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Books by Andreas Hölzl

(Studies in Diversity Linguistics 20.) Berlin: Language Science Press, 2018

Review: Vajda, Edward. 2020. International Journal of Eurasian Linguistics 1(2). 361–365. DOI: ht... more Review: Vajda, Edward. 2020. International Journal of Eurasian Linguistics 1(2). 361–365. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/25898833-12340021

Edited volumes by Andreas Hölzl

Studies in Diversity Linguistics 33, 2024

Enke, Dankmar W., Larry M. Hyman, Johanna Nichols, Guido Seiler, Thilo Weber & Andreas Hölzl (eds... more Enke, Dankmar W., Larry M. Hyman, Johanna Nichols, Guido Seiler, Thilo Weber & Andreas Hölzl (eds.). 2024. Language change for the worse (Studies in Diversity Linguistics 33). Berlin: Language Science Press. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5116353

Studies in Diversity Linguistics 32, 2022

Hölzl, Andreas & Payne, Thomas E. (eds.). 2022. Tungusic languages: Past and present. (Studies in... more Hölzl, Andreas & Payne, Thomas E. (eds.). 2022. Tungusic languages: Past and present. (Studies in Diversity Linguistics 32). Berlin: Language Science Press. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7025328

with Matthias Klumm, Mara Matičević, Thomas Scharinger, Johannes Ungelenk & Nora Zapf ISBN: 97... more with Matthias Klumm, Mara Matičević, Thomas Scharinger, Johannes Ungelenk & Nora Zapf

ISBN: 978-3-8260-5645-1

"politics of metaphor"

Aktuelle weltpolitische Herausforderungen, Politikverdrossenheit oder allgegenwärtige Poitisierun... more Aktuelle weltpolitische Herausforderungen, Politikverdrossenheit oder allgegenwärtige Poitisierung banalster Sachverhalte: Politik ist, jenseits dieser Debatten um "das Politische" untrennbar mit Sprache verbunden. Der vorliegende interdisziplinäre Tagungsband beleuchtet die Wechselbeziehungen zwischen Politik und Sprache mit Blick auf eine prominente Figur der Sprache: die Metapher.

Sprachwissenschaftliche, literaturwissenschaftliche, philosophische und poetische Beiträge geben Antworten auf folgende und ähnliche Fragen: Was macht Metaphern mächtig? Welches „politische“ Potenzial kommt der Metapher als Metapher zu? Welche Bedeutung haben metaphorische Redeweisen im religiösen, ökonomischen oder wissenschaftlichen Diskurs? Wie werden politische Metaphern in literarischen Texten verwendet?

Papers by Andreas Hölzl

The lost voices of Guizhou: Rediscovering the languages of the Luren

Cahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientale, 2025

This study provides the first comprehensive analysis of the languages formerly spoken by the Lure... more This study provides the first comprehensive analysis of the languages formerly spoken by the Luren in Southwest China. During the 20th century, the speakers underwent language shift to Southwestern Mandarin and were subsequently misclassified as Manchus. The analysis of the available linguistic data in the form of six word lists reveals that the Luren formerly spoke two different languages. Neither of the languages has any connection to Manchu. Instead, one of them is shown to be related to the neighboring “Ta-Li” languages Longjia and Caijia that probably belong to the Sinitic branch of Trans-Himalayan (or Sino-Tibetan). The other language for the moment is not demonstrably related to any surrounding languages and could form a previously unknown stock of its own. If confirmed, this would be the first language isolate ever discovered in Guizhou. Both languages could therefore play a crucial role in our understanding of the linguistic evolution of East Asia.

Eurasiatica 22, 189-217, 2025, 2025

Deictic day names like English yesterday, today, and tomorrow are a potentially universal but neg... more Deictic day names like English yesterday, today, and tomorrow are a potentially universal but neglected field in cross-linguistic research. This study presents a comprehensive panchronic analysis of the deictic day name system in the Manchuric branch of the Tungusic family. Based on a small sample of languages, it establishes several typological dimensions of variation within the domain that serve as a background for the analysis. It demonstrates that Manchuric languages exhibit an unusual asymmetric system. The study also shows that Manchuric differs markedly from other Tungusic languages, which is explained by language contact.

