Aung Si
List of John Benjamins publications in which Aung Si is involved.
Articles
2025 The question of universals in ethnobiological nomenclature: Re-examination with southeast Asian linguistic data Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 48:1, pp. 1–41 | Article
The classification and naming of plants and animals is said to follow a number of “universal” constraints cross-linguistically. While these constraints are generally accepted in the literature, few have been rigorously tested with a large language sample. In particular, the languages of mainland… read more
2023 Variation in the bird-name lexicon in Qaqet (East New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea) Asia-Pacific Language Variation 9:2, pp. 239–264 | Article
Birds are of great cultural importance to the Qaqet-Baining people of East New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea. In this paper, we investigate whether there are differences in people’s ability to name common birds in the local environment, and focus primarily on the variables gender and… read more
2019 Solega defenestration: Underspecified perspective shift in an unwritten Dravidian language Irregular perspective shifts and perspective persistence: Discourse-oriented and theoretical approaches, Gentens, Caroline, María Sol Sansiñena, Stef Spronck and An Van linden (eds.), pp. 277–301 | Article
Based on original fieldwork, this paper discusses reported speech and thought constructions in Solega (Dravidian). Following McGregor (1994) we claim that reported speech can only be comprehensively characterised if it is identified as a syntactic construction in its own right, a construction we… read more