Keren Rice

Rice, Keren 2016 “Excorporation” in a Dene (Athabaskan) language Language Contact and Change in the Americas: Studies in honor of Marianne Mithun, Berez-Kroeker, Andrea L., Diane M. Hintz and Carmen Jany (eds.), pp. 139–166 | Article

In the Fort Good Hope variety of the Dene (North Slavey) language, Proto-Athabaskan *n generally is realized as [r] in an oral environment and as [n] in a nasal environment. However, in some cases where alternations between [n] and [r] are expected based on closely related varieties, only the [r]… read more

Rice, Keren 2015 Review of MacWhinney, Malchukov & Moravcsik (2014): Competing motivations in grammar and usage The Why and How of Total Reduplication: Current Issues and New Perspectives, Rossi, Daniela (ed.), pp. 1019–1029 | Review

Rice, Keren 2014 Review of Thornes, Andvik, Hyslop & Jansen (2013): Functional-Historical Approaches to Explanation. In honor of Scott DeLancey Studies in Language 38:2, pp. 421–426 | Review

Rice, Keren 2013 Language contact as an inhibitor of sound change: An Athabaskan example The Persistence of Language: Constructing and confronting the past and present in the voices of Jane H. Hill, Bischoff, Shannon T., Deborah Cole, Amy V. Fountain and Mizuki Miyashita (eds.), pp. 29–52 | Article

In the past 150 years, the Fort Good Hope variety of Dene (also called Slavey), an Athabaskan language of northern Canada’s Mackenzie River valley, has undergone several phonological shifts. I focus on the change of nasals to r. Not all nasals shift in the appropriate environment. At first, this… read more

Rice, Keren 2011 Dene-Yeniseian Diachronica 28:2, pp. 255–271 | Article

Rice, Keren 2010 The linguist’s responsibilities to the community of speakers: Community-based research Language Documentation: Practice and values, Grenoble, Lenore A. and N. Louanna Furbee (eds.), pp. 25–36 | Article

Recent years have seen an increased focus of attention on the responsibilities of linguists engaged in fieldwork to the communities of speakers with whom they work. This article focuses on the evolving nature of ethical responsibilities, concentrating on developments in Canada in the past fifteen… read more

Rice, Keren 2008 On the evolution of activity incorporates in Athabaskan languages The Diachrony of Complex Predication, Bowern, Claire (ed.), pp. 262–297 | Article

Many Athabaskan languages have a construction that I call the activity incorporate construction. Activity incorporates are similar in some ways to circumstantial incorporates, entering into non-core thematic relationships with the verb stem. The languages that allow incorporates divide into two… read more

Rice, Keren 2008 On incorporation in Athapaskan languages: Aspects of language change Grammatical Change and Linguistic Theory: The Rosendal papers, Eythórsson, Thórhallur (ed.), pp. 375–409 | Article

Rice, Keren 2007 A typology of good grammars Perspectives on Grammar Writing, Payne, Thomas E. and David J. Weber (eds.), pp. 143–171 | Article

Writing a grammar is an exhilarating and exhausting experience. All grammars must meet high expectations. This paper reports on a study of qualities sought in grammars based on a survey of reviews of grammars. The study reveals that linguists expect a grammar to be comprehensive, clear, and… read more

Rice, Keren 2006 A typology of good grammars Perspectives on Grammar Writing, Payne, Thomas E. and David J. Weber (eds.), pp. 385–415 | Article

Writing a grammar is an exhilarating and exhausting experience. All grammars must meet high expectations. This paper reports on a study of qualities sought in grammars based on a survey of reviews of grammars. The study reveals that linguists expect a grammar to be comprehensive, clear, and… read more

Rice, Keren 2005 Prominence and the verb stem in Slave (Hare) Athabaskan Prosody, Hargus, Sharon and Keren Rice (eds.), pp. 345–368 | Article

Rice, Keren and Sharon Hargus 2005 Preface to Michael Krauss’ article Athabaskan Prosody, Hargus, Sharon and Keren Rice (eds.), pp. 51–53 | Article

Rice, Keren and Sharon Hargus 2005 Introduction Athabaskan Prosody, Hargus, Sharon and Keren Rice (eds.), pp. 1–45 | Article

Rice, Keren 2003 Doubling by Agreement in Slave (Northern Athapaskan) Formal Approaches to Function in Grammar: In honor of Eloise Jelinek, Carnie, Andrew, Heidi Harley and MaryAnn Willie (eds.), pp. 51–78 | Article

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Athabaskan Prosody

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