Downloadable Papers

Below are links to a number of papers I've written which are available for downloading in Adobe Acrobat [.pdf] format. Bibliographic references can be found on my vita page.

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The papers, listed alphabetically:

• 'Areal dimensions in case syncretism: ablatives and genitives'
• 'Aspects of the Historical Development of Nominalizers in the Tamangic Languages'
• 'Case Compounding in the Bodic Languages'
• 'The Chantyal Language'
• 'Complementation' [revised version]
• 'Contact-induced change in the Himalayas: the case of the Tamangic languages'
• 'Converbal constructions in Chantyal'
• 'A crosslinguistic investigation of referential density' [talk handout]
• 'Direct Speech as a Rhetorical Style in Chantyal'
• 'The "Double Demonstratives" of Chantyal'
• 'The fall and rise and fall of the Chantyal language'
• 'Genetic Classification and Language Contact'
• 'Grammar writing for a grammar-reading audience'
• 'Inverted Roots in Salish'
• 'Language documentation and language endangerment in Nepal' [talk handout]
• 'Motion Events in Chantyal'
• 'The Nar-Phu Language'
• 'Nominalization in Bodic languages'
• 'Non-structuralist Syntax'
• 'Patterns of development, patterns of syncretism of relational morphology in the Bodic languages'
• 'Posture Verbs in Two Tibeto-Burman Languages of Nepal'
• 'Recent Adaptions of the Devanagari Script for the Tibeto-Burman Languages of Nepal'
• 'Recent language contact in the Nepal Himalaya'
• 'The rise of ethnic consciousness and the politicization of language in west-central Nepal'
• 'Spatial relations in Chantyal'
• 'Subjectless clauses in Irish'
• 'A tale of two passives in Irish'
• 'Versatile Nominalizations'

Gothenburg talk handout:

• Areal Dimensions in Case Syncretism: Ablatives and Genitives in the Himalayas

Hong Kong talk handouts:

• Nominalizers in Tamangic Languages
• Nominalizations In Irish

Stanford talk handout:

• Relative Clauses and Noun-Modifying Clauses in Chantyal

 

 

Last modified August 2, 2008