Karl J. Franklin

List of John Benjamins publications for which Karl J. Franklin plays a role.

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Franklin, Karl J. 2012 Kewa figures of speech: Understanding the code Endangered Metaphors, Idström, Anna and Elisabeth Piirainen (eds.), pp. 185–204 | Article

In this paper I describe how the Kewa people use figures of speech, particularly idioms and metaphors, often coding them as implied information or implicatures in their “veiled” or “hidden” language. In presenting this work, I have benefitted from the theoretical framework of cognitive linguistics… read more

Franklin, Karl J. 2000 Review of Miedema, Odé, Dam & Baak (1998): Perspectives on the Bird’s Head of Irian Jaya, Indonesia. Proceedings of the Conference Leiden, 13–17 October 1997 Studies in Language 24:1, pp. 188–199 | Review

Franklin, Karl J. 1990 On the translation of official notices into Tok Pisin Melanesian Pidgin and Tok Pisin: Proceedings of the First International Conference on Pidgins and Creoles in Melanesia, Verhaar, S.J., John W.M. (ed.), pp. 323–344 | Article

Franklin, Karl J. 1983 Some features of interclausal reference in Kewa 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. 39–50 | Article