Anna Siewierska's Publications

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Siewierska, A. (to appear) Semantics. In J. Culpeper, F. Katamba,  P. Kerswill, T. McEnery & R. Wodak (eds),  London: Palgrave.

Siewierska, A. & D. Bakker (to appear). Weighing the semantic distinctions in person forms. In. H. Helmbrecht (ed.),

Siewierska, A. (to appear) The syntagmatic iconicity of person forms: a comparison across Languages.  In W. Kubinski & D. Stachowiak (eds.), Beyond Philology.

Siewierska, A. (to appear) Person asymmetries in zero expression and grammatical function.  In Essais de Linguistique Generale et de Typologie Linguistique offerts au Professeur Denis Creissels à l'occasion de ses 65 ans.

Siewierska, A. & D. Bakker (to appear). Three takes on grammatical relations. In B. Comrie &  V. Solovyev (eds.), Argument Structure in the Languages of Northern Eurasia. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Siewierska, A. (to appear). Historical and universal-typological linguistics. In J. Joseph and Linda R. Waugh (eds), Cambridge History of Linguistics.

Siewierska, A. (to appear) Typological universals. In Patrick Colm Hogan. (ed.), The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language Sciences.

2008

Siewierska, A. (ed.), (2008). Impersonal Constructions in Grammatical Theory. Special issue of Transactions of the Philological Society 106.2.

Siewierska, A. (ed.), (2008). Introduction: Impersonalization: an agent based vs. a subject based perspective. Transactions of the Philological Society 106.2:1-23.

Siewierska, A. & D. Bakker (2008). Case and alternative strategies. In. A. M. Malchukov & Spencer (eds), Handbook of Case. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 290-303.

  Siewierska, A. (2008). Person forms. In Jae Jung Song (ed.). The Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Typology. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Siewierska, A. (2008). Review of Y.N. Falk (2006). Subjects and Universal Grammar Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Journal of Linguistics 44.1, 530-534.

2007

Siewierska, A. & W. Hollmann (eds.), (2007). Ditransitive Constructions. Special issue of Functions of Language14.1                                                                 

Bakker, D. & A. Siewierska   (2007) Implementation of grammatical functions in FDG.  Alfa - Revista de Lingüística 51.2 www.alfa.ibilce.unesp.br.

Hollmann, W & A. Siewierska (2007)  A construction grammar account of possessive constructions in Lancashire dialect: some advantages and challenges. English Language and Linguistics 11.2: 407-424.

Siewierska, A & D.Bakker  (2007) Bound person forms in ditransitive clauses revisited. Functions of Language 14.1:103-125. special issue Ditransitive Constructions edited by A. Siewierska & W. Hollmann.

Siewierska, A. (2007) Ways of impersonalizing: pronominal vs. verbal strategies. In  Lachlan Mackenzie, Anne-Marie Simon-Vandenbergen,  Elsa Gonzáles Álvarez & María de los Angele Gomez- González (eds), Amsterdam John Benjamins. 27-61. 

Siewierska, A & W. Hollmann (2007) Ditransitive clauses in English with special reference to Lancashire dialect. In M. Hannay & Gerad Steen (eds.), Structural-Functional Studies in English Grammar. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 85-104.

Bakker, Dik & Anna Siewierska (2007) Another take on the notion subject. In M. Hannay & Gerad Steen (eds.), Structural-Functional Studies in English Grammar. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

2006

Hollmann, W & A. Siewierska (2006) Corpora and other methods in the study of Lancashire dialect, Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik 54.1: 21-34.

Siewierska, A & D. Bakker (2006). Semantic distinctions in person forms: unidirectional or bi-directional change. In Terttu Nevalainen, Juhani Klemola and Mikko Laitinen (ed.) Types of  Variation: Diachronic, Dialectal and Typological Interfaces. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 21-50.

Siewierska, A. (2006). Linguistic typology: where functionalism and formalism almost meet. In A. Duszak & U. Okulska (eds.), Bridges and Walls in Metalinguistic Discourse. Berlin: Peter  Lang, 57-76.

  Siewierska, A. & D. Bakker (2006) Inclusive/exclusive in free and bound person forms. In E. Filiminova (ed.), Incluisvity. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 149-176.

