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List of publications by Martin Haspelmath

 
     
 

To appear:

"Framework-free grammatical theory." To appear in: Heine, Bernd & Narrog, Heiko (eds.) The Oxford handbook of grammatical analysis. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [PDF of ms.]

"The typological database  of the World Atlas of Language Structures." To appear in: Everaert, Martin & Musgrave, Simon (eds.) The use of databases in cross-linguistic studies. (Empirical Approaches to Language Typology, 41.) Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. [PDF of ms.]

"The Behaviour-before-Coding Principle in syntactic change." To appear in: Floricic, Franck (ed.) Mélanges Denis Creissels. Paris: Presses de L'École Normale Supérieure. [PDF]


2009

"Terminology of case." In: Malchukov, Andrej & Spencer, Andrew (eds.) The Oxford handbook of case. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 505-517. [PDF of ms.]

"An empirical test of the Agglutination Hypothesis."  In: Scalise, Sergio & Magni, Elisabetta & Bisetto, Antonietta  (eds.) Universals of language today. (Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 76.) Dordrecht: Springer, 13-29. [PDF of ms.]

2008


[Martin Haspelmath & Matthew S. Dryer & David Gil & Bernard Comrie, eds.] The World Atlas of Language Structures Online. Munich: Max Planck Digital Library.

"Frequency vs. iconicity in explaining grammatical asymmetries." Cognitive Linguistics 19.1:1-33. [PDF of ms.]

"A frequentist explanation of some universals of reflexive marking." Linguistic Discovery  6.1:40-63 [PDF of published version]

"Creating economical morphosyntactic patterns in language change." In: Good, Jeff (ed.) 2008. Language universals and language change. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 185-214. [PDF of ms.]

"Loanword typology: Steps toward a systematic cross-linguistic study of lexical borrowability". In: Thomas Stolz, Dik Bakker & Rosa Salas Palomo (eds.) 2008. Aspects of language contact: New theoretical, methodological and empirical findings with special focus on Romancisation processes. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 43-62. [PDF of ms.]

"Parametric versus functional explanations of syntactic universals." In: Theresa Biberauer (ed.) 2008. The limits of syntactic variation. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 75-107. [PDF of ms.]

"Ditransitive constructions: towards a new Role and Reference Grammar account?". In: Van Valin, Jr., Robert D. (ed.) Investigations of the Syntax–Semantics–Pragmatics Interface. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 75–100. [PDF of ms.]

[Martin Haspelmath & Susanne Michaelis] "Leipzig fourmille de typologues: Genitive objects in comparison." In: Corbett, Greville G. & Noonan, Michael (eds.) Case and grammatical relations: Studies in honor of Bernard Comrie. (Typological Studies in Language, 81.) Amsterdam: Benjamins, 149-166. [PDF of ms.]

"Descriptive scales versus comparative scales." In: Marc Richards & Andrej L. Malchukov (eds.) Scales. (Linguistische Arbeitsberichte, 86.) Leipzig: Universität Leipzig, 39-53. [Online version]

2007

"Further remarks on reciprocal constructions." In: Nedjalkov, Vladimir P. (ed.) Reciprocal constructions. 5 vols. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 2087-2115. [PDF of ms.]

"Coordination." In: Shopen, Timothy (ed.) Language typology and syntactic description, vol. II: Complex constructions. 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1-51. [PDF of ms.]

"Pre-established categories don't exist: consequences for language description and typology." Linguistic Typology 11.1:119-132 [PDF of ms.]

"Ditransitive alignment splits and inverse alignment". Functions of Language 14.1:79-102 (special issue on ditransitives, guest edited by Anna Siewierska)
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2006

"Against markedness (and what to replace it with)." Journal of Linguistics 42.1: 25-70 [PDF of ms.]

[Martin Haspelmath & Sven Siegmund] "Simulating the replication of some of Greenberg’s word order generalizations." Linguistic Typology 10.1:74-82. [PDF of ms.]
 
