Thomas Givon

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Thomas Givon is affiliated with the following schools: University of California, Berkeley, University of Oregon, University of California, Los Angeles, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

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PhD Linguistics University of California, Berkeley
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According to Wikipedia, Thomas Givon is a linguist and writer. He is one of the founders of "West Coast Functionalism", today classified as a usage-based model of language, and of the linguistics department at the University of Oregon. Givón advocates an evolutionary approach to language and communication.

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Syntax: A Functional-Typological Introduction (1982) (1293)
On Understanding Grammar (1979) (1068)
Topic Continuity in Discourse (1983) (778)
Topic continuity in discourse: An introduction (1983) (652)
Topic continuity in discourse : a quantitative cross-language study (1983) (615)
Functionalism and Grammar (1995) (581)
Syntax : an introduction (2001) (432)
The grammar of referential coherence as mental processing instructions (1992) (336)
English grammar : a function-based introduction (1995) (327)
The Binding Hierarchy and the Typology of Complements (1980) (321)
Mind, Code, and Context: Essays in Pragmatics (1989) (298)
Iconicity, isomorphism, and non-arbitrary coding in syntax (1985) (229)
Evidentiality and Epistemic Space (1982) (215)
The Genesis of Syntactic Complexity: Diachrony, Ontogeny, Neuro-Cognition, Evolution (2009) (186)
Context as Other Minds: The Pragmatics of Sociality, Cognition and Communication (2005) (183)
Discourse and syntax (1982) (165)
ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE NUMERAL ‘ONE’ AS AN INDEFINITE MARKER (1981) (164)
Syntax: A functional-typological introduction. Volume I (1984) (163)
The pragmatics of word order: Predictability, importance and attention (1988) (157)
The evolution of language out of pre-language (2002) (156)
The pragmatics of de-transitive voice: Functional and typological aspects of inversion (1994) (155)
On the So-Called Sov Word Order in Mandarin Chinese: A Quantified Text Study and Its Implications (1985) (149)
Brain Plasticity in Learning Visual Words (1997) (141)
Coherence in spontaneous text (1995) (139)
Typology and Functional Domains (1981) (136)
From Discourse to Syntax: Grammar as a Processing Strategy in Discourse and Syntax. (1979) (133)
Irrealis and the subjunctive (1994) (131)
Coherence in text, coherence in mind (1993) (130)
The Time-Axis Phenomenon. (1973) (118)
Negation in Language: Pragmatics, Function, Ontology (1978) (115)
Function, structure, and language acquisition. (1985) (108)
Voice and inversion (1994) (101)
The evolution of dependent clause morpho-syntax in Biblical Hebrew (1991) (95)
Chapter 1. Historical syntax and synchronic morphology: An archaeologist’s field trip (2015) (92)
LOGIC VERSUS LANGUAGE: negation in language: pragmatics, function, ontology (1979) (91)
Universals of discourse structure and second language acquisition (1984) (89)
Ute reference grammar (1982) (89)
Serial verbs and the mental reality of ‘event’: Grammatical vs. cognitive packaging (1991) (88)
Markedness in Grammar: Distributional, Communicative and Cognitive Correlates of Syntactic Structure (1991) (85)
Prototypes: Between Plato and Wittgenstein (1986) (82)
8. Coming to terms with cognition: Coherence in text vs. Coherence in mind (1995) (80)
Topic continuity in spoken English (1983) (79)
Beyond foreground and background (1987) (76)
Syntactic complexity : diachrony, acquisition, neuro-cognition, evolution (2009) (75)
