|
PD Dr. John Michael Peterson
Room number H1 5.02
Tel.: (+49) (0)341-973 7643
Office hours: Wednesday, 12:00 - 1:00 p.m. or by appointment
Email: peterson@uni-leipzig.de
Department of Linguistics
University of Leipzig
Beethovenstraße 15
D-04107 Leipzig, Germany
Research
- historical linguistics
- descriptive linguistics
- language typology
- sociolinguistics
- linguistic theory
- Special interests: grammatical relations; parts of speech; grammatical voice (especially the middle voice); finiteness; spoken /
written language; language contact; multilingualism; language and migration; Role and Reference Grammar (RRG); Lexical-Functional Grammar (LFG)
- The languages of South Asia, especially Munda (Kharia, Santali, Mundari) and Indo-Aryan (Sadri, Konkani, Nepali, Pali, Sanskrit)
- Maltese (Neo-Arabic)
Education
- Schule Scituate High School, Scituate, Massachusetts, USA. June, 1981
- Exchange student - American Field Service (AFS) in Governador Valadares, Minas Gerais, Brazil. February, 1981 - January, 1982
- B.A. Connecticut College, New London, Connecticut, USA. Major: German, Minor: physics. May, 1986
- Fulbright Scholar at the “Nordfriesischen Wörterbuchstelle”, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel. October, 1986 - July, 1987
- Magister. Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel. December, 1993. Major: Indology, Minors: General linguistics, Indo-European linguistics
- Ph.D. Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel. January 1997. Major: General linguistics, Minors: Indology, Indo
-European linguistics
- Habilitation. Universität Osnabrück. February, 2007
Academic experience
- February, 1994-September, 1994
Acting assistant professor (Vertretung der Assistentenstelle)
, Indology, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel
- October, 1994-July, 1997
Doctoral position, Indology, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel
- October, 1997-September, 1998
Temporary assistant professor (Assistent mit Abschluss), General linguistics, Universität Zürich
- November, 1997-September, 1998
Assistant (wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter),
Project of the Swiss National Foundation (Schweizerischen Nationalfonds) "Arealtypology of South Asia" General linguistics, Universität Zürich
- October, 1998-September, 2000
Assistant (wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter)
in the project of the German Research Foundation (DFG) "Allgemein-vergleichende Grammatik (AVG, “Cross-linguistic grammar”)", Department of German, Theoretical linguistics, Ludwig
-Maximilians-Universität, München
- October, 2000-September, 2006
Temporary assistant professor (wissenschaftlicher Assistent, C1)
, General linguistics, Typology and empirical linguistics, Universität Osnabrück
- October, 2006-September, 2008
Acting professor (Verwaltung der Stelle eines Universitätsprofessors, W2)
for "German as a Second Language and General Linguistics", Universität Osnabrück
- October, 2008-March, 2009
Acting professor (Verwaltung der Stelle eines Universitätsprofessors, W2)
for "Applied Linguistics in German", Universität Osnabrück
- Since April 1, 2009
Acting professor (Vertretung der Stelle eines Universitätsprofessors, W2)
for "General Linguistics, especially Typology and Linguistic Variation", Universität Leipzig
Other academic activites
- "General Editor" (with Anju Saxena, Uppsala) of the new series Brill's Studies in South and Southwest Asian Languages
http://www.brill.nl/bssal
- "Regional Editor Europe" for the Annual Review of South Asian Languages and Linguistics, Mouton de Gruyter.
(Title until 2007: Yearbook of South Asian Languages and Linguistics) Chief editor: Rajendra Singh, Université de Montréal, Canada.
http://www.degruyter.de/cont/fb/sp/detail.cfm?id=IS-9783110208290-1
- Member (Kooptiertes Mitglied), Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies (Institut für
Migrationsforschung und interkulturelle Studien, IMIS), Universität Osnabrück.
http://www.imis.uni-osnabrueck.de/
Publications (selection)
1998 Grammatical Relations in Pali and the Emergence of Ergativity in Indo-Aryan. München: LINCOM Europa (LINCOM
Studies in Indo-European Linguistics, 1 / LINCOM Studies in Asian Linguistics, 6).
1999 "The Nepali Subordinated Verb". Yogendra P. Yadava and Warren W. Glover (eds.). Topics in Nepalese Linguistics. Kathmandu: Royal Nepal Academy. 337-70.
2000 "Evidentials, Inferentials and Mirativity in Nepali". Balthasar Bickel (ed.). Person and evidence in Himalayan languages.
Special Edition of Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area. 23/2:13-37.
"Grammatische Relationen in Pali und die Entstehung von Ergativität im Indoarischen". Historische Sprachforschung, 112/2:227-63.
