Sally Rice | John Benjamins

Rice, Sally 2022 A recurring absence gesture in Northern Pastaza Kichwa: The spread-fingered hand torque Gesture 21:1, pp. 28–81 | Article

In this paper I posit the use of a spread-fingered hand torque gesture among speakers of Northern Pastaza Kichwa (Quechuan, Ecuador) as a recurrent gesture conveying the semantic theme of absence. The data come from a documentary video corpus collected by multiple researchers. The gesture… read more

Rice, Sally 2012 “Our language is very literal”: Figurative expression in Dene Sųłiné [Athapaskan] Endangered Metaphors, Idström, Anna and Elisabeth Piirainen (eds.), pp. 21–76 | Article

For reasons perhaps more sociolinguistic than linguistic, Athapaskan languages rarely borrow in order to expand the lexicon. Instead, they opt for the recycling of a very small set of core stems through recombination or simple reinterpretation (involving metaphor and metonymy). The resulting… read more

Rice, Sally 2009 Athapaskan eating and drinking verbs and constructions The Linguistics of Eating and Drinking, Newman, John (ed.), pp. 109–152 | Article

Athapaskan languages comprise one of the largest, most geographically distributed, and most culturally diverse families in North America. Nevertheless, each daughter language features a set of classificatory verb stems which, semantically, focus less on signaling a relational predication than on… read more

Newman, John and Sally Rice 2008 1. Asymmetry in English multi-verb sequences: A corpus-based approach Asymmetric Events, Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk, Barbara (ed.), pp. 3–23 | Article

The English V and V construction provides an ideal opportunity to study asymmetry in the properties of the verbs which enter into each of the two verb slots of this construction. This paper explores the asymmetry evident in this construction by utilizing two corpora of spoken and written New… read more

Rice, Sally 2002 4. Posture and existence predicates in Dene Suliné (Chipewyan): Lexical and semantic density as a function of the ‘stand’/‘sit’/‘lie’ continuum The Linguistics of Sitting, Standing and Lying, Newman, John (ed.), pp. 61–78 | Chapter

Kabata, Kaori and Sally Rice 1999 Japanes ni: The Particulars of a somewhat Contradictory Particle Lexical and Syntactical Constructions and the Construction of Meaning: Proceedings of the bi-annual ICLA meeting in Albuquerque, July 1995, Verspoor, Marjolijn H., Kee Dong Lee and Eve Sweetser (eds.), pp. 107–128 | Article

Rice, Sally, Dominiek Sandra and Mia Vanrespaille 1999 Prepositional semantics and the fragile link between space and time Cultural, Psychological and Typological Issues in Cognitive Linguistics: Selected papers of the bi-annual ICLA meeting in Albuquerque, July 1995, Hiraga, Masako K., Chris Sinha and Sherman Wilcox (eds.), pp. 107–128 | Article

Rice, Sally 1998 Giving and taking in Chipewyan: The semantics of THING-marking classificatory verbs The Linguistics of Giving, Newman, John (ed.), pp. 97–134 | Article

Rice, Sally 1998 Review of Van Belle & Van Langendonck (1996): The Dative, volume 1: Descriptive studies Studies in Language 22:2, pp. 481–492 | Review