Alana Johns
List of John Benjamins publications in which Alana Johns is involved.
Articles
2009 Determining the semantics of Inuktitut postbases Variations on Polysynthesis: The Eskaleut languages, Mahieu, Marc-Antoine and Nicole Tersis (eds.), pp. 149–170 | Chapter
This paper examines a number of properties of Inuktitut postbases, which are affixal morphemes that appear between the root and inflection. These morphemes are the source of polysynthesis in Inuktitut, since they allow the word to expand in principle indefinitely. A number of authors have pointed… read more
2001 Ergative to accusative: Comparing evidence from Inuktitut Grammatical Relations in Change, Faarlund, Jan Terje (ed.), pp. 205–221 | Article
This paper examines the case of different dialects of Inuktitut which appear to vary in their distribution and function of the antipassive construction. It is hypothesized that a difference in grammatical restrictions on this construction will coincide with a quantitative difference in occurrence,… read more
1996 The anaphoric agreement morpheme in Labrador Inuttut Microparametric Syntax and Dialect Variation, Black, James R. and Virginia Motapanyane (eds.), pp. 121–144 | Article