Postnominal flagging and OV in Sinitic: Areal and typological perspectives

Studies in Language, 2024

Sinitic languages are known for their SVO order and mostly isolating morphology. This study addre... more Sinitic languages are known for their SVO order and mostly isolating morphology. This study addresses eleven languages of four different areas in Hunan, Yunnan, Sichuan, and Qinghai/Gansu provinces in China that possess SOV order and developed a postnominal flagging system. This study presents a synchronic description as well as a diachronic analysis of the flagging systems in these languages, focusing on typological properties (ergative or secundative alignment) and the role of language contact. The existence of four separate areas with limited mutual contact allows a contrastive approach and inferences on the role of different contact languages (Tibetic, Mongolic, Tujia) or different types of language contact (borrowing of flags, shared grammaticalization). The study argues against OV order and postnominal flagging as defining features of the “Amdo Sprachbund”, showing that these are universally present in all four areas and are better understood as the result of contact between two Eurasian macro areas.

Diachronic changes in constructional networks: Evidence from Manchuric nominal morphology

Constructions and Frames 15(2). 160–186, 2023

This study investigates diachronic changes in constructional networks illustrated with examples f... more This study investigates diachronic changes in constructional networks illustrated with examples from the Manchuric branch of Tungusic, an endangered language family spoken in Northeast Asia. Earlier studies have noted pronounced differences between this branch and the rest of the family, such as a reduction in morphological complexity and partial restructuring of the morphosyntactic system. Based on the framework of Diachronic Construction Grammar, this study investigates aspects of nominal morphology, including flagging and indexing. These are especially promising for a better understanding of the evolution of Manchuric and have not often been discussed in terms of Construction Grammar.

International Journal of Eurasian Linguistics 4(2): 160–208, 2022

Language Documentation and Description 20, 2021

Available at: http://www.elpublishing.org/itempage/224 Errata: Zhang & Ji should be Zhang & L... more Available at: http://www.elpublishing.org/itempage/224

Errata:
Zhang & Ji should be Zhang & Li
mpao31 should be mpau31
Luezi should be Liuezi

Language Dynamics and Change, 11, 273-325, 2021

IJDL - International Journal of Diachronic Linguistics & Linguistic Reconstruction 16: 87–144, 2019

Abstract: The language of the Kyakala in China is a seemingly extinct Tungusic language that is o... more Abstract: The language of the Kyakala in China is a seemingly extinct Tungusic language that is only known through Chinese publications from the 1980s (i.e., Mu Yejun 1986, 1987, Mu Yejun & Ma Wenye 1983, Mu’ercha Yejun & Meng Huiying 1986, cf. Janhunen 1996, 1997, Fu, Guo & Janhunen 1999, Hölzl 2018b). This paper analyzes additional data that consist of a wedding song that was published in Chinese by Mu’ercha Anbulonga & Mu’ercha Yiling’a (1983) and has not been investigated in detail yet. This song, which apparently is the only extant text available for this language, is an integral part of a wedding ritual. The new data confirm Hölzl’s (2018b) hypothesis that Chinese Kyakala is best classified with the Jurchenic subbranch, although it exhibits certain indications of being a mixed Tungusic language.

摘要：生活在東北的恰喀拉人曾有自己的語言“恰喀拉語”，簡稱“恰語”。其相關資料只見於滿語專家穆曄駿等於20世紀80年代出版的論文。文章首次以語言學、儀式理論的角度分析了穆爾察·安布隆阿、穆爾察·依淩阿《淺談“恰喀拉合巹歌”》記載的恰喀拉人的婚禮歌曲《滿洲恰喀拉阿查布莫烏春》及婚禮儀式。作為目前已知唯一的一篇完整的恰語文獻，該材料證實了霍安頔的推論，即恰語應屬滿語支，同時也受到了其他通古斯語的影響。

IJDL - International Journal of Diachronic Linguistics and Linguistic Reconstruction 15: xv-xx, 2018

This festschrift is devoted to Prof. Wolfgang Schulze's 65 th birthday. Schulze holds the chair f... more This festschrift is devoted to Prof. Wolfgang Schulze's 65 th birthday. Schulze holds the chair for General Linguistics at the University of Munich since 1992. He has made countless contributions to Typology, Cognitive Linguistics, and to the study of Caucasian languages. He is especially well-known for his work on Udi and Caucasian Albanian. This volume contains 17 contributions by 19 authors. Diese Festschrift ist Prof. Wolfgang Schulze zu seinem 65. Geburtstag gewidmet. Wolfgang Schulze hat seit 1992 die Professur für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft an der Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München inne und hat unzählige Beiträge zur Typologie, zur Kognitiven Linguistik und zum Studium der kaukasischen Sprachen vorzuweisen. Dort ist er besonders für seine Arbeit am Udi und am Kaukasisch-Albanischen bekannt. Dieser Band enthält 17 Beiträge von 19 Autoren.

