Rik Van Gijn
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 210040 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Rik Van Gijn |
| NOMBRES | Rik |
| APELLIDO | Van Gijn |
| FIRMA | VAN GIJN R |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Zurich |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9911-2907 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 18 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 12 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 18 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1920 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Lexically driven patterns of contact in alignment systems of languages of the northern Upper Amazon
Despite ample attention in the literature for alignment patterns and case frames more generally, we know very little about how these elements of grammar spread from one language to another in a contact situation. Achieving a better understanding of this will help explain areal patterns in alignment and grammatical relation marking. In this contribution, we zoom in on a contact situation in the foothills of North-West Amazon, where languages of th…
The Netherlands Urban Field Station
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The Netherlands Urban Field Station
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Differential coding of perception in the world’s languages
Is there a universal hierarchy of the senses, such that some senses (e.g., vision) are more accessible to consciousness and linguistic description than others (e.g., smell)? The long-standing presumption in Western thought has been that vision and audition are more objective than the other senses, serving as the basis of knowledge and understanding, whereas touch, taste, and smell are crude and of little value. This predicts that humans ought to …
Aspects of the diachronic (in)stability of complex morphology
Verbal synthesis in the Guaporé-Mamoré linguistic area
In their discussion of the linguistic area Guaporé-Mamoré (eastern Bolivia and Rondônia) Crevels & Van der Voort (2008) propose 'polysynthetic morphology' as one of the structural features shared by most languages in the area.In their approach the feature is regarded as binary (present versus absent) and it is not entirely clear what the basis for their categorization is.In this paper I try to come to a more precise understanding of the nature of…
Subordination strategies in Tupian languages
Assessing the internal coherence and constituency of language families often centers either around comparing certain form-meaning correspondences, or around identifying the presence or absence of linguistic features across the members of the family. The former approach is generally restricted to the lexicon. The latter approach focuses mostly on structural characteristics of language. In this paper we present an alternative approach to comparing …
Word and the Americanist perspective
Word accent and mapping rules in Yurakaré
Switch-attention (aka switch-reference) in South-American temporal clauses
Cultures without a written tradition depend entirely on the oral channel to transmit sometimes highly complex information. It is therefore not surprising that in the languages of such cultures linguistic devices evolve that enhance textual coherence, and thus comprehension. These devices should ideally also be economical in terms of morphosyntactic complexity in order to facilitate both production and comprehension. In this paper, I will argue th…
Subjects and Objects
Yurakaré (unclassified, central Bolivia) marks core arguments on the verb by means of pronominal affixes. Subjects are suffixed, objects are prefixed. There are six types of head-marked objects in Yurakaré, each with its own morphosyntactic and semantic properties. Distributional patterns suggest that the six objects can be divided into two larger groups reminiscent of the typologically recognized direct vs. indirect object distinction. This pape…
Discourse marking and the subtle art of mind-reading
Middle voice and ideophones, a diachronic connection
Kemmer (1993) argues that middle voice markers almost always arise diachronically through the semantic extension of a reflexive marker to other semantic uses related to reflexive. In this paper I will argue for an alternative diachronic path that has led to the development of the middle marker in Yurakaré (unclassified, Bolivia): through ideophone-verb constructions. Taking this perspective helps explain a number of synchronic peculiarities of th…
Anthropology of Color
International audience
Updating and loss of color terminology in Yurakaré
The phonology of mixed languages
Mixed languages are said to be the result of a process of intertwining (e.g. Bakker & Muysken 1995, Bakker 1997), a regular process in which the grammar of one language is combined with the lexicon of another. However, the outcome of this process differs from language pair to language pair. As far as morphosyntax is concerned, people have discussed these different outcomes and the reasons for them extensively, e.g. Bakker 1997 for Michif, Mous 20…
Number in the Yurakaré noun phrase
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The Native Languages of South America
In South America indigenous languages are extremely diverse. There are over one hundred language families in this region alone. Contributors from around the world explore the history and structure of these languages, combining insights from archaeology and genetics with innovative linguistic analysis. The book aims to uncover regional patterns and potential deeper genealogical relations between the languages. Based on a large-scale database of fe…
