Matti Miestamo
List of John Benjamins publications for which Matti Miestamo plays a role.
Journal
ISSN 2772-3720 | E-ISSN 2772-3739
Titles
Negation in Uralic Languages
Edited by Matti Miestamo, Anne Tamm and Beáta Wagner-Nagy
[Typological Studies in Language, 108] 2015. ix, 667 pp.
Subjects Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics | Typology | Uralic languages
Language Complexity: Typology, contact, change
Edited by Matti Miestamo, Kaius Sinnemäki and Fred Karlsson
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 94] 2008. xiv, 356 pp.
Subjects Contact Linguistics | Creole studies | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Articles
2022 Drastic demographic events triggered the Uralic spread Diachronica 39:4, pp. 490–524 | Article
The widespread Uralic family offers several advantages for tracing prehistory: a firm absolute chronological anchor point in an ancient contact episode with well-dated Indo-Iranian; other points of intersection or diagnostic non-intersection with early Indo-European (the Late… read more
2015 Negation in Skolt Saami Negation in Uralic Languages, Miestamo, Matti, Anne Tamm and Beáta Wagner-Nagy (eds.), pp. 353–376 | Article
This chapter describes negation in Skolt Saami in a typological perspective. In the standard negation construction, the negative marker is a negative auxiliary verb and the lexical verb appears in a non-finite form. Negative imperatives employ a special form for the negative auxiliary. The copula… read more
2015 Negation in Uralic languages – Introduction Negation in Uralic Languages, Miestamo, Matti, Anne Tamm and Beáta Wagner-Nagy (eds.), pp. 1–42 | Article
2009 Negation Grammar, Meaning and Pragmatics, Brisard, Frank, Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren (eds.), pp. 208–229 | Article
2008 Introduction: The problem of language complexity Language Complexity: Typology, contact, change, Miestamo, Matti, Kaius Sinnemäki and Fred Karlsson (eds.), pp. vii–xiv | Miscellaneous
2008 Grammatical complexity in cross-linguistic perspective Language Complexity: Typology, contact, change, Miestamo, Matti, Kaius Sinnemäki and Fred Karlsson (eds.), pp. 23–41 | Article
In this paper, I address theoretical and methodological issues in the cross-linguistic study of grammatical complexity. I identify two different approaches to complexity: the absolute one – complexity as an objective property of the system, and the relative one – complexity as cost/difficulty to… read more
2006 Negation Handbook of Pragmatics: 2006 Installment, Verschueren, Jef and Jan-Ola Östman (eds.), pp. 1–25 | Article
2006 John A. Hawkins. Efficiency and complexity in grammars Functions of Language 13:2, pp. 277–284 | Article
2006 Zygmunt Frajzyngier and Erin Shay (2003). Explaining Language Structure through Systems Interaction Studies in Language 30:3, pp. 617–626 | Miscellaneous
2001 Negation Handbook of Pragmatics: 1999 Installment, Verschueren, Jef, Jan-Ola Östman, Jan Blommaert † and Chris Bulcaen (eds.), pp. 1–25 | Article
Asymmetry in temporal specification between affirmation and negation: Adverbials and tense-aspect neutralization Studies in Language: Online-First Articles | Article
One cross-linguistically recurrent asymmetry between affirmation and negation is the neutralization of tense-aspect distinctions in negatives. A functional explanation proposed for this is that in their typical discourse context negatives have less need for temporal specification than… read more