Publications Jürgen Bohnemeyer

Event representation

Temporal reference

Argument structure

Spatial reference

Relativity and linguistic anthropology

Semantics and pragmatics

Complex syntax

Selected handouts

 

Event representation

in press The macro-event property: The segmentation of causal chains. (With N. J. Enfield, J. Essegbey, and S. Kita.) In J. Bohnemeyer and E. Pederson (eds.), Event representation in language and cognition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Abstract. Ms.

2007  Principles of event representation in language: The case of motion events. (With N. J. Enfield, J. Essegbey, I. Ibarretxe-Antuñano, S. Kita, F. Lüpke, and F. K. Ameka.) Language 83(3): 495-532. Abstract. Preprint.

2006  Ways to go: Methodological considerations in Whorfian studies on motion events. (With S. Eisenbeiss and B. Narasimhan) Colchester: University of Essex, Department of Language and Linguistics (Essex Research Reports in Linguistics 50: 1-19). Abstract. Preprint.

2003  The unique vector constraint: The impact of direction changes on the linguistic segmentation of motion events. In E. van der Zee and J. Slack (eds.), Representing direction in language and space. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 86-110. Abstract. Preprint.

2001  Prinzipien der Ereignisrepresentation am Beispiel von Bewegungsereignissen [Principles of event representation, with reference to motion events.] In: Jahrbuch 2001. Edited by the Max Planck Society. Goettingen: Vandenhoek & Ruprecht. 359-363. Preprint.

 

Temporal reference

2009  Temporal anaphora in a tenseless language. In W. Klein and P. Li (eds.), The expression of time in language. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 83-128. Preprint.

2004  Event realization and default aspect. Linguistics and Philosophy 27(3): 263-296. (with Mary Swift) Abstract. Preprint. Errata.

2003  Invisible time lines in the fabric of events: Temporal coherence in Yucatec narratives. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 13(2): 139-162. Abstract. Preprint.

2003  NSM without the Strong Lexicalization Hypothesis. Theoretical Linguistics 29(3): 211-222. Preprint.

2002  The grammar of time reference in Yukatek Maya. Munich: LINCOM. Abstract.

2000  Event order in language and cognition. In H. de Hoop and T. van der Wouden (eds.), Linguistics in the Netherlands, 17 (pp. 1-16). Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Abstract.

2000  Where do pragmatic meanings come from? The source of temporal inferences in discourse coherence. In W. Spooren, T. Sanders & C. van Wijk (Eds.), Samenhang in diversiteit. Opstellen voor Leo Noordman [Unity in diversity. Papers presented to Leo Noordman]. Tilburg: Tilburg University. 137-153.

1998  Temporal Reference from a Radical Pragmatics Perspective: Why Yucatec does not need to express ‘after’ and ‘before’. Cognitive Linguistics 9‑3 1998. 239‑282. Abstract.

1998  Temporale Relatoren im hispano‑yukatekischen Sprachkontakt [Temporal connectives in Spanish-Yukatekan language contact]. In A. Koechert & T. Stolz (Eds.), Convergencia e Individualidad. Las lenguas Mayas entre hispanización e indigenismo [Convergence and individuality: the Mayan languages between hispanization and indigenous identity activism]. Hannover etc.: Verlag für Ethnologie (Colección Americana; 9). 195‑241.

1997  Yucatec Mayan lexicalization patterns in time and space. In M. Biemans & J. v.d. Weijer (eds.), Proceedings of the CLS Opening Academic Year 1997-1998. Tilburg: Center for Language Studies. 73-106. Abstract.

