Abe Powell
List of John Benjamins publications in which Abe Powell is involved.
Articles
2026 Applying popular arguments for and against an independent egophoric grammatical category to Thewo Tibetan Language and Linguistics 27:2, pp. 257–301 | Article
Thewo Tibetan’s egophoric markers are restricted to volitional acts the speaker has done, is doing, and will do. This is unique amongst the reported Tibetan speech varieties given that usually first, second, and third person speech act participants (SAPs) can all use egophoric markers assuming… read more
2024 Thewo Tibetan’s /ta 33 / and /nə 33 /: A narrative exploration of how temporal space and verbal semantics interact with evidentiality Language and Linguistics 25:4, pp. 673–709 | Article
This paper has three aims. First, in its form, this paper uses a narrative style to overtly highlight the iterative process used to identify the meaning of the two suffixes in question. Second, this paper seeks to describe the intricate workings of two verbal suffixes in Thewo Tibetan. Finally,… read more
2017 Phonetic distance and dialect clustering on the Qinghai-Tibet plateau Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 40:2, pp. 161–178 | Article
The goal of this paper is to use string edit distance to describe the synchronic relationship between the Tibetan speech varieties located on the Northeastern edge of the Tibetan Plateau. String edit distance provides a statistical way to compare a large number of linguistic features, in essence… read more