John Haiman
List of John Benjamins publications for which John Haiman plays a role.
Book series
ISSN 0167-7373
Journal
Titles
Subjects Austro-Asian languages | Language documentation
Essays on Language Function and Language Type: Dedicated to T. Givón
Edited by Joan L. Bybee, John Haiman and Sandra A. Thompson
[Not in series, 82] 1997. vi, 480 pp.
Subjects Functional linguistics | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Clause Combining in Grammar and Discourse
Edited by John Haiman and Sandra A. Thompson
[Typological Studies in Language, 18] 1988. xiii, 428 pp.
Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Theoretical linguistics
Iconicity in Syntax: Proceedings of a symposium on iconicity in syntax, Stanford, June 24–26, 1983
Edited by John Haiman
[Typological Studies in Language, 6] 1985. vi, 402 pp.
Subjects Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Switch Reference and Universal Grammar: Proceedings of a symposium on switch reference and universal grammar, Winnipeg, May 1981
Edited by John Haiman and Pamela Munro
[Typological Studies in Language, 2] 1983. xv, 337 pp.
Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Hua: A Papuan Language of the Eastern Highlands of New Guinea
John Haiman
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 5] 1980. iv, 550 pp.
Subjects Languages of Trans-New Guinea
Articles
2009 Decorative symmetry in ritual (and everyday) language Formulaic Language: Volume 2. Acquisition, loss, psychological reality, and functional explanations, Corrigan, Roberta, Edith A. Moravcsik, Hamid Ouali and Kathleen Wheatley (eds.), pp. 567 ff. | Article
2004 Review of Fonagy (2001): Languages within language: An evolutive approach Studies in Language 28:1, pp. 246–252 | Review
2003 Nouns, verbs and syntactic backsliding in Khmer Studies in Language 27:3, pp. 505–528 | Article
One of the difficulties in parsing Khmer is that morphosyntactic clues about the category membership of words are either lacking or misleading. In particular, words which seem to have the status of deverbal nominalizations because of a derivational infix -Vm(n)- are in fact “still”functioning as… read more
2002 Systematization and the origin of rules: The case of subject–verb inversion in questions Studies in Language 26:3, pp. 573–593 | Article
One of the design features of language is its systematicity: to a considerable extent, the rules of grammar relate not to the world outside, but only to other rules. They exist in autonomy from external motivations. Subject-verb inversion in the Germanic languages as a marker of interrogatives is a… read more
2002 The symmetry of counterfactuals Complex Sentences in Grammar and Discourse: Essays in honor of Sandra A. Thompson, Bybee, Joan L. and Michael Noonan (eds.), pp. 101–124 | Article
2000 Symmetrical Compounds in Khmer Studies in Language 24:3, pp. 483–514 | Article
Binomial coordinate compounds like English give and take are frequent in Khmer. Once the semantic motivation of these is opaque, the ones that survive are predominantly those which manifest some formal symmetry in the structure of their conjoined roots. The result is that Khmer has an enormous… read more
1999 From doing to saying Evolution of Communication 3:2, pp. 185–205 | Article
Exclamations, manners of speaking, performative verbs, and vocal gestures such as laughter frequently cannot be "translated" into propositional language without losing their identity as actions in some way. But not all exclamations, performatives, and vocal gestures are alike in this respect. Some… read more
1999 Action, Speech, and Grammar: The Sublimation Trajectory Form Miming Meaning, Nänny, Max and Olga Fischer (eds.), pp. 37 ff. | Article
1999 Auxiliation in Khmer the Case of Baan Studies in Language 23:1, pp. 149–172 | Article
From a typological perspective, the most striking — and perhaps the only noteworthy — feature of the auxiliation of the main verb baan 'get' in Khmer is that it migrates from V2 to V1 position, contravening the general tendency for grammatical morphemes to remain frozen in the same position where… read more
1998 The Metalinguistics of Ordinary Language: Some Case Studies Evolution of Communication 2:1, pp. 117–135 | Article
1998 Possible Origins of Infixation in Khmer Studies in Language 22:3, pp. 597–617 | Article
The existence of infixation in Austroasiatic has always been treated as a given: one of such antiquity that it has been proposed as a possible index of genetic affiliation with Austronesian. Nor does the comparative method allow the reconstruction of a typologically more plausible set of prefixes… read more
1997 Self-Abasement in Language: A Case Study on the Viability of a Metaphor Essays on Language Function and Language Type: Dedicated to T. Givón, Bybee, Joan L., John Haiman and Sandra A. Thompson (eds.), pp. 181 ff. | Article
1995 Moods and MetaMessages: Alienation as a Mood Modality in Grammar and Discourse, Bybee, Joan L. and Suzanne Fleischman (eds.), pp. 329 ff. | Article
1995 Grammatical Signs of the Divided Self: A Study of Language and Culture Discourse, Grammar and Typology: Papers in honor of John W.M. Verhaar, Abraham, Werner, T. Givón and Sandra A. Thompson (eds.), pp. 213 ff. | Article
1994 Ritualization and the development of language Perspectives on Grammaticalization, Pagliuca, William (ed.), pp. 3–28 | Article
1991 From V/2 to subject clitics: evidence from Northern Italian Approaches to Grammaticalization: Volume II. Types of grammatical markers, Traugott, Elizabeth Closs and Bernd Heine (eds.), pp. 135 ff. | Article
1990 Schizophrenic complementizers Studies in Typology and Diachrony: Papers presented to Joseph H. Greenberg on his 75th birthday, Croft, William A., Suzanne Kemmer and Keith Denning (eds.), pp. 79 ff. | Article
1989 Alienation in Grammar Studies in Language 13:1, pp. 129–170 | Article
1988 Inconsequential clauses in Hua and the typology of clauses Clause Combining in Grammar and Discourse, Haiman, John and Sandra A. Thompson (eds.), pp. 49 ff. | Article
1988 Incorporation, parallelism, and focus Studies in Syntactic Typology, Hammond, Michael, Edith A. Moravcsik and Jessica Wirth (eds.), pp. 303 ff. | Article
1988 Introduction Clause Combining in Grammar and Discourse, Haiman, John and Sandra A. Thompson (eds.), pp. ix ff. | Miscellaneous
1987 On Some Origins of Medial Verb Morphology in Papuan Languages Studies in Language 11:2, pp. 347–364 | Article
1985 Symmetry Iconicity in Syntax: Proceedings of a symposium on iconicity in syntax, Stanford, June 24–26, 1983, Haiman, John (ed.), pp. 73 ff. | Article
1985 Introduction Iconicity in Syntax: Proceedings of a symposium on iconicity in syntax, Stanford, June 24–26, 1983, Haiman, John (ed.), pp. 1 ff. | Miscellaneous
1983 On some origins of switch-reference marking Switch Reference and Universal Grammar: Proceedings of a symposium on switch reference and universal grammar, Winnipeg, May 1981, Haiman, John and Pamela Munro (eds.), pp. 105 ff. | Article
1978 A Study in Polysemy Studies in Language 2:1, pp. 1–34 | Article