2005

Siewierska, A & D. Bakker (2005). The agreement  cross-reference continuum: person marking in Functional Grammar. In. K. Hengeveld & C. de Groot (eds.), Morphosyntactic expression in Functional Grammar. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter,  203 - 248.

  Siewierska, A (2005)  Gender in personal pronouns In  M. Haspelmath , M.S. Dryer, D. Gil & B. Comrie. (eds.). World Atlas of Language Structure. Oxford University Press, chapter 44, 182-185.

Siewierska, A (2005)  Alignment of person agreement marking. In  M. Haspelmath, M.S. Dryer, D. Gil & B. Comrie (eds.). World  Atlas of  Language Structure. Oxford University Press, chapter 100, 406-409.

Siewierska, A (2005)  Verbal person marking. In  M. Haspelmath  et al. (eds.). World Atlas of  Language Structure. Oxford University Press, chapter 102, 414-417.

Siewierska, A. (2005). Third-person zero of verbal person marking. In M. Haspelmath. 
M.S. Dryer, D. Gil & B. Comrie (eds.). World Atlas of Language Structure. Oxford University Press, chapter 103, 418-421.

  Siewierska, A (2005)  Order of person agreement markers. In  M. Haspelmath et al. (eds.). World Atlas of Language Structure. Oxford University Press, chapter 104, 422-425.

Siewierska, A (2005)  Passive constructions, In M. Haspelmath. M.S. Dryer, D. Gil & B. Comrie (eds.). World Atlas of Language Structure. Oxford University Press, chapter 107: 434-437.

Siewierska, A. (2005). Review of C.S. Butler (2003). Structure and Function -  A Guide to three Major  Structural-Functional Theories. Volumes 1 & 2. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Language.

2004

Siewierska. A. (2004) Person. Cambridge University Press. Cambridge.

  Hengeveld, K., J. Rijkhoff & A. Siewierska (2004). Parts of speech systems as a basic typological parameter. Journal of Linguistics 40.2, 527-570.

Bakker, D. & A. Siewierska (2004 ). 'Towards a Speaker model of Functional Grammar'. In L. Mackenzie & M. de los Ángeles Gómez (eds.). A New Architecturefor Functional Grammar. Berlin: Mouton der Gruyter, 325-364.

Siewierska, A. (2004). On the discourse basis of person agreement marking. In Tuija Virtanen (ed.),  Approaches to Cognition through Text and Discourse.  (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs 147) Berlin & New York.: Mouton de Gruyter, 31-46.

Siewierska, A. (2004). Review of Martin Haspelmath, Ekkehard König, Wulf Oesterreicher & Wolfgang Raible (eds.) (2001), Language typology and language universals: an international handbook. Volumes 1 & 2. Berlin & New York: Walter de Gruyter,   Pp xx + 1855. Journal of Linguistics 40.3: 683-687.

2003

Siewierska, A. (2003). Person agreement and the determination of alignment. Transactions of  the Philological Society. 101.2, 339-370.

 Siewierska, A. (2003). Reduced pronominals and argument prominence. In Miriam Butt and Tracy Holloway (ed.),  Nominals: Inside and Out. Stanford: CSIL Publications, 119-150.  (a substantially revised and updated version of Siewierska 1999)

2002

Bakker, D. & A. Siewierska (2002). 'Adpositions, the lexicon and expression rules'. In   Ricardo Mairal  Usón &  María Jesús Pérez Quintero  (eds.), New Perspectives on Argument Structure in Functional Grammar.  Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 125-178.

Siewierska, A (2002)  Word order. In N.J. Smelser & P.B. Baltes, International Encyclopedia  of the Social and Behavioral Sciences: Amsterdam-Lausanne-New York-Oxford-Shannon-   Singapore-Tokyo: Elsevier. 16552-5.

2001

Siewierska, A. (2001) Order correlations between free and bound possessors; perspectives from diachronic change. In Walter Bisang (ed.). Aspects of Typology and Universals. Berlin: Akadenie Verlag., 133-152.

Siewierska, A. (2001). On the argument status of cross-referencing forms. In M. Jesus. Perez Quintero (ed.), Challenges and developments in Functional Grammar. Revisita Canaria de Estudios Ingleses 4, 215-236..

2000

Baker, P, A. Hardie, A, McEnery and A. Siewierska, (eds.), Proceedings of the Third Discourse Anaphora and Reference  Resolution  Colloquium (2000). UCREL Technical  Papers Volume 12 Special Issue.  Department of Linguistics,  Lancaster University.

