John Haiman
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- PhD Linguistics University of California, Berkeley
- Masters Linguistics University of California, Berkeley
- Bachelors Linguistics University of California, Berkeley
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, John Michael Haiman is an American linguist and professor at Macalester College. He has done fieldwork on the Hua language of Papua New-Guinea and has published on Khmer, Rhaeto-Romance and Germanic linguistics. In 1989 he received a Guggenheim fellowship for the study of sarcasm.
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- Iconic and Economic Motivation (1983) (598)
- THE ICONICITY OF GRAMMAR: ISOMORPHISM AND MOTIVATION (1980) (477)
- Conditionals are topics (1978) (465)
- Iconicity in Syntax (1987) (374)
- Clause Combining in Grammar and Discourse (1988) (296)
- Iconicity in Syntax: Proceedings of a Symposium on Iconicity in Syntax, Stanford, June 24-26, 1983 (1985) (270)
- Natural Syntax: Iconicity and Erosion (1985) (226)
- Ritualization and the development of language (1994) (209)
- Talk Is Cheap: Sarcasm, Alienation, and the Evolution of Language (1998) (201)
- Hua, a Papuan language of the eastern highlands of New Guinea (1980) (129)
- The Rhaeto-Romance Languages (1992) (104)
- A Combinatorial Formula for Nonsymmetric Macdonald Polynomials (2008) (93)
- “Subordination” in Universal Grammar (1984) (86)
- Essays on language function and language type : dedicated to T. Givón (1997) (75)
- Switch-reference and Universal Grammar: Proceedings of a Symposium on Switch Reference and Universal Grammar, Winnipeg, May 1981 (1983) (70)
- Targets and syntactic change (1974) (62)
- DICTIONARIES AND ENCYCLOPEDIAS (1980) (57)
- On some origins of switch-reference marking (1983) (49)
- On Conditionals: CONSTRAINTS ON THE FORM AND MEANING OF THE PROTASIS (1986) (46)
- Sarcasm as theater (1990) (42)
- Paratactic if-clauses (1983) (41)
- Alienation in Grammar (1989) (32)
- Symmetrical Compounds in Khmer (2000) (30)
- From V/2 to subject clitics: evidence from Northern Italian (1991) (30)
- In defence of iconicity (2008) (29)
- Repetition and identity (1997) (28)
- Phonological Targets and Unmarked Structures. (1972) (28)
- Ideophones and the Evolution of Language (2018) (25)
- On Some Origins of Medial Verb Morphology in Papuan Languages (1987) (22)
- Life, the universe, and human language (a brief synopsis) (1993) (15)
- "Auxiliation in Khmer: The Case of Baan." (1999) (14)
- Iconicity vs. grammaticalization: A case study (2011) (9)
- Inconsequential clauses in Hua and the typology of clauses (1988) (9)
- Moods and MetaMessages: Alienation as a Mood (1995) (9)
- Dictionaries and encyclopedias again (1982) (9)
- Grammatical Signs of the Divided Self: A Study of Language and Culture (1995) (9)
- Losses in Translation (2005) (8)
- A Study in Polysemy (1978) (7)
- Action, Speech, and Grammar: The Sublimation Trajectory (1999) (6)
- Possible origins of infixation in Khmer (1998) (6)
- The symmetry of counterfactuals (2002) (6)
- Connective Particles in Hua: An Essay on the Parts of Speech (1977) (5)
- Incorporation, parallelism, and focus (1988) (5)
- Moods and MetaMessages (1995) (5)
- Systematization and the origin of rules: The case of subject-verb inversion in questions (2002) (5)
- TARGETS AND PARADIGMATIC BORROWING IN ROMANTSCH (1971) (4)
- The creation of new words (2010) (4)
- Grammatical Signs of the Divided Self (1995) (4)
- From doing to saying (1999) (4)
- The Aesthetics of Grammar: Decorative morphology in Khmer (2013) (4)
