journal: STUF - Language Typology and Universals

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Published since January 1, 1948

STUF - Language Typology and Universals

Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung

ISSN: 2196-7148

Editor-in-chief: Thomas Stolz

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STUF is a forum for scholarly articles in the realm of linguistic typology and universals research. The journal covers original empirical and/or theoretical studies of the structural diversity and/or of the invariants of human language(s). Equally welcome are contributors to submit papers with a leaning towards areal typology and/or diachronic typology.

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Volume 77 (2024)

Volume 76 (2023)

Volume 75 (2022)

Volume 74 (2021)

Volume 73 (2020)

Volume 72 (2019)

Volume 71 (2018)

Volume 70 (2017)

Volume 69 (2016)

Volume 68 (2015)

Volume 67 (2014)

Volume 66 (2013)

Volume 65 (2012)

Volume 64 (2011)

Volume 63 (2010)

Volume 62 (2009)

Volume 61 (2008)

Volume 60 (2007)

Volume 59 (2006)

Volume 58 (2005)

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Volume 57 (2004)

Volume 56 (2003)

Volume 55 (2002)

Volume 54 (2001)

Volume 53 (2000)

Volume 52 (1999)

Volume 51 (1998)

Volume 50 (1997)

Volume 49 (1996)

Volume 48 (1995)

Volume 47 (1994)

Volume 42 (1989)

Volume 41 (1988)

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Volume 40 (1987)

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Volume 39 (1986)

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Volume 38 (1985)

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Volume 37 (1984)

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Volume 36 (1983)

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Volume 35 (1982)

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Volume 34 (1981)

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Volume 33 (1980)

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Volume 32 (1979)

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Volume 31 (1978)

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Volume 30 (1977)

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Volume 29 (1976)

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Volume 28 (1975)

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Volume 27 (1974)

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Volume 26 (1973)

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Volume 25 (1972)

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Volume 24 (1971)

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Volume 22 (1969)

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Volume 12 (1959)

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Volume 10 (1957)

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Volume 9 (1956)

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Volume 7-8 (1954)

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Volume 6 (1952)

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Volume 5 (1951)

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Volume 4 (1950)

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Volume 3 (1949)

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Volume 1-2 (1948)

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STUF - Language Typology and Universals publishes special and thematic issues focussed on important and emerging topics in the field of study. The journal has established a rigorous process to ensure that any special issue manuscripts follow the same high-quality standards and peer review processes as regular manuscripts. For further information on the journal’s peer review policy please see the "Instructions for Authors".

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Editorial

Editor-in-chief:

Prof. Dr. Thomas Stolz
Universität Bremen
Fachbereich 10
Postfach 330440
D-28334 Bremen, Germany
E-mail: [email protected]

Executive Editor

Kevin Behrens
Universität Bremen
FB 10: Linguistik
Universitäts-Boulevard 13
D-28 359 Bremen, Germany
E-mail: [email protected]

Editorial Board:

Walter Bisang (Gutenberg Forschungskolleg, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz, Germany)
William Croft (Department of Linguistics, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, USA)
Wolfgang U. Dressler (em., Institut für Sprachwissenschaft, Universität Wien, Austria)
Ray Fabri (Institute of Linguistics, University of Malta, Malta)
José Antonio Flores Farfán (Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social (CIESAS), México, D.F., Mexico)
Lutz Gunkel (Institut für Deutsche Sprache, Mannheim, Germany)
Stefanie Haberzettl (Fachbereich Germanistik, Universität d. Saarlandes, Saarbrücken,Germany)
Bernhard Hurch (Institut für Sprachwissenschaft, Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz,Graz, Austria)
Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm (Department of Linguistics, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden)
Susanne Michaelis (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany)
Marianne Mithun (Department of Linguistics, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)
Claire Moyse-Faurie (LACITO, CNRS, Paris, France)
Damaris Nübling (Historische Sprachwissenschaft, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz, Germany)
Ignazio Putzu (Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia, Università di Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy)
Wolfgang Raible (em., Romanisches Seminar, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, Freiburg, Germany)
Jeanette Sakel (Faculty of Arts, Creative Industries, and Education, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK)
Christoph Schroeder (Institut für Germanistik, Universität Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany)
Eva Schultze-Berndt (School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK)
Christel Stolz (Fachbereich Linguistik, Universität Bremen, Bremen, Germany)
Elisabeth Verhoeven (Institut für deutsche Sprache und Linguistik, Humboldt-Universität, Berlin, Germany)

