Brian D Joseph
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 514002 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Brian D Joseph |
| NOMBRES | Brian D |
| APELLIDO | Joseph |
| FIRMA | JOSEPH B D |
| AFILIACIONES | The Ohio State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5963-9322 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 116 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 90 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 113 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 3 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1979 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
The Dialects of Lesvos and Adrianople
The Greek dialects of Lesvos and Adrianople (present-day Edirne) during the time of the Ottoman Empire have much in common. Both are northern dialects and show considerable influence from Turkish; moreover, both were documented in the early 20th century, before the fall of the Ottoman Empire, by Kretschmer, in 1905, for Lesvos and by Ronzevalle, in 1911, for Adrianople. A comparative look at the two dialects reveals deep penetration of Turkish in…
Family language policy and identity formation among migrant Pashto community in the multilingual context of Lahore
This study examines the family language policy of the migrant Pashto community in multilingual settings in Lahore, Pakistan. Many languages including English, Pashto, Punjabi, and Urdu are in contact with one another in Lahore. Following the Language Policy Framework of Spolsky (2004) and using a questionnaire to collect data and a quantitative assessment of the results, we investigate the language ecology, language ideology, and language plannin…
Benjamin Franklin and the language sciences
Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790), founding father of the United States and general polymath, included language among his many interests as a scientist, educator, and publisher. A particularly significant work in this area is his phonetic alphabet for English, which he proposed in 1768 for a “reformed mode of spelling”. The basic principles upon which he based this alphabet are familiar to linguists, but his descriptions show a deeper understanding o…
Historical productivity of Verb-Noun compounds in English
English shows an exocentric verb-noun compound type with an uninflected verb followed by a noun object, e.g. pickpocket, where noun pocket is the object of verb pick. These “pickpocket compounds” first appeared in English under French influence post-1066 (Marchand 1960:37–39). We delve into English pickpocket compounds with the OED as our primary source. Despite fluctuations in frequency for individual forms throughout their history, we demonstra…
Turning night into day
We bring to light here two case studies from Albanian that show interesting semantic change, and we argue that in order to understand the particular changes involved, the concept of “milieu” (Christiansen and Joseph 2016: 56-7) should be invoked
Diachrony and Diachronica
Celebrating the Lsa Centennial in Language
The year 2024 marks the Linguistic Society of America's centennial, dating from the founding of the Society at its first meeting, 28 December 1924, at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. Work on the LSA's journal, Language , began in 1924 as well, since a Committee on Publications was constituted at that meeting, with the express purpose, as reported in the Proceedings of that meeting, of overseeing ‘a regular independent pub…
Getting serious about serial verbs
We put forth here the novel claim that certain Croatian multi-verb constructions are to be analyzed as instances of serial verb constructions (SVCs), based on the fact that they show characteristics, such as shared arguments, restrictions on selection of verbal elements, limitations on modification, and so on, that are associated with SVCs cross-linguistically. We contrast Croatian SVCs with coordinate structures and control/non-control subordina…
Leonard Bloomfield and Albanese
Among the numerous engaging puzzles from the history of linguistics is Leonard Bloomfield’s use of the language name Albanese for the national language of Albania, as when he writes in Language that ‘Later, Armenian and Albanese, and a few ancient languages known to us only from scant written records, proved also to belong to the Indo-European family’. Given that the most common English term for this language was and is Albanian, this is an odd t…
Brief notices
Brief notices
Ernst Frideryk Konrad Koerner
Obituary
The Ohio State University, earning her b.a. in 1979, her m.a. in 1982, and her Ph.D. in 1991. Her 1982 Master's thesis, Stylistic variation in Tok Pisin: Innovation and change, was on the New Guinea creole Tok Pisin, but not long after that very interesting study, after marrying a Greek man, she turned her linguistic attention to Modern Greek
The Columbus Linguistics in High School experience
We report here on our efforts to incorporate linguistics into the high school curriculum in a large midwestern metropolitan area through a university-based initiative — Linguistics in High School (LxHS) — spearheaded by the Department of Linguistics at The Ohio State University. We offer a brief history of the project, and explain our strategy of targeting non-public schools and the practical nature of the reasoning behind this decision. We chron…
