Lourens de Vries
List of John Benjamins publications for which Lourens de Vries plays a role.
Articles
2018 Chapter 10. The linguist as a demon and as a human: Fieldwork in Greater Awyu communities of West Papua Word Hunters: Field linguists on fieldwork, Sarvasy, Hannah and Diana Forker (eds.), pp. 139–155 | Chapter
2014 Chapter 13. Numerals in Papuan languages of the Greater Awyu family Number – Constructions and Semantics: Case studies from Africa, Amazonia, India and Oceania, Storch, Anne and Gerrit J. Dimmendaal (eds.), pp. 329–354 | Article
Numeral systems of the Greater Awyu family of Papuan languages are the topic of this paper. Extended body-part systems that employ the fingers, parts of the arm and head are used by most languages in this family. Body-part based numeral systems of this type are only found in parts of New Guinea and… read more
2010 From clause conjoining to clause chaining in Dumut languages of New Guinea Studies in Language 34:2, pp. 327–349 | Article
The Dumut languages Mandobo, South Wambon and North Wambon are a subgroup of the Awyu-Dumut family. They form a dialect chain that represents stages of the development from clause conjoining with independent verb forms to clause chaining with dependent verb forms that express switch-reference.… read more
2009 Hill, Harriet S. 2006. The Bible at Cultural Crossroads: From Translation to Communication Target 21:1, pp. 145–149 | Review
2005 Towards a typology of tail–head linkage in Papuan languages Studies in Language 29:2, pp. 363–384 | Article
In this article a typological overview of tail–head linkage (THL) in Papuan languages is presented. There are two types of THL, chained THL and thematized THL. The chained type is the default type and its morphosyntactic form follows from the basic clause linkage type in a given Papuan language,… read more