     
 

2005

"Argument marking in ditransitive alignment types." Linguistic Discovery 3.1:1-21 (free online journal, Dartmouth College) [PDF of published version]
[Martin Haspelmath & Matthew S. Dryer & David Gil & Bernard Comrie, eds.] The World Atlas of Language Structures. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 695 pp. (see also WALS Online)

[Bernard Comrie, Matthew S. Dryer, David Gil and Martin Haspelmath]. 2005. "Introduction." In: Martin Haspelmath & Matthew S. Dryer & David Gil & Bernard Comrie (eds.) The World Atlas of Language Structures. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1-8. [PDF of ms.]
"Occurrence of Nominal Plurality." In: Martin Haspelmath & Matthew S. Dryer & David Gil & Bernard Comrie (eds.) The World Atlas of Language Structures. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 142-145. [WALS Online version]
Nominal and Verbal Conjunction." In: Martin Haspelmath & Matthew S. Dryer & David Gil & Bernard Comrie (eds.) The World Atlas of Language Structures. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 262-265. [WALS Online version]
"Indefinite Pronouns." In: Martin Haspelmath & Matthew S. Dryer & David Gil & Bernard Comrie (eds.) The World Atlas of Language Structures. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 190-193. [WALS Online version]
"Ditransitive Constructions: The Verb ‘Give’." In: Martin Haspelmath & Matthew S. Dryer & David Gil & Bernard Comrie (eds.) The World Atlas of Language Structures. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 426-429. [WALS Online version]
"Negative Indefinite Pronouns and Predicate Negation." In: Martin Haspelmath & Matthew S. Dryer & David Gil & Bernard Comrie (eds.) The World Atlas of Language Structures. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 466-469. [WALS Online version]
" ‘Want’ Complement Subjects." In: Martin Haspelmath & Matthew S. Dryer & David Gil & Bernard Comrie (eds.) The World Atlas of Language Structures. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 502-509. [WALS Online version]
 
     
 

2004

[Martin Haspelmath, ed.] Coordinating constructions. (Typological Studies in Language, 58.) Amsterdam: Benjamins, 576 pp.
"Coordinating constructions: an overview." In: Haspelmath, Martin (ed.) Coordinating constructions. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 3-39. [PDF of ms.]
"Explaining the Ditransitive Person-Role Constraint: a usage-based account." Constructions 2/2004, 49 pp. (free online journal, University of Düsseldorf) [PDF of published version]
"Does linguistic explanation presuppose linguistic description?" Studies in Language 28.3: 554-579 (special issue on linguistic evidence, guest edited by Martina Penke and Anette Rosenbach) [PDF]
"On directionality in language change with particular reference to grammaticalization." In: Olga Fischer, Muriel Norde and Harry Perridon (eds). Up and down the cline: The nature of grammaticalization. (Typological Studies in Language, 59.) Amsterdam: Benjamins, 17-44. [PDF of proofs]
[Martin Haspelmath & Thomas Müller-Bardey] "Valency change". In: Booij, Geert & Lehmann, Christian & Mugdan, Joachim (eds.) Morphology: A Handbook on Inflection and Word Formation. Vol. 2. (Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft) Berlin: de Gruyter, 1130-1145. [PDF of ms.]
"How hopeless is genealogical linguistics, and how advanced is areal linguistics?" A review article of [Aikhenvald, Alexandra Y. & Dixon, R.M.W. (ed.) 2001. Areal diffusion and genetic inheritance. Oxford: Oxford University Press.] Studies in Language 28.1: 209-223. [PDF]
 
     
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2003

“The geometry of grammatical meaning: Semantic maps and cross-linguistic comparison.” In: Tomasello, Michael (ed.) The new psychology of language, vol. 2. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 211-242. [scanned PDF]
[Michaelis, Susanne & Haspelmath, Martin] "Ditransitive constructions: Creole languages in a cross-linguistic perspective." Creolica 2003-04-23 (www.creolica.net, open-access online journal).
 
