Functional-Historical Approaches to Explanation: In honor of Scott DeLancey
Edited by Tim Thornes, Erik Andvik, Gwendolyn Hyslop and Joana Jansen
[Typological Studies in Language, 103] 2013. xviii, 294 pp.
Tim Thornes
List of John Benjamins publications for which Tim Thornes plays a role.
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Subjects Functional linguistics | Historical linguistics | Typology
Articles
2013 Causation as “functional sink” in Northern Paiute Functional-Historical Approaches to Explanation: In honor of Scott DeLancey, Thornes, Tim, Erik Andvik, Gwendolyn Hyslop and Joana Jansen (eds.), pp. 237–258 | Article
Two morphological constructions operate within the broad, functional domain of causation in Northern Paiute (Numic; Uto-Aztecan). One, the instrumental prefix construction, indicates the means or manner by which some action is carried out by characterizing features associated with instruments.… read more
2012 Functional underpinnings of diachrony in relative clause formation: The nominalization-relativization connection in Northern Paiute Relative Clauses in Languages of the Americas: A typological overview, Comrie, Bernard and Zarina Estrada-Fernández (eds.), pp. 147–170 | Article
The present paper explores the grammatical formation and synchronic variation of relative clauses in the Northern Paiute (Western Numic; Uto-Aztecan) language, as determined by their functional and grammatical connections to nominalization. We find support for several hypotheses from the literature… read more
2009 Review of Payne & Weber (2007): Perspectives on Grammar Writing Studies in Language 33:3, pp. 749–757 | Review