Henry Davis
List of John Benjamins publications in which Henry Davis is involved.
2009 ‘Out of control’ marking as circumstantial modality in St’át’imcets Cross-linguistic Semantics of Tense, Aspect, and Modality, Hogeweg, Lotte, Helen de Hoop and Andrej L. Malchukov (eds.), pp. 205–244 | Article
This paper provides a unified semantic analysis of the so-called ‘out-of-control’ circumfix ka-…-a in St’át’imcets (Lillooet Salish). ka-…-a expresses an initially puzzling range of meanings, including “be able to”, “manage to”, “suddenly”, “accidentally”, and “non-controllable”. We propose that… read more
2007 Evidentials as epistemic modals: Evidence from St'át'imcets Linguistic Variation Yearbook 2007, van Craenenbroeck, Jeroen (ed.), pp. 201–254 | Article
This paper argues that evidential clitics in St’át’imcets (a.k.a. Lillooet; Northern Interior Salish) must be analyzed as epistemic modals.We apply a range of tests which distinguish the modal analysis from the main alternative contender (an illocutionary operator analysis, as in Faller 2002), and… read more
2005 Coordination and constituency in St’át’imcets (Lillooet Salish) Verb First: On the syntax of verb-initial languages, Carnie, Andrew, Heidi Harley and Sheila Dooley (eds.), pp. 31–64 | Article
2003 Quasi objects in St’át’imcets: On the (semi-)independence of Agreement and Case Formal Approaches to Function in Grammar: In honor of Eloise Jelinek, Carnie, Andrew, Heidi Harley and MaryAnn Willie (eds.), pp. 79–106 | Article
2000 Salish evidence on the causative-inchoative alternation Morphological Analysis in Comparison, Dressler, Wolfgang U., Oskar E. Pfeiffer, Markus A. Pöchtrager and John R. Rennison (eds.), pp. 25–60 | Article
1997 Motivating Non-directional Movement Rightward Movement, Beermann, Dorothee, David LeBlanc and Henk van Riemsdijk (eds.), pp. 7–36 | Article