PUBLICATIONS
TOPICALLY ORGANIZED

Panare
Yagua
Other Native South American
Native North American
Maasai
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Noun classification and other morphology
Word order
Grammar in discourse processing
External possession
Argument structure and voice issues
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Reviews



Yagua

Submitted.  The source and function of Yagua classifiers.  International Journal of American Linguistics.

To appear a. "Yagua (Peba-Yaguan)." Morphology. A Handbook on Inflection and Word Formation, ed. by Geert
        Booij, Christian Lehmann, and Joachim Mugdan. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter.

1993a. "On the function of word order in Yagua narrative." International Journal of American Linguistics
        59.1-15.

1992c. "Narrative continuity vs. discontinuity in Yagua." Discourse Processes 15.375-394.

1990a. The Pragmatics of Word Order: Typological Dimensions of Verb Initial Languages. Berlin: Mouton de
        Gruyter. [NB: Much of this volume deals with Yagua grammar.]

1990c. (with Thomas Payne). "Yagua." Handbook of Amazonian Languages, 2, ed. by Desmond Derbyshire and
        Geoffrey Pullum, 249-474. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

1988. "Sufijos transitivos del idioma yagua." Revista Latinoamericana de Estudios Etnolingüísticos 5.33-50.

1986a. "Noun classification in Yagua." Noun Classes and Categorization, ed. by Colette Craig, 113-131.
        Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

1986b. "Basic word order in Yagua clauses: implications for word order universals." Handbook of Amazonian
        Languages, vol. 1, ed. by Desmond Derbyshire and Geoffrey Pullum, 440-465. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

1985a. "Degrees of inherent transitivity in Yagua verbs." International Journal of American Linguistics 51.19-37.

1985b. "-ta in Zaparoan and Peba-Yaguan." International Journal of American Linguistics 51.529-531.

1984. "Evidence for a Yagua-Zaparoan connection." Workpapers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics,
        University of North Dakota Session, 28.131-156, ed. by Desmond Derbyshire.



Panare

Submitted (2002).  A contrastive study of Panare oral and written narratives.  Festschrift for Paola Bentivoglio. [Venezuela]

1998c. (with Indira Bakshi). "Vowel harmony and transitive verb classes in Panare: Where are the
        consonant-initial roots?" Encuentro de Linguística en el Noroeste 4, Volumen 1, Tomo 1, 95-115.
        Hermosillo: Universidad de Sonora.

1994a. "OVSu versus VSuO in Panare (Cariban): do syntax and discourse match?" Text, 14.581-609. (Special
        volume edited by Sandra A. Thompson and Paul Hopper.)

1993c. "Nonconfigurationality and discontinuous expressions in Panare." Proceedings of the 19th Berkeley
        Linguistics Society, Special volume on Syntax of Native American Languages, ed. by David Peterson.

(Note: Tom Payne and I have an extensive draft of a grammar of Panare, containing 12-14 chapters.)



Other Native South American

1994b. "The Tupí-Guaraní inverse." Voice: Form and Function, ed. by Paul Hopper and Barbara Fox. Amsterdam:
        John Benjamins.

1993b. "Meaning and pragmatics of order in selected South American Indian languages." The Role of Theory in
        Language Description, ed. by William A. Foley, 281-314. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter.

1990b. (ed.) Amazonian Linguistics: Studies in Lowland South American Languages. Austin: University of Texas
        Press.

1990d. "Introduction." Amazonian Linguistics: Studies in Lowland South American Languages, ed. by Doris
        Payne, 1-10. Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press.

1990e. (with Desmond Derbyshire). "Noun classification systems in Amazonian Languages." Amazonian
        Linguistics: Studies in Lowland South American Languages, ed. by Doris Payne, 243-271. Austin, Texas:
        University of Texas Press.

1990f. "Morphological characteristics of Amazonian languages." Amazonian Linguistics: Studies in Lowland
        South American Languages, ed. by Doris Payne, 213-241. Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press.

1987a. "Noun classification in the Western Amazon." Language Sciences 9.21-44.

