Hannah Sarvasy

List of John Benjamins publications for which Hannah Sarvasy plays a role.

Title

Word Hunters: Field linguists on fieldwork

Edited by Hannah Sarvasy and Diana Forker

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 194] 2018. vi, 177 pp.
Subjects Anthropological Linguistics | History of linguistics

Articles

Sarvasy, Hannah 2022 Quantifying clause chains in Nungon textsStudies in Language 46:1, pp. 161–200 | Article
Clause chains are sequences of clauses with under-specified verbal predicates, plus a single clause with a fully-specified verbal predicate. Clause chains represent the morpho-syntactic demarcation of a speech unit greater than a single clause, but the precise length of this unit is rarely… read more
Sarvasy, Hannah and Diana Forker 2018 Chapter 1. Word hunters: Unsung heroes of linguisticsWord Hunters: Field linguists on fieldwork, Sarvasy, Hannah and Diana Forker (eds.), pp. 1–8 | Chapter
Languages that lack grammatical gender often still index the sex of humans and higher animates through lexical means (Braun 2001). In the Papuan language Nungon, natural sex is indicated lexically, with gendered person and kin terms. Certain person terms may also function as nominal modifiers.… read more
Clause chaining in Papuan languages is a keystone of the literature on switch-reference (Haiman & Munro 1983, Stirling 1993). Canonically, a clause chain is considered to comprise one or more ‘medial’ clauses, followed by a single ‘final’ clause. In Nungon and other Papuan languages, canonical… read more