Cathryn Donohue
List of John Benjamins publications in which Cathryn Donohue is involved.
Articles
2021 Tonal morphology in Sama Nubri: Case marking and transitivity alternations Studies in Language 45:2, pp. 408–427 | Article
This paper reports on the Tibeto-Burman language, Nubri, of the high Himalayan region of northern central Nepal. Specifically, data is presented to illustrate the use of tone to mark two morphological features in the language: the use of a H tone suffix to mark the genitive case, and the use of… read more
2010 The case of possessors and ‘subjects’ Austronesian and Theoretical Linguistics, Mercado, Raphael, Eric Potsdam and Lisa deMena Travis (eds.), pp. 103–116 | Article
Possessors have often been treated as the ‘subjects’ of the DPs in which they appear, being analyzed as surfacing in [spec, DP] by analogy to the standard analysis for clausal subjects in a configurational framework of grammar. In this paper , we present a new descriptive generalization showing… read more
2008 19. Case selection Old and New Basque Morphology and Language History: In honour of Harold Koch, Bowern, Claire, Bethwyn Evans and Luisa Miceli (eds.), pp. 269–280 | Article