Anvita Abbi
List of John Benjamins publications in which Anvita Abbi is involved.
Journals
ISSN 2665-9336 | E‑ISSN 2665‑9344
2020 Aspects of word formation processes in Luro: The endangered language of the Nicobar Islands Asian Languages and Linguistics 1:1, pp. 9–33 | Article
Luro, an Austroasiatic language of the Mon-Khmer group is spoken in the Teressa island of the Andaman and Nicobar group of islands in the Bay of Bengal, India. Luro is a critically endangered language spoken by less than 2,000 speakers (Directorate of Census Operations 2011). The morphology of… read more
2019 The grammar of ‘non-realization’ Studies in Language 43:4, pp. 850–895 | Article
On the basis of cross-linguistic data from both genetically and geographically related and unrelated languages, in this article we argue that the linguistic phenomena usually referred to as the avertive, the frustrative and the apprehensional belong not to three but to five – semantically… read more
2011 Body divisions in Great Andamanese: Possessive classification, the semantics of inherency and grammaticalization Studies in Language 35:4, pp. 739–792 | Article
Great Andamanese has a dual semantic system for body part categorization: one that is expressed in various terms for concrete body parts and another more abstract one that is expressed in grammaticalized morphemes represented in seven body division possessive classes that classify body part terms… read more
1994 National Seminar on Perspectives on the Eighth Schedule (POES) Language Problems and Language Planning 18:1, pp. 60–62 | Miscellaneous