John S. Lumsden
List of John Benjamins publications in which John S. Lumsden is involved.
2003 Verb conjugations and the Strong Pronoun declension in Standard Arabic Research in Afroasiatic Grammar II: Selected papers from the Fifth Conference on Afroasiatic Languages, Paris, 2000, Lecarme, Jacqueline (ed.), pp. 305–337 | Article
2000 Cause, Manner and Means in Berber Change of State Verbs Research in Afroasiatic Grammar: Papers from the Third conference on Afroasiatic Languages, Sophia Antipolis, 1996, Lecarme, Jacqueline, Jean Lowenstamm and Ur Shlonsky (eds.), pp. 199–220 | Article
1999 The Role of Relexification in Creole Genesis Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 14:2, pp. 225–258 | Article
This article describes the research program of Lefebvre, Lumsden, and their associates concerning the hypothesis that relexification plays a central role in creole genesis. The methodology of the program is presented along with a brief illustration of the data that has been used to test the… read more
1994 Possession: Substratum Semantics in Haitian Creole Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 9:1, pp. 25–49 | Article
This paper compares the notion of "possession" as it is expressed in the verbs of Haitian Creole, French, and Fongbe (a West African language of the Kwa family). It is argued that the notion of possession in verbal semantics is best represented as an implicit argument, i.e., an argument that is… read more
1993 Expletives in Double-Object Constructions in Haitian Creole Focus and Grammatical Relations in Creole Languages: Papers from the University of Chicago Conference on Focus and Grammatical Relations in Creole Languages, Byrne, Francis and Donald Winford (eds.), pp. 269–284 | Article
1991 On the Argument Structure of Certain Haitian Predicates - Rete, To Remain', Posib 'Possible' Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 6:1, pp. 59–72 | Article
The paper presents a systematic description of rete and posib, including some patterns which have not been discussed before in the literature. The account confirms that these predicates do not provide examples of subject-to-subject raising constructions. A lexical subject with rete or posib is… read more