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    The phonetics of tone in Saramaccan 

    Good, Jeff (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 ...
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    What are we trying to preserve? Diversity, change, and ideology at the edge of the Cameroonian Grassfields 

    Good, Jeff; Di Carlo, Pierpaolo (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 ...
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    Linking without grammatical relations in Yucatec: Alignment, extraction, and control 

    Bohnemeyer, Jürgen (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 ...
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    Configuraciones temáticas atípicas y el uso de predicados complejos en perspectiva tipológica 

    Bohnemeyer, Jürgen; Enfield, Nick; Essegbey, James; Majid, Asifa; van Staden, Miriam (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 ...
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    Temporal anaphora in a tenseless language 

    Bohnemeyer, Jürgen (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, ...
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    The unique vector constraint: The impact of direction changes on the linguistic segmentation of motion events.  

    Bohnemeyer, Jürgen (Oxford University Press, 2003)
    This paper draws on ongoing research of the Event Representation group within the Argument Structure project at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen. The Event Representation group is dedicated ...
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    Morphological Complexity a la Oneida 

    Koenig, Jean-Pierre; Michelson, Karin (Oxford University Press, 2015)
    This chapter is about one particularly rich part of the verbal inflection of Oneida, a polysynthetic Iroquoian language. Morphological referencing of event participants in Oneida is achieved via a system of fifty-eight ...
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    On a tué le président! The nature of Passives and Ultra-indefinites 

    Koenig, Jean-Pierre (CSLI Publications, 1998)
    Non-quantificational NP's are often divided into indefinites and definites. The former introduce new referents; the latter refer back to entities already introduced in discourse (see Kamp 1981, Heirri 1982, Fauconnier ...
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    Prinzipien der Ereignisrepräsentation 

    Bohnemeyer, Jürgen (Vandenhoek & Ruprecht, 2001)
    Die Kodierung von Ereignissen stellt ein bemerkenswertes Problem dar für die Abbildung von sprachlichen Bedeutungen auf syntaktische Strukturen (die sogenannte >Schnittstelle= zwischen Semantik und Syntax). Ereignisse ...
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    French Relative Clauses as Secondary Predicates: A case study in Construction Theory 

    Koenig, Jean-Pierre; Lambrecht, Knud (Thesus, 1999)
    Two properties characterize sign-based, constructional theories such as Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG) and Construction Grammar (CG). Firstly, phrases as well as words are organized in richly articulated ...
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    AuthorGood, Jeff (17)Bohnemeyer, Jürgen (13)Koenig, Jean-Pierre (13)Mauner, Gail (3)Essegbey, James (2)Michelson, Karin (2)Alvarez, Alison (1)Benndorf, Beate (1)Bienvenue, Breton (1)Báez, Gabriela Pérez (1)... View MoreSubjectlanguage documentation (5)lexical semantics (4)semantic typology (4)Cameroon (3)linguistic typology (3)morphology (3)Saramaccan (3)Yucatec Maya (3)Bantu languages (2)creole (2)... View MoreType
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