Anna Siewierska
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 742634 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Anna Siewierska |
| NOMBRES | Anna |
| APELLIDO | Siewierska |
| FIRMA | SIEWIERSKA A |
| AFILIACIONES | Lancaster University |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 25 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 45 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 23 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1983 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2013 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Sources of BET
We investigate the sources of betting constructions, and specifically their predicates. The notion of risking something of value on an outcome is a complex one. Culturally, some degree of disposability of property is required. The concept is nevertheless lexicalized in many parts of the world. Betting takes various forms, ranging from betting between individuals, which we contend is the basic case, to betting in the context of an institution such…
Local pronouns in ditransitive scenarios
While there is no doubt that the Rs (recipients) of ditransitive clauses are much more likely to be rendered by LPs (local persons) than Ts (themes), as reflected in the Person Role Constraint (see e.g., Perlmutter 1971; Bonet 1991, 1995; Haspelmath 2004), this paper sets out to determine whether the preference for LP Rs holds only relative to Ts or is in fact an absolute preference, i.e., a general property of Rs in ditransitive clauses. The inv…
Impersonal constructions
"This volume offers a much needed typological perspective on impersonal constructions, which are here viewed broadly as constructions lacking a referential subject. The contributions to this volume deal with all types of impersonality, namely constructions featuring nonagentive subjects, including those with experiential predicates (A-impersonals), presentational constructions with a notional subject deficient in topicality (T-impersonals), and c…
The status of frequency, schemas, and identity in Cognitive Sociolinguistics
This article contributes to the nascent field of Cognitive Sociolinguistics. In particular, we are interested in how usage-based cognitive linguistics and variationist sociolinguistics may enrich each other. We first discuss some of the ways in which variationist insights have led cognitive linguists such as Gries (e.g. Multifactorial analysis in corpus linguistics: A study of particle placement, Continuum, 2003) and Grondelaers et al. (e.g. Nati…
Towards a typology of third person plural impersonals
Although third person plural impersonal constructions (3pl IMPs) are widely attested crosslinguistically, they have not yet been the main subject of a typological study. This paper aims to establish the basis for such a study by applying a tentative but rather elaborate typology of 3pl IMPs, developed by Cabredo Hofherr (Arbitrary readings of third person pronominals: 81–94, 2003, "Arbitrary" pro and the theory of pro-drop, Oxford University Pres…
From third plural to passive
This paper explores the development of third person plural impersonal constructions into passive ones with the aim of determining the conditions most conducive to the emergence of a canonical passive, i.e. one which is both promotional (with an overt lexical subject) and agentive (with an overt agent). On the basis of cross-linguistic data it is argued that the required conditions are, on the one hand, the existence of a morphological alignment w…
Bang-le yi ge da mang (offered a big helping hand)
Bound person forms in ditransitive clauses revisited
In a recent article Gensler (2003) has argued that little can be said about the ordering of bound person markers of the T(heme) and R(ecipient) relative to each other or relative to the verb stem apart from the fact that the outer markers are likely to be the result of a second-level cliticization process. We take issue with this claim and document that quite successful predictions with respect to the ordering of the T and R markers can be made o…
Inclusive and exclusive in free and bound person forms
Person
This textbook deals with the grammatical category of person, which covers the first person, the second person, and the third person. Drawing on data from over 700 languages, Anna Siewierska compares the use of person within and across different languages, and examines the factors underlying this variation. She shows how person forms vary in substance, in the nature of the semantic distinctions they convey, in how they are used in sentences and di…
Parts-of-speech systems and word order
This paper argues that the word order possibilities of a language are partly determined by the parts-of-speech system of that language. In languages in which lexical items are specialized for certain functionally defined syntactic slots (e.g. the modifier slot within a noun phrase), the identifiability of these slots is ensured by the nature of the lexical items (e.g. adjectives) themselves. As a result, word order possibilities are relatively un…