- Decorative symmetry in ritual (and everyday) language (2009) (3)
- The Metalinguistics of Ordinary Language: Some Case Studies (1998) (3)
- Six competing motives for repetition (2014) (3)
- Nunggubuyu myths and ethnographic texts By Jeffrey Heath, and: Nunggubuyu dictionary By Jeffrey Heath, and: Functional grammar of Nunggubuyu By Jeffrey Heath (review) (2015) (2)
- Part I: Phonology (1980) (2)
- “Nouns, Verbs and Syntactic Backsliding in Khmer.” (2003) (2)
- Ablaut in the Hua Verb (1972) (2)
- Self-Abasement in Language: A Case Study on the Viability of a Metaphor (1997) (1)
- Coordinate Compounds and Khmer Phrase Structure. (2000) (1)
- Iconicity in Linguistics (2015) (1)
- High Transitivity in Hua (1982) (1)
- From V/2 to subject clitics (1991) (1)
- Remarks on John Haiman , 1999 (1)
- 9 Prenominal qualifiers (1980) (0)
- 16.3 Subject-verb agreement (1980) (0)
- Nunggubuyu Myths and Ethnographic Texts@@@Nunggubuyu Dictionary@@@Functional Grammar of Nunggubuyu (1986) (0)
- 16.1 The expression of possession (1980) (0)
- 14.1 The existence of a predicate node (1980) (0)
- 17.1 Coordinate medials (1980) (0)
- 20.2 Topics (1980) (0)
- 4.2 The sequential constraints (1980) (0)
- 7.2 The auxiliary and desinential suffixes (1980) (0)
- 16 Agreement phenomena (1980) (0)
- Review of “Languages within language: An evolutive approach” by Ivan Fonagy (2004) (0)
- 19.5 Obligation and uncertainty (1980) (0)
- Linguistic Society of America Iconic and Economic Motivation (2007) (0)
- 8.1 The internal structure of the stem (1980) (0)
- Linguistic Society of America Iconic and Economic Motivation (2007) (0)
- 15.4 The syntactic structure of to- support (1980) (0)
- Play, Art, and Language: Motivations for Repetition (2018) (0)
- 4.3 Stress (1980) (0)
- Hagit Borer (ed.), The syntax of pronominal clitics . (Syntax & Semantics, 19.) New York: Academic Press, 1986. Pp. xii + 380. (1990) (0)
- 17.3 Subordinate medials (1980) (0)
- 10.1 Postpositions (1980) (0)
- 9. Explicit clause combining (2011) (0)
- 0 The phoneme inventory (1980) (0)
- 10. How do Khmer words change their meanings (2011) (0)
- 1.2 The rule shwa insertion (1980) (0)
- 8. Complex verbal predicates and verbal clumps (2011) (0)
- 21.1 Origin of the Siane (1980) (0)
- 21.4 The wild woman and the domesticated woman (1980) (0)
- 3.1 Verb stem alternations (1980) (0)
- 1 Rules which create unmarked syllables (1980) (0)
- Appendix: the linguistic landscape (1980) (0)
- 4. Symmetrical compounds (2011) (0)
- Part II: Morphology (1980) (0)
- Hua-English dictionary with an English-Hua index (1991) (0)
- 8.3 Prefixes on the noun complex (1980) (0)
- 13.1 Verbal suffixes (1980) (0)
- 7.3 Verbal prefixes (1980) (0)
- Nunggubuyu myths and ethnographic texts. By JEFFREY HEATH. (AIAS new series, 23.) Canberra: Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, 1980. Pp. (2016) (0)
- 6. Indexical words (2011) (0)
- Vocal Gestures, or Suiting the Word to the Action (2018) (0)
- Ray Jackendoff. Semantics and Cognition. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press. 1983. Pp. xiii + 283. US $27.50. (1985) (0)
- 4.1 The boundaries (1980) (0)
- Self-Abasement in Language (1997) (0)
- Instead of an Introduction (1997) (0)
- 10 Miscellaneous parts of speech (1980) (0)
- 20.1 A diagnostic for paragraphs (1980) (0)
- 10.2 Conjunctions (1980) (0)
- 1.1 Rules of coalescence (1980) (0)
- 1.3 The interaction of coalescence and shwa insertion (1980) (0)
- 10.3 Interjections (1980) (0)