Eastern and Western Romance in the Balkans – the Contrasting but Revealing Positions of the Danubian Romance Languages and Judezmo
The fate of two languages in the Balkans under conditions of language contact is discussed here. These languages, representing different branches of the Romance family, are the Ibero-Romance language Judezmo from the eastern branch and the South Danubian language Aromanian from the western branch. Both have been subject to intense contact with other languages in the Balkans but they show differential outcomes of this contact and thus differential…
Some Observations on What Grammaticalization Is and Is Not
The notion of 'grammaticalization' - the embedding of once non- (or less-) grammatical phenomena into the grammar of a language - has enjoyed broad acceptance over the past 30 years as a new paradigm for describing and accounting for linguistic change. Despite its appeal, my contention is that there are some issues with 'grammaticalization' as it is conventionally described and discussed in the literature. My goal here is to explore what some of …
Linguistics meets economics
We explore here what happens in conversation when listeners encounter variation as well as change in semantics. Working within a general Gricean framework, and in ways somewhat akin to the “Cheap Talk” model of Crawford and Sobel (1982) and the “Rational Speech Act” model of Goodman and Frank (2016), we develop here a transactional view of communicative acts, based largely on insights drawn from economics. Taking a novel perspective, we build on …
The Dialect of Kythera. Description and Analysis, by Georgia Katsouda
Obituary
On February 17, 2019, the field of Greek linguistics suffered a significant loss when Eric P. Hamp, a "larger-than-life" historical linguist and Indo-Europeanist and a major figure in the linguistics of the languages of the Balkans, including Greek, passed away at the age of 98
What is time (and why should linguists care about it)
An indisputable fact of life and of nature is that humans and human institutions necessarily both exist in and live through time. The importance of this fact and the conscious recognition of it is reflected in the concern for the passage of time and for humans' place vis-à-vis time observable in various sorts of artistic expression, from the visual arts such as sculpture and painting to various reflections in literary and even musical sources. Ta…
What is time (and why should linguists care about it)? Supplementary materials
What speakers know—or don’t know—about history and about typology
I explore here how aware speakers are of the history of their language as they use it and how aware of typology they are. I advocate for a speaker-oriented viewpoint and argue ultimately that speakers know little to nothing about language history and less about typology, and yet they behave in ways that essentially create typology and history. I offer a number of examples, mainly from Sanskrit and Greek, covering sound change and grammatical chan…
Language mixing in Palasa
We explore here several kinds of language mixing to be found in the Greek-Albanian bilingual speech community of the village of Palasa in southern Albania. Palasa is of particular interest for Greek dialect studies because it offers a window in the present day into highly localized dynamics of language contact. Among the mixing observed in Palasa is code-switching, motivated by various factors as identified by Myslín & Levy 2015, borrowing, both …
Handbook of Comparative and Historical Indo-European Linguistics
Studies in modern Greek dialects and linguistic theory
"Is there such a thing as "grammaticalization
The Opening in Burma
Despite the excitement that the reforms have sparked in Burma and abroad, Burma remains a military dictatorship. Serving or retired generals control every important institution, and the constitution guarantees military domination. Yet something profound is changing, even if this is not—or not yet—an outright transition to democracy. What is driving the changes, why are they happening now, and where will they lead
Syntax versus the lexicon
As a contribution to the long-standing controversy in linguistics concerning the proper role in the grammar of syntax as opposed to the lexicon and of syntax as opposed to morphology, we study here the proposal made by Rivero 1992 that Modern Greek has a productive syntactic rule of Adverb Incorporation, and more generally Argument Incorporation. Based on measures of productivity and on idiosyncrasies in meaning that adverb-plus-verb and object-p…
On the Synchrony and Diachrony of Modern Greek NA
The Modern Greek particle ná has two main uses, as a subordinating particle and as a deictic particle. In this first use, it occurs with verbs in a variety of complement structures, as in (1), as well as with some apparent main-clause verbs, as in (2), that have special (i.e. non-declarative) illocutionary force, and may be derivable from underlying abstract complement structures
On some recent views concerning the development of the Greek future system
