Florian Lionnet
List of John Benjamins publications in which Florian Lionnet is involved.
Articles
2025 Accent and tone: The double origin of the Paicî prosodic system Diachrony of Tone, Auderset, Sandra, Rikker Dockum and Ryan Gehrmann (eds.), pp. 406–427 | Article
What happens when an accentual language develops a tonal contrast from laryngeal features: is the accent system kept alongside the new tone contrast? Is it lost? Do both prosodic systems merge? In this paper, I present the tone system of Paicî, which illustrates the latter outcome. Paicî seems… read more
2014 Demonstrative and relative constructions in Ju: A diachronic account Beyond ‘Khoisan’: Historical relations in the Kalahari Basin, Güldemann, Tom and Anne-Maria Fehn (eds.), pp. 181–209 | Article
This paper focuses on the various demonstrative and relative constructions attested in the two Ju dialectal groups for which some level of documentation is available, viz. North-Central and South-Eastern, and proposes a unified diachronic account of the diversity of properties and uses of these… read more