Hein van der Voort
List of John Benjamins publications for which Hein van der Voort plays a role.
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2020. 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
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
2018. Development and diffusion of classifier systems in Southwestern Amazonia. The Diachrony of Classification Systems, McGregor, William B. and Søren Wichmann (eds.), pp. 201–240
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
2016. 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
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
2016. 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
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
2008. 4. The Guaporé-Mamoré region as a linguistic area. From Linguistic Areas to Areal Linguistics, Muysken, Pieter (ed.), pp. 151–179
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
1997. 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.
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1996. Eighteenth-Century Negerhollands reflexives Revisited. The Early Stages of Creolization, Arends, Jacques (ed.), pp. 25 ff.
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1994. 20. TMA particules and auxiliaries. Pidgins and Creoles: An introduction, Arends, Jacques, Pieter Muysken and Norval Smith (eds.), pp. 247–258
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1994. 12. Eskimo pidgin. Pidgins and Creoles: An introduction, Arends, Jacques, Pieter Muysken and Norval Smith (eds.), pp. 137–151
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1993. Negerhollands. Linguistics in the Netherlands 1993, Drijkoningen, Frank and Kees Hengeveld (eds.), pp. 105–115
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1991. 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.
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