Dineke Schokkin
List of John Benjamins publications for which Dineke Schokkin plays a role.
Articles
2023 Verbal number in Idi Studies in Language 47:2, pp. 291–317 | Article
This paper provides a first description of verbal number in Idi, a language of the Pahoturi River family spoken in Western Province, Papua New Guinea. Idi shows an intricate system of marking verbal number, evident in verb stems and two sets of suffixes occurring in different positions on the… read more
2021 Variable realisation of verb-final /n/ in Idi Variation in the Pacific: Part II, Kashima, Eri and Miriam Meyerhoff (eds.), pp. 1–29 | Article
The present study reports on verb-final variable realisation of the alveolar nasal /n/ in the Papuan language Idi. Elision of /n/ is correlated with both linguistic and social factors: present tense, a following consonant, and speakers over 60 show significantly greater rates of /n/ elision.… read more