IJDL - International Journal of Diachronic Linguistics and Linguistic Reconstruction 15: 111–146, 2018

This preliminary paper

Bavarian Working Papers in Linguistics 5: 17-28, 2016

Missing reference: Graczyk, Randolph. 2007. A grammar of Crow. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Pr... more Missing reference: Graczyk, Randolph. 2007. A grammar of Crow. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.

Studies in Language 39(1): 118–159, 2015

Negation seems to be a universal linguistic category, yet languages differ vastly in how they exp... more Negation seems to be a universal linguistic category, yet languages differ vastly in how they express it. Tungusic languages show several interesting and typologically rare phenomena. The paper offers a typological description of negation within the whole language family from an onomasiological perspective. But some remarks on the etymology of certain negators are made as well. There are three main patterns of "standard negation". The historically oldest type (A) employs a negative verb similar to the Uralic languages, the second pattern (B) is a grammaticalized version of the first (possibly influenced by Nivkh) and the third type (C) is an innovation influenced by Mongolian, in which the negative existential replaced the negative verb. Some preliminary proposals are made for the development of a "conceptual space", which also includes non-standard negation such as negative copulas, negative existentials, and prohibitives. The discussion contains examples from more than 35 languages.

(Studies in Diversity Linguistics 20.) Berlin: Language Science Press, 2018

Studies in Diversity Linguistics 33, 2024

Studies in Diversity Linguistics 32, 2022

with Matthias Klumm, Mara Matičević, Thomas Scharinger, Johannes Ungelenk & Nora Zapf ISBN: 97... more with Matthias Klumm, Mara Matičević, Thomas Scharinger, Johannes Ungelenk & Nora Zapf

ISBN: 978-3-8260-5645-1

"politics of metaphor"

The lost voices of Guizhou: Rediscovering the languages of the Luren

Cahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientale, 2025

Eurasiatica 22, 189-217, 2025, 2025

Postnominal flagging and OV in Sinitic: Areal and typological perspectives

Studies in Language, 2024

Diachronic changes in constructional networks: Evidence from Manchuric nominal morphology

Constructions and Frames 15(2). 160–186, 2023

International Journal of Eurasian Linguistics 4(2): 160–208, 2022

Language Documentation and Description 20, 2021

Available at: http://www.elpublishing.org/itempage/224 Errata: Zhang & Ji should be Zhang & L... more Available at: http://www.elpublishing.org/itempage/224

Errata:
Zhang & Ji should be Zhang & Li
mpao31 should be mpau31
Luezi should be Liuezi

Language Dynamics and Change, 11, 273-325, 2021

IJDL - International Journal of Diachronic Linguistics & Linguistic Reconstruction 16: 87–144, 2019

IJDL - International Journal of Diachronic Linguistics and Linguistic Reconstruction 15: xv-xx, 2018

IJDL - International Journal of Diachronic Linguistics and Linguistic Reconstruction 15: 111–146, 2018

This preliminary paper

Bavarian Working Papers in Linguistics 5: 17-28, 2016

Studies in Language 39(1): 118–159, 2015

Hölzl, Andreas & Thomas E. Payne. 2022. Introduction. In Andreas Hölzl & Thomas E. Payne (eds.), ... more Hölzl, Andreas & Thomas E. Payne. 2022. Introduction. In Andreas Hölzl &
Thomas E. Payne (eds.), Tungusic languages: Past and present, 1–20. Berlin:
Language Science Press. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7053359

Hölzl, Andreas. 2022. ‘What’s your name?’ in Tungusic and beyond. In Andreas Hölzl & Thomas E. Pa... more Hölzl, Andreas. 2022. ‘What’s your name?’ in Tungusic and beyond. In Andreas Hölzl & Thomas E. Payne (eds.), Tungusic languages: Past and present, 89–148. Berlin: Language Science Press. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7053365

Andreas Hölzl. 2024. The complexification of Tungusic interrogative systems.In Dankmar W. Enke, L... more Andreas Hölzl. 2024. The complexification of Tungusic interrogative systems.In Dankmar W. Enke, Larry M. Hyman, Johanna Nichols, Guido Seiler, Thilo Weber & Andreas Hölzl (eds.), Language change for the worse (Studies in Diversity Linguistics 33). Berlin: Language Science Press. https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/292

