Timothy Feist
List of John Benjamins publications in which Timothy Feist is involved.
Articles
2020 Nominal classification: Does it play a role in referent disambiguation? Studies in Language 44:1, pp. 191–230 | Article
It is often claimed that reference tracking is a key function of nominal classification systems, not least because of the role such systems can play in referent disambiguation. This paper reports on the results of a comparative study of reference in texts from four languages, focusing… read more
2017 Chapter 10. The essive in Skolt Saami Uralic Essive and the Expression of Impermanent State, Groot, Casper de (ed.), pp. 243–260 | Chapter
This chapter presents an empirical study of the distribution of a marker referred to as the ‘essive’ in Skolt Saami. The description of the properties of this marker follows the linguistic questionnaire that captures the contexts in which essive and/or translative markers may occur in the Uralic… read more