Russell Barlow
List of John Benjamins publications in which Russell Barlow is involved.
Articles
2023 Papuan-Austronesian contact and the spread of numeral systems in Melanesia Diachronica 40:3, pp. 287–340 | Article
This study analyzes the numeral systems of Austronesian and Papuan languages, investigating their areal distribution and considering their most likely ancestral states. The presence or absence of different methods of numeration has often been ascribed to contact-induced change. This can… read more
2021 Review of Daniels (2020): Grammatical reconstruction: The Sogeram languages of New Guinea Diachronica 38:4, pp. 628–637 | Review
2019 Agent demotion through inverted word order: Syntactic passives in Ulwa Studies in Language 43:4, pp. 1015–1037 | Article
Passivization has been characterized as a strictly morphological phenomenon. Some definitions of passivization even require the passive construction to exhibit special verbal morphology. Increasingly, however, there have been descriptions of languages that have “morphology-free” passive… read more