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The Typology of Semantic Alignment This page intentionally left blank The Typology of Semantic Alignment Editedby MARK DONOHUE AND SØREN WICHMANN 1 3 GreatClarendonStreet,Oxfordox26dp OxfordUniversityPressisadepartmentoftheUniversityofOxford. ItfurtherstheUniversity’sobjectiveofexcellenceinresearch,scholarship, andeducationbypublishingworldwidein Oxford NewYork Auckland CapeTown DaresSalaam HongKong Karachi KualaLumpur Madrid Melbourne MexicoCity Nairobi NewDelhi Shanghai Taipei Toronto Withofficesin Argentina Austria Brazil Chile CzechRepublic France Greece Guatemala Hungary Italy Japan Poland Portugal Singapore SouthKorea Switzerland Thailand Turkey Ukraine Vietnam OxfordisaregisteredtrademarkofOxfordUniversityPress intheUKandincertainothercountries PublishedintheUnitedStates byOxfordUniversityPressInc.,NewYork ©EditorialmatterandorganizationMarkDonohueandSørenWichmann2008 ©Thechapterstheirauthors2008 Themoralrightsoftheauthorshavebeenasserted DatabaserightOxfordUniversityPress(maker) FirstpublishedbyOxfordUniversityPress2008 Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthispublicationmaybereproduced, storedinaretrievalsystem,ortransmitted,inanyformorbyanymeans, withoutthepriorpermissioninwritingofOxfordUniversityPress, orasexpresslypermittedbylaw,orundertermsagreedwiththeappropriate reprographicsrightsorganization.Enquiriesconcerningreproduction outsidethescopeoftheaboveshouldbesenttotheRightsDepartment, OxfordUniversityPress,attheaddressabove Youmustnotcirculatethisbookinanyotherbindingorcover andyoumustimposethesameconditiononanyacquirer BritishLibraryCataloguinginPublicationData Dataavailable LibraryofCongressCataloginginPublicationData Dataavailable TypesetbySPIPublisherServices,Pondicherry,India PrintedinGreatBritain onacid-freepaperby BiddlesLtd.,King’sLynn,Norfolk _________________ ISBN 978–0–19–923838–5 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 Contents Notesonthecontributors vii Abbreviationsandglossingconventions xi PartI. IntroductoryandGeneral 1. Thestudyofsemanticalignment:retrospectandstateoftheart 3 SørenWichmann 2. Semanticalignmentsystems:what’swhat,andwhat’snot 24 MarkDonohue 3. Splitintransitives,experiencerobjects,and‘transimpersonal’ constructions:(re-)establishingtheconnection 76 AndrejMalchukov 4. Thematicroles,eventstructure,andargumentencodingin semanticallyalignedlanguages 101 PeterM.Arkadiev PartII. Eurasia 5. Whyarestative-activelanguagesrareinEurasia?Atypological perspectiveonsplit-subjectmarking 121 JohannaNichols 6. Losingsemanticalignment:fromProto-YeniseictoModernKet 140 EdwardJ.Vajda 7. IntransitivesplitinTundraNenets,orhowmuchsemantics canhidebehindsyntacticalignment 162 OlesyaKhanina 8. Fromergativecasemarkingtosemanticcasemarking:thecase ofhistoricalBasque 197 GontzalAldai PartIII. ThePacific 9. ThesemanticsofsemanticalignmentineasternIndonesia 221 MarianKlamer vi Contents 10. TheriseandfallofsemanticalignmentinNorth Halmahera,Indonesia 252 GaryHolton 11. VerbclassificationinAmis 277 NaomiTsukida PartIV. TheAmericas 12. Theemergenceofagentivesystemsincoreargumentmarking 297 MarianneMithun 13. ArgumentdereferentializationinLakota 334 ReginaPustetandDavidS.Rood 14. Theemergenceofactive/stativealignmentinOtomi 357 EnriqueL.Palancar 15. VoiceandtransitivityinGuaraní 380 MauraVelázquez-Castillo 16. AgreementintwoArawaklanguages:BaureandKurripako 396 SwinthaDanielsenandTaniaGranadillo 17. AffectednessandviewpointinPilagá(Guaykuruan): asemanticallyalignedcase-markingsystem 412 AlejandraVidal References 431 Authorindex 453 Indexof languages 457 Indexof terms 461 Notes on the contributors Gontzal Aldai is Professor of Linguistics and Basque Studies at the University of the Basque Country, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain. His research interests include typology, gram- maticalizationtheory,andhistoricallinguistics,particularlyregardingtense-aspect-mood, ergativeandsemanticalignments,verbalmorphology,andrelativeclauses.Thetitleofhis Ph.D. dissertation (University of Southern California, 2002) is ‘The Grammaticalization of Present and Past in Basque’. He is the author of ‘Is Basque morphologically ergative? WesternBasquevs.EasternBasque’(forthcominginStudiesinLanguage)andiscurrently workingonabookonthehistoryoftheBasqueverbalsystem. PeterM.ArkadievisaJuniorResearchFellowattheDepartmentofTypologyandCom- parativeLinguistics,InstituteofSlavicStudies,RussianAcademyofSciences.Hisscholarly