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
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.
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.
1988. "Sufijos transitivos
1986a. "Noun classification in
Yagua." Noun Classes and Categorization, ed. by Colette Craig,
113-131.
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.
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.
Submitted (2002). A contrastive study of Panare oral and
written narratives. Festschrift for Paola Bentivoglio. [
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.
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.)
1994b. "The Tupí-Guaraní inverse." Voice:
Form and Function, ed. by Paul Hopper and Barbara Fox.
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.
1990b. (ed.) Amazonian Linguistics:
Studies in Lowland South American Languages.
Press.
1990d. "Introduction." Amazonian
Linguistics: Studies in Lowland South American Languages, ed. by
Payne, 1-10.
1990e. (with Desmond Derbyshire). "Noun
classification systems in Amazonian Languages." Amazonian
Linguistics: Studies in Lowland South American Languages, ed. by
1990f. "Morphological characteristics of
Amazonian languages." Amazonian Linguistics: Studies in Lowland
South American Languages, ed. by
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.
1994d. "Menciones no-referenciales en
'o'odham." Encuentro de Lingüístico en el Noroeste, Tomo 1, ed. by
Zarina Estrada, 325-350.
1992e. "Nonidentifiable mentions and
order in 'O'odham." Pragmatics of Word Order Flexibility, ed. by
Payne, 137-166.
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.
1980. "Switch-reference in
Chickasaw." Studies of Switch-Reference. (UCLA Papers in Syntax,
No. 8), ed. by
Pamela Munro, 89-118.
Maa (Maasai: Nilotic of
(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 [
2003. Maa Color Terms
and Their Use as Human Descriptors. (with Leonard Ole-Kotikash and Keswe
Ole-Mapena.)
2001. The explanation of
argument structure: lexicalization or discourse use? Proceedings of the
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
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
language learning." Foreign Language Acquisition: Psycholinguistic Experiments
on Training and
Retention. Edited by Alice F. Healy
and Lyle E. Bourne, Jr., 213-229.
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.
Benjamins.
1997c. "Semantic role and argument
structure in the Maasai "external possession" construction."
Proceedings of the 1997 23rd Meetings of the
1996. (with
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.
Noun
classification & other morphology
1990e. (with Desmond Derbyshire). "Noun
classification systems in Amazonian Languages." Amazonian
Linguistics: Studies in Lowland South American Languages, ed. by
1989. (with Robert Carlson). "Genitive
classifiers." Proceedings of the Fourth Annual Pacific Linguistics
Conference, 87-119.
1986a. "Noun classification in
Yagua." Noun Classes and Categorization, ed. by Colette Craig,
113-131.
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.
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.
1995a. "Verb initial languages and
information order." Word Order in Discourse, ed. by Mickey Noonan
and
Pamela Downing, 449-485.
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.
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.
1992d. "Introduction." Pragmatics
of Word Order Flexibility, ed. by
Benjamins.
1990a. The Pragmatics of Word Order:
Typological Dimensions of Verb Initial Languages.
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.
Grammar in
Discourse Processing
2001. The explanation of
argument structure: lexicalization or discourse use? Proceedings of the
1999b. (with
ed.
by
1996. (with
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
Payne, 137-166.
1978. "Grammatical versus referential
structure illustrated in English definition." Proceedings from the
Fourth
LACUS Forum, ed. by Michel Paradis,
650-659.
Argument Structure and Voice Issues
2001. The explanation of
argument structure: lexicalization or discourse use? Proceedings of the
1999a. (ed., with
1999b. (with
ed.
by
1997c. "Semantic role and argument
structure in the Maasai "external possession" construction." Proceedings
of
the 1997 23rd Meetings of the
1994b. "The Tupí-Guaraní inverse." Voice:
Form and Function, ed. by Paul Hopper and Barbara Fox.
John
Benjamins.
1985a. "Degrees of inherent transitivity in Yagua verbs." International Journal of American Linguistics 51.19-37.
1999a. (ed., with
1999b. (with
ed.
by
1998a. (with
language learning." Foreign Language Acquisition: Psycholinguistic
Experiments on Training and
Retention. Edited by Alice F. Healy
and Lyle E. Bourne, Jr., 213-229.
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.
Benjamins.
1997c. "Semantic role and argument
structure in the Maasai "external possession" construction." Proceedings
of
the 1997 23rd Meetings of the
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
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
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.