     
 

2002

Understanding morphology. London: Arnold, 290 pp.
"Warum ist Grammatik so, wie sie ist?" In: Horst M. Müller (Hrsg.). Arbeitsbuch Linguistik. (UTB, 2169.) Paderborn: Schöningh, 210-19.
"Grammatikalisierung: von der Performanz zur Kompetenz ohne angeborene Grammatik." In: Krämer, Sybille & König, Ekkehard (eds.) Gibt es eine Sprache hinter dem Sprechen? (Suhrkamp Taschenbuch Wissenschaft, 1592.), Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 262-286. [PDF of ms.]
"On understanding word order asymmetries" (Comments on John A. Hawkins, "Symmetries and asymmetries: their grammar, typology and parsing"). Theoretical Linguistics 28, 159-170.
 
     
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2001

[Martin Haspelmath & Ekkehard König & Wulf Oesterreicher & Wolfgang Raible] (eds.) Language typology and language universals: An international handbook. (Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft) Vol. 1-2. Berlin: de Gruyter, 1856 pp.

"The European linguistic area: Standard Average European." In: Haspelmath, Martin & König, Ekkehard & Oesterreicher, Wulf & Raible, Wolfgang (eds.) Language typology and language universals. (Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft) Berlin: de Gruyter, 1492-1510.

“Non-canonical marking of core arguments in European languages.” In: Aikhenvald, Alexandra Y. & Dixon, R.M.W & Onishi, Masayuki (eds.) Non-canonical marking of subjects and objects. (Typological Studies in Language, 46.) Amsterdam: Benjamins, 53-83.

"Word classes/parts of speech." In: Baltes, Paul B. & Smelser, Neil J. (eds.) International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences. Amsterdam: Pergamon, 16538-16545.
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2000

"Periphrasis". In: Booij, Geert & Lehmann, Christian & Mugdan, Joachim (eds.) Morphology: A Handbook on Inflection and Word Formation. Vol. 1. (Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikations¬wissenschaft) Berlin: de Gruyter, 654-64.

[Martin Haspelmath & Sandro Caruana] "Subject diffuseness in Maltese: On some subject properties of experiential verbs". Folia Linguistica 24.3-4: 245-65.

"The relevance of extravagance: A reply to Bart Geurts." Linguistics 38: 789-98.

“Why can’t we talk to each other? A review article of [Newmeyer, Frederick. 1998. Language form and language function. Cambridge: MIT Press.]  Lingua 110.4: 235-55.
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1999

"Why is grammaticalization irreversible?" Linguistics 37.6: 1043-68. [PDF]

"Some issues concerning optimality and diachronic adaptation (author's response to open peer commentary)." Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft 18.2: 251-68.

"Optimality and diachronic adaptation." Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft 18.2: 180-205. [scanned PDF]

“Converb”. In: Brown, Keith & Miller, Jim (eds.) Concise encyclopedia of grammatical categories. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 110-115.

"Long distance agreement in Godoberi (Daghestanian) complement clauses". Folia Linguistica 33.2: 131-151.

"External possession in a European areal perspective". In: Payne, Doris L. & Barshi, Immanuel (eds.) External possession. (Typological Studies in Language, 39.) Amsterdam: Benjamins, 109-135.

[Ekkehard König & Martin Haspelmath] "Der europäische Sprachbund". In: Reiter, Norbert (ed.) Eurolinguistik. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 111-127.


"Explaining article-possessor complementarity: economic motivation in noun phrase syntax". Language 75.2: 227-43.

“Are there principles of grammatical change? A review article of [Lightfoot, David. 1999. The development of language: Acquisition, change, and evolution. Oxford: Blackwell.] Journal of Linguistics 35: 579-595.

 
     
 

1998

[Martin Haspelmath with Oda Buchholz] "Equative and similative constructions in the languages of Europe." In: van der Auwera, Johan (ed.) Adverbial constructions in the languages of Europe. (Empirical Approaches to Language Typology/EUROTYP, 20-3.) Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 277-334. [scanned PDF]

[Martin Haspelmath & Ekkehard König] "Concessive conditionals in the languages of Europe." In: van der Auwera, Johan (ed.) Adverbial constructions in the languages of Europe. (Empirical Approaches to Language Typology/EUROTYP, 20-3.) Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 563-640.

