Nikolaus P Himmelmann
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 104589 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Nikolaus P Himmelmann |
| PRENOMES | Nikolaus P |
| SOBRENOME | Himmelmann |
| ASSINATURA | HIMMELMANN N P |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Cologne |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4385-8395 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 41 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 97 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 40 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1980 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Differential object marking in Western Malayo-Polynesian symmetrical voice languages
Differential object marking (DOM) is known from a great variety of language families. We present data suggesting that, contrary to what is suggested in recent typological surveys, DOM is also a widespread phenomenon in Austronesian symmetrical voice languages. To do this, we show why the identification of DOM constructions in these languages is difficult, propose a definition for DOM that takes note of the peculiarities of symmetrical voice syste…
‘Direct’ elicitation and phonological argumentation
Linguistic elicitation is a kind of behavioral experiment. It remains an important source for phonological (and more generally, grammatical) argumentation even if it does not meet all the requirements for a proper behavioral experiment (in terms of the number of participants, for example). While the basic analysis proposed for Budai Rukai syllable structure is convincing, questions arise with regard to how the very basic notions syllable and stre…
On the comparability of prosodic categories
This article argues that the prosodic category stress in West Germanic languages, which implicitly underlies practically all work on stress, is a complex cluster concept consisting of at least six dimensions which in turn involve a number of subdimensions. Because of its complexity, this concept is not useful for cross-linguistic comparison. A promising starting point for further typological inquiry is one of the six dimensions, i.e. acoustic and…
Red and blue bananas
Predicting voice choice in symmetrical voice languages
Western Austronesian symmetrical voice languages exhibit at least two basic transitive constructions. This paper investigates what factors influence speakers’ choice of one voice over another in natural spoken discourse. It provides a thorough assessment of all factors that have been proposed to be relevant for voice choice in the literature on symmetrical voice systems. Using the Indonesian language Totoli as a case study, we show that unlike in…
Cross-linguistic patterns in the lexicalisation of bring and take
This study investigates the linguistic expression of bring and take events and more generally of the semantic domain of directed caused accompanied motion (‘directed CAM’) across a sample of eight languages of the Pacific and the Americas. Unlike English, the majority of languages in our sample do not lexicalise directed CAM events by simple verbs, but rather encode the defining meaning components – caused motion, accompaniment, and directedness …
Against trivializing language description (and comparison)
This paper argues that recent proposals to sharply distinguish between language description and comparison are ill-conceived for two reasons. First, comparison is unavoidable and hence an integral part of description. Second, the proposals for a strict separation are based on an unrealistic and anachronistic conception of descriptive categories, assuming that these can be defined in purely distributional terms. Here it is shown that description a…
Prosodic phrasing and the emergence of phrase structure
To clarify the role of prosodic phrasing in the emergence of phrase structure, it is necessary to be clear as to how syntactic phrasing relates to prosodic phrasing. The core proposal here is that a distinction must be made between two basic types of syntactic constructions; namely, syntactic configurations for which prosodic phrasing is part of the definition of the construction, and phrase structure proper, which is independent of prosodic phra…
Relating agent prominence to discourse prominence
The article investigates the hypothesis that prominence phenomena on different levels of linguistic structure are systematically related to each other. More specifically, it is hypothesized that prominence relations in morphosyntax reflect, and contribute to, prominence management in discourse. This hypothesis is empirically based on the phenomenon of agentivity clines, i.e. the observation that the relevance of agentivity features such as voliti…
The extent and degree of utterance-final word lengthening in spontaneous speech from 10 languages
Words in utterance-final positions are often pronounced more slowly than utterance-medial words, as previous studies on individual languages have shown. This paper provides a systematic cross-linguistic comparison of relative durations of final and penultimate words in utterances in terms of the degree to which such words are lengthened. The study uses time-aligned corpora from 10 genealogically, areally, and culturally diverse languages, includi…
Austronesia
