Andrew Nevins
List of John Benjamins publications in which Andrew Nevins is involved.
Book series
ISSN 1877-6531
Titles
The Ziggurat of Grammar: In honor of Ur Shlonsky
Edited by Lena Baunaz, Giuliano Bocci and Andrew Nevins
What is the extent to which various grammatical levels – from features through subjecthood through cleft layers – reuse and reemploy certain structure-building operations? In this volume, organized in terms of successively expanding domains, leading contributors report research into the complex… read more
Sonic Signatures: Studies dedicated to John Harris
Edited by Geoff Lindsey and Andrew Nevins
Sonic Signatures is devoted to the representation of sound patterns and sound structures across a diverse range of typologically distinct languages with the overall aim of understanding the nature of linguistic data structures from a principled balance between representational economy and the… read more[Language Faculty and Beyond, 14] 2017. x, 322 pp.
2025 Chapter 9. Deriving OSV order in Cena, an emerging sign language of Brazil The Ziggurat of Grammar: In honor of Ur Shlonsky, Baunaz, Lena, Giuliano Bocci and Andrew Nevins (eds.), pp. 159–184 | Chapter
We discuss the word order OSV found in Cena, an emerging sign language of Brazil, in transitive clauses with two animate arguments, as found in elicited production tasks with native signers. We explain the presence of this typologically rare word order in terms of the role-conflict hypothesis… read more
2020 Maxakalí has suppletion, numerals and associatives but no plurals 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. 271–287 | Article
The Maxakalí language lacks additive plurals (akin to dog-s) on nouns, but has associative plurals, and a large set of suppletive verbs that indicate whether the internal argument is plural or not. Although it has no plural marking, Maxakalí distinguishes between count nouns and mass nouns. The… read more
2017 Prelude, theme and riffs Sonic Signatures: Studies dedicated to John Harris, Lindsey, Geoff and Andrew Nevins (eds.), pp. vii–x | Chapter
2017 The phonology of handshape distribution in Maxakalí sign Sonic Signatures: Studies dedicated to John Harris, Lindsey, Geoff and Andrew Nevins (eds.), pp. 231–262 | Chapter
We provide an analysis of the distribution of handshapes on the dominant and non-dominant hand in the incipient village sign language found in the Maxakalí community in Brazil. The most frequent handshapes reflect tendencies in choosing from the crosslinguistically unmarked set of handshapes, and… read more
2015 Triumphs and limits of the Contrastivity-Only Hypothesis Linguistic Variation 15:1, pp. 41–68 | Article
The Variable Hierarchy hypothesis of Dresher (2009) has a number of far-reaching consequences and applications – beyond the domain for which it was originally developed – including overspecification, kinship terminology, vowel reduction and whistled languages. On the other hand, the… read more
2015 Productivity and Portuguese morphology: How experiments enable hypothesis-testing Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2013: Selected papers from 'Going Romance' Amsterdam 2013, Aboh, Enoch O., Jeannette Schaeffer and Petra Sleeman (eds.), pp. 175–202 | Article
This paper examines to what extent, as evidenced by productivity studies, just as the robustness and learnability of phonological patterns may be grounded and biased by naturalness considerations, so may morphology. Four case studies (L-morphomes, competing nominalizing affixes, athematic… read more
2010 An apparent ‘number case constraint’ in Romanian: The role of syncretism Romance Linguistics 2008: Interactions in Romance, Arregi, Karlos, Zsuzsanna Fagyal, Silvina Montrul and Annie Tremblay (eds.), pp. 185–200 | Article
Romanian pronominal plural clitics differ from their singular clitic counterparts in that they exhibit dative-accusative case syncretism. This contrast correlates with an asymmetry in the combinatorial possibilities of plural vs singular clitics: namely, plural clitics in direct object position in… read more
2009 The role of underlying representations in L2 Brazilian English Loan Phonology, Calabrese, Andrea and W. Leo Wetzels (eds.), pp. 181–192 | Article
2009 Cleaving the interactions between sluicing and P-stranding Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2006: Selected papers from ‘Going Romance’, Amsterdam, 7–9 December 2006, Torck, Danièle and W. Leo Wetzels (eds.), pp. 175–198 | Article
Merchant (2001) proposes that preposition stranding under sluicing is allowed only
in those languages that also allow P-stranding in regular wh- questions. Spanish and
Brazilian Portuguese (BP) seem to falsify this generalization, as both are non-Pstranding
languages that allow P-stranding under… read more
2005 Microvariations in harmony and value-relativized parametrization Linguistic Variation Yearbook 2005, Pica, Pierre, Johan Rooryck and Jeroen van Craenenbroeck (eds.), pp. 119–164 | Article
This paper explores a parametric delimitation of the space of possible harmony patterns with respect to the class of feature-values that are visible. Extending the framework of Calabrese (1995), the proposal is that alternating morphemes that are searching for a harmonic value may have access… read more
2004 On the syntactic expression of pejorative mood Linguistic Variation Yearbook 2004, Pica, Pierre (ed.), pp. 143–179 | Article
The hypothesis of the copy theory of movement forces us to look at mismatches between syntax and LF on the one hand, and syntax and PF on the other in particular ways, often revealing new insights. Through such a lens, we examine the syntactic expression of pejorative mood through echo… read more