Rachel Nordlinger
List of John Benjamins publications for which Rachel Nordlinger plays a role.
2014 Serial verbs in Wambaya Language Description Informed by Theory, Pensalfini, Rob, Myfany Turpin and Diana Guillemin (eds.), pp. 263–282 | Article
Australian languages are traditionally not thought of as having serial verb constructions (although cf. Goddard 1988; Wilkins 1988), and are therefore rarely discussed in the extensive typological and theoretical literature on verb serialization. However, in recent work Laughren (2009, 2012) has… read more
2011 4. Reciprocal constructions in English: Each other and beyond Reciprocals and Semantic Typology, Evans, Nicholas, Alice Gaby, Stephen C. Levinson and Asifa Majid (eds.), pp. 75–90 | Article
In this paper we investigate the constructions that are used to encode reciprocal situations in English, based on responses to the 64 reciprocals videoclips developed for the Reciprocals Across Languages project (Evans et al. 2004). This work complements the extensive body of previous research on… read more
2011 Transitivity in Murrinh-Patha Studies in Transitivity: Insights from Language Documentation, Kratochvíl, František, Alexander R. Coupe and Randy J. LaPolla (eds.), pp. 702–734 | Article
In this paper I discuss transitivity in Murrinh-Patha, a non-Pama-Nyungan polysynthetic language from northern Australia. I survey the range of bivalent clauses in Murrinh-Patha and their morphosyntactic properties, and consider their analysis in terms of definitions of transitivity in the… read more
2006 From prefixes to suffixes: Typological change in Northern Australia Diachronica 23:2, pp. 289–311 | Article
This article provides a counterexample to the commonly held, if unexamined, proposition that morphemes reconstructed as affixes do not change their position with respect to the root. We do not expect to find that a proto-prefix has suffix reflexes, nor that a proto-suffix has prefix reflexes. In… read more
2004 Revisiting Proto-Mirndi Australian Languages: Classification and the comparative method, Bowern, Claire and Harold Koch (eds.), pp. 291–312 | Article