- From Doing to Saying, or Ideophones as a Possible Solution to the Ritualization Problem (2018) (0)
- 21 Hua oral literature (1980) (0)
- Lexical Origins of Ideophones (2018) (0)
- 5. The conventional noun phrase (2011) (0)
- 2.2 Minor rules (1980) (0)
- 4.4 Tone (1980) (0)
- 5. Summary and conclusions (2019) (0)
- The Gestural Origins of Human Language (2018) (0)
- 22.1 Comparative notes on Zavina (Gimi) (1980) (0)
- 2.1 Prenasalization and preglottalization (1980) (0)
- 3.4 A note on transcription (1980) (0)
- Appendix 4. Story of A:le:v (2011) (0)
- 2. The structure of words (2011) (0)
- 19.1 Desire (1980) (0)
- 3. Derivational morphology and word formation (2011) (0)
- 17.4 A diagnostic for tense (1980) (0)
- 3.2 Morphophonemics of the desinences (1980) (0)
- 11.2 Interrogative nouns (1980) (0)
- 5.1 Vowels (1980) (0)
- A further note on transcription (1980) (0)
- 22 Hua in its multilingual context (1980) (0)
- 7.1 Main verbs as compounds (1980) (0)
- Part III: Syntax (1980) (0)
- 17 Asymmetrical coordination (1980) (0)
- 19.3 Ability (1980) (0)
- 15.1 Copula and existential verbs (1980) (0)
- 1. Phonology and orthography (2011) (0)
- 13 Derivational morphology (1980) (0)
- 8 Noun complexes (1980) (0)
- 5.2 Consonants (1980) (0)
- What Are Ideophones (2018) (0)
- Language Contact in Khmer (2020) (0)
- 19.2 Dislike, distaste, and fear (1980) (0)
- Showing and not telling in a sign language (2020) (0)
- 15.6 Ergative and nominative (1980) (0)
- From His Colleagues (1997) (0)
- 13.2 Noun-forming suffixes (1980) (0)
- 15.3 Benefactive constructions (1980) (0)
- 12 Syntactic definitions of the parts of speech (1980) (0)
- "The Syntax of Pronominal Clitics by Borer, H." (1990) (0)
- 16.2 Verb-object agreement (1980) (0)
- 21.3 How penes got short (1980) (0)
- 11.1 Interrogative verbs (1980) (0)
- 6 The parts of speech (1980) (0)
- Index to Volume 22, 1998 (1968) (0)
- Part IV: Texts (1980) (0)
- 3.3 Summary: the rules and their ordering (1980) (0)
- Brian Joseph. The Synchrony and Diachrony of the Balkan Infinitive: A Study in Areal, General, and Historical Linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1983. Pp. xiv + 341. US$39.50 (hardcover). (1985) (0)
- 9.1 Deictics (1980) (0)
- 15.5 Impersonal transitive verbs (1980) (0)
- Appendix 1. Proverbs (2011) (0)
- 11 Interrogative words (1980) (0)
- Appendix 3. A:nji: and A:lo: (2011) (0)
- 7 Verb complexes (1980) (0)
- 11. The parts of speech (2011) (0)
- Action, Speech, and Grammar (1999) (0)
- Stephen A. Wurm, editor. New Guinea and Neighbouring Areas: A Sociolinguistic Laboratory . Contributions to the Sociology of Language, 24. The Hague: Mouton, 1979. Pp. viii + 289. (1982) (0)
- 19.4 Permission (1980) (0)
- 7. Clausal syntax (2011) (0)
- 17.2 The semantics of conditional clauses (1980) (0)
- 19.6 Modal opacity and modal neutrality (1980) (0)
- 13.4 Nominalized relative clauses (1980) (0)
- 9.2 Quantifiers (1980) (0)
- 8.2 Nominal suffixes (1980) (0)
- 14.2 The position of desinences in a tree representation (1980) (0)
- 2 Other contact rules (1980) (0)
- 18 Symmetrical coordination (1980) (0)
- 2.3 Conclusion (2020) (0)
- 21.2 The man who fucked knotholes (1980) (0)
- Appendix 5. The Rabbit and the Tigress (2011) (0)
- 13.3 Bivalent nomino-adjectival suffixes (1980) (0)
- Leiv Egil Breivik. Existential There: A Synchronic and Diachronic Study. (Studia Anglistica Norvegica 2). Bergen: Department of English, University of Bergen. 1983. Pp. xiv + 458. NKr. 135,-. (1986) (0)
- 22.2 Comparative notes on Kma (Siane) (1980) (0)
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