publications
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THESES
Gildea, Spike. 1989. Simple and Relative Clauses in Panare. M.A. Thesis, University of Oregon. pdf
Gildea, Spike. 1992. Comparative Cariban Morphosyntax: On the Genesis of Ergativity in Independent Clauses. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Oregon. pdf
BOOKS
Gildea, Spike. 1998. On Reconstructing Grammar: Comparative Cariban Morphosyntax. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Gildea, Spike (ed). 2000 Reconstructing Grammar: Comparative Linguistics and Grammaticalization Theory. Typological Studies in Language, v. 43. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins
Gildea, Spike and Francesc Queixalós (eds). 2010. Ergativity in Amazonia. Typological Studies in Language, v. 89. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Press.
Gildea, Spike and Ana Vilacy Galucio (eds). 2010. Historical Linguistics in Amazonia, special issue of International Journal of American Linguistics.
Barðdal, Jóhanna, Elena Smirnova, Lotte Sommerer & Spike Gildea (eds). 2015. Diachronic Construction Grammar. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
JOURNAL ARTICLES
Gildea, Spike. 1993. The rigid postverbal subject in Panare: a historical explanation. International Journal of American Linguistics (IJAL) 59.44-63.
Gildea, Spike. 1993. The development of tense markers from demonstrative pronouns in Panare (Cariban). Studies in Language 17.53-73.
Gildea, Spike. 1995. A comparative description of syllable reduction in the Cariban language family. International Journal of American Linguistics 61.62-102.
Gildea, Spike. 2004. The Venezuelan Branch of the Cariban Language Family. Amérindia 28.7-32.
Gildea, Spike. 2008. Explaining similarities between main clauses and nominalized clauses. La structure des langues amazoniennes, ed. by Ana Carla Bruno, Frantomé Pacheco, Francesc Queixalos, and Leo Wetzels. Amérindia 32: 57-75. pdf
Meira, Sérgio, Spike Gildea and Berend Hoff. 2010. On the Origin of Ablaut in the Cariban family. Historical Linguistics in South America, ed. by Spike Gildea and Vilacy Galucio. Special issue of the International Journal of American Linguistics, 76: 477–515.
Gildea, Spike. 2012. The referential hierarchy and attention. Faits de Langues 39: 33-47. [Special issue on Saillance ed. by Katharina Haude and Annie Montaut.]
Gildea, Spike & Fernando Zúñiga. In Press. Referential hierarchies: A new look at some historical and typological patterns. Journal of Linguistics.
BOOK CHAPTERS
Gildea, Spike. 1994. Semantic and pragmatic inverse — “inverse alignment” and “inverse voice” — in Carib of Surinam. Voice and Inversion. Typological Studies in Language, vol 30, ed. by T. Givón, 187-230. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Gildea, Spike. 1997. Introducing ergative word order via reanalysis: Word order change in the Cariban language family. Essays on Language Function and Langage Type, ed. by Joan Bybee, John Haiman and Sandra Thompson, 145-161. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Press.
Gildea, Spike. 1997. Evolution of grammatical relations in Cariban: How functional motivation precedes syntactic change. Grammatical Relations: A Functionalist Perspective, Typological Studies in Language, v. 35, ed. by T. Givón, 155-198. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Press.
Gildea, Spike. 2000. On the genesis of the verb phrase in Cariban languages: Diversity through reanalysis. Reconstructing Grammar: Comparative Linguistics and Grammaticalization Theory, Typological Studies in Language, v. 43, ed. by Spike Gildea, 65-106. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Gildea, Spike. 2003. Etat de l’art des descriptions linguistiques des langues du groupe caribe (trans. by Jon Landaburu). Faits de Langue: Meso-Amérique, Caraïbes, Amazonie. Ed. by Jon Landaburu. p. 79-84. Paris: Ophrys.
Gildea, Spike and Doris Payne. 2007. Is Greenberg’s Macro-Carib viable? Lingüística Histórica na América do Sul, ed by Ana Vilacy Galucio and Pieter Muysken. Boletim do Museu Emilio Goeldi, Série de Ciências Humanas. Belém: Museu Goeldi. pdf
Meira, Sérgio and Spike Gildea. 2009. Property concepts in the Cariban family: Adjectives, adverbs and/or nouns? The Linguistics of Endangered Languages --- Contributions to Morphology and Morphosyntax, ed by W. Leo Wetzels. p. 95-133. Utrecht: LOT Occasional Series. ms pdf
Gildea, Spike, Berend Hoff and Sérgio Meira. 2010. The story of *ô in the Cariban family. Fieldwork and linguistic analysis in Indigenous languages of the Americas, ed. by Berez, Andrea L., Daisy Rosenblum & Jean Mulder. Language Documentation & Conservation Special Publication No. 2, 91-123. Link to article
Queixalós, Francesc and Spike Gildea. 2010. Manifestations of Ergativity in Amazonia. Ergativity in Amazonia, ed. by Spike Gildea and Francesc Queixalós, 1-25. Typological Studies in Language, v. 89. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Gildea, Spike and Flávia Castro Alves. 2010. Nominative-Absolutive: Counter-Universal Split Ergativity in Jê and Cariban. Ergativity in Amazonia, ed. by Spike Gildea and Francesc Queixalós, 159-199. Typological Studies in Language. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Gildea, Spike. 2012. Linguistic Studies in the Cariban Family. Handbook of South American Languages, ed. by Lyle Campbell and Veronica Grondona, 441-494. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Barðdal, Jóhanna & Spike Gildea. 2015. Diachronic Construction Grammar: Epistemological Context, Basic Assumptions and Historical Implications. Diachronic Construction Grammar, ed. by Jóhanna Barðdal, Elena Smirnova, Lotte Sommerer & Spike Gildea. Constructional Approaches to Language. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Gildea, Spike & Flávia Castro Alves. In Press. Reconstructing the Source of Nominative-Absolutive Alignment in Two Amazonian Language Families. Reconstructing Syntax: Cognates and Directionality, ed. by Eugenio Luján, Jóhanna Barðdal, & Spike Gildea. Brill Series in Historical Linguistics. Leiden: Brill Press.
