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- On grammatical comparative evidence and its interpretation.
in Allan Taylor, ed., Language and Prehistory in the
Americas. Stanford University Press.
- Grammaticalization. in G. Booij, C. Lehmann, J. Mugdan, eds.,
Morphology: A Handbook on Inflection and Word Formation.
New York: De Gruyter.
- The universal basis of case. Logos and Language.
- Lhasa Tibetan. In G. Thurgood and R. LaPolla, The Sino-Tibetan
Languages. London: Curzon.
- Classical Tibetan. In G. Thurgood and R. LaPolla, The Sino-Tibetan
Languages. London: Curzon.
2001
- The mirative and evidentiality. Journal of Pragmatics 33.3:371-384.
1999
- Lexical prefixes and the bipartite stem construction in
Klamath. International Journal of American Linguistics 65.1.56-83.
- Relativization in Tibetan. in Yogendra Yadava and Warren Glover,
eds., Studies in Nepalese Linguistics, pp. 231-49. Kathmandu:
Royal Nepal Academy.
1998
- Semantic categorization in Tibetan honorific nouns.
Anthropological Linguistics 40:109-23.
1997
- Mirativity: The grammatical marking of unexpected information.
Linguistic Typology 1.1:33-52.
- (with Victor Golla) The Penutian hypothesis: Retrospect
and prospect. IJAL 63:171-202.
- What an innatist argument should look
like. in T. Haukioja, M-L
Helasvuo, and M. Miestamo, eds., SKY 1997 (1997 Yearbook of the
Linguistic Association of Finland), pp. 7-24.
- Grammaticalization and the gradience of categories: Relator nouns
and postpositions in Tibetan and Burmese. pp. 51-69 in J. Bybee, J.
Haiman, and S. A. Thompson, eds., Essays on Language Function and
Language Type. Benjamins, 1997.
1996
1994
- Grammaticalization and linguistic
theory.
Proceedings of the 1993 Mid-America Linguistics Conference and
Conference on Siouan/Caddoan Languages, pp. 1-22. Boulder: Dept. of
Linguistics, University of Colorado.
1992
- The Sino-Tibetan languages. W. Bright, ed., International
Encyclopedia of Linguistics, vol 3, pp. 445-7. NY: Oxford
University Press.
- Klamath and Sahaptian numerals. International Journal of
American Linguistics 58:235-39.
- Sunwar copulas. Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area
15:1.31-38.
- The historical status of the conjunct/disjunct pattern in
Tibeto-Burman. Acta Linguistica Hafniensia 25:39-62.
1991
- The origins of verb serialization in Modern Tibetan.
Studies in Language 15:1.1-23.
- Event construal and case role
assignment. Proceedings of
the Seventeenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics
Society.
- Chronological strata of suffix classes in the Klamath verb.
International Journal of American Linguistics 57:426-445.
- rev. V. Golla, ed., The Collected Works of Edward Sapir,
Vol. VIII: Takelma Texts and Grammar. Journal of
Linguistic Anthropology.
1990
- Ergativity and the cognitive model of event structure in
Lhasa Tibetan. Cognitive Linguistics 1.3:289-321.
- Diachronic notes on the Klamath verb
suffixes.
S. DeLancey, ed., Papers from the 1989 Hokan-Penutian Workshop,
pp.
18-27.
- Notes on evidentiality in Hare. International Journal of
American Linguistics 56.152-8.
- Tibetan evidence for Nungish metathesis. Linguistics of
the Tibeto-Burman Area 12.2:25-31.
- Contour tones from lost syllables in Central Tibetan.
Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 12.2:33-34.
- Cross-linguistic evidence for the structure of the Agent
prototype. Proc. of the 29th Child Language Research
Forum.
- rev. Andronov and Bhakti, Linguistics: A Soviet
Approach. American Anthropologist 92:250.
1989
- Verb agreement in Proto-Tibeto-Burman. Bulletin of the
School of Oriental and African Studies 52:315-33. (Chinese
tr. appeared as "Yuanshi Zang-Mianyu dungcide rencheng fanchou",
Minzu Yicong 1993.2:34-45, 1993.3:38-42).
- rev. of B. Michailovksy, La langue hayu.
Language 65:828-32.
- rev. T. Lyman. A Grammar of Mong Njua (Green Miao).
Language 65:668-9.
- rev. G. D‚csy, A Select Catalog of Language
Universals. Language 65:423-4.
1988
- (with C. Genetti and N. Rude). Some Sahaptian-Klamath-
Tsimshianic lexical sets. William Shipley, eds, In Honor of
Mary Haas: From the Haas Festival Conference on Native American
Linguistics, pp. 195-224.