Topic continuity in discourse: The functional domain of switch-reference (1983) (74)
High thermoelectric potential of Bi2Te3 alloyed GeTe-rich phases (2016) (73)
The Rise of the English GET-Passive (1994) (71)
The Discourse Definition of Ergativity (1984) (71)
Conversation: Cognitive, communicative and social perspectives (1997) (70)
Logic vs. pragmatics, with human language as the referee: Toward an empirically viable epistemology (1982) (70)
Tense-Aspect Modality: The Creole Proto-Type and Beyond (1982) (69)
Internal reconstruction: As method, as theory (2000) (54)
Notes on the Semantic Structure of English Adjectives (1970) (51)
English Grammar: A function-based introduction. Volume I (1993) (49)
Syntax: An Introduction. Volume I (2001) (46)
On the Co-Evolution of Language, Mind and Brain (1998) (43)
Isomorphism in the Grammatical Code (1995) (43)
The Diachrony of Grammar (2015) (42)
The Pragmatics of Indefinite Reference: Quantified Text-based Studies (2021) (35)
Chapter 2. From discourse to syntax: Grammar as a processing strategy (2015) (34)
Cause and Control: On the Semantics of Interpersonal Manipulation (1975) (34)
Grammatical relations : a functionalist perspective (1997) (33)
Chapter 7. Serial verbs and syntactic change: Niger-Congo (2015) (33)
The Story of Zero (2017) (32)
Some Substantive Issues Concerning Verb Serialization: Grammatical vs. Cognitive Packaging (1991) (32)
Topic continuity and word-order pragmatics in Ute (1983) (30)
Grammatical Relations: An Introduction (1997) (28)
Syntax and Semantics, Volume 12: Discourse and Syntax (1982) (28)
BENEFITS AND DRAWBACKS OF CONTROLLED LABORATORY STUDIES OF SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION (1997) (27)
Memory and Conversation: Toward an Experimental Paradigm (1997) (25)
The functional approach to grammar (1999) (24)
Some Constraints on Bantu Causativization (1976) (24)
The pragmatics of word order (1988) (22)
Anaphora in discourse (1980) (22)
Syntax: An Introduction. 2 Volumes (Set) (2001) (20)
Indiscrete grammatical relations: The Lunda passive (2006) (20)
Cooperation and interpersonal manipulation in the society of intimates (2002) (20)
The Adaptive Approach to Grammar (2009) (17)
TRANSFORMATIONS OF ELLIPSIS, SENSE DEVELOPMENT AND RULES OF LEXICAL DERIVATION, (1967) (17)
Verb serialization in Tok Pisin and Kalam: A comparative study of temporal packaging (1990) (17)
Chapter 8. Topic, pronoun and grammatical agreement (2015) (17)
Chapter 4. Multiple routes to clause-union: The diachrony of complex verb phrases (2009) (17)
Some Substantive Issues Concerning Verb Serialization (1991) (16)
Discourse grammar and typology : papers in honor of John W.M. Verhaar (1995) (16)
Language typology in Africa: A critical Review (Typologie linguistique en Afrique: revue critique) (1979) (15)
The puzzle of Ngäbére auxiliaries: Grammatical reconstruction in Chibchan and Misumalpan (1990) (15)
Memory and Conversation (1997) (14)
Prolegomena to discourse-pragmatics☆ (1984) (14)
The pragmatics of de-transitive voice (1994) (13)
Toward a neuro-cognitive interpretation of 'context' (2001) (13)
THE DRIFT AWAY FROM ERGATIVITY:DIACHRONIC POTENTIALS IN SHERPA (1980) (13)
Grammatical relations in passive clauses: A diachronic perspective (2006) (13)
Chapter 15. The evolution of de-transitive voice in Tolowa Athabaskan (2015) (13)
On interpreting text-distributional correlations: some methodological issues (1992) (12)
The puzzle of Ngäbére auxiliaries (1990) (12)
Toward a diachronic typology of relative clause (2012) (12)
7. On the pre-linguistic origins of language processing rates (2002) (11)
SYNTACTICIZATION: from discourse to syntax: grammar as a processing strategy (1979) (10)
