Loretta O’Connor

List of John Benjamins publications in which Loretta O’Connor is involved.

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Motion, Transfer and Transformation: The grammar of change in Lowland Chontal

Loretta O’Connor

Typologies are critical tools for linguists, but typologies, like grammars, are known to leak. This book addresses the question of typological overlap from the perspective of a single language. In Lowland Chontal of Oaxaca, a language of southern Mexico, change events are expressed with three types… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 95] 2007. xiv, 251 pp.

Articles

O’Connor, Loretta 2012 Take it up, down, and away: Encoding placement and removal in Lowland Chontal Events of Putting and Taking: A crosslinguistic perspective, Kopecka, Anetta and Bhuvana Narasimhan (eds.), pp. 297–326 | Article

This paper offers a structural and semantic analysis of expressions of caused motion in Lowland Chontal of Oaxaca, an indigenous language of southern Mexico. The data were collected using a video stimulus designed to elicit a wide range of caused motion event descriptions. The most frequent event… read more

O’Connor, Loretta 1997 Review of Pasch (1994): Sango. The national official language of the Central African Republic Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 12:2, pp. 342–345 | Review