Sarah G. Thomason
List of John Benjamins publications for which Sarah G. Thomason plays a role.
Book series
ISSN 2542-7059
Title
Contact Languages: A wider perspective
Edited by Sarah G. Thomason
[Creole Language Library, 17] 1997. xiii, 506 pp.
Subjects Contact Linguistics | Creole studies | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Articles
2016. Language contact and change in the Americas: The state of the art. Language Contact and Change in the Americas: Studies in honor of Marianne Mithun, Berez-Kroeker, Andrea L., Diane M. Hintz and Carmen Jany (eds.), pp. 1–14
This paper begins by sketching the current state of studies in the history, especially the contact history, of indigenous languages of the Americas. Most of the historical linguistic research to date has focused on North American languages of the United States and Canada: here the membership and… read more | Article
2013. How to avoid pitfalls in documenting endangered languages. Responses to Language Endangerment: In honor of Mickey Noonan, Mihas, Elena, Bernard Perley, Gabriel Rei-Doval and Kathleen Wheatley (eds.), pp. 79–94
Conducting fieldwork on an endangered language resembles fieldwork projects on non-endangered languages in most respects, but there also some differences that require extra attention when one studies an endangered language in the field. This paper concentrates on the differences. It covers such… read more | Article
2008. How much syntactic reconstruction is possible?. Principles of Syntactic Reconstruction, Ferraresi, Gisella and Maria Goldbach (eds.), pp. 27–72
This paper explores ways to synthesize methods from generative linguistics and historical linguistics to develop explanatory criteria that need to be satisfied by different attempts to carry out syntactic reconstruction. It addresses various questions such as (i) the need to define exactly what it… read more | Article
2005. Typological and theoretical aspects of Hungarian in contact with other languages. Hungarian Language Contact Outside Hungary: Studies on Hungarian as a minority language, Fenyvesi, Anna (ed.), pp. 11–27
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2003. What Motivates Changes That Occur in Emerging Pidgins and Creoles?. Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 18:1, pp. 107–120
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2003. A response to Mufwene’s response. Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 18:2, pp. 289–298
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2002. Which route(s) to creole genesis?. Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 17:2, pp. 265–271
Miscellaneous
2002. Creoles and genetic relationship. Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 17:1, pp. 101–109
Miscellaneous
2001. 10. Contact-induced language change and Pidgin/Creole genesis. Creolization and Contact, Smith, Norval and Tonjes Veenstra (eds.), pp. 249 ff.
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1997. A typology of contact languages. The Structure and Status of Pidgins and Creoles: Including selected papers from meetings of the Society for Pidgin and Creole linguistics, Spears, Arthur K. and Donald Winford (eds.), pp. 71 ff.
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1997. Ma’a (Mbugu). Contact Languages: A wider perspective, Thomason, Sarah G. (ed.), pp. 469–487
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1997. Mednyj Aleut. Contact Languages: A wider perspective, Thomason, Sarah G. (ed.), pp. 449–468
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1993. Coping with Partial Information in Historical Linguistics. Historical Linguistics 1989: Papers from the 9th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, New Brunswick, 14–18 August 1989, Aertsen, Henk and Robert J. Jeffers (eds.), pp. 485 ff.
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1989. Sarah Thomason: Brief Mention. Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 4:1, pp. 153–154
Miscellaneous
1980. Continuity of transmission and genetic relationship. Papers from the Fourth International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Stanford, March 26–30 1979, Traugott, Elizabeth Closs, Rebecca Labrum and Susan C. Shepherd (eds.), pp. 27–35
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