Gregory D. S. Anderson

The Munda verb : typological perspectives

This book - the first of its kind on any language family of the Indian subcontinent - treats the typology of the verb in the Munda language family. It presents details of the verb morphology in each Munda language, including systems of agreement, tense/aspect/mood categories, noun incorporation, auxiliary verbs, negation, and transitivity. An exhaustive cross-linguistic corpus is used for comparison.

The Munda Languages

The Munda group of languages of the Austroasiatic family are spoken within central and eastern India by almost ten million people. To date, they are the least well-known and least documented languages of the Indian subcontinent. This unprecedented and original work draws together a distinguished group of international experts in the field of Munda language research and presents current assessments of a wide range of typological and comparative-historical issues, providing agendas for future research. Representing the current state of Munda Linguistics, this volume provides detailed descriptions of almost all of the languages in the family, in addition to a brief chapter discussing the enigmatic Nihali language.

Yeniseic languages from a Siberian areal perspective

The Yeniseic languages, foremost among them Ket, but also including the extinct Yugh, Kott, Assan, Arin, and Pumpokol, are generally renowned for their typological or areal idiosyncrasies (WERNER 1995), such as word-level tonality (VAJDA 2 0 0 0 ) , verb stem structure (VAJDA, this volume), or hypericonic marking of pluraHty and referent categories (IIOPOTOBA 1986; IUAEAEB 1988, ANDERSON 1993, 1996a). In this paper, it is our purpose rather to discuss how certain features of Yeniseic phonology and grammar fit in within the larger Siberian areal context. This includes a discussion of certain aspects of both the synchronic and diachronic phonology of nasals and affricates, as well as a discussion of Subordination strategies.

Towards a Typology of the Siberian Linguistic Area

The roughly forty native languages of Siberia fall into ten small language families and isolates. Despite the great geographic and genetic diversity exhibited among the various indigenous Siberian languages, they nevertheless show a range of features cross-cutting these boundaries. In particular, the languages show a sufficient quantity of logically (and typologically) independent features clustered together macro-areally, coupled with an extensive degree of local bilingualism and language intermixture on the micro-areal level, such that it has become meaningful to discuss a Siberian linguistic area.

Reduplicated Numerals in Salish

La reduplication du systeme derivationnel et du systeme flexionnel est une des caracteristiques du systeme morphologique salish. La reduplication dans le systeme numeral du proto-salish a ete utilisee pour creer des formes differentes pour compter les humains et les animaux. De plus, certains nombres sont redupliques dans leur forme de base dans differentes proto-langues

Discourse Salience in Kalenjin Inter-Clausal Syntax

Proceedings of the Twenty-Third Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: Special Session on Syntax and Semantics in Africa (1997)