Volume 77 Issue 2

July 2024

Publicly Available July 8, 2024

Frontmatter

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July 5, 2024

Towards a typology of specificational constructions

Natalia Logvinova

Page range: 189-233

Abstract

The present work is devoted to the syntax of specificational constructions with proper names within a typological perspective. The provided typology is based on the results obtained from the analysis of grammar descriptions and available corpus data for 94 languages. The paper discusses the morphosyntactic means that languages use to express specification, namely juxtaposition, attribution, and other less common strategies. It is shown that juxtapositional and attributive strategies are in competition in many of the sampled languages, so that certain expressions (for example, specificational constructions with the common noun ‘city’) prefer attributive-like coding, while others (especially constructions including personal names) show a clear tendency for juxtapositional coding cross-linguistically. Evidence from languages using an attributive strategy in specificational constructions shows that the common noun is generally the syntactic head of the construction. This conclusion contributes to the wide-scale discussion of the semantic grounds for headedness in specificational constructions. In addition, the paper shows that languages tend to place common nouns before personal proper names regardless of the word order used in specificational constructions with toponyms. This, as predicted, is correlated with the relative ordering of the head noun and its genitival dependent. The results of the present study also show that the constituent ordering in constructions with personal names implicationally depends on the order in constructions with toponyms.

July 5, 2024

Gender assignment in language contact

Nataliya Levkovych

Page range: 235-260

Abstract

This paper deals with an important aspect of the integration of loan nouns into the grammatical systems of languages attesting to grammatical gender, namely gender assignment. Traditionally, it is assumed that gender assignment takes place according to the internal assignment rules of the replica language. In many cases, however, the original grammatical gender is borrowed along with the source word. This is the case of gender copy which often takes place under special (sociolinguistic) conditions and is used as assignment strategy in languages to a different extent. A special focus of my study is on gender assignment and particularly gender copy in the contact of languages of different assignment types (formal vs. semantic). The empirical data comes from five European languages in different sociolinguistic situations, attesting to different assignment systems and of different language branches of two language families – Indo-European (Romanian, Slavic, and Indo-Arian) and Nakh-Daghestanian (Lezgic and Tsezic). The analysis shows that gender copy is possible mostly in the contact of languages of the same assignment type. In the contact of languages of the formal assignment type, gender copy often goes along with the formal adjustment of the loan word. Sociolinguistic circumstances play an important role as to the possibility and frequency of the occurrence of gender copy.

July 5, 2024

Celerative: the encoding of speed in verbal morphology

Guillaume Jacques

Page range: 261-282

Abstract

While speed is a secondary parameter in some associated motion systems, some languages have verbal affixes dedicated to the encoding of speed – celerative markers. Celeratives can encode both quick and slow speed and are in some languages even the main or the sole way of expressing this meaning. However, some morphemes not only encode speed, but also other types of action manner , in particular hurry or suddenness, following colexification patterns also observed in the lexicon crosslinguistically. This paper provides a first overview of this category in the world’s languages, and more generally suggests that action manner constitutes a set of comparative concepts that can be be encoded morphologically.

July 5, 2024

Argument coding and the alignment type of Beria

Isabel Compes

Page range: 283-313

Abstract

This paper describes the verbal argument coding by a system of person indexing and the alignment type of Beria. Beria is a Saharan language spoken in the Sudan and Chad. The data presented here is from the Wagi dialect. The person indexing system has been analyzed as exhibiting split-S alignment with two types of intransitive verb classes: agentive and patientive verbs. Patientive verbs – though mostly encoding one-participant events – are, however, formally transitive. This morphosyntax-semantics mismatch poses a challenge for the split-S analysis and calls for a reassessment of the transitivity status of the patientive verb class. The present study takes morphosyntactic facts into account that have not been considered in previous contributions. It provides evidence from the verbal number marking system which corroborates an analysis in terms of a split-S alignment type with typologically unusual features.

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Online ISSN: 2196-7148
Print ISSN: 1867-8319
Type: Journal
Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter (A)
First published: January 1, 1948
Publication Frequency: 4 Issues per Year