Myfany Turpin

List of John Benjamins publications in which Myfany Turpin is involved.

Title

Language Description Informed by Theory

Edited by Rob Pensalfini, Myfany Turpin and Diana Guillemin

This volume explores how linguistic theories inform the ways in which languages are described. Theories, as representations of linguistic categories, guide the field linguist to look for various phenomena without presupposing their necessary existence and provide the tools to account for various… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 147] 2014. xii, 391 pp.

Articles (5) | Order by:

Pensalfini, Rob, Diana Guillemin and Myfany Turpin 2014 Editors’ introduction Language Description Informed by Theory, Pensalfini, Rob, Myfany Turpin and Diana Guillemin (eds.), pp. 1–14 | Article

Turpin, Myfany and Diana Guillemin 2014 Bibliography of Mary Laughren Language Description Informed by Theory, Pensalfini, Rob, Myfany Turpin and Diana Guillemin (eds.), pp. 15–24 | References

Turpin, Myfany, Katherine Demuth and April Ngampart Campbell 2014 Phonological aspects of Arandic baby talk Language Description Informed by Theory, Pensalfini, Rob, Myfany Turpin and Diana Guillemin (eds.), pp. 49–80 | Article

Baby Talk (BT), also known as child-directed speech, is a non-standard form of speech used by adults when talking to infants. In Arandic languages BT involves the use of a small set of unique but widely known words, onomatopoeic-derived words, as well as phonological modifications to standard… read more

Koch, Grace and Myfany Turpin 2008 12. The language of Central Australian Aboriginal songs Morphology and Language History: In honour of Harold Koch, Bowern, Claire, Bethwyn Evans and Luisa Miceli (eds.), pp. 167–183 | Article

Turpin, Myfany 2002 Body part terms in Kaytetye feeling expressions The Body in Description of Emotion: Cross-linguistic studies, Enfield, N.J. and Anna Wierzbicka (eds.), pp. 271–305 | Article

This paper addresses the question of how feelings are expressed in Kaytetye, a Central Australian language of the Pama-Nyugan family. It identifies three different formal constructions for expressing feelings, and explores the extent to which specific body part terms are associated with types of… read more