Case, Typology and Grammar
Constituent Order in the Languages of Europe
Constituent Order in the Languages of Europe
Polish main clause constituent order and FG pragmatic functions
The Distribution of Subject and Object Agreement and Word Order Type
The article examines the distribution and formal realization of Subject and Object agreement markers in different word order types on the basis of a sample of 237 languages. Special attention is paid to the genetic and areal stratification of agreement markers and the impact of these two parameters on the relationship between agreement and word order type emerging from this investigation as opposed to those of previous studies, especially that of…
Word order type and alignment type
Functional Grammar
Subject and Object Order in Written Polish
Cet article tente de fournir des donnees statistiques pertinentes pour l'analyse de l'ordre Sujet-Objet en Polonais ecrit
Syntactic weight vs information structure and word order variation in Polish
This article presents an analysis of Polish transitive clause order from the perspective of two competing word order principles, namely the form-driven principle of syntactic weight proposed by Hawkins and the pragmatically based Topic > Comment principle
Word Order Rules
James D. McCawley. 1979. Adverbs, Vowels, and Ohter Objects of Wonder
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Postverbal Subject pronouns in Polish in the light of topic continuity and the Topic/Focus distinction
Phrasal discontinuity in Polish
(1984). Phrasal discontinuity in Polish. Australian Journal of Linguistics: Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 57-71
Another theory of the passive which doesn’t work
Parts-of-speech systems and word order
This paper argues that the word order possibilities of a language are partly determined by the parts-of-speech system of that language. In languages in which lexical items are specialized for certain functionally defined syntactic slots (e.g. the modifier slot within a noun phrase), the identifiability of these slots is ensured by the nature of the lexical items (e.g. adjectives) themselves. As a result, word order possibilities are relatively un…
Syntactic weight vs information structure and word order variation in Polish
This article presents an analysis of Polish transitive clause order from the perspective of two competing word order principles, namely the form-driven principle of syntactic weight proposed by Hawkins and the pragmatically based Topic > Comment principle
Word order type and alignment type
Phrasal discontinuity in Polish
(1984). Phrasal discontinuity in Polish. Australian Journal of Linguistics: Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 57-71
Towards a typology of third person plural impersonals
Although third person plural impersonal constructions (3pl IMPs) are widely attested crosslinguistically, they have not yet been the main subject of a typological study. This paper aims to establish the basis for such a study by applying a tentative but rather elaborate typology of 3pl IMPs, developed by Cabredo Hofherr (Arbitrary readings of third person pronominals: 81–94, 2003, "Arbitrary" pro and the theory of pro-drop, Oxford University Pres…
Bang-le yi ge da mang (offered a big helping hand)
The status of frequency, schemas, and identity in Cognitive Sociolinguistics
This article contributes to the nascent field of Cognitive Sociolinguistics. In particular, we are interested in how usage-based cognitive linguistics and variationist sociolinguistics may enrich each other. We first discuss some of the ways in which variationist insights have led cognitive linguists such as Gries (e.g. Multifactorial analysis in corpus linguistics: A study of particle placement, Continuum, 2003) and Grondelaers et al. (e.g. Nati…
Another theory of the passive which doesn’t work
Phrasal discontinuity in Polish
(1984). Phrasal discontinuity in Polish. Australian Journal of Linguistics: Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 57-71
James D. McCawley. 1979. Adverbs, Vowels, and Ohter Objects of Wonder
Preview this article: James D. McCawley. 1979. Adverbs, Vowels, and Ohter Objects of Wonder, Page 1 of 1 /docserver/preview/fulltext/sl.11.2.17sie-1.gif
Postverbal Subject pronouns in Polish in the light of topic continuity and the Topic/Focus distinction
Word Order Rules
Subject and Object Order in Written Polish
Cet article tente de fournir des donnees statistiques pertinentes pour l'analyse de l'ordre Sujet-Objet en Polonais ecrit
Syntactic weight vs information structure and word order variation in Polish
This article presents an analysis of Polish transitive clause order from the perspective of two competing word order principles, namely the form-driven principle of syntactic weight proposed by Hawkins and the pragmatically based Topic > Comment principle
Functional Grammar
The Distribution of Subject and Object Agreement and Word Order Type
