Tim Thornes

List of John Benjamins publications in which Tim Thornes is involved.

Title

Functional-Historical Approaches to Explanation: In honor of Scott DeLancey

Edited by Tim Thornes, Erik Andvik, Gwendolyn Hyslop and Joana Jansen

Contributions from both well-known practitioners and new voices in the areas of language typology, historical linguistics, and function-based approaches to language description define this volume, as does its foci in two major geographical areas — southeast Asia and northwestern North America. All… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 103] 2013. xviii, 294 pp.

Articles

Thornes, Tim 2013 Causation as “functional sink” in Northern Paiute Functional-Historical Approaches to Explanation: In honor of Scott DeLancey, Thornes, Tim, Erik Andvik, Gwendolyn Hyslop and Joana Jansen (eds.), pp. 237–258 | Article

Two morphological constructions operate within the broad, functional domain of causation in Northern Paiute (Numic; Uto-Aztecan). One, the instrumental prefix construction, indicates the means or manner by which some action is carried out by characterizing features associated with instruments.… read more

Thornes, Tim 2012 Functional underpinnings of diachrony in relative clause formation: The nominalization-relativization connection in Northern Paiute Relative Clauses in Languages of the Americas: A typological overview, Comrie, Bernard and Zarina Estrada-Fernández (eds.), pp. 147–170 | Article

The present paper explores the grammatical formation and synchronic variation of relative clauses in the Northern Paiute (Western Numic; Uto-Aztecan) language, as determined by their functional and grammatical connections to nominalization. We find support for several hypotheses from the literature… read more

Thornes, Tim 2009 Review of Payne & Weber (2007): Perspectives on Grammar Writing Studies in Language 33:3, pp. 749–757 | Review