G. Tucker Childs

G. Tucker Childs

List of John Benjamins publications for which G. Tucker Childs plays a role.

Title

An Introduction to African Languages

G. Tucker Childs

[Not in series, 121] 2003. xx, 265 pp. (incl. CD-Rom)
Subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | Electronic/Multimedia Products | Other African languages | Theoretical linguistics | Typology

Articles

Childs, G. Tucker. 2019. Chapter 12. Ideophones as a measure of multilingualism*. Ideophones, Mimetics and Expressives, Akita, Kimi and Prashant Pardeshi (eds.), pp. 303–322
The purpose of the pilot research described here was twofold. The first was to develop a measure for multilingualism, how to characterize what has come to be known in the literature as a linguistic repertoire in a rapid and economical manner. A linguistic repertoire is not a language but the… read more | Chapter
Childs, G. Tucker. 2018. Chapter 5. Forty-plus years before the mast: My experiences as a field linguist. Word Hunters: Field linguists on fieldwork, Sarvasy, Hannah and Diana Forker (eds.), pp. 61–78
Chapter
This paper examines the contradictory demands of using language expressively and still qualifying as language, proposing a functional explanation for the form of words in a linguistic word category. Being expressive requires expending more energy, emitting a more robust signal to convey additional… read more | Article
Review
Review
Childs, G. Tucker. 2001. Research on ideophones, whither hence? The need for a social theory of ideophones. Ideophones, Voeltz, F.K. Erhard and Christa Kilian-Hatz (eds.), pp. 63–73
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Article
Typically not the focus of linguistic analysis, the expressive function nonetheless represents a core linguistic behavior. Throughout Africa, ideo-phones robustly manifest that function. When adult speakers learn and begin to use a second language, particularly in contact situations with limited L2… read more | Article