Ellen Contini-Morava

List of John Benjamins publications for which Ellen Contini-Morava plays a role.

Book series

Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics (SFSL)

Titles

Cognitive and Communicative Approaches to Linguistic Analysis

Edited by Ellen Contini-Morava, Robert S. Kirsner and Betsy Rodríguez-Bachiller

[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 51] 2004. viii, 389 pp.

Subjects Cognition and language | Communication Studies | Functional linguistics | Theoretical linguistics

Edited by Ellen Contini-Morava and Yishai Tobin

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 183] 2000. xxxii, 365 pp.

Subjects Semantics | Syntax

Articles

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Contini-Morava, Ellen 2023 Chapter 8. Concluding discussion Nominal Classification in Asia and Oceania: Functional and diachronic perspectives, Allassonnière-Tang, Marc and Marcin Kilarski (eds.), pp. 226–240 | Chapter

Contini-Morava, Ellen 2006 The difference between zero and nothing: Swahili noun class prefixes 5 and 9/10 Advances in Functional Linguistics: Columbia School beyond its origins, Davis, Joseph, Radmila J. Gorup and Nancy Stern (eds.), pp. 211–222 | Article

Most Swahili noun class prefixes are overt, e.g. m-toto/wa-toto ‘child/children’. However, for Classes 5 and 9/10 an overt prefix occurs only in certain morphophonemic contexts. Despite superficial similarities, only the Cl. 5 prefix should be analyzed as zero (meaningful absence); Cl. 9/10 nouns… read more

Contini-Morava, Ellen 2002 (What) do noun class markers mean? Signal, Meaning, and Message: Perspectives on sign-based linguistics, Reid, Wallis, Ricardo Otheguy and Nancy Stern (eds.), pp. 3–64 | Article

Contini-Morava, Ellen 2000 Noun Class as Number in Swahili Between Grammar and Lexicon, Contini-Morava, Ellen and Yishai Tobin (eds.), pp. 3 ff. | Article

Contini-Morava, Ellen 1996 1. “Things” in a Noun Class Language: Semantic Functions of Grammatical Agreement in Swahili Toward a Calculus of Meaning: Studies in markedness, distinctive features and deixis, Andrews, Edna and Yishai Tobin (eds.), pp. 251 ff. | Article

Contini-Morava, Ellen 1986 Form in Language: Sapir's Theory of Grammar New Perspectives in Language, Culture, and Personality: Proceedings of the Edward Sapir Centenary Conference (Ottawa, 1–3 October 1984), Cowan, William, Michael Foster and E.F.K. Koerner † (eds.), pp. 341 ff. | Article