Fay Wouk
List of John Benjamins publications in which Fay Wouk is involved.
2017 Morphological self-repair: Self-repair within the word Studies in Language 41:3, pp. 638–659 | Article
In this study we explore patterns of same-turn self-repair within the word, across ten typologically and areally diverse languages. We find universal processes emerging through language-specific resources, namely: recycling is used to delay a next item due, while replacement is used to replace… read more
2008 The syntax of intonation units in Sasak Studies in Language 32:1, pp. 137–162 | Article
In this paper I examine the syntactic nature of intonation units in Sasak, and compare the distribution of syntactic types with previously published work on other languages, in particular Mandarin, and to a lesser extent, Japanese. Sasak and Mandarin prove to have very similar frequencies of… read more
2002 Review of McNeil (2000): Language and Gesture Studies in Language 26:3, pp. 717–728 | Review
1996 Voice in Indonesian Discourse and its Implications for Theories of the Development of Ergativity Studies in Language 20:2, pp. 361–410 | Article
Estival and Myhill (1988) propose the passive construction as the (only) source for morphological ergativity, and hypothesize a unidirectional path of change which appears crucially to pass through a stage which they label deep ergative, but which has been called discourse ergative by a number of… read more
1986 Transitivity in Batak and Tagalog Studies in Language 10:2, pp. 391–424 | Article