{"id":79,"date":"2008-10-30T16:11:15","date_gmt":"2008-10-30T14:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elanguage.net\/blogs\/booknotices\/?p=79"},"modified":"2008-10-30T16:16:52","modified_gmt":"2008-10-30T14:16:52","slug":"language-variation-papers-on-variation-and-change-in-the-sinosphere-and-in-the-indosphere-in-honour-of-james-a-matisoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/?p=79","title":{"rendered":"Language variation: Papers on variation and change in the Sinosphere and in the Indosphere in honour of James A. 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Matisoff. Ed. by <strong>David Bradley<\/strong>, <strong>Randy LaPolla<\/strong>, <strong>Boyd Michailovsky<\/strong>, and <strong>Graham Thurgood<\/strong>. (Pacific linguistics 555.) <st1:city w:st=\"on\"><st1:place w:st=\"on\">Canberra<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>: Pacific Linguistics, 2003. Pp. xii, 320. ISBN <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/oclc\/56586040&amp;referer=brief_results\" target=\"_blank\">085883541<\/a>. $73.93.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 6pt 0cm 18pt; text-align: right; line-height: 150%\" align=\"right\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Arial\" lang=\"EN-US\">Reviewed by <strong>Picus S. Ding<\/strong>, <em>Macao Polytechnic Institute<\/em><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: 150%\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Arial\" lang=\"EN-US\">This is a collection of nineteen papers in honor of James Matisoff, a leading figure in the linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman area. The volume starts with a brief biography of Matisoff, followed by David Bradley\u2019s introduction, which highlights Matisoff\u2019s major academic achievements (1\u201320). The themes of the papers can be roughly divided into seven groups: (A) phonology, (B) morphology, (C) syntax, (D) grammar and discourse, (E) language contact, (F) lexicon, and (G) orthography. Group A includes <strong>Martha Ratliff<\/strong>\u2019s discussion of Hmong secret languages (21\u201333), <strong>Jackson Sun<\/strong>\u2019s account of tonal developments in Tibetan (35\u201351), <strong>Robert Bauer<\/strong>\u2019s description of the impact of English loanwords on the Cantonese syllabary (253\u201361), and <strong>Jerold Edmondson<\/strong>\u2019s study of the phonological system of Phu Kha, X\u00e1 Ph\u00f3, and Vietnam Lolo (305\u201320). Group B covers <strong>Carol Genetti<\/strong>\u2019s account of some case studies on linguistic variation found in Newar (53\u201363), <strong>Balthasar Bickel<\/strong>\u2019s proposal of prosodic tautomorphemicity in Sino-Tibetan word structure (89\u201399), and <strong>Benji Wald<\/strong>\u2019s comparative notes on verb compounding in English and East Asian languages (201\u201318). Group C contains <strong>Aim\u00e9e Lahaussois<\/strong>\u2019s description of split ergativity in Thulung Rai (101\u201312), <strong>Yasuhiko Nagano<\/strong>\u2019s remarks on negation particles in Gyarong (159\u201372), and <strong>David Peterson<\/strong>\u2019s study of agreement and grammatical relations in Hyow (173\u201383). <o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: 150%\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Arial\" lang=\"EN-US\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: 150%\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Arial\" lang=\"EN-US\">Group D encompasses <strong>Randy LaPolla<\/strong>\u2019s explication of why languages differ in terms of variation in the conventionalization of constraints on inference (113\u201344), and <strong>Martine<\/strong> <strong>Mazaudon<\/strong>\u2019s study of the interface between discourse and grammar in Tamang (145\u201357). Group E consists of <strong>Michael Noonan<\/strong>\u2019s study of language contact between Tibeto-Burman languages and Nepali (Indo-European) in the Himalaya (65\u201387), <strong>Graham Thurgood<\/strong> and <strong>Fengxiang Li<\/strong>\u2019s account of contact-induced variation and syntactic change in Tsat (Austronesian) (185\u2013200), and <strong>Michel Ferlus<\/strong>\u2019s discussion of borrowing from Middle Chinese into Proto Tibetan (63\u201375). Group F includes <strong>David Bradley<\/strong>\u2019s discussion of deictic patterns in Lisu and Southeastern Tibeto-Burman (219\u201336), and <strong>Boyd Michailovsky<\/strong>\u2019s comparison of time ordinals in Kiranti languages (237\u201351). Group G comprises <strong>Mark Hansell<\/strong>\u2019s study of variations in Chinese character choice in writing loanwords in <st1:country-region w:st=\"on\"><st1:place w:st=\"on\">Taiwan<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region> (277\u201390) and <strong>R. Sprigg<\/strong>\u2019s analysis of features of the Lepcha and Limbu scripts (291\u2013304).<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: 150%\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Arial\" lang=\"EN-US\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: 150%\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Arial\" lang=\"EN-US\">As the majority of languages studied in this volume are \u2018exotic\u2019, the reader should find many interesting facts about languages that they probably have not heard of. Taking language variation as the basic theme, these papers concern differences observed within the linguistic system. While LaPolla advances an intralanguage explanation for the divergence of languages, Noonan has touched upon a crucial interlanguage factor: language contact, which is a double-edged sword to linguistic diversity. As noted by Thurgood and Li, the chronic language contact with Min and Cantonese has siniticized the typological profile of Tsat, but the acute language contact with Mandarin as a national language is threatening to replace it, just like what Nepali is doing to Kiranti languages. <o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Language variation: Papers on variation and change in the Sinosphere and in the Indosphere in honour of James A. Matisoff. Ed. by David Bradley, Randy LaPolla, Boyd Michailovsky, and Graham Thurgood. (Pacific linguistics 555.) Canberra: Pacific Linguistics, 2003. Pp. xii, 320. ISBN 085883541. $73.93. Reviewed by Picus S. 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