Alice C. Harris
List of John Benjamins publications for which Alice C. Harris plays a role.
2021 Chapter 9. The suffixing preference: A preliminary report on processing affixes in Georgian All Things Morphology: Its independence and its interfaces, Moradi, Sedigheh, Marcia Haag, Janie Rees-Miller and Andrija Petrovic (eds.), pp. 147–168 | Chapter
The suffixing preference refers to the observation that cross-linguistically suffixes are more abundant than prefixes (Greenberg 1963). Hawkins & Cutler (1988) explain this preference in part by noting that spoken word recognition relies heavily on the beginnings of words, making it advantageous… read more
2013 Origins of metathesis in Batsbi In Search of Universal Grammar: From Old Norse to Zoque, Lohndal, Terje (ed.), pp. 221–238 | Article
Blevins and Garrett (1998) investigate in detail the origins of CV/VC metathesis in a number of languages and identify two types of metathesis and a “pseudometathesis”. For them, “pseudometathesis” is a synchronic process that does not originate through the historical process of metathesis. They… read more
2012 A working typology of multiple exponence Current Issues in Morphological Theory: (Ir)regularity, analogy and frequency, Kiefer, Ferenc †, Mária Ladányi and Péter Siptár (eds.), pp. 163–188 | Article
The authors present the results of a preliminary investigation of the range of cross-linguistic variation of Multiple Exponence (ME), the occurrence of multiple realizations of a single feature, bundle of features, or derivational category in more than one position in a domain. Their survey of ME… read more
2008 Reconstruction in syntax: Reconstruction of patterns Principles of Syntactic Reconstruction, Ferraresi, Gisella and Maria Goldbach (eds.), pp. 73–95 | Article
In syntax, reconstruction is limited to patterns, that is, repeated surface forms paired with a consistent function or distribution. Comparative reconstruction is illustrated with the example of the pattern of yes/no questions in Kartvelian languages and the core case marking pattern in the… read more
2008 Light verbs as classifiers in Udi The Diachrony of Complex Predication, Bowern, Claire (ed.), pp. 213–241 | Article
In Udi, most verbal lexemes are composed, in all tense-aspect-mood categories, of a light verb and an ‘initial’. It is argued here that in the first stage of this development, simplex verbs were juxtaposed with focused constituents. In the second stage, initials and verbs formed compounds, and this… read more
2008 Explaining exuberant agreement Grammatical Change and Linguistic Theory: The Rosendal papers, Eythórsson, Thórhallur (ed.), pp. 265–283 | Article
2003 The Prehistory of Udi Locative Cases and Locative Preverbs Current Trends in Caucasian, East European and Inner Asian Linguistics: Papers in honor of Howard I. Aronson, Holisky, Dee Ann and Kevin Tuite (eds.), pp. 177–191 | Article
2001 Focus and universal principles governing simplification of cleft structures Grammatical Relations in Change, Faarlund, Jan Terje (ed.), pp. 159–170 | Article
Harris and Campbell (1995: Chapter 7) propose specific universals governing processes that simplify biclausal structures, including the simplification of focus clefts to monoclausal focus constructions. In particular, it is claimed there that after a biclausal construction is reanalyzed as… read more
2000 Word Order Harmonies and Word Order Change in Georgian Stability, Variation and Change of Word-Order Patterns over Time, Sornicola, Rosanna, Erich Poppe and Ariel Shisha-Halevy (eds.), pp. 133–164 | Chapter
1992 Review of Faarlund (1990): Syntactic Change: Toward a Theory of Historical Syntax Diachronica 9:2, pp. 287–296 | Review
1990 Alignment typology and diachronic change Language Typology 1987: Systematic Balance in Language, Lehmann, Winfred P. (ed.), pp. 67–90 | Article
1986 Commensurability of terms Language Typology 1985: Papers from the Linguistic Typology Symposium, Moscow, 9–13 Dec. 1985, Lehmann, Winfred P. (ed.), pp. 55–76 | Article
1984 Georgian Interrogativity: A colloquium on the grammar, typology and pragmatics of questions in seven diverse languages, Cleveland, Ohio, October 5th 1981-May 3rd 1982, Chisholm, William, Louis T. Milic and John A.C. Greppin (eds.), pp. 63–112 | Article
1982 Ablaut and syntax in Kartvelian Papers from the Fifth International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Galway, April 6–10 1981, Ahlqvist, Anders (ed.), pp. 110–116 | Article
1980 On the loss of a rule of syntax Papers from the Fourth International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Stanford, March 26–30 1979, Traugott, Elizabeth Closs, Rebecca Labrum and Susan C. Shepherd (eds.), pp. 165–171 | Article