Introduction: Coherence as a mental entity (1995) (10)
Benefits and Drawbacks of Controlled Laboratory Studies of Second Language Acquisition. The Keck Second Language Learning Project. (1997) (10)
Forward Implications, Backward Presuppositions, and the Time Axis of Verbs (1972) (10)
Transitivity, Topicality, and the Ute Impersonal Passive (1982) (9)
Chapter 23. Serial verbs and the mental reality of ‘event’ (2015) (9)
On ordered rules and the modified base of ChiBemba verbs (1970) (8)
Chapter 9. The drift from VSO to SVO in Biblical Hebrew: The pragmatics of tense-aspect (2015) (8)
Generativity and Variation: The Notion ‘Rule of Grammar’ Revisited (2013) (8)
On the Intellectual Roots of Functionalism in Linguistics (2013) (8)
Multiple routes to clause union (2009) (7)
Tale of two passives in Ute (1988) (6)
On interpreting text-distributional correlations (1992) (6)
Nominalization and re-finitization (2016) (6)
Implications, presuppositions and the time-axis of verbs (1972) (5)
Beyond structuralism: Should we set a priori limits on our curiosity? (2013) (5)
The ontogeny of complex verb phrases: How children learn to negotiate fact and desire (2009) (5)
Representation of the interlocutor's mind during conversation (2005) (5)
Toward a neurology of grammar (1998) (5)
1. Prolegomena to any sane creology (1979) (5)
On the Verbal Origin of the Verbal Suffixes of Bantu Verb Suffixes (2010) (4)
1. The visual information-processing system as an evolutionaryprecursor of human language (2002) (4)
Note on the grammar of Turkish nominalizations (2002) (4)
Tense-Aspect Modality (1982) (4)
2. Markedness as meta-iconicity: Distributional and cognitive correlates of syntactic structure (1995) (4)
Chapter 8. The ontogeny of relative clauses: How children learn to negotiate complex reference (2009) (4)
The usual suspects: the grammar of perspective in narrative fiction. (1999) (3)
On the diachrony of the ‘Ethical Dative’ (2013) (3)
SOME NOUN-TO-NOUN DERIVATIONAL AFFIXES. (1967) (3)
The ontogeny of complex verb phrases (2009) (3)
Grammar as an adaptive evolutionary product (2014) (3)
GRAMMAR AND FUNCTION: toward a discourse definition of syntax (1979) (3)
On Understanding Grammar: Revised edition (2018) (2)
4. The Drift from VSO to SVO in Biblical Hebrew: The Pragmatics of Tense-Aspect (1977) (2)
Zero, pronouns and clause-chaining: Toward a diachronic understanding (2017) (2)
The diachrony of pronominal agreement: In UTE and maybe elsewhere (2016) (2)
4. Human language as an evolutionary product (2002) (2)
The Krio numeral “one” and the pragmatics of reference (1984) (2)
1. The functional approach to language and the typological approach to grammar (2001) (2)
METHODOLOGY: on the crypto-structuralist nature of transformational grammar (1979) (2)
4. Modal prototypes of truth and action (1995) (2)
The Diachronic Genesis of Synchronic Syntax (2015) (2)
Chapter 6. On the verbal origin of the Bantu verb suffixes (2015) (2)
LANGUAGE AND PHYLOGENY (1979) (1)
Part III. Ontogeny (2009) (1)
The White Linguist in Africa: Dynamics of Involvement (1972) (1)
On the diachrony of the Bantu copula ni (2015) (1)
4. Verbal inflections: Tense, aspect, modality and negation (1993) (1)
Indiscrete grammatical relations (2006) (1)
Verb serialization in Tok Pisin and Kalam (1990) (1)
The Tracking of Referents in Discourse: Automated vs. Attended Processes. Technical Report 85-3. (1985) (1)
6. Taking structure seriously, II: Grammatical relations (1995) (1)
7. The neuro-cognitive interpretation of ‘context’: Anticipating other minds (2002) (1)
LANGUAGE, FUNCTION AND TYPOLOGY (1985) (1)
The Life Cycle of Adpositions (2021) (1)
Grammatical relations in passive clauses (2006) (1)
8. Voice and de-transitivization (1993) (1)