[Ekkehard König & Martin Haspelmath] "Les constructions à possesseur externe dans les langues d’Europe." In: Feuillet, Jack (ed.), Actance et valence dans les langues de l’Europe. (Empirical Approaches to Language Typology/EUROTYP, 20-2.) Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 525-606.
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"Does grammaticalization need reanalysis?" Studies in Language 22.2:49-85. [scanned PDF]

"How young is Standard Average European?" Language Sciences 20.3: 271-87.

"The semantic development of old presents: New futures and subjunctives without grammaticalization". Diachronica 15.1: 29-62. [scanned PDF]

 
     
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1997 - 1987

1997. Indefinite pronouns. (Oxford Studies in Typology and Linguistic Theory) Oxford: Oxford University Press, 364 pp.

1997. From space to time: Temporal adverbials in the world’s languages. (Lincom Studies in Theoretical Linguistics, 3.) Munich & Newcastle: Lincom Europa, 181 pp. [download entire book as PDF, 5.3 MB]

1997. "Kontrolle und Subjektausdruck bei Infinitiven und Konverben." In: Maas, Utz (ed.) Infinitive. (Publikationsreihe der Forschungsstelle für Artikulationsprozesse, 2.) Osnabrück: Secolo, 58-79.

1996. "Complement clauses" In: Kibrik, Alexandr E. (ed.) Godoberi. (Lincom Studies in Caucasian Linguistics, 2.) Munich & Newcastle: Lincom Europa, 175-97.


1996. [Haspelmath, Martin & Caruana, Josephine.] "Indefinite pronouns in Maltese." Rivista di Linguistica 8.1: 213-227.

1996. "Word-class-changing inflection and morphological theory." In: Geert Booij & Jaap van Marle (eds.), Yearbook of Morphology 1995. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 43-66.


1995. "Referential distinctions in indefinite pronouns: a typological perspective." In: Geiger, Richard A. (ed.) Reference in multidisciplinary perspective: philosophical object, cognitive subject, intersubjective process. Hildesheim: Olms, 626-647.

1995. "Diachronic sources of 'all' and 'every' ". In: Bach, Emmon & Jelinek, Eloise & Kratzer, Angelika & Partee, Barbara (eds.) Quantification in natural languages. (Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy, 54.) Dordrecht: Kluwer, 363-382.

1995. "Contextual and specialized converbs in Lezgian (Nakho-Daghestanian)." In: M. Haspelmath & E. König (eds.) Converbs in cross-linguistic perspective. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 415-440.

1995. "The converb as a cross-linguistically valid category." In: M. Haspelmath & E. König (eds.) Converbs in cross-linguistic perspective. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1-55.


1995. "The growth of affixes in morphological reanalysis." In: Geert Booij & Jaap van Marle (eds.), Yearbook of Morphology 1994. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1-29.

1995. [Martin Haspelmath & Ekkehard König] (eds.) Converbs in cross-linguistic perspective: structure and meaning of adverbial verb forms – adverbial participles, gerunds. (Empirical Approaches to Language Typology, 13.) Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 565 pp.

1994. "Passive participles across languages". In: Fox, Barbara & Hopper, Paul J. (eds.) Voice: Form and Function. (Typological Studies in Language, 27.) Amsterdam: Benjamins, 151-177. [scanned PDF]

1994. "The tense system of Lezgian". In: Thieroff, Rolf & Ballweg, Joachim (eds.) Tense systems in European languages. (Linguistische Arbeiten, 308.) Tübingen: Niemeyer, 267-277.

1994. "Implicational universals in the distribution of indefinite pronouns." Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung 47.3: 156-181.

1994. "Functional categories, X-bar-theory, and grammaticalization theory." Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung 47.1: 3-15.