1985b. "-ta in Zaparoan and Peba-Yaguan." International Journal of American Linguistics 51.529-531.

1984. "Evidence for a Yagua-Zaparoan connection." Workpapers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics,
        University of North Dakota Session, 28.131-156, ed. by Desmond Derbyshire.



Native North American

1994d. "Menciones no-referenciales en 'o'odham." Encuentro de Lingüístico en el Noroeste, Tomo 1, ed. by
        Zarina Estrada, 325-350. Hermosillo, Mexico: Universidad de Sonora.

1992e. "Nonidentifiable mentions and order in 'O'odham." Pragmatics of Word Order Flexibility, ed. by Doris
        Payne, 137-166. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

1987b. "Information structuring in Papago narrative discourse." Language 63.783-804.

1982. "Chickasaw agreement morphology: a functional explanation." Studies in Transitivity. (Syntax and
        Semantics 15), ed. by Paul Hopper and Sandra A. Thompson, 351-378. New York: Academic Press.

1980. "Switch-reference in Chickasaw." Studies of Switch-Reference. (UCLA Papers in Syntax, No. 8), ed. by
        Pamela Munro, 89-118. Los Angeles: UCLA.



Maa (Maasai: Nilotic of Kenya and Tanzania)

(in press). (with Susan Guion and Mark Post).  Phonetic correlates of tongue root vowel contrasts in Maa.  Journal of Phonetics.

2004.  Functions of Maa peê + Low Tone: a Case Study of Discourse Driven Polysemy.  Journal of Linguistic Sciences [Korea], 11.97-139. [invited article] (also available as .pdf article)

2003. Maa Color Terms and Their Use as Human Descriptors. (with Leonard Ole-Kotikash and Keswe Ole-Mapena.)  Anthropological Linguistics 45.169-200.

2001. The explanation of argument structure: lexicalization or discourse use?  Proceedings of the Seoul International Conference on Discourse and Cognitive Linguistics, 532-556.  Seoul:  Korean Society of Discourse and Cognition.

2001. How to develop a new intransitive:  the story of Maa sip ‘make smooth, lick clean, bless, kill, tell the truth’ and ‘be certain’.  Proceedings of the Seoul International Conference on Discourse and Cognitive Linguistics, 339-362.  Seoul:  Korean Society of Discourse and Cognition.

2001. (with Leonard Ole-Kotikash and A. Keswe Mapena Ole-Lekutit). A Frame Semantics approach to lexemic structure: Uncovering the truth about Maa a-síp.  Journal of African Languages and Linguistics. 22.145–168.

1998a. Maasai gender in typological perspective.  Studies in African Linguistics 27.159-175.

1998a. (with Immanuel Barshi). "Argument structure and Maasai possessive interpretation: Implications for
        language learning." Foreign Language Acquisition: Psycholinguistic Experiments on Training and
        Retention. Edited by Alice F. Healy and Lyle E. Bourne, Jr., 213-229. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

1988b. "Maasai gender in typological perspective." Studies in African Linguistics 27.159-175.

1997a. "The Maasai External Possessor Construction." Essays on Language Function and Language Type,
        dedicated to T. Givon, ed. by Joan Bybee, John Haiman, and Sandra Thompson., 395-422. Amsterdam: John
        Benjamins.

1997c. "Semantic role and argument structure in the Maasai "external possession" construction."
        Proceedings of the 1997 23rd Meetings of the Berkeley Linguistics Society.

1996. (with Immanuel Barshi). "The interpretation of "possessor raising" in a Maasai dialect." Proceedings of the
        Sixth International Nilo-Saharan Linguistics Conference. Afrikanistische Arbeitspapiere 45.207-226, ed. by
        Lionel Bender and Tom Hinnebusch. Universität zu Köln.

1994c. (with Mitsuyo Hamaya and Peter Jacobs). "Active, passive, and inverse in Maasai." Voice in Discourse, ed.
        by T. Givón. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.