interestsarelinguistictypology,grammaticalcategories,andthesemantics–syntaxinterface (includingsuchtopicsasmorphologicalcase,eventstructure,andaspect).His2006Ph.D. dissertation(writteninRussian)wasentitled‘Thetypologyoftwo-termcasesystems’,anda summaryofthisresearchisforthcomingasacontributiontoTheHandbookofCase(Oxford UniversityPress,editedbySpencerandMalchukov). Swintha Danielsen held a Ph.D position in the Spinoza Program Lexicon and Syn- tax at the Linguistics Department of the Radboud University Nijmegen and the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics from August 2003 until March 2007, and has now completed a descriptive dissertation on the grammar of Baure (Bolivia, Arawak), including the phonology, morphology, and syntax of the language. She is interested in typology, morphology, language change, and, more specifically, in comparative Arawak linguistics. MarkDonohueisaProfessorofLinguisticsatMonashUniversity.Heworksin(lexicalist) syntax, phonology, historical linguistics and typology, focused on the Indonesian/New Guineaarea.Hehaspublishedfourbooks,includingAGrammarofTukangBesi(1999),and I’saka(2004),aswellasarticlesdealingwithtonology,historicallinguistics,andsyntax.He continuestodocumentthelinguisticprehistoryofMelanesia,includingtheevidencefora largeprehistoriclinguisticareaininsulareasternIndonesia. TaniaGranadilloisAssistantProfessorofAnthropologyandLinguisticsatUniversity ofWesternOntario.ShecompletedherPh.D.inAnthropologyandLinguisticsfromthe University of Arizona in 2006. Since 1996 she has worked on the indigenous languages Mapoyo and Kurripako of the Venezuelan Amazon. Her research interests are varied, encompassingbothlinguisticsandanthropology.HerPh.D.dissertationderivesfromher languagedocumentationprojectamongtheKurripako,andhighlightstheimportanceof communityinterestsandlocalcontextsinsuchprojects. GaryHoltonisAssociateProfessorofLinguisticsattheUniversityofAlaskaFairbanks. Hisresearchinterestsincludetypology,argumentstructure,grammaranddiscourse,lan- guagedocumentation,languagerevitalization,andlanguagearchiving.Heistheauthorof viii Notesonthecontributors agrammaticalsketchoftheWestPapuanlanguageTobelo(2003),co-authorofagrammar andphrasebookoftheAthabascanlanguageTanacross(2003),andiscurrentlycompiling agrammarofthePapuanlanguageWesternPantar(Lamma).Hehasconductedextensive fieldworkinbothAlaskaandeasternIndonesia. Olesya Khanina is a post-doctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institutefor Evolutionary Anthropology.Hermainresearchinterestsincludemorphosyntacticandsemantictypol- ogy,languagecontact,anddocumentarylinguistics.Shehasdonefieldworkonanumber of Turkic and Samoyedic languages, and is currently involved in the documentation of Enets,undertheauspicesofELDP(SchoolofOrientalandAfricanStudies,London).Sheis preparingatypologicalmonographonthemorphosyntaxandsemanticsofdesideratives, withdetailedcasestudiesonTurkicandCentralPacificlanguages. MarianKlamerteachesattheLeidenUniversityCentreofLinguistics,andspecializesin thestudyofAustronesianandPapuanlanguagesinEasternIndonesia.Herareasofinterests includelanguagedescription,historicalandcontact-inducedchange,andlexicalsemantics. ShehasdonefieldworkinSumba,EastTimor,Alor,andPantar,andpublicationsinclude a grammar of Kambera (1998) and the overview ‘Ten years of synchronic Austronesian linguistics(1991–2001)’(Lingua,2002).Furtherpublicationsdealwiththeanalysisofclitic clusters,phrasalemotionpredicates,andmulti-categorialitems;herpaperonDutchand KamberaexpressivesinLanguage(2002)challengesSaussureandogmasofthearbitrariness ofthelinguisticsign.CurrentlysheiswritinggrammarsofTeiwa(Papuan)andAlorese (Austronesian). Andrej Malchukov is a member of St Petersburg Typology Group (Institute of Lin- guistic Research, Russian Academy of Sciences), and is currently affiliated with the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. He specializes in Tungusic languages, andhas written ahabilitation thesis on aspects of themorphosyntaxof Even. His main interestisinmorphosyntacticandsemantictypology.RecentpublicationsincludeNom- inalization/Verbalization:ConstrainingTypologyofTranscategorialOperations(2004),and ‘Transitivityparametersandtransitivityalternations:constrainingco-variation’(2006,in StudiesonCase,ValencyandTransitivity,editedbyKulikov,Malchukov,anddeSwart).He currentlyparticipates ina project