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.
Niclas Burenhult
List of John Benjamins publications for which Niclas Burenhult plays a role.
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Subjects Anthropological Linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
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
2014 Contact and isolation in hunter-gatherer language dynamics: Evidence from Maniq phonology (Aslian, Malay Peninsula) Studies in Language 38:4, pp. 956–981 | Article
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
2012 The linguistic encoding of placement and removal events in Jahai Events 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
2012 Probing the linguistic encoding of placement and removal events in Swedish Events 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
2011 9. The coding of reciprocal events in Jahai Reciprocals 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
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 Landscape in language: An introduction Landscape in Language: Transdisciplinary perspectives, Mark, David M., Andrew G. Turk, Niclas Burenhult and David Stea (eds.), pp. 1–24 | Article
2008 Orientation as a strategy of spatial reference Studies 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
2003 Attention, accessibility, and the addressee: The case of the Jahai demonstrative ton Pragmatics 13:3, pp. 363–379 | Article
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