While the Austronesian family is large, the main focus of this chapter is on the languages of the Philippines and Indonesia as very little is known about other parts of the family. In the languages analysed to date, intonational targets are often anchored to the edges rather than to metrically strong syllables, most intonational phrases ending with a major pitch excursion within a two- or three-syllable window. These languages often also lack evi…
Repetition Reduction Revisited
It has frequently been shown that speakers prosodically reduce repeated words in discourse. This phenomenon has been claimed to facilitate speech recognition and to be language universal. In particular, the relationship between the information value of a word in a discourse context and its prosodic prominence have been shown to correlate. However, a literature review provided in this paper reveals that most evidence comes from English, where pros…
How universal is agent-first? Evidence from symmetrical voice languages
Agents have been claimed to be universally more prominent than verbal arguments with other thematic roles. Perhaps the strongest claim in this regard is that agents have a privileged role in language processing, specifically that there is a universal bias for the first unmarked argument in an utterance to be interpreted as an agent. Symmetrical voice languages such as many western Austronesian languages challenge claims about agent prominence in …
On the universality of intonational phrases
This study is concerned with the identifiability of intonational phrase boundaries across familiar and unfamiliar languages. Four annotators segmented a corpus of more than three hours of spontaneous speech into intonational phrases. The corpus included narratives in their native German, but also in three languages of Indonesia unknown to them. The results show significant agreement across the whole corpus, as well as for each subcorpus. We discu…
Shifting from animacy to agentivity
The target article argues for a need to distinguish between covert and overt (ly marked) shifts in animacy and claims that understanding these shifts allows for “a deeper understanding of animacy and its effects on language” (abstract target article).* The paper certainly contains a number of interesting observations regarding these shifts, as well as about the relationship between conceptual and grammatical animacy. However, we are not convinced…
Speech Analytics in Research Based on Qualitative Interviews
The paper presents aims and results of the project KA3 (Kölner Zentrum Analyse und Archivierung von audio-visual-Daten), in which advanced speech technologies are developed and provided to enhance the process of indexing and analysing speech recordings from the oral history domain and the language sciences. Close cooperation between speech technology scientists and digital humanities researchers is an important aspect of the project making sure t…
Renewal
The concept of 'renewal' is widely used in the literature on morphosyntactic change, but hardly ever theorized. Here we scrutinize the viability of this concept theoretically as well as empirically, revisiting in detail the most frequently cited case of renewal, namely the resemblance between the Latin and French synthetic futures. Phenomena accounted for in terms of renewal can also be accounted for in terms of grammaticalization theory. We argu…
Asymmetries in the prosodic phrasing of function words
It is a well-known fact that across the world's languages there is a fairly strong asymmetry in the affixation of grammatical material, in that suffixes considerably outnumber prefixes in typological databases. This article argues that prosody, specifically prosodic phrasing, plays an important part in bringing about this asymmetry. Prosodic word and phrase boundaries may occur after a clitic function word preceding its lexical host with sufficie…
Attische Grabreliefs
Die Private Bildnisweihung Bei Den Griechen Zu Den Ursprüngen des Abendländischen Porträts
Der Ausruhende Herakles
Der Ausruhende Herakles
Die Nordrhein-Westfälische Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Künste ist eine Vereinigung der führenden Forscherinnen und Forscher des Landes. Sie wurde 1970 als Nachfolgeeinrichtung der Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Forschung des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen gegründet. Die Akademie ist in drei wissenschaftliche Klassen für Geisteswissenschaften, für Naturwissenschaften und Medizin sowie für Ingenieur- und Wirtschaftswissenschaften und in eine Klasse de…
Notes on Tagalog nominalism
Reproduction and Preservation of Linguistic Knowledge
In responding to the globally accelerating rate at which linguistic varieties are disappearing, structural linguistics is confronted with a number of challenges for which it is ill-equipped because of limitations in its basic conceptualization of linguistic knowledge. In addition to providing a brief history of the recent promotion of language endangerment to a major concern of the discipline as a whole, this article discusses three such challeng…
Secondary Predication and Adverbial Modification
"This book approaches depictive secondary predication from a crosslinguistic perspective. It maps out all the phenomena and brings together critical surveys and new contributions on their morphosyntactic and semantic properties"--Provided by publisher.
