Stefan Keine

List of John Benjamins publications in which Stefan Keine is involved.

Journal

Linguistic Variation

General Editor: Hedde Zeijlstra

ISSN 2211-6834 | E‑ISSN 2211‑6842

Articles

Keine, Stefan, Trupti Nisar and Rajesh Bhatt 2014 Complete and defective agreement in Kutchi Linguistic Variation 14:2, pp. 243–288 | Article

We describe and analyze the previously undocumented verbal agreement system of Kutchi (Indo-Aryan). We argue that Kutchi instantiates a novel type of split ergativity. First, it exhibits an aspect split in that agreement in non-perfective clauses behaves on a par with agreement in intransitive… read more

Keine, Stefan and Gereon Müller 2010 Non-zero/non-zero alternations in differential object marking Transitivity: Form, Meaning, Acquisition, and Processing, Brandt, Patrick and Marco García García (eds.), pp. 119–140 | Article

This article presents an extension of the theory of differential argument encoding developed in Aissen (1999, 2003). It is based on the empirical observation that the yes/no alternations envisaged in Aissen’s system are only part of a much broader less/more pattern. We maintain Aissen’s hypothesis… read more