In Evie Coussé, Peter Andersson & Joel Olofsson (eds.), Grammaticalization meets Construction Grammar (Constructional Approaches to Language 21), 241-276. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 2018

In A. Hölzl, M. Klumm, M. Maticevic, T. Scharinger, J. Ungelenk & N. Zapf (eds.), Politik der Metapher [languagetalks 4], 173-191. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2015

In Georg C. Brückmann, Andrea Tietz, Florian Deichl, Andreas Fischnaller & Anna Lena Deeg (eds.).... more In Georg C. Brückmann, Andrea Tietz, Florian Deichl, Andreas Fischnaller & Anna Lena Deeg (eds.). 2015. Cultural Contacts and Cultural Identity. Proceedings from the Munich Interdisciplinary Conference for Doctoral Students, October 9th-11th, 2013 (Münchner Nordistische Studien 19), 183-191. München: Herbert Utz Verlag.

Hölzl, Andreas, Matthias Klumm, Mara Matčevič, Thomas Scharinger, Johannes Ungelenk & Nora Zapf. ... more Hölzl, Andreas, Matthias Klumm, Mara Matčevič, Thomas Scharinger, Johannes Ungelenk & Nora Zapf. 2015. Einleitung. In Andreas Hölzl, Matthias Klumm, Mara Matčevič, Thomas Scharinger, Johannes Ungelenk & Nora Zapf (eds.), Politik der Metapher [languagetalks 4], 9–20. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann.

Negation und die Stellung des Mandschurischen innerhalb der tungusischen Sprachen

In Daniel Leese (ed.), Hou Han(s’) Shu: Festschrift zum 50. Geburtstag von Hans van Ess, 35–67. München: Institut für Sinologie., 2012

Superseded by more recent publications, especially "Constructionalization Areas: The Case of Nega... more Superseded by more recent publications, especially "Constructionalization Areas: The Case of Negation in Manchu" from 2018.

Syntax of the World’s Languages IX, 2024.07.23-26, Lima, Peru, 2024

Vielfaltslinguistik 6, 2024

Hölzl, Andreas & Mouwèrè Bognana. 2024. Numeral classifiers in Bwamu. Vielfaltslinguistik 6, Univ... more Hölzl, Andreas & Mouwèrè Bognana. 2024. Numeral classifiers in Bwamu. Vielfaltslinguistik 6, Universität Graz, 14–15.06.2024, Graz.

Linguistic Lecture Series, Centre Language – Variation – Multilingualism, 2024

This study is a cross-linguistic exploration of interrogatives (e.g., which, where, how many). Th... more This study is a cross-linguistic exploration of interrogatives (e.g., which, where, how many). These are traditionally referred to as interrogative pronouns, but in fact belong to a variety of different word classes (e.g., adjectives, adverbs, numerals). Despite this internal heterogeneity, the interrogatives in any given language will be shown to form a more or less coherent system (e.g., Muysken & Smith 1990). Following ideas from Ecological Psychology (Turvey 2009), such an interrogative system will be shown to exhibit an internal structure and interactions with its linguistic environment, i.e. the language it is part of (Hölzl preprint). Crosslinguistically, interrogative systems differ along several lines, including the delineation or bondedness of the system (e.g., unique phonemes), the number of individual interrogatives, the form-meaning relationship (e.g., polysemy), the analyzability and coherence (e.g., resonance phenomena), the diachrony (e.g., grammaticalization to and from interrogatives), or the internal organization (e.g., paradigms, derivational relationships). Based on a wide variety of languages from around the world (e.g., Manchu, Mandarin, Nepali, Oromo, Quechua, among others), this study sketches these dimensions of variation (e.g., Mackenzie 2009; Hölzl 2018), but also points out several common cross-linguistic properties. For instance, interrogative systems usually exhibit forms of self-similarity, mirroring word class distinctions as well as broad semantic categories found in the language at large. The study concludes with general remarks on the applicability of this systemic approach to other areas of language (e.g., demonstratives, e.g. Diessel 2003).