 

Argument structure

under review Configuraciones temáticas atípicas y el uso de predicados complejos en perspectiva tipológica [Atypical thematic configurations and the use of complex predicates in typological perspective]. (With N. Enfield, J. Essegbey, A. Majid, and M. van Staden.) Submitted to Memorias del X Encuentro Internacional De Linguí­stica En El Noroeste. Editoriales UniSon, Hermosillo, Mexico. Preprint

in press Linking without grammatical relations in Yucatec: Alignment, extraction, and control. In Y. Nishina, Y. M. Shin, S. Skopeteas, E. Verhoeven, & J. Helmbrecht (Eds.), Issues in functional-typological linguistics and language theory: A Festschrift for Christian Lehmann on the occasion of his 60th birthday. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Abstract. Ms.

2007  Morpholexical transparency and the argument structure of verbs of cutting and breaking. Cognitive Linguistics 18(2): 153-177. Abstract. Preprint.

2007  The pitfalls of getting from here to there: Bootstrapping the syntax and semantics of motion event expressions in Yucatec Maya. In M. Bowerman & P. Brown (eds.), Cross-linguistic Perspectives on Argument Structure: Implications for Learnability. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. 49-68. Abstract. Preprint.

2004  Split intransitivity, linking, and lexical representation: the case of Yukatek Maya. Linguistics 42(1): 67-107. Abstract. Preprint.

2001  Argument and Event Structure in Yukatek Verb Classes. In J.-Y. Kim & A. Weerle (Eds.), The Proceedings of SULA: The Semantics of Under-Represented Languages in the Americas. Amherst, MA: GLSA. University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers in Linguistics 25: 8-19. Abstract. Preprint.

 

Spatial reference

in press. The language-specificity of Conceptual Structure: Path, Fictive Motion, and time relations. In B. Malt. & P. Wolff (Eds.), Words and the world. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Abstract. Preprint.

under review. Two Ways to Skin a Cat: Alternative Approaches to the Analysis of Spatial Demonstratives. Submitted to M. Dunn & S. Meira (in prep.), Demonstratives in Cross-linguistic Perspective. Ms.

in preparation. When going means becoming gone: Framing Motion as State Change in Yukatek Maya. Ms.

2008  Thinking-for-speaking: evidencia a partir de la codificación de disposiciones espaciales en español y yucateco [Thinking for speaking: Evidence from the encoding of spatial dispositions in Spanish and Yucatec]. Memoria del IX Encuentro Internacional De Lingüística En El Noroeste. Vol. 2. Hermosillo: Editorial UniSon. 175-190. (With V. Belloro, D. Gentner, and K. Braun.) Preprint.

2008  Object to path in Mesoamerica: Semantic composition of locative and motion descriptions in Yucatec Maya and Juchitán Zapotec. Memoria del IX Encuentro Internacional De Lingüística En El Noroeste. Vol. 2. Hermosillo: Editorial UniSon. 269-284. (With Gabriela Pérez Báez.) Preprint.

2008  Complex landscape terms in Seri. (With Carolyn O’Meara.) Language Sciences 30(2-3): 316-339. Abstract. Preprint.

2007  The pitfalls of getting from here to there: Bootstrapping the syntax and semantics of motion event expressions in Yucatec Maya. In M. Bowerman & P. Brown (eds.), Cross-linguistic Perspectives on Argument Structure: Implications for Learnability. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. 49-68. Abstract. Preprint.

2007  Principles of event representation in language: The case of motion events. (With N. J. Enfield, J. Essegbey, I. Ibarretxe-Antuñano, S. Kita, F. Lüpke, and F. K. Ameka.) Language 83(3): 495-532. Abstract. Preprint.

2007  Standing divided: dispositional predicates and locative predications in two Mayan languages. Linguistics 45(5-6): 1105-1151 (with P. Brown). Abstract.  Preprint.

2006  Ways to go: Methodological considerations in Whorfian studies on motion events. (With S. Eisenbeiss and B. Narasimhan) Colchester: University of Essex, Department of Language and Linguistics (Essex Research Reports in Linguistics 50: 1-19). Abstract. Preprint.

2006  Spatial reference in Yukatek Maya: a survey. In S. C. Levinson & D. P. Wilkins (eds.), Grammars of space. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 273-310. (with C. Stolz) Preprint.