4. Grammar and other minds: An evolutionary perspective (2005) (1)
8. Community as other mind (2005) (1)
Chapter 27. Nominalization, de-subordination and re-finitization (2015) (1)
3. The demise of competence (2002) (0)
Chapter 20. Interjections (2011) (0)
Chapter 16. Tale of two passives: Internal reconstruction in Ute (2015) (0)
4. Grammar and other minds (2005) (0)
5. Reference and definiteness (1993) (0)
14. Relative clauses (2001) (0)
13. De-transitive voice (2001) (0)
Chapter 14. Non-declarative speech acts (2011) (0)
Chapter 19. Lexical derivation patterns (2011) (0)
10. The pragmatics of martial arts (2005) (0)
Part II: Out of Africa (2015) (0)
LANGUAGE CHANGE: where does crazy syntax come from: diachronic constraints on synchronic grammars (1979) (0)
Part V: Complexity (2015) (0)
Chapter 10. The evolution of subordinate clauses in Biblical Hebrew (2015) (0)
Chapter 19. The evolution of Ute post-positions (2015) (0)
Chapter 18. The evolution of Ute case-marking (2015) (0)
7. The distribution of grammar in text: On interpreting conditional associations (1995) (0)
9. The society of intimates (2002) (0)
Chapter 2. Sound system and orthography (2011) (0)
Foreword to the first edition (2016) (0)
Chapter 30. The intellectual roots of functionalism in linguistics (2015) (0)
Chapter 4. Structure and use of the dictionary (2016) (0)
Chapter 8. Noun phrases-II: Larger noun modifiers (2011) (0)
Part III: Voices (2015) (0)
Chapter 25. The genesis of complex verb phrases: Multiple routes to clause-union (2015) (0)
Chapter 14. Diachronic hybrids: The Lunda Passive (2015) (0)
1. Prospectus, somewhat jaundiced (1995) (0)
Part IV: High up the mountain (2015) (0)
Chapter 10. From single words to verbal clauses: Where do simple clauses come from? (2009) (0)
Chapter 12. Relative clauses (2011) (0)
Chapter 29. Internal reconstruction: As method, as theory (2015) (0)
Chapter 3. The diachrony of grammar (2009) (0)
Contents of Previous Volumes (1979) (0)
2. The lexicon: Words and morphemes (2001) (0)
Chapter 21. The diachrony of complex verbs in Ute (2015) (0)
Chapter 6. Child language acquisition (2009) (0)
Chapter 12. Syntactic complexity and language evolution (2009) (0)
7. Discourse coherence and clause chaining (2005) (0)
Chapter 1: The communicative ecology of zero anaphora (2017) (0)
Chapter 22. The usual suspects: The grammaticalization of ‘do’, ‘be’, ‘have’ and ‘go’ in Ute (2015) (0)
PART II: Ute-English dictionary (2016) (0)
The usual suspects: Multiple grammaticalization of ‘do’, ‘be’, ‘have’, and ‘go’ in Ute (2016) (0)
2. Categories as prototypes (2005) (0)
Chapter 13. The rise of the English GET-passive (2015) (0)
Part I: Perspective (2015) (0)
6. The diachronic foundations of language universals (2002) (0)
Introduction (1985) (0)
Chapter 16. Comparative constructions (2011) (0)
16. Marked topic constructions (2001) (0)
Chapter 10. De-Transitive Voice (2011) (0)
Chapter 4. Simple clauses: Verb types, participant roles, and grammatical relations (2011) (0)
Chapter 3. Where does crazy syntax come from? (2015) (0)
Part I. Background (2009) (0)
Fact, Logic and Method: The Pragmatics of Science (2014) (0)
Chapter 15. Possession (2011) (0)
17. Non-declarative speech-acts (1993) (0)
Chapter 12. The evolution of indefinite markers (2015) (0)
Chapter 2. Word classes and word structure (2011) (0)
6. Propositional modalities (2005) (0)
PART III: English-Ute dictionary (2016) (0)
3. Semantic networks and metaphoric language (2005) (0)
Chapter 9. Second-language pidgin (2009) (0)
2. Categories as prototypes: The adaptive middle (2005) (0)
The syntax of literacy (2010) (0)
LANGUAGE AND ONTOLOGY (1979) (0)
7. Verbal complements (1993) (0)
