Donna B. Gerdts
List of John Benjamins publications in which Donna B. Gerdts is involved.
2010 Beyond expertise: The role of the linguist in language revitalization programs Language Documentation: Practice and values, Grenoble, Lenore A. and N. Louanna Furbee (eds.), pp. 173–192 | Article
We linguists see ourselves as knights in shining armor, while Natives see us as a necessarily evil. They are quick to criticize, control, and even block linguistic work. Why this gap? First, there is misunderstanding about what linguists do. Second, linguists cannot help with the most crucial needs… read more
2010 Benefactive and malefactive uses of Salish applicatives Benefactives and Malefactives: Typological perspectives and case studies, Zúñiga, Fernando and Seppo Kittilä (eds.), pp. 147–184 | Article
We survey benefactives and malefactives in Salish, a family of twenty-three languages in northwestern North America. For the most part, benefactives and malefactives are expressed via applicative constructions, which are classified into two types: redirective and relational. Redirective… read more
2005 Halkomelem psych applicatives Studies in Language 29:2, pp. 329–362 | Article
In Halkomelem, the relational applicative suffix ‑me‘ is suffixed to an intransitive psychological predicate to form a transitive construction where the experiencer is the subject and the stimulus is the object. We detail the morphosyntactic properties of psych applicatives and contrast them with… read more
2000 Combinatory restrictions on Halkomelem reflexives and reciprocals Reciprocals: Forms and functions, Frajzyngier, Zygmunt and Traci Walker (eds.), pp. 133–160 | Article
1999 Mapping Possessors: Parameterizing the External Possession Construction External Possession, Payne, Doris L. and Immanuel Barshi (eds.), pp. 137–166 | Article
1987 Surface Case and Grammatical Relations in Korean: The Evidence from Quantifier Float Studies in Language 11:1, pp. 181–197 | Article