Alan Rumsey
List of John Benjamins publications for which Alan Rumsey plays a role.
2020 Sign Languages in Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands Sign Language in Papua New Guinea: A primary sign language from the Upper Lagaip Valley, Enga Province, Kendon, Adam †, pp. 141–184 | Miscellaneous
2017 Flexibles and polyvalence in Ku Waru: A developmental perspective Lexical Polycategoriality: Cross-linguistic, cross-theoretical and language acquisition approaches, Vapnarsky, Valentina and Edy Veneziano (eds.), pp. 307–341 | Chapter
This chapter concerns the nature and universality of word classes and their relation to syntagmatic types. Having thought through these issues on the basis of material from a Papuan language, Ku Waru, of the Western Highlands of Papua New Guinea, in this paper we make use of child language… read more
2013 The acquisition of ergative marking in Kaluli, Ku Waru and Duna (Trans New Guinea) The Acquisition of Ergativity, Bavin, Edith L. and Sabine Stoll (eds.), pp. 133–182 | Article
In this chapter we present material on the acquisition of ergative marking on noun phrases in three languages of Papua New Guinea: Kaluli, Ku Waru, and Duna. The expression of ergativity in all the languages is broadly similar, but sensitive to language-specific features, and this pattern of… read more
2002 8. Men stand, women sit: On the grammaticalization of posture verbs in Papuan languages, its bodily basis and cultural correlates The Linguistics of Sitting, Standing and Lying, Newman, John (ed.), pp. 179–211 | Chapter
1997 New Guinea ‘Classificatory Verbs’ and Australian Noun Classification: A Typological Comparison Nominal Classification in Aboriginal Australia, Harvey, Mark and Nicholas Reid (eds.), pp. 63–104 | Article