University of Oregon Colloquium, April 2008
"Syntactic and Prosodic Features of Direct Speech Reports
in Dolakha Newar"
[PowerPoint] [Handout]
PUBLICATIONS
As of September 2007
Books
2007. A Reference Grammar of Dolakha Newar. (Mouton Grammar Library 40.) Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
2007. Santa Barbara Papers in Linguistics, Vol. 17: Proceedings from the Workshop on Sinhala Linguistics (Co-Author Robert Englebretson). Department of Linguistics, University of California, Santa Barbara.
2004. Editor. Tibeto-Burman Languages of Nepal: Manange and Sherpa. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.
1994a. A Descriptive and Historical Account of the Dolakha Newari Dialect (Monumenta Serindica). Tokyo: Institute for the Study of Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies.
1994b. Santa Barbara Papers in Linguistics, Vol. 6: Aspects of Nepali Grammar. Editor. Santa Barbara: Dept. of Linguistics, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Articles in Refereed Journals and Edited Volumes
In preparation. Nominalization in Tibeto-Burman languages of the Himalayan area: A typological perspective.
In preparation b. The syntax of nominalization of five Tibeto-Burman Himalayan languages. With co-authors Ellen Bartee, Alec Coupe, Kristine Hildebrandt, and You-Jing Lin.
Under Review. On the history of adjectival verbs in Newar.
2006. Complementation in Dolakha Newar. Dixon, R.M.W. and Alexandra Aikhenvald (eds.) Complementation and Complementation Strategies: A cross-linguistic typology. (Explorations in linguistic typology 3.) Oxford: Oxford University Press.
2005. “The participial construction in Dolakha Newar: Syntactic implications of an Asian converb.” Studies in Language 29.1: 35-87.
2004a. "An analysis of syntax/prosody interactions in a Dolakha Newar rendition of The Mahābhārata". Co-author Keith Slater. Himalayan Linguistics 3.1-91.
2004b. “The two adjective classes in Manange.” Co-Author Kristine Hildebrandt. Dixon, R. M. W. and Alexandra Aikhenvald (eds.) Adjective Classes: A cross-linguistic typology. (Explorations in linguistic typology 1.) Oxford: Oxford University Press. 74-96.
2003a. “Some case studies on linguistic variation and their implications.” David Bradley et al (eds.) Language Variation: Papers on variation and change in the Sinosphere and the Indosphere in honor of James A. Matisoff. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. 53-64.
2003b. “Dolakha Newar”. Graham Thurgood and Randy LaPolla (eds.) Sino-Tibetan Languages. Curzon Press. 355-370.
2003c. "Beyond Preferred Argument Structure: Sentences, pronouns and given referents in Nepali.” Co-author Laura Crain. Du Bois, Kumpf and Ashby (eds) Preferred Argument Structure: Grammar as Architecture for Function. Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
1999. "Variation in agreement in the Nepali finite verb". [Invited reprint of 1993b] W. Glover and Y. Yadava Topics in Nepalese Linguistics.
1997. "Object relations and dative case in Dolakha Newari". Studies in Language 21.1. 33-62.
1994. "Introduction (with a sketch of Nepali grammar)". In Genetti (ed.) 1994, 1-41.
1993. "On the morphological status of casemarkers in Dolakha Newari". Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 16.1, 57-73.
1993. "Variation in agreement in the Nepali finite verb". South Asian Language Review 3.2, 90-104.
1992. "Semantic and grammatical categories of relative clause morphology in the languages of Nepal". Studies in Language 16.2, 405-427.
1992. "Segmental alternations in the Sunwari verb stem: A case for the feature [front]". Linguistics 30, 319-358.
1992. Review of Typology and Universals by William Croft. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, 2.2. 249-250.
1991. "From postposition to subordinator in Newari". Approaches to Grammaticalization, ed. by Elizabeth Traugott and Bernd Heine. Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 227-255.
1988a. "A contrastive study of the Dolakhali and Kathmandu Newari dialects". Cahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientale, 27.2, 161-191.
1988b. "A syntactic correlate of topicality in Newari narrative". Clause combining in grammar and discourse, ed. by Sandra A. Thompson and John Haiman. Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 29-48.
1988c. "Notes on the structure of the Sunwari transitive verb". Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area, 11.2. 62-92.
1988d. Co-authors S. DeLancey and N. Rude. "Some Sahaptian-Klamath-Tsimshianic lexical sets". In honor of Mary Haas, ed. by William Shipley. Mouton de Gruyter: Berlin, 195-224.
1986a. "The grammaticalization of the Newari verb tl-". Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman area, 9.2, 53-70.
Articles in Conference Proceedings
In press. “Syntax and prosody: Interacting coding systems in Dolakha Newar.” Proceedings of the Thirteenth Annual Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society, Iwasaki, Shoichi (ed.). Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.
2003. “Syntax, Prosody, and Typology: Evidence from prosodic embedding in Dolakha Newar.” Mettouchi, Amina, and GaÁlle Ferr¾ (eds) Proceedings of IP2003, Interfaces Prosodiques/Prosodic Interfaces. Nantes: Acoustique, Acquisition, Interpretation. 111-116.
1994. "On the status of glides in Dolakha Newari". Current Issues in Sino-Tibetan Linguistics, ed. by Hajime Kitamura, Tatsuo Nishida and Yasuhiko Nagano. Osaka, Japan: Organizing Committee for the 26th International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics, 759-766.
1986a. "The grammatical development of postpositions to subordinators in Bodic languages". Proceedings of the twelfth annual meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, 387-400. Berkeley: Berkeley Linguistics Society.
1986. "Juncture, nexus, operators and the Newari non-final construction". Proceedings of the second annual meeting of the Pacific Linguistics Conference. Eugene: University of Oregon Department of Linguistics.
Thesis and Dissertation
1990. A Descriptive and Historical Account of the Dolakha Newari
Dialect. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Oregon.
1986b. "The syntax of the Newari non-final construction". MA thesis. University of Oregon.
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