Siewierska, A. (2000) On the origin of the order of agreement and tense markers. In J.C. Smith Delia Bentley (eds),  Historical Linguistics 1995 vol.1 General issues and non-Germanic Languages. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 377-392.

Siewierska, A. (2000). Annotated bibliography of typology. In Annotate Bibliography of English Studies. Vol 108. Theoretical Linguistics. (Acronym ANSIEW) Swets and Zeitlinger. http://abes.swets.nl/abes.

Siewierska, A. (2000). Review of W. B. McGregor (1997). Semiotic Grammar. Oxford: Clarendon Press. Functions of Language 7.1: 168-172.

1999

Siewierska, A. (1999). From anaphoric pronoun to grammatical agreement marker: why objects don't make it.  Folia Linguistica 33/2 : 225-251.

Siewierska, A. (1999). Reduced pronominals and argument prominence. In Miriam Butt and Tracy Holloway (ed.), Proceedings of the LFG 99 Conference. CSIL Publications.     Http://www.csli.stanford.edu/publications

1998

Siewierska, A. & J. Jung Song (eds.) (1998). Case, Grammar and Typology. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Siewierska, A. (1998). Nominal and verbal person marking. Linguistic Typology 2, 1-53.

Siewierska, A. (1998). Languages with and without objects. Languages in Contact 1.2:173-190.

Siewierska, A (1998). From passive to inverse. In A. Siewierska & Jae Jung Song (eds.), 229-246.

Siewierska, A. (1998). Polish main clause constituent order and FG pragmatic functions. In. M. Hannay & A.M. Bolkestein (eds.), Functional Grammar and verbal interaction. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 243-266.

Siewierska, A. (1998). Review of Katalin E. Kiss (1995). Discourse Configurational Languages. New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press. Journal of Linguistics 34, 257-261.

1997

Siewierska, A. (ed.), (1997)  Constituent Order in the Languages of Europe. Berlin: Mouton der Gruyter.

Siewierska, A (1997). The formal realization of  case and agreement marking: a functional perspective. In: A-M. Simon-Vandenbergen, K. Davidse & D. Noel (eds.), Reconnecting Language. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 181-210.

Siewierska, A. (1997). Introduction. In: A. Siewierska (ed.), 1-18.

Siewierska, A. (1997). Variation in major constituent order: a global and an European perspective. In: A. Siewierska (ed.), 475-551.

Siewierska, A. & Ludmila Uhrílová (1997), Word order in Slavic. In: A. Siewierska (ed.), 105-149.

Siewierska, A, J. Rijkhoff & D. Bakker (1997). Appendix: Twelve word order variables in the languages of Europe. In A. Siewierska (ed.), 783-812.

1996

Siewierska, A. & D. Bakker (1996) The distribution of subject and object agreement and word order type. Studies in Language 20.1:115-161.

Siewierska, A. (1996). Word order type and alignment type. Sprachtypologie und Universalie-nforschung 49, 149-176.

1995

Siewierska, A. (1995). On the coding of grammatical relations. In P. H. Franses et al. (eds.), Van  Frictie tot wetenschap. Jaarboek 1994-1995 van Vereniging van Akademie-onderzoekers, 107-116.

Siewierska, A. (1995). Review of D.L. Payne (1992). Pragmatics of Word Order Flexibility. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Journal of Linguistics 31, 458-463.

1994

Siewierska, A. (1994b). The relationship between affix and main clause constituent order. In: B. Haftka (ed.), Was determiniert Worstellungsvariation?' Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag, 63-76.

Siewierska, A. (1994a) Word order and linearization. In: R.E. Asher et al. (eds), The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics. Edinburgh: Pergamon & Aberdeen University Press.

Siewierska, A. (1994). Review of J. Nichols (1992). Linguistic Diversity in Space and Time. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. Linguistics 32, 148-153.

1993

Siewierska, A. (1993). Subject and object order in written Polish: some statistical data. Folia Linguistica 27. 1/2, 147¬ 169.

Siewierska, A. (1993). Syntactic weight vs. pragmatic factors and word order variation in Polish. Journal of Linguistics 29, 233-265.

