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Tonal classes in Itunyoso Trique person morphology
(De Gruyter Mouton, 2016)
Otomanguean languages possess some of the most complex tonal inventories
among the languages of the world. According to the World Atlas of Linguistic
Structures, approximately 41.8% of the world’s languages (220/527) are ...
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 ...
Event Semantics
(Routledge, 2016)
The point of talking is to describe the way the world is, the way it changes or stays the same. Verbs play a critical role in that endeavor. Intuitively, verbs (or, more precisely, verb senses) describe categories of ...
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 ...
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 ...
Yucatec demonstratives in interaction: Spontaneous vs. elicited data
(John Benjamins, 2012)
This chapter compares Hanks‟ (1990, 2005) „practice‟ approach to the demonstratives of Yucatec Maya based on the recording of spontaneously occurring interactions to the results obtained by the author with the elicitation ...
What are we trying to preserve? Diversity, change, and ideology at the edge of the Cameroonian Grassfields
(Oxford University Press, 2014)
Discussions of endangered languages often frame language death as being associated with the
loss of knowledge as embedded in a particular language. At the same time, it is also clear that the
losses associated with ...
Linking without grammatical relations in Yucatec: Alignment, extraction, and control
(Mouton de Gruyter, 2009)
It is argued that the linking between semantic roles and syntactic arguments
is not governed by grammatical relations in Yucatec. Intraclausally,
alignment (or “obviation”) constraints disambiguate arguments for linking:
the ...
Configuraciones temáticas atípicas y el uso de predicados complejos en perspectiva tipológica
(Universidad de Sonora, 2011)
En este estudio se examina la descripción de eventos de “separación causada a la
integridad material” de un objeto (Hale & Keyser 1987) y más precisamente los eventos
de “cutting” y “breaking” (C&B) – con configuraciones ...
Temporal anaphora in a tenseless language
(Mouton de Gruyter, 2009)
This chapter presents a portrait of a language that arguably lacks absolute
(i.e., deictic) and relative (i.e., anaphoric) tenses and temporal connectives
with meanings comparable to those of English after, before, until, ...