John B. Haviland

List of John Benjamins publications in which John B. Haviland is involved.

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Where do nouns come from?

Edited by John B. Haviland

The noun is an apparent cross-linguistic universal; nouns are central targets of language acquisition; they are frequently prototypical exemplars of Saussurian arbitrariness. This volume considers nouns in sign languages and in the evanescent performances of homesigners (and gesturers), which… read more

[Benjamins Current Topics, 70] 2015. v, 140 pp.

Where do nouns come from?

Edited by John B. Haviland

Special issue of Gesture 13:3 (2013) v, 175 pp.

Articles (12) | Order by:

Haviland, John B. 2019 Space as space and space as grammar: An anthropological journey through gesture(d) spaces Anthropology of Gesture, Brookes, Heather and Olivier Le Guen (eds.), pp. 305–342 | Article

Research on narratives in an Australian language demonstrated surprising facts about speakers’ spatial orientation and knowledge both in the insistent use of morphologically hypertrophied spoken directional terminology and in accompanying gestures. Pursuing comparable phenomena in a Mayan… read more

Haviland, John B. 2019 Chapter 25. Grammaticalizing the face in a first generation sign language: The case of “Z” Historical Linguistics 2015: Selected papers from the 22nd International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Naples, 27-31 July 2015, Cennamo, Michela and Claudia Fabrizio (eds.), pp. 519–560 | Chapter

Zincantec Family Homesign (or “Z”) is a first generation sign-language emerging in a single family in Chiapas, Mexico. Despite its very short history Z demonstrates how speakers’ gestures can “jump” into the lexicon of a newly created sign language and become further specialized via processes of… read more

Haviland, John B. 2016 Making gambarr: It belongs to me, I belong to it Land and Language in Cape York Peninsula and the Gulf Country, Verstraete, Jean-Christophe and Diane Hafner (eds.), pp. 455–480 | Article

A few years ago I revisited the Hopevale community in North Queensland with the intention of “repatriating” various sorts of materials – mostly photographs and films – from more than forty years of (discontinuous) research among Guugu Yimithirr-speaking people north of Cooktown. Taking as the… read more

Haviland, John B. 2015 The emerging grammar of nouns in a first generation sign language: Specification, iconicity, and syntax Where do nouns come from?, Haviland, John B. (ed.), pp. 65–110 | Article

A first generation family homesign system, dubbed “Z”, from the Tzotzil-speaking township of Zinacantán, in Chiapas, Mexico, provides insight into how a new sign language can begin to distinguish formally different “part-of-speech” categories. After describing the small signing community,… read more

Haviland, John B. 2015 Introduction: Where does “Where do nouns come from?” come from? Where do nouns come from?, Haviland, John B. (ed.), pp. 1–8 | Article

Haviland, John B. 2014 Different strokes: Gesture phrases and gesture units in a family homesign from Chiapas, Mexico From Gesture in Conversation to Visible Action as Utterance: Essays in honor of Adam Kendon, Seyfeddinipur, Mandana and Marianne Gullberg (eds.), pp. 245–288 | Article

Kendon’s foundational proposals about the phrasing of gesture are applied to the emerging syntax of the multimodal utterances in “Z,” a first-generation sign language emerging among three deaf siblings and their hearing-age mates in an indigenous Mexican community. I build on the composition and… read more

Haviland, John B. 2013 The emerging grammar of nouns in a first generation sign language: Specification, iconicity, and syntax Where do nouns come from?, Haviland, John B. (ed.), pp. 309–353 | Article

Haviland, John B. 2013 Introduction: Where does “Where do nouns come from?” come from? Where do nouns come from?, Haviland, John B. (ed.), pp. 245–252 | Article

Haviland, John B. 2012 Review of Streeck ((2009)): Gesturecraft: The manu-facture of meaning Gesture 12:2, pp. 227–252 | Review

Haviland, John B. 2007 13 Master Speakers, Master Gesturers: A String Quarter Master Class Gesture and the Dynamic Dimension of Language: Essays in honor of David McNeill, Duncan, Susan D., Justine Cassell and Elena T. Levy (eds.), pp. 147–172 | Chapter

Haviland, John B. 1997 Shouts, shrieks, and shots: Unruly political conversations in indigenous Chiapas Conflict and violence in pragmatic research, Briggs, Charles L. (ed.), pp. 547–573 | Article

Haviland, John B. 1979 Guugu Yimidhirr Handbook of Australian Languages: Volume 1, Dixon, R.M.W. and Barry J. Blake (eds.), pp. 27–182 | Article