Thomas Smitherman

Datos Biográficos

ID9030516
NOMBREThomas Smitherman
NOMBRESThomas
APELLIDOSmitherman
FIRMASMITHERMAN T
AFILIACIONESUniversity of Bergen
VERIFICADONo
TOTAL DE OBRAS3
TOTAL DE CITAS0
TOTAL COMO AUTOR3
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2009
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2013
ÍNDICE H0

  • The Quest for Cognates

    Jóhanna Barðdal, Thomas SmithermanARTICLELanguage Dynamics and Change2013

    The enigma of the origin of non-canonical subject marking in the world’s languages has been met with two competing hypotheses: the Object-to-Subject Hypothesis and the Oblique Subject/Semantic Alignment Hypothesis (cf. Eythórsson and Barðdal, 2005). The present article argues in favor of the Oblique Subject/Semantic Alignment Hypothesis, presenting five sets of cognate predicates in the early/archaic Indo-European daughter languages that occur in…

  • Reconstructing constructional semantics

    Jóhanna Barðdal, Thomas Smitherman et al.ARTICLEStudies in Language2012

    As the historical linguistic community is well aware, reconstructing semantics is a notoriously difficult undertaking. Such reconstruction has so far mostly been carried out on lexical items, like words and morphemes, and has not been conducted for larger and more complex linguistic units, which intuitively seems to be a more intricate task, especially given the lack of methodological criteria and guidelines within the field. This follows directl…

  • Typological changes in the evolution of Indo-European syntax

    Thomas Smitherman, Jóhanna BarðdalARTICLEDiachronica2009

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