2003  The unique vector constraint: The impact of direction changes on the linguistic segmentation of motion events. In E. van der Zee and J. Slack (eds.), Representing direction in language and space. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 86-110. Abstract. Preprint.

2001  Deixis. In N. J. Smelser & P. B. Baltes (Eds.), International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences. Volume 5. (Section Editor for Linguistics: B. Comrie). London: Elsevier. 3371-3375 Abstract. Preprint.

2001  Prinzipien der Ereignisrepresentation am Beispiel von Bewegungsereignissen [Principles of event representation, with reference to motion events.] In: Jahrbuch 2001. Edited by the Max Planck Society. Goettingen: Vandenhoek & Ruprecht. 359-363. Preprint.

1997  Yucatec Mayan lexicalization patterns in time and space. In M. Biemans & J. v.d. Weijer (eds.), Proceedings of the CLS Opening Academic Year 1997-1998. Tilburg: Center for Language Studies. 73-106. Abstract.

 

Relativity and linguistic anthropology

in press The language-specificity of Conceptual Structure: Path, Fictive Motion, and time relations. In B. Malt. & P. Wolff (Eds.), Words and the world. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Abstract. Preprint.

2008  Thinking-for-speaking: evidencia a partir de la codificación de disposiciones espaciales en español y yucateco [Thinking for speaking: Evidence from the encoding of spatial dispositions in Spanish and Yucatec]. Memoria del IX Encuentro Internacional De Lingüística En El Noroeste. Vol. 2. Hermosillo: Editorial UniSon. 175-190. (With V. Belloro, D. Gentner, and K. Braun.) Preprint.

2008  Complex landscape terms in Seri. (With Carolyn O’Meara.) Language Sciences 30(2-3): 316-339. Abstract. Preprint.

2006  Ways to go: Methodological considerations in Whorfian studies on motion events (With S. Eisenbeiss and B. Narasimhan) Essex Research Reports in Linguistics 50: 1-20. Abstract. Online version.

2003  Invisible time lines in the fabric of events: Temporal coherence in Yucatec narratives. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 13(2): 139-162. Abstract. Preprint.

2002  Review of Puetz, M. & Verspoor, M., Explorations in Linguistic Relativity. Language and Society 31(3): 452-456. Preprint.

2000  Event order in language and cognition. In H. de Hoop and T. van der Wouden (eds.), Linguistics in the Netherlands, 17 (pp. 1-16). Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Abstract.

1998  Time relations in discourse: Evidence from a comparative approach to Yukatek Maya. Doctoral dissertation, Tilburg Universty. Abstract.

1998  Temporal Reference from a Radical Pragmatics Perspective: Why Yucatec does not need to express ‘after’ and ‘before’. Cognitive Linguistics 9‑3 1998. 239‑282. Abstract.

1997  Yucatec Mayan lexicalization patterns in time and space. In M. Biemans & J. v.d. Weijer (eds.), Proceedings of the CLS Opening Academic Year 1997-1998. Tilburg: Center for Language Studies. 73-106. Abstract.

 

Semantics and pragmatics

2005  Short review of Löbner, S., Understanding Semantics. Linguistics 43(2): 443-448. Preprint.

2003  NSM without the Strong Lexicalization Hypothesis. Theoretical Linguistics 29(3): 211-222. Preprint.

2000  Event order in language and cognition. In H. de Hoop and T. van der Wouden (eds.), Linguistics in the Netherlands, 17 (pp. 1-16). Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Abstract.

2000  Where do pragmatic meanings come from? The source of temporal inferences in discourse coherence. In W. Spooren, T. Sanders & C. van Wijk (Eds.), Samenhang in diversiteit. Opstellen voor Leo Noordman [Unity in diversity. Papers presented to Leo Noordman]. Tilburg: Tilburg University. 137-153.

1998  Temporal Reference from a Radical Pragmatics Perspective: Why Yucatec does not need to express ‘after’ and ‘before’. Cognitive Linguistics 9‑3 1998. 239‑282. Abstract.

