Vincent Collette
List of John Benjamins publications for which Vincent Collette plays a role.
Articles
2023 ‘Common nighthawk’ ( Chordeiles minor ) in Algonquian and Siouan languages Journal of Historical Linguistics 13:3, pp. 488–517 | Article
Some North American indigenous languages have names for ‘common nighthawk’ (Chordeiles minor)’, ‘robin’, and ‘bird’ that are strikingly similar phonetically and have served to advocate long-distance genetic relationships among language families. While the Algonquian proto-form for ‘nighthawk’… read more
2021 Plains Cree animacy–inanimacy hierarchy: Old facts and new insights Studies in Language 45:4, pp. 840–864 | Article
Like all Algonquian languages, Cree distributes its stock of nouns over two classes: animate and inanimate. While this distinction is firmly based on different agreement rules, and is to a large extent (but not completely) backed up by semantic differences, Cree nouns can also be put on a… read more