Aung Si
List of John Benjamins publications for which Aung Si plays a role.
Articles
2023 Variation in the bird-name lexicon in Qaqet (East New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea) Asia-Pacific Language Variation 9:2, pp. 239–264 | Article
Birds are of great cultural importance to the Qaqet-Baining people of East New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea. In this paper, we investigate whether there are differences in people’s ability to name common birds in the local environment, and focus primarily on the variables gender and… read more
2019 Solega defenestration: Underspecified perspective shift in an unwritten Dravidian language Irregular perspective shifts and perspective persistence: Discourse-oriented and theoretical approaches, Gentens, Caroline, María Sol Sansiñena, Stef Spronck and An Van linden (eds.), pp. 277–301 | Article
Based on original fieldwork, this paper discusses reported speech and thought constructions in Solega (Dravidian). Following McGregor (1994) we claim that reported speech can only be comprehensively characterised if it is identified as a syntactic construction in its own right, a construction we… read more