Researchers of the historical grammar of Modern Greek agree in general terms that the particle θά derives from an older construction which included the verb θέλω. In the past years, however, there has been some disagreement about the exact point of departure, and, consequently, the exact route (or routes) of the development of θά. In this article we present a straightforward account of θά, explicating several of the disputed aspects of its develo…
The successful introductory course
The introductory linguistics course is the primary antidote that academic linguists can offer to commonly held, yet basically wrong-headed, views about language. It is essential, therefore, that this course be meaningful to the nonmajor student. Through a series of five vignettes, each by a different author and representing a variety of institutional types, we explore options other than 'baby' theoretical linguistics to the introductory linguisti…
Linguistic Universals and Syntactic Change
A crucial problem facing historical linguists is how to account for the direction of certain changes. The direction of change taken by two constructions, Object Raising and Object Deletion, between Medieval and Modern Greek, is documented here, and is shown to be explainable by reference to substantive universal constraints holding on the form these constructions can take in natural language, as evidenced by data from a variety of languages. We c…
Relativization in modern Greek
Recovery of information in Relative Clauses
Modern Greek has a Relative Clause Formation process by which the target of Relativization is deleted under identity with the head of the Relative Clause – these Relative Clauses are introduced by the invariant complementizer particle pu , which also introduces factive complements. (Greek also has a movement strategy for Relative Clauses, with an inflected Relative pronoun, but the details of this process are irrelevant here.) Examples of the del…
Noam Chomsky
The impetus for producing a bibliography of Noam Chomky’s output (so far) derives from a strong interest in and commitment to a historical accounting of the contribution to the field of linguistic theory and possibly other subjects, such as philosophy and political science, by a man who has dominated linguistics for more than a generation, at least in North America. This bibliography lists his writings in linguistics and related fields, his writi…
Eastern and Western Romance in the Balkans – the Contrasting but Revealing Positions of the Danubian Romance Languages and Judezmo
The fate of two languages in the Balkans under conditions of language contact is discussed here. These languages, representing different branches of the Romance family, are the Ibero-Romance language Judezmo from the eastern branch and the South Danubian language Aromanian from the western branch. Both have been subject to intense contact with other languages in the Balkans but they show differential outcomes of this contact and thus differential…
Language mixing in Palasa
We explore here several kinds of language mixing to be found in the Greek-Albanian bilingual speech community of the village of Palasa in southern Albania. Palasa is of particular interest for Greek dialect studies because it offers a window in the present day into highly localized dynamics of language contact. Among the mixing observed in Palasa is code-switching, motivated by various factors as identified by Myslín & Levy 2015, borrowing, both …
Pakistan After Musharraf
The protests ignited by General Pervez Musharraf’s 9 March 2007 sacking of Chief Justice Chaudhry provided a testament to the newfound importance of Pakistan’s media. Coverage of the lawyers’ movement protests and the government’s crude attempts to suppress it were brought to millions via satellite television and FM radio. The media’s role in the events that lead up to Musharraf’s resignation on 18 August 2008 is a study in unintended consequence…
The Editor's Department
The Editor's DepartmentLast scene of all . . .1 Brian D. Joseph I have been thinking about this column for a long time—seven years to be exact—as my plan from the start of my editorship was to provide some sort of commentary from me as editor for each issue for which I was responsible. I had a number of topics in mind at the outset, but certainly did not have the twenty or so columns that would be needed already planned out ahead of time in Janua…
Calvert Ward Watkins
Calvert Watkins, a towering figure in historical and Indo-European linguistics and president of the LSA in 1988, died unexpectedly in Los Angeles on March 20, 2013, a week after his eightieth birthday. At the time of his death he was Distinguished Professor in Residence of the Department of Classics and the Program in Indo-European Studies at UCLA. He had moved to UCLA after a long career at Harvard, where he retired as Victor S. Thomas Professor…
The Editor's Department
On change in Language and change in language Brian D. Joseph [Correction] Language change, we are taught, is inevitable, and so too, it seems, is Language change, that is, changes of one sort or another in this journal. Being a historical linguist, I reflect on and confront changes in language on an almost daily basis and thus can't help but be struck by the ways in which changes in Language that have been instituted in recent months, as detailed…
The Editor's Department