Word and the Americanist perspective
Discourse marking and the subtle art of mind-reading
Subjects and Objects
Yurakaré (unclassified, central Bolivia) marks core arguments on the verb by means of pronominal affixes. Subjects are suffixed, objects are prefixed. There are six types of head-marked objects in Yurakaré, each with its own morphosyntactic and semantic properties. Distributional patterns suggest that the six objects can be divided into two larger groups reminiscent of the typologically recognized direct vs. indirect object distinction. This pape…
Updating and loss of color terminology in Yurakaré
The Native Languages of South America
In South America indigenous languages are extremely diverse. There are over one hundred language families in this region alone. Contributors from around the world explore the history and structure of these languages, combining insights from archaeology and genetics with innovative linguistic analysis. The book aims to uncover regional patterns and potential deeper genealogical relations between the languages. Based on a large-scale database of fe…
Number in the Yurakaré noun phrase
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The phonology of mixed languages
Mixed languages are said to be the result of a process of intertwining (e.g. Bakker & Muysken 1995, Bakker 1997), a regular process in which the grammar of one language is combined with the lexicon of another. However, the outcome of this process differs from language pair to language pair. As far as morphosyntax is concerned, people have discussed these different outcomes and the reasons for them extensively, e.g. Bakker 1997 for Michif, Mous 20…
Middle voice and ideophones, a diachronic connection
Kemmer (1993) argues that middle voice markers almost always arise diachronically through the semantic extension of a reflexive marker to other semantic uses related to reflexive. In this paper I will argue for an alternative diachronic path that has led to the development of the middle marker in Yurakaré (unclassified, Bolivia): through ideophone-verb constructions. Taking this perspective helps explain a number of synchronic peculiarities of th…
Anthropology of Color
International audience
Updating and loss of color terminology in Yurakaré
Subjects and Objects
Yurakaré (unclassified, central Bolivia) marks core arguments on the verb by means of pronominal affixes. Subjects are suffixed, objects are prefixed. There are six types of head-marked objects in Yurakaré, each with its own morphosyntactic and semantic properties. Distributional patterns suggest that the six objects can be divided into two larger groups reminiscent of the typologically recognized direct vs. indirect object distinction. This pape…
Discourse marking and the subtle art of mind-reading
Switch-attention (aka switch-reference) in South-American temporal clauses
Cultures without a written tradition depend entirely on the oral channel to transmit sometimes highly complex information. It is therefore not surprising that in the languages of such cultures linguistic devices evolve that enhance textual coherence, and thus comprehension. These devices should ideally also be economical in terms of morphosyntactic complexity in order to facilitate both production and comprehension. In this paper, I will argue th…
Word and the Americanist perspective
Word accent and mapping rules in Yurakaré
Aspects of the diachronic (in)stability of complex morphology
Verbal synthesis in the Guaporé-Mamoré linguistic area
In their discussion of the linguistic area Guaporé-Mamoré (eastern Bolivia and Rondônia) Crevels & Van der Voort (2008) propose 'polysynthetic morphology' as one of the structural features shared by most languages in the area.In their approach the feature is regarded as binary (present versus absent) and it is not entirely clear what the basis for their categorization is.In this paper I try to come to a more precise understanding of the nature of…
Subordination strategies in Tupian languages
Assessing the internal coherence and constituency of language families often centers either around comparing certain form-meaning correspondences, or around identifying the presence or absence of linguistic features across the members of the family. The former approach is generally restricted to the lexicon. The latter approach focuses mostly on structural characteristics of language. In this paper we present an alternative approach to comparing …
Differential coding of perception in the world’s languages
Is there a universal hierarchy of the senses, such that some senses (e.g., vision) are more accessible to consciousness and linguistic description than others (e.g., smell)? The long-standing presumption in Western thought has been that vision and audition are more objective than the other senses, serving as the basis of knowledge and understanding, whereas touch, taste, and smell are crude and of little value. This predicts that humans ought to …
Lexically driven patterns of contact in alignment systems of languages of the northern Upper Amazon
Despite ample attention in the literature for alignment patterns and case frames more generally, we know very little about how these elements of grammar spread from one language to another in a contact situation. Achieving a better understanding of this will help explain areal patterns in alignment and grammatical relation marking. In this contribution, we zoom in on a contact situation in the foothills of North-West Amazon, where languages of th…
The Netherlands Urban Field Station
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The Netherlands Urban Field Station
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