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Strong linearity and the typology of templates
(Mouton, 2007)
The term template is commonly employed in linguistic description and
analysis when salient aspects of the linear arrangement of the subconstituents
of some larger constituent appear to be specified independently ...
Loanwords in Saramaccan, an English-based Atlantic creole of Suriname
(Mouton de Gruyter, 2009)
Saramaccan is an Atlantic creole spoken primarily in Suriname, though there are also speakers in
French Guiana as well as a substantial diaspora population in the Netherlands. The fifteenth edition
of the Ethnologue ...
The phonetics of tone in Saramaccan
(John Benjamins, 2006)
This paper presents the results of a preliminary investigation of the phonetics of tone in Saramaccan, an Atlantic creole spoken in Surinam. Saramaccan has traditionally been described as exhibiting a lexical contrast ...
Editor's Introduction
(Oxford University, 2008)
Certain grammatical patterns are found again and again in the languages of the world. Some of
these patterns recur so frequently that they are given the label “universal”. Explaining the source
of such patterns is clearly ...
Automatic Learning of Grammatical Encoding
(CSLI, 2008)
Avenue (Probst et al., 2002, Monson et al., 2004, Lavie et al., 2003, Font-Llitjoset al.,2005)1 is a machine translation system that automatically learns translation rules between two languages. In the Avenue scenario, one ...
Morphosyntax of Two Turkish Subject Pronominal Paradigms
(John Benjamins, 2005)
Turkish exhibits two different sets of subject ‘agreement markers’ which show
different morphosyntactic behavior from each other. It is argued here that one set of these
markers are morphological suffixes while the other ...
The ecology of documentary and descriptive linguistics
(SOAS, 2007)
This paper will propose a model of the “ecology” of documentary and descriptive linguistic
research. I use the term ecology, here, as a designation for the set of individuals, resources,
tools, and actions that are ...
Morphosyntactic tone raising in Saramaccan: The reanalysis of substrate phonology as tonal morphology
(Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003)
The focus of this paper is on several cases of tone raising in Saramaccan, an
Atlantic creole spoken in Surinam, which appear to be best analyzed as the
manifestation of morphological floating high tones. Floating tones ...
Slouching towards deponency: A family of mismatches in the Bantu verb stem
(Oxford University, 2007)
Most Bantu languages have a set of highly productive verbal derivational
suffixes which alter the argument structure and semantics of basic verb roots. One example
of such a suffix is the Causative, which gives a verb ...