The Austronesian Languages of Asia and Madagascar
Some 800 Austronesian languages are spoken in the area extending from Madagascar to eastern Indonesia and to the north to Taiwan and the Philippines. They vary greatly in almost every possible respect, including the size and social make-up of the speech communities and their typological profiles. This book is designed to serve as a reference work a
Documentary and descriptive linguistics
Much of the work that is labeled deseriptive within linguistics comprises two activities, the collection of primary data and a (low-level) analysis of these data. These are indeed two separate activities as shown by the fact that the methods employed in each activity differ substantially. To date, the field concerned with the first aetivity — called doeumentary linguisties here — has received very little attention from linguists. It is proposed t…
Reproduction and Preservation of Linguistic Knowledge
In responding to the globally accelerating rate at which linguistic varieties are disappearing, structural linguistics is confronted with a number of challenges for which it is ill-equipped because of limitations in its basic conceptualization of linguistic knowledge. In addition to providing a brief history of the recent promotion of language endangerment to a major concern of the discipline as a whole, this article discusses three such challeng…
Asymmetries in the prosodic phrasing of function words
It is a well-known fact that across the world's languages there is a fairly strong asymmetry in the affixation of grammatical material, in that suffixes considerably outnumber prefixes in typological databases. This article argues that prosody, specifically prosodic phrasing, plays an important part in bringing about this asymmetry. Prosodic word and phrase boundaries may occur after a clitic function word preceding its lexical host with sufficie…
Renewal
The concept of 'renewal' is widely used in the literature on morphosyntactic change, but hardly ever theorized. Here we scrutinize the viability of this concept theoretically as well as empirically, revisiting in detail the most frequently cited case of renewal, namely the resemblance between the Latin and French synthetic futures. Phenomena accounted for in terms of renewal can also be accounted for in terms of grammaticalization theory. We argu…
How universal is agent-first? Evidence from symmetrical voice languages
Agents have been claimed to be universally more prominent than verbal arguments with other thematic roles. Perhaps the strongest claim in this regard is that agents have a privileged role in language processing, specifically that there is a universal bias for the first unmarked argument in an utterance to be interpreted as an agent. Symmetrical voice languages such as many western Austronesian languages challenge claims about agent prominence in …
Red and blue bananas
Vii
In Rom begegnet unser Thema zuerst in mythologischem Gewand bei den Darstellungen der Auffindung von Romulus und Remus durch den Hirten Faustulus. Der auf einen Stock gelehnte alte Hirte mit dem dicken Mantel auf dem Rücken entspricht einer Figur, die zuweilen auch auf den erwähnten italischen Gemmen mit der Todesallegorie vorkommt. Durch Denare des Münzmeisters Fostlus läßt sich diese Prägung bis ins 3. Viertel des 2. Jhs. v. Chr. zurückverfolge…
Viii
Nach diesem Exkurs wenden wir uns der Frage zu, welche Bedeutung bukolische Motive in der Kaiserzeit im privaten Bereich besaßen. Wenn in archaischer und klassischer Zeit häufig Ringsteine mit Herdentieren wie Rind oder Widder geschmückt werden, so sind diese Abbreviaturen von Reichtum wie die entsprechenden Weihgeschenke in den Heiligtümern. Mit bukolischer Stimmung haben die Bilder nichts zu tun, bezeichnenderweise fehlen in dieser Gattung Hirt…
Über Hirten-Genre in der antiken Kunst
Exkurse
Es gibt gute, wenn auch nicht entscheidende Gründe, für die Villa in Sperlonga kaiserliche Besitzer anzunehmen, zu denen auch Tiberius gehört haben könnte.1 Die Identifikation der Höhle mit der Villengrotte, in der Tiberius nach Tacitus ann. 4, 59 und Sueton Tib. 39 in Lebensgefahr geriet, macht allerdings Schwierigkeiten. Die Angabe des Tacitus mare Amunclanum inter et Fundanos montes würde wörtlich genommen auf einen Platz weiter landeinwärts w…
Demonstratives in Narrative Discourse
Deiktikon, Artikel, Nominalphrase
This book proposes a new theory of the grammaticalization of articles and noun phrase structure. While most work in grammaticalization theory has focused on grammaticalizing elements, here the grammatical construction (NP) into which a grammaticalizing element (article) enters is of central concern. A rigorous and comprehensive account is given of the closely correlated development on both the element and the constructional levels is provided, ad…
Documentary and descriptive linguistics
Much of the work that is labeled deseriptive within linguistics comprises two activities, the collection of primary data and a (low-level) analysis of these data. These are indeed two separate activities as shown by the fact that the methods employed in each activity differ substantially. To date, the field concerned with the first aetivity — called doeumentary linguisties here — has received very little attention from linguists. It is proposed t…
The Lack of Zero Anaphora and Incipient Person Marking in Tagalog
The Lack of Zero Anaphora and Incipient Person Marking in Tagalog Nikolaus P. Himmelmann Abstract It has been widely assumed that Tagalog allows zero anaphora freely for both actors and undergoers in semantically transitive constructions. The data presented here strongly suggest that this assumption is wrong for actors in one of the two basic transitive construction types: undergoer-oriented constructions. In these constructions, the actor argume…
Deiktikon, Artikel, Nominalphrase
Die private Bildnisweihung bei den Griechen Zu den Ursprüngen des abendländischen Porträts
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Lexicalisation and grammaticalization
What makes Grammaticalization?
