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From Linguistic Areas to Areal Linguistics Studies in Language Companion Series (SLCS) This series has been established as a companion series to the periodical Studies in Language. Editors Werner Abraham Michael Noonan University of Vienna University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee USA Editorial Board Joan Bybee Christian Lehmann University of New Mexico University of Erfurt Ulrike Claudi Robert E. Longacre University of Cologne University of Texas, Arlington Bernard Comrie Brian MacWhinney Max Planck Institute, Leipzig Carnegie-Mellon University University of California, Santa Barbara Marianne Mithun William Croft University of California, Santa Barbara University of New Mexico Edith Moravcsik Östen Dahl University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee University of Stockholm Masayoshi Shibatani Gerrit J. Dimmendaal Rice University and Kobe University University of Cologne Russell S. Tomlin Ekkehard König University of Oregon Free University of Berlin Volume 90 From Linguistic Areas to Areal Linguistics Edited by Pieter Muysken From Linguistic Areas to Areal Linguistics Edited by Pieter Muysken Radboud University Nijmegen John Benjamins Publishing Company Amsterdam / Philadelphia TM The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of 8 American National Standard for Information Sciences – Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ansi z39.48-1984. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data From linguistic areas to areal linguistics / edited by Pieter Muysken. p. cm. (Studies in Language Companion Series, issn 0165-7763 ; v. 90) Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Areal linguistics. I. Muysken, Pieter. P130.F76 2008 409--dc22 2007034442 isbn 978 90 272 3100 0 (Hb; alk. paper) © 2008 – John Benjamins B.V. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form, by print, photoprint, microfilm, or any other means, without written permission from the publisher. John Benjamins Publishing Co. · P.O. Box 36224 · 1020 me Amsterdam · The Netherlands John Benjamins North America · P.O. Box 27519 · Philadelphia pa 19118-0519 · usa Table of contents Editor and contributing authors vii 1. Introduction: Conceptual and methodological issues in areal linguistics 1 Pieter Muysken 2. The problem of the Caucasian Sprachbund 25 Viacheslav A. Chirikba 3. East Nusantara as a linguistic area 95 Marian Klamer, Ger Reesink and Miriam van Staden 4. The Guaporé-Mamoré region as a linguistic area 151 Mily Crevels and Hein van der Voort 5. An integrated areal-typological approach: Local convergence of morphosyntactic features in the Balkan Sprachbund 181 Olga Mišeska Tomić 6. Zhuang: A Tai language with some Sinitic characteristics: Post-verbal ‘can’ in Zhuang, Cantonese, Vietnamese and Lao 221 Rint Sybesma Language index 275 Author index 281 Subject index 285 Place index 291 Editor and contributing authors Pieter Muysken is professor of Papuan languages. His expertise lies in linguistics at Radboud University that area. Nijmegen, after previously working at Miriam van Staden is currently the Universities of Amsterdam and a postdoc at the University of Leiden. He was the recipient of a Spinoza Amsterdam and author of Tidore, Research Prize in 1998, and the current a linguistic description of a language volume grew out of the research program of the North Moluccas. Lexicon and Syntax set up with the funds from this prize. Rint Sybesma is assistant professor at the Chinese department of Leiden Slava (Viacheslav) Chirikba University, and carries out a research is assistant professor at project on southern Chinese the department of Middle Eastern languages and their neighbors. languages at Leiden University and a specialist on Caucasian languages. Olga Mišeska Tomić is emeritus professor of English at the Mily Crevels is working as a postdoctoral University of Novi Sad (Serbian researcher at Radboud University Republic) and was a research fellow at Nijmegen, on a project describing and Leiden University while working on this comparing endangered Bolivian languages. project. She recently edited a volume on Her specialism is language typology and the grammar of the Balkan languages Bolivian languages. with Benjamins (Balkan Syntax and Semantics) and has completed a Marian Klamer is assistant professor at monograph on the same topic. the department of Indonesian languages at Leiden University and the author of A Hein van der Voort is currently a post- Grammar of Kambera. doctoral researcher at Radboud University Nijmegen, on a project describing and Ger Reesink is a postdoctoral comparing the endangered languages of researcher at the Radboud University the Brazilian State of Rondonia. He is Nijmegen, on a project describing the author of A Grammar of Kwaza, and and comparing endangered a specialist on the languages of Rondonia. Introduction Conceptual and methodological issues in areal linguistics Pieter Muysken Linguistics, Radboud University Nijmegen 1. Preliminary This book aims at further exploring the approach to language description and com- parison in terms of the regional context in which languages are spoken. It does this by presenting a number of case studies in areal linguistics, and it covers linguistic areas from four continents. Some of these concern a well-established linguistic area, such as the Balkan, others document regions which have never been studied in an areal perspective before, such as East Nusantara and the Guaporé-Mamoré region (involv- ing parts of lowland Bolivia and the adjacent Brazilian state of Rondonia), yet others involve areas which have been the subject of debate and recent scrutiny, such as the Caucasus and South-East Asia. All studies present cultural and historical background, as well as detailed information. However, they differ in their scope and linguistic theo- retical framework, although they all stress the significance of language contact factors in process of change. In an extensive survey, Slava Chirikba convincingly shows that there is good reason to accept the reality of a Sprachbund in the Caucasus, basing himself on a host of little known materials, as well as on his own field research. Chirikba lists a whole range of features, phonological, morphological, syntactic, semantic, and lexical which are shared by the Kartvelian and North Caucasian language groups, and as such are char- acteristic of the Caucasus as a whole. Chirikba also discusses in considerable detail processes of historical intermingling etc. that produced this result. Similarly, Marian Klamer, Ger Reesink, Mirjam van Staden present the historical and the linguistic evidence for East Nusantara (the archipelagoes of eastern Indonesia and the adjacent regions of Papua) as a linguistic area. In this area Austronesian languages and Papuan languages have influenced each other. Five features are focused upon: possessor-possessum order in adnominal possession, the overt marking of the distinction alienable vs. inalienable possession, and clause-final negation have dif- fused into the Austronesian languages from the Papuan languages, while two features have gone the other way: SVO as primary constituent order, and an inclusive/exclusive opposition in the pronominal paradigm.
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