Kenneth VanBik
List of John Benjamins publications in which Kenneth VanBik is involved.
Articles
2020 The origin of the causative and simulative suffix -ter in Hakha Lai and Falam Chin Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 43:2, pp. 292–309 | Article
This paper investigates the origin of the causative (CAUS) and simulative (SML) suffix -ter in two varieties of Lai language, Hakha Lai and Falam Chin. It also shows that Proto Central Chin (PCC) full verbs *tiir ‘to send someone to do an errand’ and *der ‘to pretend to’ grammaticalized and… read more
2019 The origin and spread of Mizo gender suffixes *-a and *-i on personal names Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 42:1, pp. 137–142 | Article
This study presents a diachronic puzzle of the gender suffixes’ origin in Mizo personal names, -a for male and -i for female. It also provides a plausible sociolinguistic explanation for the fast spread of its use by the whole population, that is, the use of these gender suffixes was expedited… read more
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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