Noun classification & other morphology

1990e. (with Desmond Derbyshire). "Noun classification systems in Amazonian Languages." Amazonian
        Linguistics: Studies in Lowland South American Languages, ed. by Doris Payne, 243-271. Austin, Texas:
        University of Texas Press.

1989. (with Robert Carlson). "Genitive classifiers." Proceedings of the Fourth Annual Pacific Linguistics
        Conference, 87-119. Eugene: University of Oregon.

1986a. "Noun classification in Yagua." Noun Classes and Categorization, ed. by Colette Craig, 113-131.
        Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

1987c. "A survey of morphological theories." Notes on Linguistics 38.7-25.

1986c. "Inflection versus derivation: is there a difference?" Proceedings of the First Annual Pacific Linguistics
        Conference. Eugene: University of Oregon.



Word Order

1999c. "What counts as explanation? A functionalist approach to word order." Functionalism and Formalism
        in Linguistics, vol 1, ed. by Michael Darnell, Edith Moravcsik, Frederick J. Newmeyer, Michael Noonan,
        Kathleen Wheatley, 135-163. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

1995a. "Verb initial languages and information order." Word Order in Discourse, ed. by Mickey Noonan and
        Pamela Downing, 449-485. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

1994a. "OVSu versus VSuO in Panare (Cariban): do syntax and discourse match?" Text, 14.581-609. (Special
        volume edited by Sandra A. Thompson and Paul Hopper.)

1993a. "On the function of word order in Yagua narrative." International Journal of American Linguistics
        59.1-15.

1993b. "Meaning and pragmatics of order in selected South American Indian languages." The Role of Theory in
        Language Description, ed. by William A. Foley, 281-314. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter.

1993c. "Nonconfigurationality and discontinuous expressions in Panare." Proceedings of the 19th Berkeley
        Linguistics Society, Special volume on Syntax of Native American Languages, ed. by David Peterson.

1992a. (ed.) Pragmatics of Word Order Flexibility. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

1992d. "Introduction." Pragmatics of Word Order Flexibility, ed. by Doris Payne, 1-13. Amsterdam: John
        Benjamins.

1990a. The Pragmatics of Word Order: Typological Dimensions of Verb Initial Languages. Berlin: Mouton de
        Gruyter.

1987b. "Information structuring in Papago narrative discourse." Language 63.783-804.

1986b. "Basic word order in Yagua clauses: implications for word order universals." Handbook of Amazonian
        Languages, vol. 1, ed. by Desmond Derbyshire and Geoffrey Pullum, 440-465. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.



Grammar in Discourse Processing

2001. The explanation of argument structure: lexicalization or discourse use?  Proceedings of the Seoul International Conference on Discourse and Cognitive Linguistics, 532-556.  Seoul:  Korean Society of Discourse and Cognition.

1999b. (with Immanuel Barshi). "External Possession: What, Where, How, and Why." External Possession,
        ed. by Doris Payne and Immanuel Barshi, 3-29. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

1996. (with Immanuel Barshi). "The interpretation of "possessor raising" in a Maasai dialect." Proceedings of the
        Sixth International Nilo-Saharan Linguistics Conference. Afrikanistische Arbeitspapiere 45.207-226, ed. by
        Lionel Bender and Tom Hinnebusch. Universität zu Köln.

1992c. "Narrative continuity vs. discontinuity in Yagua." Discourse Processes 15.375-394.

1992d. "Towards a more adequate approach to "focus" phenomena." (Review article on Generating Narratives:
        Interrelations of Knowledge, Text Variants, and Cushitic Focus Strategies, by Klaus Wedekind.) Journal of
        African Languages and Linguistics 13.205-217.

1992e. "Nonidentifiable mentions and order in 'O'odham." Pragmatics of Word Order Flexibility, ed. by Doris
        Payne, 137-166. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

1978. "Grammatical versus referential structure illustrated in English definition." Proceedings from the Fourth
        LACUS Forum, ed. by Michel Paradis, 650-659. Columbia, S.C.: Hornbeam Press.



