Language Typology and Historical Contingency: In honor of Johanna Nichols
Edited by Balthasar Bickel, Lenore A. Grenoble, David A. Peterson and Alan Timberlake
[Typological Studies in Language, 104] 2013. viii, 512 pp.
David A. Peterson
List of John Benjamins publications for which David A. Peterson plays a role.
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Subjects Historical linguistics | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Articles
2013 Affecting valence in Khumi Language Typology and Historical Contingency: In honor of Johanna Nichols, Bickel, Balthasar, Lenore A. Grenoble, David A. Peterson and Alan Timberlake (eds.), pp. 171–194 | Article
This paper treats the repertoire of valence-affecting constructions found in Khumi (Tibeto-Burman, Bangladesh). In addition to a productive middle, marked by a-, and a semiproductive causative prefix, p-, Khumi has productive suffixal benefactive/malefactive and causative/applicative constructions.… read more
2004 12. Coordination in Hakha Lai (Tibeto-Burman) Coordinating Constructions, Haspelmath, Martin (ed.), pp. 333–356 | Chapter
1.Introduction
2. Basic elements of coordination
2.1 Conjunction
2.2 Disjunction
2.3 Adversative coordination
2.4 Causal coordination
2.5 Extraction
3. Special types of coordination
3.1 Emphatic coordination
3.2 Representative and augmentative conjunction
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