David Beck

List of John Benjamins publications for which David Beck plays a role.

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Semantics: From meaning to text. Volume 3

Igor Mel’čuk

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 168] 2015. xx, 546 pp.
Subjects Cognition and language | Functional linguistics | Pragmatics | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
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Semantics: From meaning to text. Volume 2

Igor Mel’čuk

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 135] 2013. xvi, 400 pp.
Subjects Cognition and language | Functional linguistics | Pragmatics | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
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Semantics: From meaning to text. Volume 1

Igor Mel’čuk

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 129] 2012. xxi, 436 pp.
Subjects Cognition and language | Functional linguistics | Pragmatics | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

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Beck, David 2012 “And he knew our language”: Missionary linguistics on the Pacific Northwest Coast. By Marcus Tomalin Historiographia Linguistica 39:2/3, pp. 403–408 | Review
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Beck, David 2007 What to Do with the Ideophones? A Problem in Lexical Classification From Upper Necaxa Totonac Selected Lexical and Grammatical Issues in the Meaning–Text Theory: In honour of Igor Mel'čuk, Wanner, Leo (ed.), pp. 1 ff. | Article
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Beck, David 2006 Review of Dixon & Aikhenvald (2004): Adjective Classes: A Cross-linguistic Typology Functions of Language 13:1, pp. 111–118 | Review
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Beck, David 2000 Semantic agents, syntactic subjects, and discourse topics: How to locate Lushootseed sentences in space and time Studies in Language 24:2, pp. 277–317 | Article
The Salishan language Lushootseed has been claimed to lack both syntactic subjects and morphosyntactically transitive clauses, a problematic stance from a universalist/typological point of view. This paper offers evidence both for the syntactic role of subject in Lushootseed and the existence of… read more
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Beck, David 2000 Nominalization as complementation in Bella Coola and Lushootseed Complementation: Cognitive and functional perspectives, Horie, Kaoru (ed.), pp. 121–147 | Chapter
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Beck, David 1999 Words and Prosodic Phrasing in Lushootseed Narrative Studies on the Phonological Word, Hall, Tracy Alan and Ursula Kleinhenz (eds.), pp. 23 ff. | Article
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Beck, David 1997 Theme, Rheme, and Communicative Structure in Lushootseed and Bella Coola Recent Trends in Meaning–Text Theory, Wanner, Leo (ed.), pp. 93 ff. | Section header