2001 "Pali". Jane Gary and Carl Rubino (eds.). Facts about the World's Languages: An Encyclopedia of the World's Major
Languages, Past and Present. New York / Dublin: New England Publishing Associates. 534-538.
2002 "The Nepali Converbs: A holistic approach". Rajendra Singh (chief editor). Yearbook of South Asian Languages and
Linguistics, 2002. Dehli: Sage Publications. 93-133.
2003
"Morphological and Semantic Finiteness in Kharia: A first look". Michael Bommes, Doris Tophinke & Christina Noack (eds.), Sprache und Form. Eine Festschrift für Utz Maas. Wiesbaden: Westdeutscher Verlag. 63-73.
2005
"There's a grain of truth in every "myth", or, Why the discussion of lexical classes in Mundari isn't quite over yet."
Kommentar zu Nicholas Evans & Toshiki Osada: "Mundari: the myth of a language without word classes." Linguistic Typology 9:391-405.
2006 Review: George Cardona & Dhanesh Jain (Hrsg.). 2003. The Indo-Aryan Languages. London / New York: Routledge (Routledge Language Family Series). (xx, 1062 pages). Language 82/4. 891-4.
Kharia. A South Munda Language. (Habilitationsschrift)
Bd. I: Grammatical Analysis. v, 375 S.
Bd. II: Kharia Texts. Glossed, Translated and Annotated. v, 181 S.
Bd. III: Kharia-English Lexicon. ii, 304 S.
2007 "Languages without nouns and verbs? An alternative to lexical classes in Kharia." Colin Masica (ed.). Old and New
Perspectives on South Asian Languages: Grammar and Semantics. Papers growing out of the Fifth International Conference on South Asian Linguistics (ICOSAL-5), held at Moscow, Russia in July 2003. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass. 274-303.
2008 "Kharia". Gregory D.S. Anderson (Hrsg.), The Munda Languages. London: Routledge. 434-507.
"Die Sprachen Jharkhands. Ein Beispiel für die sprachliche Vielfalt Südasiens und was wir daraus lernen können". Südasien. 28/3: 88
-91.
2009
""Pseudo-Verbs" - an analysis of non-verbal (co-)predication in Maltese." Bernard Comrie, Ray Fabri, Manwel Mifsud, Thomas Stolz & Martine Vanhove (Hrsg.), Introducing Maltese Linguistics. Proceedings of the 1st International conference on
Maltese Linguistics (Bremen/Germany, 18-20 October, 2007). (Studies in Language Companion Series 113). Amsterdam / Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 181-204.
"A Kharia-English Lexicon." Himalayan Linguistics Archive 5. i-xv, 1-212.
http://www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/HimalayanLinguistics/
(mit Utz Maas) "Reduplication in Kharia." Morphology 19/2: 207-237.
2010
“A Sadri-English / English-Sadri lexicon” (Prelimiary version: April 8, 2010, ca. 1,200 entries - will be updated regularly)
http://www.southasiabibliography.de/Bibliography/Indo-European/Sadri/Sadri_Dictionary/sadri_dictionary.html
“A Kharia-English / English-Kharia lexicon” (Preliminary version: June 8, 2010, ca. 1,800 entries - will be updated regularly)
http://www.southasiabibliography.de/Bibliography/Austroasiatic/Munda/Kharia/Kharia_dictionary/kharia_dictionary.html
Submitted, accepted or in circulation as a manuscript:
- Kharia. A South Munda Language. ca. 400 S. (to appear in the series Brill's Studies in South and Southwest Asian Languages)
- "Parts of Speech in Kharia A formal account." Jan Rijkhoff & Eva van Lier (Hrsg.), Flexible word classes: a typological study
of underspecified parts-of-speech. 30pp.
- "Language contact in Jharkhand. Linguistic convergence between Munda and Indo-Aryan in eastern central India." 27pp.
- "The "totality" morpheme -may in Kharia." To appear in: Ram Dayal Munda (ed.), Felicitation Volume for Noman Zide.
18pp.
- "Konkani." In: Новые индоарийскиеязыки
.
Ред. кол. Л.И. Куликов, Т.И. Оранская, А.Ю.Русаков. - "Языки мира", т.
16, Российская Академия Наук, Институт Языкознания. Москва: Academia. 34pp.
- (with Savita Kiran) "Sadani / Sadri." In: Новые индоарийскиеязыки
.
Ред. кол. Л.И. Куликов, Т.И. Оранская, А.Ю.
Русаков. - "Языки мира", т. 16, Российская Академия Наук, Институт Языкознания. Москва: Academia. 18pp.
- "Active, middle and stative in Kharia (South Munda) - A prototypical perspective." 41pp.
|
