Lauren Gawne
List of John Benjamins publications for which Lauren Gawne plays a role.
2023 The ‘general fact’ copula in Yolmo and the influence of Tamang Studies in Language 47:1, pp. 120–134 | Article
This paper examines the similarity of the Yolmo ‘general fact’ evidential and the ‘generic fact’ evidential in the Tamang dialect spoken in the valley of the Indrawati Khola. Yolmo òŋge is unlike any evidential attested in other Tibetic languages, but shares features with
1kha-pa in the… read more
2020 Reported speech in earthquake narratives from six Tibeto-Burman languages Studies in Language 44:2, pp. 461–499 | Article
This paper is an analysis of the use of reported speech in six Tibeto-Burman languages from two closely-related sub-branches (Tamangic and Tibetic). The data come from a set of interview narratives about people’s experiences of the 2015 earthquakes in Nepal. The analysis begins with an… read more
2019 Data transparency and citation in the journal Gesture Gesture 18:1, pp. 83–109 | Article
Data is central to scholarly research, but the nature and location of data used is often under-reported in research publications. Greater transparency and citation of data have positive effects for the culture of research. This article presents the results of a survey of data citation in six… read more
2018 Contexts of use of a rotated palms gesture among Syuba (Kagate) speakers in Nepal Gesture 17:1, pp. 37–64 | Article
In this paper I examine the use of the ‘rotated palms’ gesture family among speakers of Syuba (Tibeto-Burman, Nepal), as recorded in a video corpus documenting this language. In this family of gestures one or both forearms are rotated to a supine (‘palm up’) position, each hand with thumb and… read more
2015 The reported speech evidential particle in Lamjung Yolmo Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 38:2, pp. 292–318 | Article
Grammatically encoded evidentials that marks ‘reported speech’, ‘hearsay’ or ‘quotation’ are attested in languages from a variety of families, but often receive cursory description. In this paper I give a detailed account of the reported speech particle ló in Lamjung Yolmo, a Tibeto-Burman… read more