Hein van der Voort
List of John Benjamins publications for which Hein van der Voort plays a role.
Articles
Areal diffusion of applicatives in the Amazon. Advances in Contact Linguistics: In honour of Pieter Muysken, Smith, Norval, Tonjes Veenstra and Enoch O. Aboh (eds.), pp. 179–216
2020. Many genetically unrelated languages of (North)western Amazonia share certain specific characteristics, which may be due to areal diffusion.1 Especially the eclectic classifier systems encountered across this region have been in focus lately, as well as valency changing strategies, in particular… read more | Chapter
Development and diffusion of classifier systems in Southwestern Amazonia. The Diachrony of Classification Systems, McGregor, William B. and Søren Wichmann (eds.), pp. 201–240
2018. Comparative research shows that many genealogically unrelated languages in the Guaporé-Mamoré region in the Southwestern Amazon share specific lexical and structural traits, which suggests that the region forms a linguistic area. One of these traits concerns classifier systems. Classifier systems… read more | Chapter
Recursive inflection and grammaticalized fictive interaction in the southwestern Amazon. The Conversation Frame: Forms and functions of fictive interaction, Pascual, Esther and Sergeiy Sandler (eds.), pp. 277–299
2016. This chapter presents fictive interaction as expressed through recursion of bound person and mood markers in two languages of the southwestern Amazon. In Kwaza (isolate), recursive application of inflectional morphemes prototypically expresses quoted speech. This “quotative” construction has… read more | Article
Aikanã and Kwaza. Endangered Languages and Languages in Danger: Issues of documentation, policy, and language rights, Filipović, Luna and Martin Pütz (eds.), pp. 203–230
2016. Aikanã and Kwaza are highly endangered language isolates in southeastern Rondônia, Brazil. Today, their speakers live in indigenous reserves with the last speakers of Latundê (Northern Nambikwaran) and Salamãi (Mondé, Tupian). Whereas the elderly try to maintain indigenous cultures and languages,… read more | Article
4. The Guaporé-Mamoré region as a linguistic area. From Linguistic Areas to Areal Linguistics, Muysken, Pieter (ed.), pp. 151–179
2008. The Guaporé-Mamoré region is one of the world’s linguistically most diverse regions, with over 50 languages representing eight different stocks and 11 genetic isolates. In spite of the fact that these languages diverge enormously at the lexical level, they do seem to share a considerable number of… read more | Article
New light on Eskimo pidgins. The Structure and Status of Pidgins and Creoles: Including selected papers from meetings of the Society for Pidgin and Creole linguistics, Spears, Arthur K. and Donald Winford (eds.), pp. 373 ff.
1997. Article
Eighteenth-Century Negerhollands reflexives Revisited. The Early Stages of Creolization, Arends, Jacques (ed.), pp. 25 ff.
1996. Article
20. TMA particules and auxiliaries. Pidgins and Creoles: An introduction, Arends, Jacques, Pieter Muysken and Norval Smith (eds.), pp. 247–258
1994. Chapter
12. Eskimo pidgin. Pidgins and Creoles: An introduction, Arends, Jacques, Pieter Muysken and Norval Smith (eds.), pp. 137–151
1994. Chapter
Negerhollands. Linguistics in the Netherlands 1993, Drijkoningen, Frank and Kees Hengeveld (eds.), pp. 105–115
1993. Article
The Binding Theory and Creolization. Development and Structures of Creole Languages: Essays in honor of Derek Bickerton, Byrne, Francis and Thom Huebner (eds.), pp. 145 ff.
1991. Article