Languages Across Boundaries : : Studies in Memory of Anna Siewierska / / ed. by Dik Bakker, Martin Haspelmath.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• MitwirkendeR: Auwera, Johan van der,; Baerman, Matthew,; Bakker, Dik,; Bickel, Balthasar,; Comrie, Bernard,; Corbett, Greville G.,; Creissels, Denis,; Cristofaro, Sonia,; Croft, William,; Gast, Volker,; Hampe, Beate,; Haspelmath, Martin,; Iemmolo, Giorgio,; Kibrik, Andrej A.,; Lehmann, Christian,; Malchukov, Andrej L.,; Mithun, Marianne,; Nichols, Johanna,; Siewierska, Anna,; Witzlack-Makarevich, Alena,; Zakharko, Taras,
• HerausgeberIn: Bakker, Dik,; Haspelmath, Martin,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (400 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Contributors -- Bibliography of Anna Siewierska -- Person by other means -- Patterns of alignment in verb agreement -- Human themes in Spanish ditransitive constructions -- The generic use of the second person singular pronoun in Mandinka -- The referential hierarchy: reviewing the evidence in diachronic perspective -- Agreement as anaphora, anaphora as coreference -- Towards a distributional typology of human impersonal pronouns, based on data from European languages -- Partial coreference -- Argument indexing: a conceptual framework for the syntactic status of bound person forms -- Peculiarities and origins of the Russian referential system -- Alignment preferences in basic and derived ditransitives -- Prosody and independence: free and bound person marking -- The origin and evolution of case-suppletive pronouns: Eurasian evidence -- Suppletion in person forms: the role of iconicity and frequency -- Index