Patience Epps
List of John Benjamins publications in which Patience Epps is involved.
Journals
ISSN 0176-4225 | E‑ISSN 1569‑9714
International Journal of Language and Culture
Edited by Esther Pascual and Vera da Silva Sinha
ISSN 2214-3157 | E‑ISSN 2214‑3165
2025 Tonogenesis in the Naduhup family of northwest Amazonia Diachrony of Tone, Auderset, Sandra, Rikker Dockum and Ryan Gehrmann (eds.), pp. 479–507 | Article
While tone is widely encountered among Amazonian languages, Amazonia has generally been underrepresented in wider studies of tone and tonal diachrony. This paper offers a case study of tonogenesis within the small Naduhup language family of western Amazonia. We propose that Naduhup tonogenesis… read more
2024 Diachrony and Diachronica: 40@40 Diachronica 41:4, pp. 556–574 | Editorial
2015 Temperature terms in Hup, a Nadahup language of Amazonia The Linguistics of Temperature, Koptjevskaja-Tamm, Maria (ed.), pp. 792–812 | Article
This chapter explores temperature terms in Hup, a Nadahup language of the northwest Amazon. Hup has a relatively small inventory of four temperature terms, relating to warmth and coldness. One pair (‘hot’/‘cold’) occurs across a range of morphosyntactic environments and functional domains, from… read more
2012 Between headed and headless relative clauses Relative Clauses in Languages of the Americas: A typological overview, Comrie, Bernard and Zarina Estrada-Fernández (eds.), pp. 191–212 | Article
Most syntactic typologies of relative clauses recognize two distinct categories: ‘headed’ and ‘headless’ (or ‘free’) relatives, according to whether or not the relative clause is associated with a nominal element that refers to a category delimited by the relative (the ‘domain nominal’, e.g.… read more
2011 18. Reciprocal constructions in Hup Reciprocals and Semantic Typology, Evans, Nicholas, Alice Gaby, Stephen C. Levinson and Asifa Majid (eds.), pp. 315–328 | Article
This paper provides a comprehensive description of the encoding of reciprocal relations in Hup, a language of the Nadahup or ‘Makú’ family of northwest Amazonia. Hup has three morphological strategies for expressing reciprocal relations, but only one of these – the verbal preform ũh – is fully… read more
2009 Escape from the noun phrase: From relative clause to converb and beyond in an Amazonian language Diachronica 26:3, pp. 287–318 | Article
This paper deals with the evolution of certain subordinating constructions in Hup, a Nadahup (Makú) language of the northwest Amazon. Internal reconstruction, informed by close resemblances among synchronically attested clause types, suggests that Hup’s headless relative clause has given rise to a… read more
2008 From ‘wood’ to future tense: Nominal origins of the future construction in Hup Studies in Language 32:2, pp. 383–404 | Article
Cross-linguistic comparison of future constructions (e.g. Bybee et al. 1994) shows that future grams almost invariably derive from verbs involving agent-oriented modality or spatial movement. However, the Hup language of the northwest Brazilian Amazon (Nadahup or ‘Makú’ family) has developed a… read more
2006 Growing a numeral system: The historical development of numerals in an Amazonian language family Diachronica 23:2, pp. 259–288 | Article
Numerals in many languages around the world can be argued to reflect a progressive build-up of historical stages (cf. Hurford 1987), each of which may also represent the synchronic upper limit of a numeral system in another language. This paper presents an intriguing test case of this claim by… read more
2005 Areal diffusion and the development of evidentiality: Evidence from Hup Studies in Language 29:3, pp. 617–650 | Article
Evidentiality is prone to diffusion and has been identified as a diagnostic feature of linguistic areas such as the Vaupés region of the Brazilian Amazon (e.g., Aikhenvald and Dixon 1998). This paper examines the processes by which a complex evidentiality system can develop in a particular… read more