Paul Newman

List of John Benjamins publications in which Paul Newman is involved.

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Syllable Weight in African Languages

Edited by Paul Newman

Syllable weight is a crucially important concept in the fields of phonology and morphology. It impacts analyses and explanation whether theoretical, typological, or descriptive. African linguistics was critical in the original development of the concept and, as this book demonstrates, the concept… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 338] 2017. x, 219 pp.

Articles (7) | Order by:

Newman, Paul 2017 Introduction Syllable Weight in African Languages, Newman, Paul (ed.), pp. 1–8 | Article

Newman, Paul 2017 Chapter 1. Syllable weight as a phonological variable Syllable Weight in African Languages, Newman, Paul (ed.), pp. 9–26 | Chapter

This is an abridged version of a paper originally published over forty years ago (Newman 1972). It is being reprinted here because of its significance in the history of phonological theory and its contribution to African linguistics. At a time when the role of the syllable in linguistics was being… read more

Newman, Paul 2003 The endangered languages issue as a hopeless cause Language Death and Language Maintenance: Theoretical, practical and descriptive approaches, Janse, Mark and Sijmen Tol (eds.), pp. 1–13 | Article

Newman, Paul 2001 Are ideophones really as weird and extra-systematic as linguists make them out to be? Ideophones, Voeltz, F.K. Erhard and Christa Kilian-Hatz (eds.), pp. 251–258 | Article

Newman, Paul 1993 Greenberg’s American Indian classification: a report on the controversy Historical Linguistics 1991: Papers from the 10th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Amsterdam, August 12–16, 1991, Marle, Jaap van (ed.), pp. 229–242 | Article

Newman, Paul 1992 The Drift from the Coda into the Syllable Nucleus in Hausa Diachronica 9:2, pp. 227–238 | Article

SUMMARY This paper illustrates the importance of syllable organization in phonological development and the validity of drift as a factor in diachronic change. At an earlier period, word medial CVC syllables, with the second C belonging to the coda, were quite common in Hausa. As a result of… read more

Newman, Paul 1984 Methodological pitfalls in chadic-afroasiatic comparisons Current Progress in Afro-Asiatic Linguistics: Papers of the Third International Hamito-Semitic Congress, London, 1978, Bynon, James (ed.), pp. 161–166 | Article