- On the evolution of the Kham agreement paradigm.
Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 11.2:51-61.
- 1988. Klamath stem
structure in genetic and areal perspective.
S. DeLancey, ed., Papers from the 1988 Hokan-Penutian Workshop, pp.
31-9.
- rev. J.A. Matisoff, The Grammar of Lahu.
Language 64.1:213-4.
1987
- The Sino-Tibetan languages. B. Comrie, ed., The World's
Major Languages, pp. 797-810. Croom Helm.
- Transitivity in grammar and cognition. R. Tomlin, ed.,
Discourse Relations and Cognitive Units, pp. 53-68.
Benjamins.
- Klamath and Wintu pronouns. International Journal of
American Linguistics 53.461-4.
- Morphological parallels between Klamath
and Wintu. J. Redden,
ed., Proc. of the 1987 Hokan-Penutian Conference, pp. 50-
60. Carbondale, IL: Dept. of Linguistics, Southern Illinois
University.
1986
- Invited comment on Wierzbicka, 'Semantics of the "internal
dative" in English. Quaderni di Semantica VII, no.
1:140-2.
- Notes on the history of Tai classifier systems. C. Craig,
ed., Noun Classes and Categorization, pp. 437-52.
Benjamins.
- Evidentiality and volitionality in Tibetan. W. Chafe and J.
Nichols, eds., Evidentiality: The Linguistic Coding of
Epistemology, pp. 203-13. Ablex.
1985
- The analysis-synthesis-lexis cycle in Tibeto-Burman: A case
study in motivated change. J. Haiman, ed., Iconicity in
Syntax, pp. 367-89. Benjamins.
- On active typology and the nature of agentivity. F. Plank,
ed., Relational Typology. Mouton.
- Lhasa Tibetan evidentials and the semantics of causation.
Proc. of the Eleventh Annual Meeting of the Berkeley
Linguistics Society, 65-72.
- rev. S-Y. Killingsley, The Grammatical Hierarchy of
Malayan Cantonese. Language 62:223.
1984
- Notes on agentivity and causation. Studies in
Language 8.2:181-213.
- Etymological notes on Tibeto-Burman case particles.
Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 8.l.59-77.
- Transitivity and ergative case in Lhasa Tibetan.
Proceedings of the Tenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley
Linguistics Society, 131-40.
- Categories of non-volitional actor in Lhasa Tibetan. A. Zide
et. al., eds., Proc. of the Conference on Participant Roles:
South Asia and Adjacent Areas, pp. 58-70. IULC.
- Agentivity in syntax. Chicago Linguistic Society
Parasession on Agentivity and Causation.
- rev. S. Koshal, Conversational
Ladakhi. Language 60:678.
- rev. B. Trnka, Selected Papers in Structural
Linguistics. Language 60:662.
1983
- rev. of B. Comrie, Language Universals and Linguistic
Typology. Language 59.2:406-11.
- rev. C. Harbsmeier, Aspects of Classical
Chinese. Language 59:938-9.
- rev. C. Tanz, Studies in the Acquisition of Deictic
Terms. Language 59:938-9.
1982
- Modern Tibetan: A case study in ergative typology. J. of
Linguistic Research 2.1:21-31.
- Aspect, transitivity, and viewpoint. P. Hopper, ed.,
Tense-Aspect: Between Semantics and Pragmatics.
pp. 167-83. Benjamins.
- Tangut and Tibeto-Burman morphology. Linguistics of the
Tibeto-Burman Area 7.2:100-8.
- Agentivity and causation: Data from Newari. Proceedings
of the Ninth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics
Society, pp. 54-63.
1981
- An interpretation of split ergativity and related patterns.
Language 57.3:626-57.
- The category of direction in Tibeto-Burman. Linguistics of
the Tibeto-Burman Area 6.1:83-102.
- Parameters of empathy. J. of Linguistic Research
1.3:40-49.
- rev. S. Koshal, Ladakhi Grammar. Language
57:972.
- rev. K.B. Kepping, Sun' Tszy v Tangutskom
perevodje. Language 57:972-3.
- rev. Ng. D. Liem, South-East Asian Linguistic
Studies. Language 57:974.
1978
- (with Lon Diehl and LaRaw Maran). A localistic account of
aspect in Jinghpaw.
- (with Lon Diehl and LaRaw Maran). The Tibeto-Burman
tense-aspect mechanisms. University of Michigan Papers in
Linguistics 2.4:49-88.
Scott DeLancey, delancey@darkwing.uoregon.edu