1993. "More on the typology of inchoative/causative verb alternations." In: Comrie, Bernard & Polinsky, Maria (eds.) Causatives and transitivity. (Studies in Language Companion Series, 23.) Amsterdam: Benjamins, 87-120. [scanned PDF]

1993. "The diachronic externalization of inflection." Linguistics 31.2: 279-309.
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1993. A grammar of Lezgian. (Mouton Grammar Library, 9.) Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 567 pp.


1992. "From resultative to perfect in Ancient Greek". In: Iturrioz Leza, José Luis (ed.) Nuevos estudios sobre construcciones resultativos. (= Función 11-12) Universidad de Guadalajara: Centro de Investigación de Lenguas Indígenas, 187-224.
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1992. "Grammaticization theory and heads in morphology". In: Aronoff, Mark (ed.) Morphology now. Albany: State University of New York Press, 69-82; 194-198.
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1991. "Zur Grammatikalisierung von Indefinitpronomina." In: Boretzky, Norbert & Enninger, Werner & Jeßing, Benedikt & Stolz, Thomas (eds.) Sprachwandel und seine Prinzipien. Beiträge zum 8. Bochum-Essener Kolloquium vom 19.10. - 21.10. 1990 an der Ruhruniversität Bochum. (Bochum-Essener Beiträge zur Sprachwandelforschung, 14.) Bochum: Universitätsverlag Brockmeyer, 103-125.


1991. "On the question of deep ergativity: the evidence from Lezgian". Papiere zur Linguistik 44/45.1-2: 5-27.
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1990. "The grammaticization of passive morphology". Studies in Language 14.1:25-71. [ scanned PDF ]

1989. "Schemas in Hausa plural formation: product-orientation and motivation vs. source-orientation and generation". Buffalo Working Papers in Linguistics 89-01:32-74. [scanned PDF, 6.6 MB]

1989. "From purposive to infinitive — a universal path of grammaticization." Folia Linguistica Historica 10.1-2: 287-310. [scanned PDF, 4.9 MB]

1987. Transitivity alternations of the anticausative type. (Arbeitspapiere, N.F., Nr. 4) Cologne: Institut für Sprachwissenschaft der Universität zu Köln. [scanned PDF, 50 pp., 8.5 MB]

1987. Verbal noun or verbal adjective? The case of the Latin gerundive and gerund. (Arbeitspapiere, N.F., Nr. 3) Cologne: Institut für Sprachwissenschaft der Universität zu Köln. [scanned PDF, 5.3 MB]

 
     
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Reviews

1989a. Rezension von: [Comrie, Bernard (ed.) 1987. The world's major languages. London & Sydney: Croom Helm.] Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft 8, 1:159-62.

1989b. Review of:  [Lehmann, Winfred P. (ed.) 1986. Language typology 1985. Papers from the Linguistic Typology Symposium, Moscow, 9-13 December 1985. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.] Studies in Language 13, 2:488-495.

1990. Book Notice of: [Raible, Wolfgang (ed.) 1989. Romanistik, Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung. Beiträge zum Freiburger Romanistentag 1987.] Language 66,2: 425.

1991a. Review of: [Kefer, Michel & van der Auwera, Johan (eds.) 1989. Universals of Language. (Belgian Journal of Linguistics; 4) Brussels: Éditions de l'Université de Bruxelles.] Lingua 85.4: 357-61.

1991b. Review of: [Xrakovskij, V.S. (ed.). Tipologija iterativnyx konstrukcij. Leningrad : Nauka. 1989. 311 pp. ("Typology of iterative constructions")] Studies in Language 15.2

1992a. Book Notice of: [Ibragimov, Garun X. 1990. Caxurskij jazyk. Moskva: Nauka.] Language 68.2: 432-433.

1992b. Review of: [Nedjalkov, Vladimir P. (ed.) 1988. Typology of resultative constructions. (Typological Studies in Language; 12) Amsterdam: John Benjamins.] Studies in Language 16.1: 240-248.

