David A. Peterson
List of John Benjamins publications in which David A. Peterson is
involved.
Title
Language Typology and Historical Contingency: In honor of Johanna Nichols
Edited by Balthasar Bickel, Lenore A. Grenoble, David A. Peterson and Alan Timberlake
What is the range of diversity in linguistic types, what are the geographical distributions for the attested types, and what explanations, based on shared history or universals, can account for these distributions? This collection of articles by prominent scholars in typology seeks to address these… read moreArticles
An infrequently attested pattern of isomorphism between markers of valence-affecting constructions involves overlap between causatives and applicatives, with a transitivizing function, and middles, which are detransitivizing. Such synchronic overlap must be due to some feature of the development… read more Peterson, David A. 2013
Affecting valence in Khumi Language Typology and Historical Contingency: In honor of Johanna Nichols, Bickel, Balthasar, Lenore A. Grenoble, David A. Peterson and Alan Timberlake (eds.), pp. 171–194 | Article This paper treats the repertoire of valence-affecting constructions found in Khumi (Tibeto-Burman, Bangladesh). In addition to a productive middle, marked by a-, and a semiproductive causative prefix, p-, Khumi has productive suffixal benefactive/malefactive and causative/applicative constructions.… read more Peterson, David A. and Kenneth VanBik 2004
12. Coordination in Hakha Lai (Tibeto-Burman) Coordinating Constructions, Haspelmath, Martin (ed.), pp. 333–356 | Chapter 1.Introduction
2. Basic elements of coordination
2.1 Conjunction
2.2 Disjunction
2.3 Adversative coordination
2.4 Causal coordination
2.5 Extraction
3. Special types of coordination
3.1 Emphatic coordination
3.2 Representative and augmentative conjunction
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