Languages Across Boundaries : : Studies in Memory of Anna Siewierska /

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

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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 art...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (400 p.)
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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

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