Reviewing our contents Brian D. Joseph Just a few months ago, as this issue was taking shape, there arrived on the scene a new item in the Language ‘family’ of publications: the Twentieth-century index, a listing of works published in Language in the twentieth century. This impressive tome, 597 dense pages long, was edited by Meghan Sumner and my predecessor, Mark Aronoff. It covers the first seventy-six years of Language, 1925 to 2000, thus all …
The Editor's Department
Greetings, or, getting to know me Brian D. Joseph This issue is the first issue of the rest of my editorship! Such a statement may appear to be a rather flippant way of introducing myself as I take over the reins of this august journal but, playing, as it does, off the catch-phrase from the 1960s and early 1970s, ‘Today is the first day of the rest of your life’, it serves both to locate me in time and space (I came of age in the sixties as a per…
Yet More on -Gate Words
Raising to Oblique in Modern Greek
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Recovery of information in Relative Clauses
Modern Greek has a Relative Clause Formation process by which the target of Relativization is deleted under identity with the head of the Relative Clause – these Relative Clauses are introduced by the invariant complementizer particle pu , which also introduces factive complements. (Greek also has a movement strategy for Relative Clauses, with an inflected Relative pronoun, but the details of this process are irrelevant here.) Examples of the del…
Locatives and Obviation in Cree
Linguistic Universals and Syntactic Change
A crucial problem facing historical linguists is how to account for the direction of certain changes. The direction of change taken by two constructions, Object Raising and Object Deletion, between Medieval and Modern Greek, is documented here, and is shown to be explainable by reference to substantive universal constraints holding on the form these constructions can take in natural language, as evidenced by data from a variety of languages. We c…
On the Synchrony and Diachrony of Modern Greek NA
The Modern Greek particle ná has two main uses, as a subordinating particle and as a deictic particle. In this first use, it occurs with verbs in a variety of complement structures, as in (1), as well as with some apparent main-clause verbs, as in (2), that have special (i.e. non-declarative) illocutionary force, and may be derivable from underlying abstract complement structures
Meet Cree
Standard Albanian
Relativization in modern Greek
Homer and the Ionian Epic Tradition
The Triple Representation of Schwa in Greek, and Some Related Problems of Indo-European Phonology
The Synchrony and Diachrony of the Balkan Infinitive
The Diachrony and Synchrony of the Balkan Infinitive
Duck-Kettles in Canada
Noam Chomsky
Noam Chomsky
The impetus for producing a bibliography of Noam Chomky’s output (so far) derives from a strong interest in and commitment to a historical accounting of the contribution to the field of linguistic theory and possibly other subjects, such as philosophy and political science, by a man who has dominated linguistics for more than a generation, at least in North America. This bibliography lists his writings in linguistics and related fields, his writi…
On the Use of Iconic Elements in Etymological Investigation
Iconic elements are generally held to be problematic for the purposes of etymological investigation, for they often show synchronic oddities and behave irregularly from a diachronic standpoint. However, it is possible, under the appropriate circumstances, to use such elements to advantage in etymologizing. Three examples of this nature are presented from Greek. In each of these, it is shown that a recognition of a phonosemantic value for the Mode…
The Modern Greek Language
An Introduction to the Indo-European Languages
This comprehensive linguistic survey of the Indo-European groups synthesizes the vast amount of information contained in the spe cialized handbooks of the individual stocks. The text begins with an introduction to the concept of the Indo-European language family, the history of its discovery, and the techniques of analysis. The introduction also gives a structural sketch of Proto-Indo-European, the parent language from which the others are descen…
Sprachliche Beiträge zur Paläo-Ethnologie der Balkanhalbinsel
Principles of Historical Linguistics
Noam Chomsky
The benefits of morphological classification
Any theory of grammar, and more particularly any theory of the component of a grammar, the morphological component, that is concerned with words and word-like units and the pieces that make them up, must provide some means of classifying "elements", i.e. morphemes and morpheme combinations, as to their morphological status. Of particular concern is the classification of elements
An Introduction to Historical Linguistics
Kiskinahamawâkan-âcimowinisa/Student Stories
Is Faliscan a Local Latin Patois
Faliscan clearly shows affinities with Latin, but the exact nature of the relationship between the two languages has not met with complete acceptance. Some scholars treat Faliscan as nothing more than a 'rural dialect' of Latin, though the inexactness of the designation 'dialectal Latin' makes this characterization problematic.Moreover, it is demonstrated here that the various features that are claimed to link Faliscan and non-Roman Latin to the …
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