onthetypology ofditransitiveconstructions (withB. ComrieandM.Haspelmath)andeditsTheHandbookofCase(withA.Spencer). MarianneMithunisProfessorofLinguisticsatUniversityofCalifornia,SantaBarbara. Sheisinterestedintypologyandlanguagedescriptionanddifferentaspectsofgrammar. ShehasworkedwithavarietyofNorthAmericanlanguagesbelongingtotheIroquoian, Pomoan, Eskimo-Aleut, Athapaskan, Algonquian, and Siouan families, as well as with AustronesianlanguagessuchasKapampanganandSelayarese.Amonghermanyinfluential publications is The Languages of Native North America (1999). She currently works on issuesinlanguagecontactandgrammaticalchange,relationsamongprosody,syntax,and discourse,aswellasondescriptionsofMohawk,Tuscarora,andCentralPomo. Johanna Nichols is a Professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Litera- tures at University of California, Berkeley. Her work has focused on language typology, linguistic prehistory, languages of the Caucasus, and Slavic languages. Her most recent publicationsincludeseveralcontributionstotheWorldAtlasofLanguageStructures(2005, edited by Haspelmath et al.), dictionaries of Ingush (2004) and Chechen (2004), and Notesonthecontributors ix (withD.A.PetersonandJ.Barnes)‘Transitivizinganddetransitivizinglanguages’(2004, LinguisticTypology).Her1992bookLinguisticDiversityinSpaceandTimewasawardedthe LeonardBloomfieldBookAward. Enrique L. Palancar is Professor of Philology and Linguistics at the Universidad AutónomadeQuerétaro,Mexico.HeobtainedaPh.D.inPhilologyfromtheUniversidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain, in the Department of Old Indo-European Languages. Hismajorresearchinterestsincludelanguagetypology,historicallinguistics,syntax,and language description. He has a special interest in indigenous languages of Mesoamerica aswellasoldIndo-Europeanlanguages,andiscurrentlyinvolvedinthedocumentation ofOtomilanguages.PublicationsincludeTheOriginofAgentMarkers(2002)andseveral journalarticlesonOtomigrammarandothertopics. Regina Pustet teaches general and typological linguistics at the University of Munich. Herresearchactivitieshavefocusedonvariousaspectsoffunctional-typologicallanguage theory,suchaslexicalcategorization,quantitativediscourseanalysis,comparativeseman- tics,andgrammaticalization,andincludedescriptivework,especiallyonNativeAmerican languages.AmongherrecentandforthcomingpublicationsareCopulas:Universalsinthe CategorizationoftheLexicon(2003)andLakotaTexts (toappear). David S. Rood is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Colorado in Boulder. He haspublishedgrammarsandtechnicalpapersontwoNativeAmericanlanguages,Lakota (Siouanfamily)andWichita(Caddoan),andiscurrentlyarchivingdatafromtheseendan- geredlanguages.Hismostrecentpublicationsdiscussissuesinmorphologicaltheoryraised bythepolysyntheticstructureofWichita,arguingthatthecompositionofwordsinthis languagerequiressyntaxinadditiontoinflectionandderivation. NaomiTsukidaisanAssistantProfessoratAichiPrefecturalUniversity,Japan.Hermain interestsarelanguagetypologyandAustronesianlanguages.SheworksonFormosanlan- guages,expeciallySeediq.Recentpublicationsinclude‘Seediq’(2005,inTheAustronesian LanguagesofAsiaandMadagascar,editedbyAdelaarandHimmelmann)and‘Adverbial functionofSeediqConveyanceVoiceFutureForm’(2006,inStreamsConvergingintoan Ocean: Festschrift in Honor of Professor Paul Jen-kuei Li on his 70th Birthday, edited by Chang,HuangandHo). Edward J. Vajda is Professor of Linguistics and Director of the Center for East Asian Studies at Western Washington University. His areas of expertise include complex verb morphologiesandhistorical-comparativelinguistics,withaspecialfocusonthelanguages of Native Siberia. His current work is primarily devoted to Ket, an endangered isolate spoken in central Siberia, along with its extinct relatives, which constitute the Yeniseic family.HeisaneditorofthelinguisticsjournalWord. MauraVelázquez-CastilloteachesintheDepartmentofForeignLanguagesandCul- tures, Colorado State University. Her areas of interest include functional/cognitive mor- phosyntax, semantics, and contact linguistics, with special reference to Guaraní and Spanish.AmongherpublicationsisTheGrammarofInalienabilityinParaguayanGuaraní (1996).SheiscurrentlyfinishingavolumeonrepresentativeareasofGuaranímorphosyn- tax,andisengagedinstudyingtheroleofGuaraníinfluenceonverbalaspectinParaguayan Spanish.
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