Structures and their Functions in Usan
Ger P. Reesink
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 13] 1987. xviii, 369 pp.
Ger P. Reesink
List of John Benjamins publications for which Ger P. Reesink plays a role.
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Subjects Functional linguistics | Languages of Trans-New Guinea | Pragmatics | Theoretical linguistics
2014 Topic management and clause combination in the Papuan language Usan Information Structure and Reference Tracking in Complex Sentences, Gijn, Rik van, Jeremy Hammond, Dejan Matić, Saskia van Putten and Ana Vilacy Galucio (eds.), pp. 231–262 | Article
This chapter describes topic management in the Papuan language Usan. The notion of ‘topic’ is defined by its pre-theoretical meaning ‘what someone’s speech is about’. This notion cannot be restricted to simple clausal or sentential constructions, but requires the wider context of long stretches of… read more
2010 Review of Aikhenvald (2008): The Manambu language of East Sepik, Papua New Guinea Studies in Language 34:1, pp. 226–233 | Review
2008 3. East Nusantara as a linguistic area From Linguistic Areas to Areal Linguistics, Muysken, Pieter (ed.), pp. 95–149 | Article
In this paper we consider how Eastern Indonesia may be treated as a linguistic area. We propose five defining linguistic features and we discuss their occurrence in some 40 Austronesian (AN) and non-Austronesian (NAN) languages of South Sulawesi, Flores, Sumba, Timor, Alor and Pantar, the Moluccas,… read more
2008 Lexicon and syntax from an emic viewpoint Studies in Language 32:4, pp. 866–893 | Article
Each language has its own limited inventory of constructions from which speakers have to choose when they want to communicate their conceptualizations. This paper discusses a highly productive complex figure construction (Croft 2001:326) in the Papuan language Moi, which requires a number of… read more
2003 Clause-final negation: structure and interpretation The Interaction of Data, Description, and Theory in Linguistics: Functional perspectives, McGregor, William B. (ed.), pp. 239–268 | Article
Negation in a number of Austronesian and Papuan languages with SVO order is expressed by a rather rigid clause-final position of the negative adverb. Some typological generalizations for negation are reviewed and the distribution of this trait in languages of different stocks is discussed, arguing… read more
1990 Mother tongue and Tok Pisin Melanesian Pidgin and Tok Pisin: Proceedings of the First International Conference on Pidgins and Creoles in Melanesia, Verhaar, S.J., John W.M. (ed.), pp. 289–306 | Article
1989 Review of Foley (1986): The Papuan languages of New Guinea Studies in Language 13:1, pp. 206–212 | Review
1984 Review of Haiman (1980): Hua: A Papuan Language of the Eastern Highlands of New Guinea Studies in Language 8:1, pp. 103–114 | Review
1983 Switch Reference and Topicality Hierarchies Studies in Language 7:2, pp. 215–246 | Article