Pamela Munro

Munro, Pamela 2017 Chapter 16. The Mesoamerican linguistic area revisited Language Contact and Change in Mesoamerica and Beyond, Dakin, Karen, Claudia Parodi and Natalie Operstein (eds.), pp. 335–353 | Chapter

Campbell, Kaufman & Smith Stark (1986; henceforth CKSS) propose a number of criterial traits for identifying “a particularly strong linguistic area” in Mesoamerica, showing that diverse languages from different language families of the region share enough morphological, syntactic, and lexical… read more

Munro, Pamela 2016 Chickasaw switch-reference revisited Switch Reference 2.0, Gijn, Rik van and Jeremy Hammond (eds.), pp. 377–424 | Article

Chickasaw, an endangered Western Muskogean language spoken in south-central Oklahoma, has SOV order, active verb agreement, nominative-accusative case marking, and a pervasive switch-reference system that is used in almost every non-finite clause. Chickasaw examples have appeared in many general… read more

Munro, Pamela 2015 Chapter 14. Zapotec reciprocals Valence Changes in Zapotec: Synchrony, diachrony, typology, Operstein, Natalie and Aaron Huey Sonnenschein (eds.), pp. 297–322 | Article

Reciprocal constructions may be seen as involving a valence change, since they include transitive verbs but do not have distinct subject and object participatns. Zapotec reciprocal constructions are sometimes transitive (with free reciprocal anaphors, often related to an independent word meaning… read more

Munro, Pamela 2015 Chapter 4. Valence alternations in the Tlacolula Valley Zapotec lexicon Valence Changes in Zapotec: Synchrony, diachrony, typology, Operstein, Natalie and Aaron Huey Sonnenschein (eds.), pp. 55–78 | Article

This paper analyzes the formal alternations in a database of more than 150 pairs of verbs from Tlacolula Valley Zapotec (TVZ) that exhibit explicit valence alternations of several types (most commonly intransitive/ transitive, reflecting non-causative/causative or passive/active alternations) or… read more

Munro, Pamela 2007 From parts of speech to the grammar Perspectives on Grammar Writing, Payne, Thomas E. and David J. Weber (eds.), pp. 71–111 | Article

Making dictionaries is a vital aid to completing a full grammatical analysis of a language, particularly if the dictionary requires the specification of the part of speech for each entry. English (or “universal”) parts of speech may not be relevant in all languages, as can be shown by structural… read more

Munro, Pamela 2006 From parts of speech to the grammar Perspectives on Grammar Writing, Payne, Thomas E. and David J. Weber (eds.), pp. 307–349 | Article

Making dictionaries is a vital aid to completing a full grammatical analysis of a language, particularly if the dictionary requires the specification of the part of speech for each entry. English (or “universal”) parts of speech may not be relevant in all languages, as can be shown by structural… read more

Munro, Pamela 1999 Chickasaw Subjecthood External Possession, Payne, Doris L. and Immanuel Barshi (eds.), pp. 251–292 | Article

Munro, Pamela 1983 When “same” is not “not different” Switch Reference and Universal Grammar: Proceedings of a symposium on switch reference and universal grammar, Winnipeg, May 1981, Haiman, John and Pamela Munro (eds.), pp. 223–244 | Article

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Switch Reference and Universal Grammar: Proceedings of a symposium on switch reference and universal grammar, Winnipeg, May 1981

Edited by John Haiman and Pamela Munro