Judith Aissen
List of John Benjamins publications in which Judith Aissen is involved.
2026 Chapter 1. Strategies for documenting topic and focus in understudied languages Topicality and the Shaping of Grammar: New perspectives from lesser-studied languages, Palancar, Enrique L., Claudine Chamoreau and Anaïd Donabédian (eds.), pp. 10–58 | Chapter
I concentrate here on the information structure relations topic and focus, and on their contrastive versions (contrastive focus and contrastive topic). All four depend crucially on discourse context. Although topic and focus are sometimes viewed as complementary relations, in fact they belong to… read more
2007 Remarks on description and explanation in grammar: Commentary on Haspelmath What Counts as Evidence in Linguistics: The case of innateness, Penke, Martina and Anette Rosenbach (eds.), pp. 109–112 | Article
2004 Remarks on description and explanation in grammar: Commentary on Haspelmath What Counts as Evidence in Linguistics?: The case of innateness, Penke, Martina and Anette Rosenbach (eds.), pp. 580–583 | Article
1999 External Possessor and Logical Subject in Tz’utujil External Possession, Payne, Doris L. and Immanuel Barshi (eds.), pp. 167–194 | Article
1991 2. Relational Grammar Linguistic Theory and Grammatical Description: Nine Current Approaches, Droste, Flip G. and John E. Joseph (eds.), pp. 63–102 | Chapter