Joseph Brooks

List of John Benjamins publications in which Joseph Brooks is involved.

Article

Brooks, Joseph 2019 Secret language and resistance to borrowing in Chini Creativity in Language, Aikhenvald, Alexandra Y., Andrea Hollington, Nico Nassenstein and Anne Storch (eds.), pp. 83–94 | Article

In Chini, a language of northeastern New Guinea, speakers rely on principles of semantic extension including metonymy, metaphor, and other types of association to create new terms using material from the vernacular. They do so in a special sociolinguistically marked register referred to here as… read more