The article examines the distribution and formal realization of Subject and Object agreement markers in different word order types on the basis of a sample of 237 languages. Special attention is paid to the genetic and areal stratification of agreement markers and the impact of these two parameters on the relationship between agreement and word order type emerging from this investigation as opposed to those of previous studies, especially that of…
Word order type and alignment type
Constituent Order in the Languages of Europe
Polish main clause constituent order and FG pragmatic functions
Constituent Order in the Languages of Europe
Case, Typology and Grammar
Person
This textbook deals with the grammatical category of person, which covers the first person, the second person, and the third person. Drawing on data from over 700 languages, Anna Siewierska compares the use of person within and across different languages, and examines the factors underlying this variation. She shows how person forms vary in substance, in the nature of the semantic distinctions they convey, in how they are used in sentences and di…
Parts-of-speech systems and word order
This paper argues that the word order possibilities of a language are partly determined by the parts-of-speech system of that language. In languages in which lexical items are specialized for certain functionally defined syntactic slots (e.g. the modifier slot within a noun phrase), the identifiability of these slots is ensured by the nature of the lexical items (e.g. adjectives) themselves. As a result, word order possibilities are relatively un…
Inclusive and exclusive in free and bound person forms
Bound person forms in ditransitive clauses revisited
In a recent article Gensler (2003) has argued that little can be said about the ordering of bound person markers of the T(heme) and R(ecipient) relative to each other or relative to the verb stem apart from the fact that the outer markers are likely to be the result of a second-level cliticization process. We take issue with this claim and document that quite successful predictions with respect to the ordering of the T and R markers can be made o…
From third plural to passive
This paper explores the development of third person plural impersonal constructions into passive ones with the aim of determining the conditions most conducive to the emergence of a canonical passive, i.e. one which is both promotional (with an overt lexical subject) and agentive (with an overt agent). On the basis of cross-linguistic data it is argued that the required conditions are, on the one hand, the existence of a morphological alignment w…
Bang-le yi ge da mang (offered a big helping hand)
Impersonal constructions
"This volume offers a much needed typological perspective on impersonal constructions, which are here viewed broadly as constructions lacking a referential subject. The contributions to this volume deal with all types of impersonality, namely constructions featuring nonagentive subjects, including those with experiential predicates (A-impersonals), presentational constructions with a notional subject deficient in topicality (T-impersonals), and c…
The status of frequency, schemas, and identity in Cognitive Sociolinguistics
This article contributes to the nascent field of Cognitive Sociolinguistics. In particular, we are interested in how usage-based cognitive linguistics and variationist sociolinguistics may enrich each other. We first discuss some of the ways in which variationist insights have led cognitive linguists such as Gries (e.g. Multifactorial analysis in corpus linguistics: A study of particle placement, Continuum, 2003) and Grondelaers et al. (e.g. Nati…
Towards a typology of third person plural impersonals
Although third person plural impersonal constructions (3pl IMPs) are widely attested crosslinguistically, they have not yet been the main subject of a typological study. This paper aims to establish the basis for such a study by applying a tentative but rather elaborate typology of 3pl IMPs, developed by Cabredo Hofherr (Arbitrary readings of third person pronominals: 81–94, 2003, "Arbitrary" pro and the theory of pro-drop, Oxford University Pres…
Sources of BET
We investigate the sources of betting constructions, and specifically their predicates. The notion of risking something of value on an outcome is a complex one. Culturally, some degree of disposability of property is required. The concept is nevertheless lexicalized in many parts of the world. Betting takes various forms, ranging from betting between individuals, which we contend is the basic case, to betting in the context of an institution such…
Local pronouns in ditransitive scenarios
While there is no doubt that the Rs (recipients) of ditransitive clauses are much more likely to be rendered by LPs (local persons) than Ts (themes), as reflected in the Person Role Constraint (see e.g., Perlmutter 1971; Bonet 1991, 1995; Haspelmath 2004), this paper sets out to determine whether the preference for LP Rs holds only relative to Ts or is in fact an absolute preference, i.e., a general property of Rs in ditransitive clauses. The inv…
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