Angela Terrill
List of John Benjamins publications in which Angela Terrill is involved.
Journal
ISSN 0176-4225 | E‑ISSN 1569‑9714
2025 Baroque accretions and isolation: A case study of grammatical complexity in complex social situations in Solomon Islands Investigating Language Isolates: Typological and diachronic perspectives, Salaberri, Iker, Dorota Krajewska, Ekaitz Santazilia and Eneko Zuloaga (eds.), pp. 248–269 | Chapter
This paper presents a case study comparing two Papuan languages of Island Melanesia, Lavukaleve and Touo, with their Oceanic neighbours, exploring differing outcomes of language contact in micro-contact situations. Social/geographic isolation has been thought to preserve or enable structural… read more
2012 Assessing the lexical evidence for a Central Solomons Papuan family using the Oswalt Monte Carlo Test Diachronica 29:1, pp. 1–27 | Article
In the absence of comparative method reconstruction, high rate of lexical cognate candidates is often used as evidence for relationships between languages. This paper uses the Oswalt Monte Carlo Shift test (a variant of Oswalt 1970) to explore the statistical basis of the claim that the four… read more
2011 Limits of the substrate: Substrate grammatical influence in Solomon Islands Pijin Creoles, their Substrates, and Language Typology, Lefebvre, Claire (ed.), pp. 513–529 | Article
What grammatical elements of a substrate language find their way into a creole? Grammatical features of the Oceanic substrate languages have been shown to be crucial in the development of Solomon Islands Pijin and of Melanesian Pidgin as a whole (Keesing 1988), so one might expect constructions… read more
2008 Orientation as a strategy of spatial reference Studies in Language 32:1, pp. 93–136 | Article
This paper explores a strategy of spatial expression which utilizes orientation, a way of describing the spatial relationship of entities by means of reference to their facets. We present detailed data and analysis from two languages, Jahai (Mon-Khmer, Malay Peninsula) and Lavukaleve (Papuan… read more
2006 Semantic transference: Two preliminary case studies from the Solomon Islands L2 Acquisition and Creole Genesis: Dialogues, Lefebvre, Claire, Lydia White and Christine Jourdan (eds.), pp. 67–85 | Article
2004 15. Coordination in Lavukaleve Coordinating Constructions, Haspelmath, Martin (ed.), pp. 427–443 | Chapter
1.Introduction
2. A brief glance at Lavukaleve
3. Coordinators
4. Structure of coordination
4.1 The coordinator
4.2 Number of coordinands
4.3 Ellipsis
5. Noun phrase coordination
6. Adjunct and adjective coordination
7. Coordination as one type of clause linkage in Lavukaleve
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