The status of grammaticalization has been the subject of many controversial discussions. The contributions to What makes Grammaticalization? approach the prevalent phenomenon from the angle of language structure and focus on the interrelation between the levels of phonology, pragmatics (inference), discourse and the lexicon and some of them try to integrate the areal perspective. A wealth of data from Slavonic languages as well as from languages …
On statives and potentives in western Austronesian (mostly Tagalog)
This contribution is concerned with prefixed forms in western Austronesian languages which have been called a wide variety of names including 'stative', 'accidental', 'involuntary', 'potential', 'coincidence', 'momentary', and so on. Although widely neglected in the literature, these formations are of major import to the grammar of many western Austronesian languages, where for all event expressions there is an obligatory choice between a neutral…
The Austronesian Languages of Asia and Madagascar
Some 800 Austronesian languages are spoken in the area extending from Madagascar to eastern Indonesia and to the north to Taiwan and the Philippines. They vary greatly in almost every possible respect, including the size and social make-up of the speech communities and their typological profiles. This book is designed to serve as a reference work a
Secondary Predication and Adverbial Modification
"This book approaches depictive secondary predication from a crosslinguistic perspective. It maps out all the phenomena and brings together critical surveys and new contributions on their morphosyntactic and semantic properties"--Provided by publisher.
Secondary predication and adverbial modification
"This book approaches depictive secondary predication from a crosslinguistic perspective. It maps out all the phenomena and brings together critical surveys and new contributions on their morphosyntactic and semantic properties"--Provided by publisher
Reproduction and Preservation of Linguistic Knowledge
In responding to the globally accelerating rate at which linguistic varieties are disappearing, structural linguistics is confronted with a number of challenges for which it is ill-equipped because of limitations in its basic conceptualization of linguistic knowledge. In addition to providing a brief history of the recent promotion of language endangerment to a major concern of the discipline as a whole, this article discusses three such challeng…
Der Ausruhende Herakles
Der Ausruhende Herakles
Die Nordrhein-Westfälische Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Künste ist eine Vereinigung der führenden Forscherinnen und Forscher des Landes. Sie wurde 1970 als Nachfolgeeinrichtung der Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Forschung des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen gegründet. Die Akademie ist in drei wissenschaftliche Klassen für Geisteswissenschaften, für Naturwissenschaften und Medizin sowie für Ingenieur- und Wirtschaftswissenschaften und in eine Klasse de…
Notes on Tagalog nominalism
Attische Grabreliefs
Die Private Bildnisweihung Bei Den Griechen Zu Den Ursprüngen des Abendländischen Porträts
Asymmetries in the prosodic phrasing of function words
It is a well-known fact that across the world's languages there is a fairly strong asymmetry in the affixation of grammatical material, in that suffixes considerably outnumber prefixes in typological databases. This article argues that prosody, specifically prosodic phrasing, plays an important part in bringing about this asymmetry. Prosodic word and phrase boundaries may occur after a clitic function word preceding its lexical host with sufficie…
Renewal
The concept of 'renewal' is widely used in the literature on morphosyntactic change, but hardly ever theorized. Here we scrutinize the viability of this concept theoretically as well as empirically, revisiting in detail the most frequently cited case of renewal, namely the resemblance between the Latin and French synthetic futures. Phenomena accounted for in terms of renewal can also be accounted for in terms of grammaticalization theory. We argu…
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