Kira Davey
List of John Benjamins publications in which Kira Davey is involved.
Articles
2025 Talk across the Pacific: Developments in understanding traditional and modern multilingualism Multilingualism and Language Contact in Asia-Pacific, Satyanath, Shobha (ed.), pp. 31–40 | Commentary
2023 Directional constructions in Matukar Panau: A Bayesian approach to assessing variation Asia-Pacific Language Variation 9:2, pp. 156–194 | Article
The Oceanic language Matukar Panau has three equivalent morphosyntactic strategies for describing the direction of the event represented by a verb, with a system of ten directional morphemes that can appear in each construction. This variation is explored using a corpus from Matukar Panau and… read more