Lecture series on Language Contact in Eurasia, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, 2023

Manchu is the main representative of the Manchuric branch of the Tungusic languages spoken in Nor... more Manchu is the main representative of the Manchuric branch of the Tungusic languages spoken in Northeast Asia. Manchu (and Manchuric in general) differ from the other Tungusic languages in many respects. This talk discusses these differences and classifies them as instances of (i) simplification (loss of categories like head-marking), (ii) mixing (borrowing and contact-induced grammaticalization), and (iii) restructuring (changes in language structure such as the debonding of case markers). The talk argues that most changes result from intensive contact with Khitano-Mongolic, Koreanic, or Sinitic. The differences allow Manchu(ric) to be classified as a contact variety, more precisely as a semicreole.

Deictic day expressions ▪ languages have many kinds of temporal expressions (e.g., this workshop,... more Deictic day expressions ▪ languages have many kinds of temporal expressions (e.g., this workshop, Klein 2009a, 2009b) ▪ some are more grammatical (e.g., aspect, tense) ▪ some more lexical (e.g., aktionsart, temporal adverbs) ▪ this talk is concerned with "deictic day-name systems" (Tent 2003) (e.g., today, tomorrow) ▪ probably a universal or near-universal category found in languages from around the world ▪ usually expressed with lexical items (temporal adverbs) ▪ additional cultural layers are not addressed here (e.g., weeks, days of the weeks) ▪ the following will outline a brief typology

Superseded by my dissertation.

A source not mentioned yet are toponyms.

Kilen: Synchronic and diachronic profile of a mixed language

Superseded by a forthcoming paper.

The simplification and complexification of interrogative systems: The case of Tungusic

Superseded by a forthcoming book chapter.

“What’s your name?” in Tungusic

Superseded by a forthcoming paper.

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 87(3). 580-582, 2024

The book under review is “the first comprehensive handbook of Tungusic in English” (p. xviii). Tu... more The book under review is “the first comprehensive handbook of Tungusic in English” (p. xviii). Tungusic constitutes “a medium-sized language-family with some 15 different languages distributed over a vast territory in Northeast Asia” (p. 1). The forerunner of the present volume planned by Alexander Vovin over 20 years ago never appeared (p. xix). Due to the delay to the project, two sketches of Uilta and Solon intended for that volume were published independently by Toshirō Tsumagari 津曲敏郎in 2009 (Journal of the Graduate School of Letters 2 and 4). José Andrés Alonso de la Fuente was later invited to the project, which finally succeeded after Juha Janhunen, who had already edited the volume The Mongolic Languages in the same Routledge Language Family Series in 2003, joined the editorial team. The project was sadly overshadowed by the loss of one of the editors and two contributors: “Sasha Vovin (1961–2022) himself died only several months before the completion of the project, while Tsumagari Toshiro (1951–2020) and Daniel Kane (1948–2021) also passed away without having seen the final versions of their texts” (p. xix). ...

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 86(2), 398-399, 2023

Caijia 蔡家 is a Trans-Himalayan (or Sino-Tibetan) language located in south-west China. While the ... more Caijia 蔡家 is a Trans-Himalayan (or Sino-Tibetan) language located in south-west China. While the Caijia people (or meŋ21ni33) have been known from Chinese sources for several hundred years (p. 2), the language was only described in the 1980s. For a long time, the only widely accessible information about the language was a short grammatical sketch produced in Chinese by Bo Wenze 薄文泽 in 2004. The present book by Lü Shanshan 吕珊珊 represents the first comprehensive grammar of Caijia. It finally makes this remarkable language available for general linguists as well as researchers of the Mainland Southeast Asian (MSEA) area. ...

Orientalistische Literaturzeitung 110(6): 495-498, 2016

Studies in Language 38(1): 209–217, 2014

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Review: Malchukov, Andrej L. & Lindsay J. Whaley (eds.). 2012. Recent Advances in Tungusic Linguistics. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag. [Turcologica 89]. vi+277 pp. (ISBN 978-3-447-06532-0)

Studies in Language 37(2): 454–462, 2013

Lewin, Asch, and Arnheim: Some thoughts on the history of Cognitive Linguistics

Poster presented at the 6th UK Cognitive Linguistics Conference, 2016.07.19-22, Bangor.

A revised version of this poster was published as "The unknown history of Cognitive Linguistics".

International Workshop at the 51st Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE) 29 A... more International Workshop at the 51st Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE) 29 August – 1st September 2018 Tallinn University, Estonia

(Unpublished manuscript.), 2020

(Unpublished manuscript.)

This is a slightly revised version of an abstract accepted for the DGKL 2016 that I was unable to... more This is a slightly revised version of an abstract accepted for the DGKL 2016 that I was unable to attend.