Selected Publications by Matti Miestamo

Full list of publications available here.

Monographs:

• Miestamo, Matti. 2005. Standard negation: The negation of declarative verbal main clauses in a typological perspective (Empirical Approaches to Language Typology 31). Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter. (see details on the Mouton website) (This is a revised and expanded version of my 2003 doctoral dissertation Clausal negation: A typological study, view dissertation abstract)

Textbooks:

• Ojutkangas, Krista, Meri Larjavaara, Matti Miestamo & Jussi Ylikoski. 2009. Johdatus kielitieteeseen [Introduction to linguistics]. Helsinki: WSOY.

Edited volumes:

• Miestamo, Matti, Kaius Sinnemäki & Fred Karlsson (eds.). 2008. Language complexity: Typology, contact, change (Studies in Language Companion Series 94). Amsterdam: Benjamins. (see details on the Benjamins website)
• Miestamo, Matti & Bernhard Wälchli (eds.). 2007. New challenges in typology: Broadening the horizons and redefining the foundations (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs 189). Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter. (see details on the Mouton website)

Scholarly articles and book chapters:

• Miestamo, Matti & Johan van der Auwera. In press. Negation and perfective vs. imperfective aspect. In Walter De Mulder, Jesse Mortelmans & Tanja Mortelmans (eds.), Proceedings of Chronos 7, Antwerp, September 2006 (Cahiers Chronos). Amsterdam: Rodopi. [pdf of revised version, November 2007]
• Miestamo, Matti. In press. Negatives without negators. In Jan Wohlgemuth & Michael Cysouw (eds.), Rethinking universals: How rarities affect linguistic theory (Empirical Aproaches to Language Typology 45), 169-194. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. [pdf of revised version, June 2009]
• Miestamo, Matti. 2009. Implicational hierarchies and grammatical complexity. In David Gil, Geoffrey Sampson & Peter Trudgill (eds.), Language complexity as an evolving variable (Studies in the Evolution of Language 13), 80-97. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Miestamo, Matti. 2008. Grammatical complexity in a cross-linguistic perspective. In Matti Miestamo, Kaius Sinnemäki & Fred Karlsson (eds.), Language complexity: Typology, contact, change (Studies in Language Companion Series 94), 23-41. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
• Miestamo, Matti. 2007. Negation – an overview of typological research. Language and Linguistics Compass 1 (5). 552-570. (DOI:10.1111/j.1749-818X.2007.00026.x)
• Miestamo, Matti. 2007. Symmetric and asymmetric encoding of functional domains, with remarks on typological markedness. In Matti Miestamo & Bernhard Wälchli (eds.), New challenges in typology: Broadening the horizons and redefining the foundations (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs 189), 293-314. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter.
• Miestamo, Matti. 2006. Negation. In Jan-Ola Östman & Jef Verschueren (eds.), Handbook of pragmatics: The 2006 installment, 1-25. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
• Miestamo, Matti. 2006. On the feasibility of complexity metrics. In Krista Kerge & Maria-Maren Sepper (eds.), Finest linguistics. Proceedings of the Annual Finnish and Estonian Conference of Linguistics. Tallinn, May 6-7, 2004 (Publications of the Department of Estonian of Tallinn University 8), 11-26. Tallinn: Tallinn University Press. [pdf of revised version, November 2004]
• Miestamo, Matti. 2005. Symmetric and asymmetric standard negation. In Martin Haspelmath, Matthew Dryer, David Gil & Bernard Comrie (eds.), The world atlas of language structures, 458-461. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [WALS-Online version available at http://wals.info/feature/113]
• Miestamo, Matti. 2005. Subtypes of asymmetric standard negation. In Martin Haspelmath, Matthew Dryer, David Gil & Bernard Comrie (eds.), The world atlas of language structures, 462-465. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [WALS-Online version available at http://wals.info/feature/114]

In addition to the links given, PDF's of some of the titles are available upon request; see also the full list of publications.