Gildea, Spike & Joana Jansen. To appear. The development of referential hierarchy effects in Sahaptian. Diachrony of hierarchical systems, ed. by Joana Jansen & Spike Gildea. Typological Studies in Language. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Gildea, Spike. Under review. Reconstructing the copulas and nonverbal predicate constructions in Cariban. Nonverbal predication in Amazonian Languages, ed. by Simon Overall, Rosa Vallejos, & Spike Gildea. Typological Studies in Language. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES
Gildea, Spike. 2005. Carib and the Carib Family. Encyclopedia of Linguistics. Ed. Philip Strazny. New York: Routledge.
Gildea, Spike. 2011. La famille carib (trans by F. Queixalós). Dictionaire des langues du monde, from the Encyclopaedia of the Sciences of Language. Paris: Centre National pour le Recherche Scientifique (CNRS).
CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS / WORKING PAPERS
Gildea, Spike. 1989. Structural correlates to functional change: a Panare nominalizer ‘surfaces’ as main clause aspect. Proceedings of the Fourth Meeting of the Pacific Linguistics Conference, ed by R. Carlson, et al., 165-189. Eugene: Department of Linguistics, University of Oregon. pdf
Gildea, Spike. 1993. On the evolution of a counter-universal pattern of split ergativity. In Proceedings of the Ninth Eastern States Conference on Linguistics. ed. by Michael Bernstein, 103-16. Ithaca: Cornell University, Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics. pdf
Gildea, Spike. 1994. The Cariban and Tupí-Guaraní object nominalizing prefix. Lingüística Tupí-Guaraní/Caribe, ed. by Ignacio Prado Pastor, 163-77. Revista Latinoamericana de Estudios Etnolingüísticos, v. VIII. Lima, Peru.
Gildea, Spike. 2002. Reconstructing Pre-Proto-Tupi-Guarani main clause grammar. Atas do Encontro Internacional de Pesquisadores de Línguas Indígenas, p. 315-326. Belem: Universidade Federal do Para. pdf
Gildea, Spike. 2003. Ergativity in the northern Cariban Languages. L'ergativité en Amazonie, v. 1, ed. by F. Queixalós. Brasília: CNRS, IRD and the Laboratório de Línguas Indígenas, UnB. link to website where this ms can be downloaded
Gildea, Spike. 2004. Are there universal cognitive motivations for ergativity? L'ergativité en Amazonie, v. 2, ed. by F. Queixalós, 1-37. Brasília: CNRS, IRD and the Laboratório de Línguas Indígenas, UnB. link to website where this ms can be downloaded
OTHER PUBLICATIONS AND MANUSCRIPTS
1991. The object nominalizing prefix nɨ- in Panare and across Cariban. (31 pp. ms) pdf
1993. Dissertation Research. Kiosk 1.1-4. Newsletter of the Graduate School of the University of Oregon.
1994. Report on the Tupi-Guarani/Cariban Linguistics Symposium. Five Hundred Years After Colombus: Proceedings of the 47th Congress of Americanists, comp. by E. Wyllys Andrews and Elizabeth Oster Mozillo, 200-208. New Orleans: Middle American Research Institute. (with Wolf Dietrich) pdf
1996. Calendário Kaxuyana, 1997. Houston: Department of Linguistics, Rice University.
1997. Basic Information on Aids for Indigenous Communities (with technical assistance from Maria das Dores Alves Lourdeira, FUNAI). Translation produced for distribution as pamphlets by Brazil’s Coordenação Nacional de DST e AIDS.
Ensinamento Sobre AIDS para Comunidades Indígenas (Portuguese by Sérgio Meira)
AIDS poko Emu’katohu (Katxúyana by João do Vale Kaxuyana w/ Spike Gildea) pdf
Ököreu Kainampö, AIDS Eka, Iponohto Serö (Tiriyó by Pedro Asefö w/ Sérgio Meira)