John Whitman
List of John Benjamins publications in which John Whitman is involved.
Journal
ISSN 0257-3784 | E‑ISSN 2212‑9731
Titles
Honorific language and linguistic politeness in Korean
Edited by John Whitman and Lucien Brown
Special issue of Korean Linguistics 17:2 (2015) v, 140 pp.
Proto-Japanese: Issues and Prospects
Edited by Bjarke Frellesvig and John Whitman
Proto-Japanese is the reconstructed language stage from which all later varieties of Japanese, including Ryukyuan, descend. It has been studied both as an end in itself (as the genetic code of the Japanese language) and as part of endeavors to clarify the genetic affiliation of Japanese. Based on… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 294] 2008. vii, 229 pp.
2026 Noun complements are not [ not complements] New Insights into Theoretical Syntax from Asian Languages: Studies in honor of C.-T. James Huang, Simpson, Andrew (ed.), pp. 459–486 | Chapter
This chapter examines “General Noun-Modifying Clause Constructions” (GNMCCs) and the thesis that verbs and nouns combine with clauses in significantly different ways, with verb phrases embedding either clausal arguments or clausal adjuncts, and nominal phrases embedding only clausal modifiers.… read more
2015 Honorifics and politeness in Korean Honorific language and linguistic politeness in Korean, Whitman, John and Lucien Brown (eds.), pp. 127–131 | Article
2014 Chapter 7. Comparative consequences of the tongue root harmony analysis for proto-Tungusic, proto-Mongolic, and proto-Korean Paradigm Change: In the Transeurasian languages and beyond, Robbeets, Martine and Walter Bisang (eds.), pp. 141–176 | Chapter
This paper examines the role of retracted tongue root ([RTR]) harmony in Northeast Asian areal and genetic relationships. Recent research has suggested that at least three of the families grouped together as Altaic by Poppe (1960) – Korean, Mongolic, and Tungusic (KMT) – should be reconstructed… read more
2013 Introduction Korean Historical Linguistics, pp. 125–128 | Article
2013 Review of Lee & Ramsey (2011): A History of the Korean Language Korean Historical Linguistics, pp. 247–260 | Review
2012 Misparsing and syntactic reanalysis Historical Linguistics 2009: Selected papers from the 19th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Nijmegen, 10-14 August 2009, Kemenade, Ans M.C. van and Nynke de Haas (eds.), pp. 69–88 | Article
This paper argues that syntactic misparsing is not a significant factor in syntactic change, contrary to many earlier claims. It examines the best known examples in the literature of syntactic change resulting from alleged misparsing, and shows that the misparsing analysis is rejected in the most… read more
2010 Applicative structure and Mandarin ditransitives Argument Structure and Syntactic Relations: A cross-linguistic perspective, Duguine, Maia, Susana Huidobro and Nerea Madariaga (eds.), pp. 261–282 | Chapter
We argue that applicative heads always appear above the lexical VP, regardless of the semantics of the construction. Thematic Applicatives select a nominal expression and a VP as argument, parallel to Pylkkänen’s (2008) “high” applicatives. The applied argument is merged in Spec, ApplP and receives… read more
2008 Introduction Proto-Japanese: Issues and Prospects, Frellesvig, Bjarke and John Whitman (eds.), pp. 1–9 | Miscellaneous
2008 Evidence for seven vowels in proto-Japanese Proto-Japanese: Issues and Prospects, Frellesvig, Bjarke and John Whitman (eds.), pp. 15–41 | Article
2008 The source of the bigrade conjugation and stem shape in pre-Old Japanese Proto-Japanese: Issues and Prospects, Frellesvig, Bjarke and John Whitman (eds.), pp. 159–173 | Article
2001 Kayne 1994: p.143, fn.3 The Minimalist Parameter: Selected papers from the Open Linguistics Forum, Ottawa, 21–23 March 1997, Alexandrova, Galina M. and Olga Arnaudova (eds.), pp. 77–100 | Article
1999 Personal pronoun shift in Japanese: A case study in lexical change and point of view Function and Structure: In honor of Susumu Kuno, Kamio, Akio and Ken-ichi Takami (eds.), pp. 357–386 | Article