 

Complex syntax

in press Linking without grammatical relations in Yucatec: Alignment, extraction, and control. In Y. Nishina, Y. M. Shin, S. Skopeteas, E. Verhoeven, & J. Helmbrecht (Eds.), Issues in functional-typological linguistics and language theory: A Festschrift for Christian Lehmann on the occasion of his 60th birthday. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Abstract. Ms.

in press The macro-event property: The segmentation of causal chains. (With N. J. Enfield, J. Essegbey, and S. Kita.) In J. Bohnemeyer and E. Pederson (eds.), Event representation in language and cognition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Abstract. Ms.

1998  Die Stellung sententialer Topics im Yukatekischen. In D. Zaefferer (Ed.), Deskriptive Grammatik und allgemeiner Sprachvergleich [descriptive grammar and general language comparison]. Tübingen: Niemeyer (Linguistische Arbeiten; 383). 55‑85.

1994  Zur Onomasiologie der interpropositionalen Relationen [An onomasiological account of interpropositional relations]. Bielefeld: Faculty of Arts, Bielefeld University (AVG working papers; 6).

1993  On the domain of semasiological grammar. Bielefeld: Faculty of Arts, Bielefeld University (AVG working papers; 2).

 

Selected handouts

* some handouts from recent presentations not yet written up *

2009  Space in semantic typology: The MesoSpace project. Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies, Workshop on Grammar, space, and cognition. Albert-Ludwigs Universitaet Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany. Handout.

2009  Meronomia y marcos de referencia: Evidencia a traves del maya yucateco. The Fourth Conference on Indigenous Languages of Latin America. University of Texas, Austin. Handout. 

2009  The macro-event property and the LSC. With R. Van Valin, Jr. 2009 International Conference on Role and Reference Grammar. University of California, Berkeley. Handout.

2009  The grammar of parts, places, and paths in languages of Mexico. With R. Romero Méndez, C. O’Meara, and G. Pérez Báez. SULA 5: Semantics of Under-Represented Languages in the Americas. Harvard University/MIT. Handout.

2009  Path to second language via Conceptual Structure. With R. Romero Méndez. Workshop “The Mind-Context Divide”; Iowa City, IA. Handout.

2008  Volumes, surfaces, and extreme points: Meronymy and object-centered geometry in Yucatec Maya. Brown bag lunch talk, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL. Handout.

2008 Thinking for speaking: Evidence from the encoding of spatial dispositions in Spanish and Yucatec. Spatial Intelligence and Learning Center, Northwestern University and University of Chicago, Chicago, IL. Handout.

2007  Aspect, temporal anaphora, and tenseless languages: A new Gricean account. SULA 4: Semantics of Under-Represented Languages in the Americas. Universidade de São Paulo; May. Handout.

2007  How to hammer a shirt apart (and talk about it): Unusual instrument-theme configurations and complex predicates across languages. Unusual Events Fest; Stanford, CA: January. With N. Enfield, J. Essegbey, A. Majid, and M. van Staden. Handout.

2006  Force Dynamics and the progressive. Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America; Albuquerque, NM; January. With M. Swift. Handout.

2005  Gradability and the correct analysis of progressive achievements. Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America; Oakland, CA; January. Handout.

2004 When going means becoming gone: Framing motion as state change in Yukatek. Session “The expression of PATH in the languages of the Americas”; Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas; Boston, MA; January. Handout.

2003 Relative tense vs. aspect: The case reopened. SULA 2: Semantics of Under-Represented Languages in the Americas. Vancouver: March. Handout.

2003 Verb compounding in Yukatek Maya: A complex predicate analysis. Session “Complex predicates in the languages of the Americas”; Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas; Atlanta, GA; January. Handout.

2002 Activity nouns, unaccusativity, and argument marking in Yukatekan. Special Session “Denominal Verbs in the Languages of the Americas”; Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas; San Francisco, CA; January. Handout.

 

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