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| Name: | John Haiman |
| Institution: | Macalester College |
| Email: | click here to access email |
| Homepage: | http://www.macalester.edu/~linguist/faculty.html |
| State and/or Country: |
Minnesota USA |
| Linguistic Field(s): |
Language Documentation Syntax Typology |
| Specialty: | Pragmatics; Language Change |
| Subject Language(s): |
Khmer, Central Yagaria |
| Language Family(ies): |
Rhaetian |
| Selected Publications: |
1974 Targets and syntactic change (mouton)
1980 Hua: a Papuan language of the eastern highlands of New Guinea (Benjamins) 1985 Natural Syntax: Iconicity and erosion (CUP) 1991 Hua dictionary (Harrassowitz) 1992 The rhaeto-romance languages (with Paola Beninca) Routledge 1998 Talk is cheap:Sarcasm, alienation, and the evolution oflanguage (OUP) |
| Announced on LINGUIST : |
Essays on Language Function and Language Type Cambodian |
| Reviewed on LINGUIST : |
Cambodian |
| Courses Taught: |
Origin and Evolution of Language;
Language and Alienation |
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