Rob Pensalfini

List of John Benjamins publications in which Rob Pensalfini is involved.

Title

Language Description Informed by Theory

Edited by Rob Pensalfini, Myfany Turpin and Diana Guillemin

This volume explores how linguistic theories inform the ways in which languages are described. Theories, as representations of linguistic categories, guide the field linguist to look for various phenomena without presupposing their necessary existence and provide the tools to account for various… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 147] 2014. xii, 391 pp.

Articles

Pensalfini, Rob 2014 Verbs as spatial deixis markers in Jingulu Language Description Informed by Theory, Pensalfini, Rob, Myfany Turpin and Diana Guillemin (eds.), pp. 123–152 | Article

The Australian language Jingulu makes use of a small set of optional deictic markers on nominals which are homophonous with some of the verbal tense markers in the language. It is a fairly straightforward matter to argue that the former use is derived from the latter via re-analysis of clauses.… read more

Pensalfini, Rob, Diana Guillemin and Myfany Turpin 2014 Editors’ introduction Language Description Informed by Theory, Pensalfini, Rob, Myfany Turpin and Diana Guillemin (eds.), pp. 1–14 | Article