Nicole Kruspe
List of John Benjamins publications for which Nicole Kruspe plays a role.
Journal
ISSN 0378-4177 | E-ISSN 1569-9978
2023 The linguistics of odour in Semaq Beri and Semelai, two Austroasiatic languages of the Malay Peninsula Studies in Language 47:3, pp. 599–642 | Article
There is a long history presuming smell is not expressible in language, but numerous studies in recent years challenge this presupposition. Large smell lexica have been reported around the world thereby showing high lexical codability in this domain. Psycholinguistic studies likewise find smell… read more
2019 Chapter 12. Pronouns in affinal avoidance registers: Evidence from the Aslian languages (Austroasiatic, Malay Peninsula) The Social Dynamics of Pronominal Systems: A comparative approach, Bouissac, Paul (ed.), pp. 289–317 | Chapter
Affinal avoidance registers are strategies of restrained linguistic conduct in relation to one’s in-laws. Current theories are primarily concerned with two types of strategies: (1) taboos on uttering the proper names of affines, and (2) substitution of everyday words with dedicated parallel lexicon… read more
2011 Aslian linguistic prehistory: A case study in computational phylogenetics Diachronica 28:3, pp. 291–323 | Article
This paper analyzes newly collected lexical data from 26 languages of the Aslian subgroup of the Austroasiatic language family using computational phylogenetic methods. We show the most likely topology of the Aslian family tree, discuss rooting and external relationships to other Austroasiatic… read more
2011 8. Reciprocal constructions in Mah Meri Reciprocals and Semantic Typology, Evans, Nicholas, Alice Gaby, Stephen C. Levinson and Asifa Majid (eds.), pp. 149–162 | Article
This paper provides an account of reciprocal constructions in Mah Meri, an Aslian (Austroasiatic) language spoken in peninsular Malaysia. A brief outline of the relevant grammatical points is provided before turning to examine the two constructions identified. The ‘bare conjunct’ construction… read more