Geoffrey L.J. Haig
List of John Benjamins publications for which Geoffrey L.J. Haig plays a role.
Articles
Chapter 9. Are referent introductions sensitive to forward planning in discourse? Evidence from Multi-CAST Discourse Phenomena in Typological Perspective, Barotto, Alessandra and Simone Mattiola (eds.), pp. 231–268 | Chapter
2023 It has been argued that speakers employ morphosyntactic structures such as presentationals and left-dislocations (Lambrecht 1994) to establish new entities in discourse due to considerations of referent accessibility vis-à-vis event processing (Du Bois 1987; Chafe 1987). We here investigate… read more
Chapter 5. The pronoun-to-agreement cycle in Iranian: Subjects do, objects don’t Advances in Iranian Linguistics, Larson, Richard K., Sedigheh Moradi and Vida Samiian (eds.), pp. 85–106 | Chapter
2020 There is a broad consensus within linguistics that personal pronouns may undergo grammaticalization to yield person agreement morphology. Furthermore, it is widely assumed that similar processes apply to both subject and object pronouns. In this chapter I consider the fate of a phonologically… read more
Gender in Kurdish: Structural and socio-cultural dimensions Gender Across Languages: Volume 4, Hellinger, Marlis and Heiko Motschenbacher (eds.), pp. 247–276 | Article
2015 Linker, relativizer, nominalizer, tense-particle: On the Ezafe in West Iranian Nominalization in Asian Languages: Diachronic and typological perspectives, Yap, Foong Ha, Karen Grunow-Hårsta and Janick Wrona (eds.), pp. 363–390 | Article
2011 The Ezafe particle is well known from recent work on Persian syntax, but its historical origins and developmental pathways have received less attention. This chapter redresses the balance by considering the Ezafe in a related West Iranian language, Northern Kurdish. In Northern Kurdish, the Ezafe… read more
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