F. R. Palmer, Modality and the English modals . London & NY: Longmans, 1979. Pp. 196, including bibliography & index; ppbk. (1981) (0)
The Tracking of Referents in Discourse: Automated versus Attended Processes. (1985) (0)
Chapter 17. Toward a diachronic typology of passive voice (2015) (0)
2. The bounds of generativity and the adaptive basis of variation (2002) (0)
4. Grammatical relations and case-marking systems (2001) (0)
18. Inter-clausal coherence (2001) (0)
9. The adaptive pragmatics of ‘self’ (2005) (0)
3. Simple verbal clauses and argument structure (2001) (0)
7. Tense, aspect and modality II: Typological organization (2001) (0)
12. Verbal complements and clause union (2001) (0)
10. On the ontology of academic negativity (2002) (0)
Linguistic Colonialism and De-Colonialisation: The School System as a Tool of Opression (1971) (0)
Epilogue: Joseph Greenberg as a theorist (2002) (0)
15. Contrastive focus constructions (1993) (0)
Chapter 1. Complexity: An overview (2009) (0)
6. Tense, aspect and modality I: Functional organization (2001) (0)
Fragments from an Oft-Postponed Visit (September 4, 1992) (2006) (0)
Chapter 6. Tense, aspect, modality and negation (2011) (0)
SEMANTIC CASE AND PRAGMATIC FUNCTION: promotion, accessibility, and the typology of case marking (1979) (0)
1. Language as a biological adaptation (2002) (0)
Chapter 1. Sound system and writing (2016) (0)
Adaptive Behavior, Group Variability and the Genetic Code: The Pragmatics of Bio-Evolution (2014) (0)
Chapter 5. The diachrony of Ute case-marking (2011) (0)
5. Taking structure seriously, I: Constituency and the VP node (1995) (0)
Part IV. Biology (2009) (0)
Song of Songs and Ecclesiastes (2019) (0)
Part VI: Prospective (2015) (0)
Chapter 28. Diachrony, ontogeny, and evolution (2015) (0)
The diachrony of Ute case-marking (2013) (0)
2. Vocabulary: Words and morphemes (1993) (0)
Chapter 13. Contrastive focus and emphasis (2011) (0)
PART I: Introductory materials (2016) (0)
5. Referential coherence (2005) (0)
10. Referential coherence II: Reference and definiteness (2001) (0)
The Pragmatics of Anaphoric Reference: Definiteness and Topicality (2014) (0)
Chapter 17. Adverbial clauses (2011) (0)
8. Community as other mind: The pragmatics of organized science (2005) (0)
9 Referential coherence I: Pronouns and grammatical agreement (2001) (0)
Chapter 4. The SOV mystery and language evolution (2015) (0)
P. Cole (ed.), Radical Pragmatics (1983) (0)
3. The functional basis of grammatical typology (1995) (0)
Chapter 11. The diachrony of the so-called ‘ethical dative’ (2015) (0)
Investigating internal ways of lexicon expansion in early PIE Observations on IE roots with potential (2017) (0)
Chapter 26. The genesis of complex noun phrases (2015) (0)
Chapter 9. Verbal complements (2011) (0)
Chapter 18. Clause chaining and discourse coherence (2011) (0)
Chapter 2. The adaptive approach to grammar (2009) (0)
Chapter 24. The puzzle of Ngabere auxiliaries: Comparative cum internal reconstruction in Chibchan and Misumalpan (2015) (0)
5. An evolutionary account of language processing rates (2002) (0)
8. The grammar of the narrator’s perspective in fiction (2002) (0)
5. Word order (2001) (0)
Namu-máy-vaa-tu- (2011) (0)
13. Inter-clausal connections and discourse coherence (1993) (0)
Chapter 20. The diachrony of pronominal agreement in Ute (2015) (0)
Reminiscences of the last 50 years and the way forward (2021) (0)
Chapter 11. The neuro-cognition of syntactic complexity (2009) (0)
Chapter 5. The diachrony of relative clauses: Syntactic complexity in the noun phrase (2009) (0)
Chapter 7. Noun phrases-I: Referential coherence (2011) (0)
3. Simple verbal clauses (1993) (0)
PART IV: Special semantic fields (2016) (0)

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