John A. Hawkins
List of John Benjamins publications in which John A. Hawkins is involved.
2012 Patterns of asymmetry in argument structure across languages: Some principles and puzzles Argument Structure and Grammatical Relations: A crosslinguistic typology, Suihkonen, Pirkko, Bernard Comrie and Valery Solovyev (eds.), pp. 133–150 | Article
This paper examines patterns of asymmetry between the arguments of multiargument predicates across languages. The asymmetries are visible in patterns of argument co-occurrence, of rule applicability, of formal marking and in linear ordering. The asymmetries have been captured in hierarchies of… read more
2008 An asymmetry between VO and OV languages: The ordering of obliques Case and Grammatical Relations: Studies in honor of Bernard Comrie, Corbett, Greville G. and Michael Noonan (eds.), pp. 167–190 | Article
The World Atlas of Language Structures has established an interesting asymmetry between head-initial (VO) and head-final (OV) languages with respect to the ordering of oblique phrases, i.e., phrases corresponding to with the key and on the table in opened [the door] [with the key] and put [the… read more
1991 Language universals in relation to acquisition and change: A tribute to Roman Jakobson New Vistas in Grammar: Invariance and Variation, Waugh, Linda R. and Stephen Rudy (eds.), pp. 473–493 | Article
1990 Seeking motives for change in typological varation Studies in Typology and Diachrony: Papers presented to Joseph H. Greenberg on his 75th birthday, Croft, William A., Suzanne Kemmer and Keith Denning (eds.), pp. 95–128 | Article
1988 On explaining some right-left asymmetries in syntactic and morphological universals Studies in Syntactic Typology, Hammond, Michael, Edith A. Moravcsik and Jessica Wirth (eds.), pp. 321–358 | Article