1992c. Review of: [Traugott, Elizabeth Closs & Heine, Bernd (eds.) 1991. Approaches to grammaticalization. Vol. I-II. (Typological Studies in Language, 19.) Amsterdam: Benjamins.] Lingua 88.3/4: 340-345.

1993a. Review of: [Bhat, D.N.S. 1991. Grammatical relations: The evidence against their necessity and universality. London: Routledge] Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung 46.2: 146-48.

1993b. Review of: [Hengeveld, Kees. 1992. Non-verbal predication: theory, typology, diachrony. (Functional Grammar Series, 15.) Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.] Studia Linguistica 47.1: 95-99.

1993c. Review of: [Plank, Frans (ed.) 1991. Paradigms: The economy of inflection. (Empirical Approaches to Language Typology, 9.) Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.] Linguistics 31.3: 566-569.

1993d. Review of: [Xrakovskij, Viktor S. (ed.) 1992. Tipologija imperativnyx konstrukcij. Sankt-Peterburg: Nauka.] Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung 46.4: 330-333.

1993e. Book Notice of: [Noonan, Michael. 1992. A grammar of Lango. (Mouton grammar library, 7.) Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.] Language 69.4: 868-869.

1993f. Book Notice of: [Hewitt, George (ed.) 1992. Caucasian perspectives. Unterschleissheim: LINCOM EUROPA.] Language 69.4: 860-861.

1993g. Review of: [Nichols, Johanna. 1992. Linguistic diversity in space and time. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.] Journal of Linguistics 29.2: 494-500.

1994a. Review of: [ Mosel, Ulrike & Hovdhaugen, Even. 1992. Samoan reference grammar. Oslo: Scandinavian University Press.] Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung 47.2:128-131.

1994b. Review of: [Klaiman, M.H. 1991. Grammatical voice. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.] Language 70.1: 176-178.

1994c. Review of: [Strom, Clay. 1992. Retuarã syntax: Studies in the languages of Colombia 3. (SIL Publications in Linguistics, 112.) Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.] Languages of the World 8: 67-68.

1995a. Review of: [Ouhalla, Jamal. 1991. Functional categories and parametric variation. London: Routledge.] Word 46.1: 100-107.

1995b. Book Notice of: [Stolz, Thomas. 1992. Sekundäre Flexionsbildung: Eine Polemik zur Zielgerichtetheit im Sprachwandel. Bochum : Brockmeyer.] Yearbook of Morphology 1994, 299-301.

1995c. Review of: [Corbett, Greville G. & Fraser, Norman & McGlashan, Scott (eds.) 1993. Heads in grammatical theory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.] Nordic Journal of Linguistics 18.1: 98-104.

1995d. Review of: [Kemmer, Suzanne. 1993. The middle voice. (Typological Studies in Language, 23.) Amsterdam: Benjamins.] Language 71.2: 372-74.

1995e. Review of: [Van Valin, Robert D. (ed.) 1993. Advances in Role and Reference Grammar. (CILT, 82.) Amsterdam: Benjamins] Lingua 97.4: 28797.4: 287-292.

1996a. Review of: [Rieks Smeets (ed.) 1994. The indigenous languages of the Caucasus. Vol. 4: The North East Caucasian languages. Part 2. Delmar, N.Y.: Caravan.] Language 72.1: 126-129.

1996b. Review of: [Shibatani, Masayoshi & Bynon, Theodora (eds.) 1995. Approaches to language typology. Oxford: Clarendon Press.] Journal of Linguistics 32.2: 513-17.

1996c. Book Notice of: [Lazard, Gilbert. 1994. L’actance. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France.] Studies in Language 20.3: 697-99.

1997a. Review of: [Plank, Frans (ed.) 1995. Double case: Agreement by Suffixaufnahme. New York: Oxford University Press] Linguistics 35.2: 417-421.

1997b. Book Notice of: [Janda, Laura. 1996. Back from the brink: A study of how relic forms in languages serve as source material for analogical extension. Munich & Newcastle: Lincom Europa]. In: Yearbook of Morphology 1996.

