Language Contact and Change in the Americas: Studies in honor of Marianne Mithun
Edited by Andrea L. Berez-Kroeker, Diane M. Hintz and Carmen Dagostino
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 173] 2016. viii, 416 pp.
Carmen Dagostino
List of John Benjamins publications for which Carmen Dagostino plays a role.
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Subjects Contact Linguistics | Historical linguistics | Languages of North America | Languages of South America | Theoretical linguistics
2025 California isolates: Language contact and genetic classification Investigating Language Isolates: Typological and diachronic perspectives, Salaberri, Iker, Dorota Krajewska, Ekaitz Santazilia and Eneko Zuloaga (eds.), pp. 270–303 | Chapter
California is known for its linguistic diversity and the impact of longstanding language contact on genetic classification (Mithun 2010, 2012, 2017; Golla 2011; Haynie 2012). Although two hypothetical ancient linguistic groupings were proposed (Hokan and Penutian), several languages are still… read more
2016 The role of passives in the formation of hierarchical systems in Northern California Language Contact and Change in the Americas: Studies in honor of Marianne Mithun, Berez-Kroeker, Andrea L., Diane M. Hintz and Carmen Dagostino (eds.), pp. 33–66 | Article
Passive constructions have been considered as possible sources for grammatical systems based on person hierarchies (Mithun 2007, 2010, 2012). Mithun (2012: 285) shows how patterns of core argument marking in Northern California could have spread areally as a result of language contact. In this… read more
2013 Grammatical relations in Mixe and Chimariko: Differences and similarities Responses to Language Endangerment: In honor of Mickey Noonan, Mihas, Elena, Bernard Perley, Gabriel Rei-Doval and Kathleen Wheatley (eds.), pp. 119–140 | Article
The growing documentation and analysis of endangered and other less commonly studied languages has revealed many unique grammatical systems which can not be explained using traditional concepts, such as subject and object. This paper compares two such systems in two different languages: (a) a… read more
2010 Syllable structure and extrametricality: A typological and phonetic study Studies in Language 34:1, pp. 131–166 | Article
This paper proposes a functional basis for final consonant extrametricality, the asymmetric status of CVC syllables as stress-attracting in non-final position of a word but stress-rejecting in final position. A typological study of phonemic vowel length pattern in 10 languages with this final vs.… read more