Robert L. Rankin
List of John Benjamins publications for which Robert L. Rankin plays a role.
Articles
2012 Historical transfer of nasality between consonantal onset and vowel: From C to V or from V to C? Diachronica 29:2, pp. 201–230 | Article
Comparative data from several language families show that nasality can be transferred between a syllable-initial consonant cluster and the following vowel. The cases reported to date are summarized, and a new analysis is proposed for a set of Sino-Tibetan data. The evolution appears to go in both… read more
2006 Review of Bellwood & Renfrew (2002): Examining the Farming/Language Dispersal Hypothesis Diachronica 23:1, pp. 185–193 | Review
1990 A taxonomy of graph types Information Design Journal 6:2, pp. 147–159 | Article