Argument Structure and Voice Issues

2001. The explanation of argument structure: lexicalization or discourse use?  Proceedings of the Seoul International Conference on Discourse and Cognitive Linguistics, 532-556.  Seoul:  Korean Society of Discourse and Cognition.

1999a. (ed., with Immanuel Barshi). External Possession. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. [20 papers]

1999b. (with Immanuel Barshi). "External Possession: What, Where, How, and Why." External Possession,
        ed. by Doris Payne and Immanuel Barshi, 3-29. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

1997c. "Semantic role and argument structure in the Maasai "external possession" construction." Proceedings
        of the 1997 23rd Meetings of the Berkeley Linguistics Society.

1994b. "The Tupí-Guaraní inverse." Voice: Form and Function, ed. by Paul Hopper and Barbara Fox. Amsterdam:
        John Benjamins.

1985a. "Degrees of inherent transitivity in Yagua verbs." International Journal of American Linguistics 51.19-37.



External Possession

1999a. (ed., with Immanuel Barshi). External Possession. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. [20 papers]

1999b. (with Immanuel Barshi). "External Possession: What, Where, How, and Why." External Possession,
        ed. by Doris Payne and Immanuel Barshi, 3-29. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

1998a. (with Immanuel Barshi). "Argument structure and Maasai possessive interpretation: Implications for
        language learning." Foreign Language Acquisition: Psycholinguistic Experiments on Training and
        Retention. Edited by Alice F. Healy and Lyle E. Bourne, Jr., 213-229. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

1997a. "The Maasai External Possessor Construction." Essays on Language Function and Language Type,
        dedicated to T. Givon, ed. by Joan Bybee, John Haiman, and Sandra Thompson., 395-422. Amsterdam: John
        Benjamins.

1997c. "Semantic role and argument structure in the Maasai "external possession" construction." Proceedings
        of the 1997 23rd Meetings of the Berkeley Linguistics Society.


Reviews

2003.  Review of Dimensions of Possession, ed. by Irene Baron, Michael Herslund and Finn Sorensen.  Functions of Language 10.109-116.

2003.  Review of  A Dictionary of the Nandi Language by Jane Tapsubei Creider and Chet A. Creider.  Journal of African Languages and Linguistics. 24.195-201.

2001.  Review of The Amazonian Languages, ed. by R. M. W. Dixon and Alexandra Aikenvald.  Language.

1999d.   Review of Endangered Languages, ed. by Lenore Grenoble and Lindsey Whaley.  Journal of Linguistics 35-3.

1999e.  Review of Gramática del idioma bora, by Wesley Thiesen.  Language 75.

1997b. Review of Approaches to Discourse, by Deborah Schiffrin. Language 73.2.

1995b. Review of Aspekt Im Maa, by Christa König. Journal of African Languages and Linguistics 16.191-194.

1993c. Review of Categories, Constitutents and Constituent Order in Pitjantjatjara: an Aboriginal Language of  Australia, by Heather J. Bowe. Language 69.1.

1992f. Review of Handbook of Amazonian Languages 3, ed. by Desmond Derbyshire and Geoffrey Pullum. Language 68.423-424.

1991. Review of The Complete Works of Edward Sapir: Wishram Texts, ed. by William Bright. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 2.231-232.

1990g. Review of Discourse and Communication: New Approaches to the Analysis of Mass Media Discourse and Communication, ed. by Teun A. Van Dijk. Language 66.175-180.

1990h. Review of Pragmatics in Non-Western Perspective, ed. by George Huttar and Kenneth Gregerson. Language 66.417.

1990i. Review of Morfología del caquinte (arawak preandino), by Kenneth E. Swift. Language 66.886-887.

1987d. Review of From Phonology to Discourse: Studies in Six Colombian Languages, ed. by Ruth M. Brend. Language 63.444-445.

1987e. Review of English for Science and Technology, by Louis Trimble. Language 63.452-453.

1985c. Review of Word Order Universals, by John Hawkins. Language 61.462-466.

1983. Review of The Case for Surface Case, by Anna Wierzbicka. Notes on Linguistics 26.40-42.