Word Hunters: Field linguists on fieldwork
Edited by Hannah Sarvasy and Diana Forker
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 194] 2018. vi, 177 pp.
Hannah Sarvasy
List of John Benjamins publications for which Hannah Sarvasy plays a role.
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Subjects Anthropological Linguistics | History of linguistics
2022 Quantifying clause chains in Nungon texts Studies 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
2018 Chapter 1. Word hunters: Unsung heroes of linguistics Word Hunters: Field linguists on fieldwork, Sarvasy, Hannah and Diana Forker (eds.), pp. 1–8 | Chapter
2016 Sexless babies, sexed grandparents: Nungon gendered person terms International Journal of Language and Culture 3:1, pp. 115–136 | Article
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
2015 Breaking the clause chains: Non-canonical medial clauses in Nungon Studies in Language 39:3, pp. 664–697 | Article
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