Jonathan P. Evans
List of John Benjamins publications for which Jonathan P. Evans plays a role.
Articles
2022 Classifiers in Dimasa and (in-)definite marking Classifiers, Aikhenvald, Alexandra Y. (ed.), pp. 181–201 | Article
Dimasa (ISO 639-3 dis) is a Bodo-Garo language within the Tibeto-Burman family of languages. Like other Tibeto-Burman languages of Northeast India, it has a system of numeral classifiers which occur prefixed to their respective numerals. Across the dozen or so languages of Bodo-Garo, it has been… read more
2022 Classifiers before numerals: Origin of an atypical morpheme order Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 45:1, pp. 1–21 | Article
Languages with sortal classifiers (clf) are distributed across the world, with a large concentration in East and South (east) Asia. Across the world’s classifier languages, few are attested which order classifiers before numerals in counted noun phrases (clf num). The Sino-Tibetan language… read more
2021 The sounds of Tawrã (Digaru-Mishmi), a Tibeto-Burman language Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 44:1, pp. 1–26 | Article
The present study is a phonological analysis of the segments and tones of the Tawrã language (ISO 69-3: mhu; Glottolog: Diga1241), a Sino-Tibetan language spoken in Arunachal Pradesh, India, and in Tibet, China. This paper, the first collaboration between a Tawrã-speaking non-linguist and a… read more