1997c. Book Notice of: [Languages of the World/Materials. Munich & Newcastle: Lincom Europa, 1995: Even, by Andrei L. Malchukov (12.); Modern Eastern Armenian, by Natalia Kozintseva (22.); Dogon, by Vladimir Plungian (64.); Bare, by Alexandra Aikhenvald (100.); Romanes (Sinte), by Daniel Holzinger (105.)]. Language 73.2: 445-46.

1997d. Review of: [Van Belle, William & Van Langendonck, Willy (eds.) 1996. The dative. Vol. 1: Descriptive studies. (Case and Grammatical Relations across Languages, 2.) Amsterdam: Benjamins]. Language  73.4: 854-56.

1998a. Review of: [Harris, Alice C. & Campbell, Lyle. 1995. Historical syntax in cross-linguistic perspective. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press]. Linguistic Typology 2.1:131-139.

1998b. Review of: [ Dixon, R.M.W. 1997. The rise and fall of languages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.] Linguistics 36.5:1001-1006.

1998c. Review of: [Chappell, Hilary & McGregor, William (eds.) The grammar of inalienability: A typological perspective on body part terms and the part-whole relation. Berlin, Mouton de Gruyter]. Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung 51.4: 366-370.

1998d. Review of: [Lang, Ewald & Zifonun, Gisela (eds.) 1996. Deutsch – typologisch (Institut für deutsche Sprache, Jahrbuch 1995.) Berlin: de Gruyter]. Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics 2.2 183-189.

1999a. Review of: [Kulikov, Leonid & Vater, Heinz (eds.) 1998. Typology of verbal categories: Papers presented to Vladimir Nedjalkov on the occasion of his 70th birthday. (Linguistische Arbeiten, 382.) Tübingen: Niemeyer. ] Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung 52.1: 99-102.

1999b. Review of: [Ramat, Paolo & Roma, Elisa (eds.) 1998. Sintassi storica: Atti del XXX Congresso Internazionale della Società Italiana di Linguistica. Roma: Bulzoni].  Diachronica  16.1: 190-96.

1999c. Review of: [Lazard, Gilbert (ed.) 1997. La typologie actancielle. Thematic issue of Studi Italiani di Linguistica Teorica e Applicata 26.2. Pisa: Pacini] Linguistic Typology 3.3: 361-65.

2000a. Review of: [Ray  Fabri, Albert Ortmann, and Teresa Parodi (eds.) 1998. Models of inflection. (Linguistische Arbeiten, 388.) Tübingen: Niemeyer.] Linguistics 38.4: 821-26.

2000b. Book Notice of: [Schuh, Russell G. 1998. A grammar of Miya. ( University of California Publications in Linguistics, 130.) Berkeley: University of California Press]. Language 76.3: 748.

2000c. Review of: [Kirby, Simon. 1999. Function, selection, and innateness: the emergence of language universals. Oxford: Oxford University Press.] Linguistic Typology 4.1: 163-68.

2000d. Book Notice of: [Boeder, Winfried & Schroeder, Christoph & Wagner, Karl Heinz & Wildgen, Wolfgang. 1998. Sprache in Raum und Zeit: In memoriam Johannes Bechert. Band 1: Johannes Bechert: Kleine Schriften. Band 2: Beiträge zur empirischen Sprachwissenschaft. Tübingen: Narr.] Studies in Language 24.3: 747-51.

2003. Book Notice of: [Sinha, Jasmin. 2000. Der neuostaramäische Dialekt von Bespen (Provinz Mardin, Südosttürkei): Eine grammatische Darstellung. Wiesbaden: Harrasowitz.] Studies in Language 27.3:714-5.

2006. Review of: [Preferred Argument Structure: Grammar as architecture for function. Ed. by JOHN W. DU BOIS, LORRAINE E. KUMPF, and WILLIAM J. ASHBY. (Studies in discourse and grammar, 14.) Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2003.] Language 82.4:908-912.

2008. Review of: [Person. By Anna Siewierska. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.] Language 84.1: 206-209.

 
     
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