Niclas Burenhult

List of John Benjamins publications for which Niclas Burenhult plays a role.

Title

Landscape in Language: Transdisciplinary perspectives

Edited by David M. Mark, Andrew G. Turk, Niclas Burenhult and David Stea

[Culture and Language Use, 4] 2011. xiii, 449 pp.
Subjects Anthropological Linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
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
Maniq, spoken by 250–300 people in southern Thailand, is an undocumented geographical outlier of the Aslian branch of Austroasiatic. Isolated from other Aslian varieties and exposed only to Southern Thai, this northernmost member of the group has long experienced a contact situation which is unique… read more
Burenhult, Niclas 2012 The linguistic encoding of placement and removal events in JahaiEvents of Putting and Taking: A crosslinguistic perspective, Kopecka, Anetta and Bhuvana Narasimhan (eds.), pp. 21–36 | Article
This paper explores the linguistic encoding of placement and removal events in Jahai (Austroasiatic, Malay Peninsula) on the basis of descriptions from a video elicitation task. It outlines the structural characteristics of the descriptions and isolates semantically a set of situation types that… read more
Gullberg, Marianne and Niclas Burenhult 2012 Probing the linguistic encoding of placement and removal events in SwedishEvents of Putting and Taking: A crosslinguistic perspective, Kopecka, Anetta and Bhuvana Narasimhan (eds.), pp. 167–182 | Article
This paper explores the linguistic encoding of placement and removal events in Swedish. Drawing on elicited spoken data, it provides a unified approach to caused motion descriptions. The results show uniform syntactic behaviour of placement and removal descriptions and a consistent asymmetry… read more
Burenhult, Niclas 2011 9. The coding of reciprocal events in JahaiReciprocals and Semantic Typology, Evans, Nicholas, Alice Gaby, Stephen C. Levinson and Asifa Majid (eds.), pp. 163–176 | Article
This work explores the linguistic encoding of reciprocal events in Jahai (Aslian, Mon-Khmer, Malay Peninsula) on the basis of linguistic descriptions of the video stimuli of the ‘Reciprocal constructions and situation type’ task (Evans et al. 2004). Reciprocal situation types find expression in… read more
Dunn, Michael, Niclas Burenhult, Nicole Kruspe, Sylvia Tufvesson and Neele Becker 2011 Aslian linguistic prehistory: A case study in computational phylogeneticsDiachronica 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
Mark, David M., Andrew G. Turk, Niclas Burenhult and David Stea 2011 Landscape in language: An introductionLandscape in Language: Transdisciplinary perspectives, Mark, David M., Andrew G. Turk, Niclas Burenhult and David Stea (eds.), pp. 1–24 | Article
Terrill, Angela and Niclas Burenhult 2008 Orientation as a strategy of spatial referenceStudies in Language 32:1, pp. 93–136 | Article
This paper explores a strategy of spatial expression which utilizes orientation, a way of describing the spatial relationship of entities by means of reference to their facets. We present detailed data and analysis from two languages, Jahai (Mon-Khmer, Malay Peninsula) and Lavukaleve (Papuan… read more
The detailed semantic encoding of demonstrative systems of the world’s languages has come under increased scrutiny in recent years. One important finding is that spatial (notably distance) encoding, normally considered to lie at the heart of exophoric demonstrative semantics, may be rivalled as to… read more