Natalie Operstein

List of John Benjamins publications for which Natalie Operstein plays a role.

Titles

Language Contact and Change in Mesoamerica and Beyond

Edited by Karen Dakin, Claudia Parodi and Natalie Operstein

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 185] 2017. xv, 433 pp.
Subjects Contact Linguistics | Historical linguistics | Theoretical linguistics

Valence Changes in Zapotec: Synchrony, diachrony, typology

Edited by Natalie Operstein and Aaron Huey Sonnenschein

[Typological Studies in Language, 110] 2015. xiii, 385 pp.
Subjects Historical linguistics | Languages of North America | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Subjects Phonology | Theoretical linguistics

Articles

In their typological survey of pidgins, Parkvall and Bakker (2013) observe that pidgin discourse is characterized by an exceptionally low type-token ratio. Taking this observation as its starting point, the present paper examines the type-token ratio in Lingua Franca, a contact language… read more
Published literature on Lingua Franca contains divergent views regarding its place in the taxonomy of contact language types. While this language is traditionally regarded as a pidgin, some scholars consider it more accurate to view it as a koine. This paper shows that Lingua Franca exhibits… read more
Dakin, Karen and Natalie Operstein 2017 Chapter 1. Language contact in Mesoamerica and beyondLanguage Contact and Change in Mesoamerica and Beyond, Dakin, Karen, Claudia Parodi and Natalie Operstein (eds.), pp. 2–28 | Chapter
The purpose of this introductory chapter is to provide an overview of the volume by outlining some of the major threads in the published literature on language contact and contact-induced change in Mesoamerica and adjacent areas, and by situating the volume and its individual chapters in the… read more
Operstein, Natalie 2017 The Spanish component in Lingua FrancaLanguage Ecology 1:2, pp. 105–136 | Article
The best-documented variety of Lingua Franca (lf), the one spoken in Algiers just before the French colonization of Algeria, comprises three main Romance lexical components; in order of numerical importance, these are Italian, Spanish and French. While it is agreed that the French component is… read more
Operstein, Natalie 2017 Chapter 5. Sociolinguistic factors in loanword prosodyLanguage Contact and Change in Mesoamerica and Beyond, Dakin, Karen, Claudia Parodi and Natalie Operstein (eds.), pp. 106–124 | Chapter
In their proposed taxonomy of loanword prosody types, Davis, Tsujimura & Tu (2012: 36) remark on the potentially interesting difference between the assimilation of loanwords into a majority prosodic pattern in the recipient language and their assimilation into a minority prosodic pattern. This… read more
Operstein, Natalie 2017 Chapter 8. Loanword evidence for dialect mixing in colonial American SpanishLanguage Contact and Change in Mesoamerica and Beyond, Dakin, Karen, Claudia Parodi and Natalie Operstein (eds.), pp. 172–186 | Chapter
This paper provides evidence that the dialect mixture to which speakers of Mesoamerican indigenous languages were exposed at the beginning of their contact with Spanish contained a number of different peninsular dialects. The specific focus of the study is on the phonological shape of early Spanish… read more
Operstein, Natalie 2015 Chapter 9. Valence-changing operations in Zaniza ZapotecValence Changes in Zapotec: Synchrony, diachrony, typology, Operstein, Natalie and Aaron Huey Sonnenschein (eds.), pp. 175–190 | Article
This chapter provides the first descriptive account of valence-changing devices in Zaniza Zapotec, an under-documented language from the Papabuco branch of Zapotec. As in the other Zapotec varieties, the number of valence-increasing mechanisms in Zaniza Zapotec outnumbers that of valence-lowering… read more
Operstein, Natalie 2015 Chapter 3. Valence-altering operations in zapotecValence Changes in Zapotec: Synchrony, diachrony, typology, Operstein, Natalie and Aaron Huey Sonnenschein (eds.), pp. 23–54 | Article
This chapter provides the first attempt to systematize data on valence-altering operations in Zapotec. It contributes both to cross-linguistic research on valence, by situating the valence phenomena of Zapotec within a common framework, and to Zapotecan linguistics, by discussing cross-family… read more
Operstein, Natalie 2015 Chapter 15. Verb inflection and valence in ZapotecValence Changes in Zapotec: Synchrony, diachrony, typology, Operstein, Natalie and Aaron Huey Sonnenschein (eds.), pp. 323–344 | Article
This chapter examines several types of synchronic and diachronic connections between valence and verb inflection in Zapotec. Among the issues examined are the origin of the division of Zapotec verbs into four inflectional classes, the alignment between verb classes and valence, the origin of the… read more
Operstein, Natalie and Aaron Huey Sonnenschein 2015 Chapter 2. Introduction: A closer look at ZapotecValence Changes in Zapotec: Synchrony, diachrony, typology, Operstein, Natalie and Aaron Huey Sonnenschein (eds.), pp. 7–22 | Article
Serving as an overview to the language family and the volume, this chapter provides a brief history of research on Zapotec, a brief overview of the main grammatical features found in Zapotec languages, brief summaries of the individual chapters found in the volume, a brief resume of the… read more
Operstein, Natalie and Amber Clontz 2015 Review of Ehret (2011): History and the Testimony of LanguageJournal of Historical Linguistics 5:2, pp. 303–306 | Review
Operstein, Natalie and Allyson Walker 2012 Review of Bhatt & Veenstra (2011): Creoles and TypologyJournal of Historical Linguistics 2:2, pp. 301–305 | Review