Martha Ratliff

List of John Benjamins publications in which Martha Ratliff is involved.

Journals

Diachronica

International Journal for Historical Linguistics

Edited by Claire Bowern

ISSN 0176-4225 | E‑ISSN 1569‑9714

Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area

Edited by David Bradley

ISSN 0731-3500 | E‑ISSN 2214‑5907

Book series

Current Issues in Linguistic Theory

General Editor: Joseph C. Salmons

ISSN 0304-0763

Articles (4) | Order by:

Ratliff, Martha 2006 Prefix variation and reconstruction Variation and Reconstruction, Cravens, Thomas D. (ed.), pp. 165–178 | Article

Ratliff, Martha 2003 Review of Aikhenvald & Dixon (2001): Areal Diffusion and Genetic Inheritance: Problems in comparative linguistics Diachronica 20:1, pp. 185–193 | Review

Ratliff, Martha 1993 Report on the Workshop on "Methods of Language Classification and Reconstruction": Ann Arbor, Mich., 6-7 November 1992 Diachronica 10:2, pp. 307–316 | Miscellaneous

Ratliff, Martha 1992 Tone Language Type Change in Africa and Asia: !XŨ, Gokana, and MPI* Diachronica 9:2, pp. 239–257 | Article

SUMMARY Tone languages can be characterized by the degree to which they realize one of two tone language prototypes defined in terms of tone function. Type A tone languages (usually Asian) employ tone lexically and in minor morphological patterns. Type B tone languages (usually African and… read more