Carmen Jany

List of John Benjamins publications for which Carmen Jany plays a role.

Title

Language Contact and Change in the Americas: Studies in honor of Marianne Mithun

Edited by Andrea L. Berez-Kroeker, Diane M. Hintz and Carmen Jany

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 173] 2016. viii, 416 pp.
Subjects Contact Linguistics | Historical linguistics | Languages of North America | Languages of South America | Theoretical linguistics

Articles

Jany, Carmen 2016 The role of passives in the formation of hierarchical systems in Northern CaliforniaLanguage Contact and Change in the Americas: Studies in honor of Marianne Mithun, Berez-Kroeker, Andrea L., Diane M. Hintz and Carmen Jany (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
Jany, Carmen 2013 Grammatical relations in Mixe and Chimariko: Differences and similaritiesResponses 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
Gordon, Matthew, Carmen Jany, Carlos Nash and Nobutaka Takara 2010 Syllable structure and extrametricality: A typological and phonetic studyStudies 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