Bill Palmer
List of John Benjamins publications for which Bill Palmer plays a role.
Articles
2017 Categorial flexibility as an artefact of the analysis: Pronouns, articles and the DP in Hoava and Standard Fijian Lexical flexibility in Oceanic languages, Lier, Eva van (ed.), pp. 408–444 | Article
Hoava sa and ria have been analysed as pronouns in some contexts, and articles in others, an apparent case of flexibility in functional categories. However, this analysis depends on an assumption that pronouns are NP head. An alternative analysis employing the Determiner Phrase (DP) demonstrates… read more
2015 Chapter 8. Topography in language: Absolute Frame of Reference and the Topographic Correspondence Hypothesis Language Structure and Environment: Social, cultural, and natural factors, De Busser, Rik and Randy J. LaPolla (eds.), pp. 179–226 | Article
This chapter re-evaluates the notion of absolute Frame of Reference (FoR) in spatial language. It reassesses Levinson’s widely accepted definition of absolute FoR as involving bearings that are fixed, abstract and arbitrary, and that absolute FoR involves a binary relation. The chapter argues… read more
2007 8. Pointing at the lagoon: Directional terms in Oceanic atoll-based languages Language Description, History and Development: Linguistic indulgence in memory of Terry Crowley, Siegel, Jeff, John Lynch and Diana Eades (eds.), pp. 101–117 | Article