Bakker, D. & A. Siewierska (1993). Computerprogramma's voor taaltypologie (Computer programs for language typology). Gramma/Taal en Tekstwetenschap.2, 235-255.

Siewierska, A. (1993c). On the interplay of factors in the determination of word order. In:  J. Jacobs et al. (eds), Syntax: An International Handbook of Contemporary Research. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 826-846.

Siewierska, A. (1993a). Semantic functions and theta roles. Working Papers in Functional Grammar 55. University of Amsterdam. 

Bakker, D. & A. Siewierska (1993b). A contribution to constituent order explanations. Working Papers of The European Science Foundation eurotyp Project, 2.5, 126 144.

Siewierska, A. (1993c). On the ordering of subject agreement and tense affixes. Working Papers of The European Science Foundation eurotyp Project, 2.5, 101 126.

Siewierska, A. (1993 ). Review of M. H. Klaiman (1991). Grammatical Voice. Cambridge: CUP. Linguistics 31, 398¬ 401.

1992

Siewierska, A. (1992). Niet-subject-argumenten in Bantu talen: een FG analyse (Non-subject arguments in Bantu: an FG analysis). Taal en Tekstwetenschap 10.1, 23¬ 42.

Siewierska, A. (1992a) Layers in FG and GB. In: M. Fortescue, P. Harder & L. Kristoffersen (eds)   Layered Structure and Reference in a Functional Perspective. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 433-432.

Lehmann, Christian, Dik Bakker, Osten Dahl & Anna Siewierska (1992). EUROTYP Guidelines. Committee on Computations and Standardization. Working Papers of The European Science Foundation eurotyp Project.

Siewierska, A. (1992). Review of Talmy Givón (1990). Syntax. A Functional Typological Introduction. Vol 2. Amster¬dam: John Benjamins.  Forum der Letteren 33.4, 308¬ 311.

Siewierska, A. (1992). Review of Doris L. Payne (1990). The Pragmatics of Word Order. Typological Dimen¬sions of Verb Initial Languages. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Journal of Linguistics. 28, 256¬ 260.

1991

Siewierska, A. (1991). Functional Grammar. London: Routledge.

Bakker, D. & A. Siewierska (1991b). A data base system for language typology. Working Papers of The European Science Foundation eurotyp Project 2.2, 1-42.

Siewierska, A. (1991a). An overview of word order in Slavic languages. Working Papers of the European Science Foundation eurotyp Project, 2.1, 66-99.

1990

Siewierska, A. (1990a). Datives in Polish pseudo-reflexives. In: M. Hannay and E. Vester (eds), Working with Functional Grammar: Descriptive and Computational Applications. Dordrecht: Foris, 1-14.

Siewierska, A. (1990b). Fronting strategies in English. Zeszyty Naukowe Wydzialu Humanistycznego Uniwersytetu Gdanskiego 9, 9-29.

1989

Siewierska, A. (1989). Review of James D. McCawley. (1979). Adverbs, Vowels and Other Objects of Wonder. Studies in Language 11.2, 479-485.

1989

Siewierska, A. (1988). Word Order Rules. London: Croom Helm.

Siewierska, A. (1988). Postposed subject pronouns in Polish. Kwartalnik Neofilologiczny 35.3, 315-330.

Siewierska, A. (1988a). The passive in Slavic languages. In: M. Shibatani (ed.), Passives and Voicing. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 243-289.

Siewierska, A. (1988b) Automatyczne rozumienie jezyka naturalnego w oparciu o analizy skladniowe (Syntacitic based parsing strategies). Archiwum Computer Studio Kajkowski 2, 3-23.

1987

Siewierska, A. (1987). Postverbal subject pronouns in Polish in the light of topic continuity and the topic/focus distinction. In: J. Nuyts and G. de Schutter (eds). Getting the Words into Line. Dordrecht: Foris, 147-161.

1984

Siewierska, A. (1984). The Passive: A Contrastive Linguistic Analysis. London: Croom Helm.

Siewierska, A. (1984). Phrasal discontinuity in Polish. Australian Journal of Linguistics 4.1, 57-71.

Siewierska, A. (1984). Relational Grammar and exceptions to the passive. Zeszyty Naukowe Wydzialu Humanistycznego Uniwersytetu Gdanskiego 4, 27-39.

1983

Siewierska, A. (1983). Another theory of the passive that doesn't work. Linguistics 21.4, 557-571.