Kenneth VanBik
List of John Benjamins publications for which Kenneth VanBik plays a role.
Articles
The origin of the causative and simulative suffix -ter in Hakha Lai and Falam Chin Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 43:2, pp. 292–309 | Article
2020 This paper investigates the origin of the causative (CAUS) and simulative (SML) suffix -ter in two varieties of Lai language, Hakha Lai and Falam Chin. It also shows that Proto Central Chin (PCC) full verbs *tiir ‘to send someone to do an errand’ and *der ‘to pretend to’ grammaticalized and… read more
The origin and spread of Mizo gender suffixes *-a and *-i on personal names Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 42:1, pp. 137–142 | Article
2019 This study presents a diachronic puzzle of the gender suffixes’ origin in Mizo personal names, -a for male and -i for female. It also provides a plausible sociolinguistic explanation for the fast spread of its use by the whole population, that is, the use of these gender suffixes was expedited… read more
12. Coordination in Hakha Lai (Tibeto-Burman) Coordinating Constructions, Haspelmath, Martin (ed.), pp. 333–356 | Chapter
2004 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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