Language Structure and Environment

Name: Language Structure and Environment | Social, cultural, and natural factors
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Social, cultural, and natural factors

Rik De Busser Randy J. LaPolla(Herausgeber*in)

John Benjamins Publishing Company

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Erschienen am 15. Mai 2015

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Language Structure and Environment
Editorial page
Title page
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Table of contents
The influence of social, cultural, and natural factors on language structure
1. Introduction
1.1 Non-autonomous syntax
1.2 Linguistic relativity
2. Related fields
2.1 Functional grammar
2.2 Sociolinguistics
2.3 Ecolinguistics
2.4 Ethnosyntax
3. Relevant environmental parameters
3.1 Cultural factors
3.2 Social factors
3.3 Geographical factors
3.4 Natural factors
3.5 Human biology
3.6 Meta-perception of language
Bibliography
Part 1. Grammar and culture
On the logical necessity of a cultural and cognitive connection for the origin of all aspects of linguistic structure
1. Cognition: Inference in understanding our surroundings
2. The nature of communication: Ostension and inference
3. The nature of language: Language is culture
4. How the grammars of languages differ
Do they constrain or not constrain the interpretation of a particular semantic domain?
If they constrain the interpretation of a particular domain, how much do they constrain it?
If they constrain the interpretation of a particular domain, how do they constrain it?
5. Final remarks
References
The body, the universe, society and language
1. Introduction
2. Modern Germanic in the grip of the unknown
3. Changes in PG grammar as enactments of the Anabaptist worldview
3.1 The grammaticalization of zehle: From 'counting' to 'predicting'
3.2 The degrammaticalization of wotte from subjunctive modal to 'desire'
3.3 The rise of fer 'for' in purposive complement clauses
4. The speed of changes in PG grammar
5. Early Germanic in the grip of the unknown
6. Experiencing illness
6.1 The impersonal verb construction and its variants
6.2 The construction of inalienability and its variants
6.3 Other oblique curiosities
6.4 The accusative subject in Middle Dutch
7. In sum
8. The decline of the dative-marked participant
9. A final note on the expression of sickness and disease in Modern English
10. In conclusion
Bibliography
Middle Dutch sources
Old and Middle English sources
When culture grammaticalizes
1. The Onya Darat language and its speakers
2. Encoding social information in pronouns: A Southeast Asian phenomenon
3. The pronominal system of Onya Darat
4. The origins of generational affiliation marking
5. Conclusion
In Memoriam
Bibliography
The cultural bases of linguistic form
1. Introduction
1.1 Culture and linguistic form
1.2 Linguistic and ethnographic background
2. Towards a sociocultural theory of linguistic form
3. Quotatives evidentials and reported speech constructions
3.1 Lexical quotative construction
3.2 Quotative evidentials
4. Reported speech in Nanti communicative practice
4.1 Talking about others' actions
4.2 Talking about others' internal states
4.3 Conflict, intimacy, and the evidential ethic
5. A practice-based account of the grammaticalization of Nanti quotatives and reportives
6. Discussion and conclusion
Bibliography
Part 2. Grammar and society
Societies of intimates and linguistic complexity
1. Introduction
2. Cross-linguistically dispensable categories: Dual (plus) number
3. Cross-linguistically dispensable categories: Large pronominal systems
4. Cross-linguistically dispensable categories: Generationally-marked pronouns
5. Cross-linguistically dispensable categories: Evidentials
6. Conclusion
Bibliography
On the relation between linguistic and social factors in migrant language contact
1. Introduction
2. The Australian context
2.1 The functions of language
3. Facilitation of code-switching through language contact
4. Pragmatic effects in the expression and performance of speech acts and social relations
4.1 Modal particles and discourse markers
4.2 Address
5. Standardisation and codification
6. Pluricentric languages
7. Diglossia
8. Language as a core value
9. Concluding remarks
Bibliography
Part 3. Grammar and geography
Topography in language
1. Introduction
2. Frames of Reference
3. Static and dynamic relations
4. Frame of Reference typology
4.1 Intrinsic FoR
4.2 Relative FoR
4.3 Absolute FoR
4.4 Operationalizing each FoR
4.5 Diversity in absolute systems
5. Re-examining absolute FoR
5.1 Binary vs. ternary relations
5.2 Fixedness
5.3 Radial and curved axes
5.4 Unpredictable bearings
5.5 Abstractness and arbitrariness
5.6 The external world in absolute FoR
5.7 Ad hoc references
6. Landmarks
7. Three case studies
7.1 Balinese
7.2 Upsun and downsun
7.3 The ship as an external world
8. Logical properties of each FoR
8.1 Transitivity
8.2 Converseness
8.3 Constancy under rotation
8.4 Summary of logical properties
8.5 Logical properties of systems examined here
9. Topographic Correspondence Hypothesis
9.1 Predictions
9.2 Correlation between urban/rural environment and FoR choice
9.3 Correlation between hunter-gatherer lifestyle and FoR choice
9.4 The Environment Variable Method
9.5 Pilot findings
9.6 Testing the method: Absolute FoR in atoll-based languages
10. Conclusions
Bibliography
Walk around the clock
1. The Siar language
2. Siar demonstratives
2.1 Demonstrative determiners
2.2 Demonstrative pronouns
2.3 Demonstrative existentials
2.4 Locative adverbs
2.5 Allative adverbs
2.6 Semantics
3. Clockwise and counterclockwise demonstratives
4. A historical account
4.1 Stage 0: Proto-Oceanic (1500 BC)
4.2 Siar on the east coast (before 1750)
4.3 Stage 2a: Settlement of Lambóm Island (1750-1900)
4.4 Stage 2b: Settlement on Lamassa Island (1750-1900)
4.5 Stage 3: Occupation of the southwest coast of New Ireland (1900-today)
5. An etymological account
6. Other (counter)clockwise systems
7. Conclusion
Bibliography
Types of spread zones
1. Introduction
2. Mountains: Vertical spreads
2.1 Central crest
2.2 Altiplano
3. Flatland spread zones
3.1 Open spread zones
3.2 Closed spread zones
4. Discussion and conclusions
Bibliography
Part 4. Grammar and evolution
The role of adaptation in understanding linguistic diversity
1. Introduction
2. Why are there so many languages?
3. How different are languages, really?
3.1 Simulating the role of drift and selection pressures in linguistic diversity
4. The role of drift and selection in explaining linguistic diversity
5. The fit of languages to their environments: The importance of learning mechanisms
6. The child-adult learnability trade-off
7. Ecological constraints on language structures
8. Conclusion
Bibliography
Part 5. Grammar and the field of linguistics
On becoming an object of study
1. Introduction
2. Viewing language through experiences and assumptions
3. Creating language boundaries
3.1 Linguistic creation of languages
3.2 Community creation of languages
3.3 Processes in the creation of languages
4. What might linguistics be missing?
4.1 Language and place
4.2 Language and spirituality
5. What could linguistics do with this information?
5.1 Multiple perspectives on language
5.2 Practising cultural safety
5.3 Other ways of creating language
6. Conclusion
Bibliography
Subjects and Languages Index
Author Index

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