop
- 14 Verb serialization in Ede from a diachronic perspective p. 179 / Tam Nguyen
- 15 Tense-aspect morphology from nominalizers in Newar p. 195 / Carol Genetti
- 16 Part V. Functional motivation and extension
- 17 Predicting reference form p. 223 / Shobhana L. Chelliah
- 18 Causation as "functional sink" in Northern Paiute p. 237 / Tim Thornes
- 19 The\challenge of Maa 'Away' p. 259 / Doris L. Payne
- 20 Name index p. 283
- 21 Language index p. 287
- 22 Subject index p. 291.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9027206848
- 9789027206848
- OCLC:
- 829738395
- Publisher Number:
- 40022687345
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