Nicholas Welch
Biographic Data
| ID | 3777883 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nicholas Welch |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nicholas |
| FAMILY NAME | Welch |
| SIGNATURE | WELCH N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Memorial University of Newfoundland |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1405-1779 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Copular clauses in Dene languages
A widely accepted assumption in both the syntactic and semantic literature is that copulas lack semantic content. A consequent question is how to explain the existence in certain languages of two copular verbs that give rise to different interpretations. Such is the case in numerous languages of the Dene family (formerly known as Athapaskan). We explain this situation with the hypothesis that the copulas realize an underlying three-copula system …
The person-animacy connection
The Canadian Journal of Linguistics / La revue canadienne de linguistique - 66(3), September/septembre 2021
Differential grammaticalization of copulas in Tsúùt’ínà and Tłı̨chǫ Yatıì
The languages of the Dene (aka Athapaskan) family in North America almost universally employ two copular verbs. In several languages of this family, copular forms are also employed as verbal auxiliaries: forms of one copula mark clausal focus while forms of the other mark TAM (tense/aspect/mode) categories. With reference to two Dene languages in particular, Tłı̨chǫ Yatıì and Tsúùt’ínà, I explain this difference by positing distinct grammaticaliz…
Copulas are not just inflection
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Deducing Clause Structure from the Right Periphery In Tłı̨chǫ Yatıì
Tłı̨chǫ Yatıì, a Dene language of the Northwest Territories, Canada, has a number of post-verbal auxiliaries and particles indicating categories such as futurity, mode, negation, information structure, and evidentiality. The interaction of these elements reveals that they occur in a strict order, which in turn illuminates the structure of the clause in this language, with positions for future, mode, negation, and focus as functional categories at…
Obligatory Future In A Dene Language
In Tłı̨chǫ Yatıì (Dogrib), spoken in the Northwest Territories, Canada, the periphrastic particle ı̨lè, which has been considered a past marker, is optional in the clause. As in other Dene (Athapaskan) languages, viewpoint aspect is encoded morphologically on the verb. These two facts can give the impression that aspect is the only obligatory temporal category in this language and that other temporal distinctions are peripheral. I argue, on the c…
Deducing Clause Structure from the Right Periphery In Tłı̨chǫ Yatıì
Tłı̨chǫ Yatıì, a Dene language of the Northwest Territories, Canada, has a number of post-verbal auxiliaries and particles indicating categories such as futurity, mode, negation, information structure, and evidentiality. The interaction of these elements reveals that they occur in a strict order, which in turn illuminates the structure of the clause in this language, with positions for future, mode, negation, and focus as functional categories at…
Deducing Clause Structure from the Right Periphery In Tłı̨chǫ Yatıì
Tłı̨chǫ Yatıì, a Dene language of the Northwest Territories, Canada, has a number of post-verbal auxiliaries and particles indicating categories such as futurity, mode, negation, information structure, and evidentiality. The interaction of these elements reveals that they occur in a strict order, which in turn illuminates the structure of the clause in this language, with positions for future, mode, negation, and focus as functional categories at…
Obligatory Future In A Dene Language
In Tłı̨chǫ Yatıì (Dogrib), spoken in the Northwest Territories, Canada, the periphrastic particle ı̨lè, which has been considered a past marker, is optional in the clause. As in other Dene (Athapaskan) languages, viewpoint aspect is encoded morphologically on the verb. These two facts can give the impression that aspect is the only obligatory temporal category in this language and that other temporal distinctions are peripheral. I argue, on the c…
Copulas are not just inflection
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Differential grammaticalization of copulas in Tsúùt’ínà and Tłı̨chǫ Yatıì
The languages of the Dene (aka Athapaskan) family in North America almost universally employ two copular verbs. In several languages of this family, copular forms are also employed as verbal auxiliaries: forms of one copula mark clausal focus while forms of the other mark TAM (tense/aspect/mode) categories. With reference to two Dene languages in particular, Tłı̨chǫ Yatıì and Tsúùt’ínà, I explain this difference by positing distinct grammaticaliz…
Copular clauses in Dene languages
A widely accepted assumption in both the syntactic and semantic literature is that copulas lack semantic content. A consequent question is how to explain the existence in certain languages of two copular verbs that give rise to different interpretations. Such is the case in numerous languages of the Dene family (formerly known as Athapaskan). We explain this situation with the hypothesis that the copulas realize an underlying three-copula system …
The person-animacy connection
The Canadian Journal of Linguistics / La revue canadienne de linguistique - 66(3), September/septembre 2021
Linguistics (6 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (6 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Dependent clause (3 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (3 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Linguistics and Discourse Analysis (2 works) · Mathematics (2 works) · Natural Language Processing Techniques (2 works)