Bernat Bardagil
List of John Benjamins publications in which Bernat Bardagil is involved.
2025 Vowel devoicing as prosodic augmentation in Mẽbêngôkre Linguistics in the Netherlands 2025, Doreleijers, Kristel, Remco Knooihuizen and Eva van Lier (eds.), pp. 236–251 | Article
This paper explores an instance of prosodic augmentation (Lovick 2023: 382) via devoicing in Mẽbêngôkre, a Jê language spoken in Brazilian Amazonia. While segment lengthening is usually associated with prosodic augmentation, in Mẽbêngôkre high vowels can be devoiced, besides also… read more
2020 Number morphology in Panará A typology of the mass/count distinction in Brazil and its relevance for mass/count theories, Oliveira de Lima, Suzi and Susan Rothstein (eds.), pp. 312–323 | Article
In this paper I present a description of number in Panará, with singular, dual and plural, and discuss the mass-count properties of Panará nouns. I also describe an until now unattested instance of omnivorous dual in Panará, where one dual morpheme can map to one or more arguments.
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2018 Realigning alignment: The completeness typology applied to case marking in Jê languages Linguistics in the Netherlands 2018, Le Bruyn, Bert and Janine Berns (eds.), pp. 1–18 | Article
We analyse case marking in the Jê language family (Brazilian Amazonia) with the new completeness alignment typology proposed by Lindenbergh & Zwart (2017). In contrast with classical alignment typology, the completeness typology first determines whether all grammatical functions participate in a… read more
2015 Tangled up in mood: Exploring Panará split ergativity Linguistics in the Netherlands 2015, Köhnlein, Björn and Jenny Audring (eds.), pp. 1–15 | Article
The two primary goals of this article are to present data concerning the mood-based alignment split that can be observed in Panará pronominal clitics and to put forward a tentative formal analysis that can capture the motivations of such phenomena in the grammar. This paper aims to explore an… read more