Ellen B. Basso

List of John Benjamins publications in which Ellen B. Basso is involved.

Articles

Basso, Ellen B. 2014 Compounding in Kalapalo, a Southern Cariban language Word Formation in South American Languages, Danielsen, Swintha, Katja Hannss and Fernando Zúñiga (eds.), pp. 181–206 | Article

Compounds in the Southern Cariban language Kalapalo include (a) extended verb stems formed by nominal roots prefixed to basic verb stems and more commonly (b) clitic clustering involving two or more members of one of the four different semantic types of this word class. Clitic compounds have… read more

Basso, Ellen B. 2008 Epistemic Deixis in Kalapalo Pragmatics 18:2, pp. 215–252 | Article

Speakers of Kalapalo, a Southern Carib language spoken in central Brazil, use a complex set of grammatical particles to reference epistemic judgments. Using data from narratives, hereditary leader’s ritual communication, ritual songs, conversations, and didactic speech, I use deictic and stance… read more