Edward J Vajda
Biographic Data
| ID | 458472 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Edward J Vajda |
| GIVEN NAMES | Edward J |
| FAMILY NAME | Vajda |
| SIGNATURE | VAJDA E J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Western Washington University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9953-4111 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 42 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 42 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Disjunction in Ket
We explore how disjunction is expressed in Ket, an understudied and highly endangered Yeniseian language of Siberia. We show that Ket has multiple strategies of disjunction, which share morphological resources with indefinites and which differ in their scope-taking properties. We present a preliminary analysis and discuss the broader typology, showing that while Ket’s system of disjunction resembles those of Sinhala (Indic; Sri Lanka) and Tiwa (T…
Dene-Yeniseian
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An introduction to languages of the world
This book first appeared in 1997. Now thoroughly refined and updated, yet with almost no increase in length (the original had eight fewer pages), its second edition warrants a fresh evaluation.Inte
Multiple exponence
Writing systems
Cherokee reference grammar
Tone and accent in Oklahoma Cherokee
This has been a landmark pair of years for Cherokee linguistics, with the appearance of the first published full-length reference grammar (Montgomery-Anderson, 2015, for which see my review in WORD
Making new words
Reviewed by Edward J. VajdaThis analysis of contemporary English derivation patterns covers the formal and functional properties of over 200 derivational affixes (about 90 prefixes and 110 suffixes
The Routledge handbook of historical linguistics
Reviewed by Edward J. VajdaThis handbook contains 35 detailed individual contributions, including the editors’ introduction, that successfully represent the vibrancy and diversity of historical lin
A grammar of ǂHȍã
The language described in this book is remarkable in a number of ways. ǂHȍa may have one of the world’s most complex phoneme inventories, with five basic release positions for velaric airstream con
Clause linkage in Ket
Ket is the last surviving member of the Yeniseian family of central Siberia. The language has been the topic of scholarly research for over 70 years, mainly by linguists from the Russian Federation
A grammar of Tundra Nenets
Reviewed by (EDWARD J. VAJDA)Tundra Nenets belongs to the Samoyedic branch of Uralic and is spoken in a vast swath of Arctic territory stretching from the Kanin Peninsula in European Russia to the
Comparative Nivkh dictionary
Reviewed by (EDWARD J. VAJDA)Nivkh (formerly called Gilyak) is an indigenous language of the Russian Far East spoken fluently by a dwindling number of elderly people in several villages on the nort
Mongolian
And he knew our language”
Language contact in Amazonia
The author of this long-awaited book has published many other important books and articles on Amazonian languages. This monograph synthesizes her findings regarding how several of these languages h
Cambodian (Khmer)
Comparative Wakashan dictionary
Reviewed by (Edward J. Vajda)In pre-contact times, languages belonging to the Wakashan family occupied much of Canada's Vancouver Island and coastal British Columbia, as well as a small enclave on
Orientation Systems of the North Pacific Rim by Michael Fortescue (review)
Reviewed by: Orientation Systems of the North Pacific Rim by Michael Fortescue Edward Vajda Orientation Systems of the North Pacific Rim. Michael Fortescue. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 2011. Pp. 138. $43.00 (paper). This pioneering study compares directional vocabulary across the genealogically and typologically diverse indigenous languages of northeastern Asia and northwestern North America. Its scope extends considerably beyond the nor…
A Response to Campbell
Metathesis and Reanalysis in Ket
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt:This article identifies cases where metathesis and reanalysis have left idiosyncratic changes in the morphology of Ket, a critically endangered language of Central Siberia. The analysis reflects ongoing work compiling The Etymological Dictionary of the Yeniseian Languages (Vajda and Werner, in preparation). With fewer than 100 speakers, Ket is the last surviving member of the Yeniseian family and ge…
The Languages of Siberia
Although Russian today is the dominant language in virtually every corner of North Asia, Siberia and the Northern Pacific Rim of Asia remain home to over three dozen mutually unintelligible indigenous language varieties. Except for Tuvan, Buryat, and Yakut, most are rapidly losing ground to Russian if not already critically endangered. Several more have already become extinct in the four centuries since the area's incorporation into the Russian s…
Heinrich Werner, Vergleichendes Wörterbuch der Jenissej-Sprachen
(2004). HEINRICH WERNER, Vergleichendes Worterbuch der Jenissej-Sprachen.. WORD: Vol. 55, No. 3, pp. 499-502
George VAN DRIEM, Languages of the Himalayas
PÉTER SiptÁR and MiklÓS TÖRKENCZY. The phonology of Hungarian
(2004). PETER SIPTAR and MIKLOS TORKENCZY. The phonology of Hungarian.. WORD: Vol. 55, No. 3, pp. 491-495
The role of position class in Ket verb morphophonology
Each Ket verb lexically determines the morpheme positions its subject/object agreement markers will occupy (Vajda 2000a), raising an interesting question about the division between derivation and inflection in this language. Stump (1997) showed that inflectional morphology in all languages is “templatic” according to Simpson and Withgott's (1986) definition, but suggested a non-trivial distinction may exist between “templatic” and “non-templatic”…
Handbook of the International Phonetic Association
Multiple exponence
Making new words
Reviewed by Edward J. VajdaThis analysis of contemporary English derivation patterns covers the formal and functional properties of over 200 derivational affixes (about 90 prefixes and 110 suffixes
The Routledge handbook of historical linguistics
Reviewed by Edward J. VajdaThis handbook contains 35 detailed individual contributions, including the editors’ introduction, that successfully represent the vibrancy and diversity of historical lin
Comparative Wakashan dictionary
Reviewed by (Edward J. Vajda)In pre-contact times, languages belonging to the Wakashan family occupied much of Canada's Vancouver Island and coastal British Columbia, as well as a small enclave on
A Response to Campbell
People, Countries, and the Rainbow Serpent
The Lardil, an Australian Aboriginal tribe, have a rich and complex cognitive culture and are native speakers of three different languages, each used for separate occasions. McKnight examines their systems of classifying the world, and creates the first inventory of the cognitive aspects of an Aboriginal tribe's social structures (including kinship, myth, and ritual)
Endangered Languages in Africa
The Turkic Protolanguage
An Ethnographic Grammar of the Eipo Language Spoken in the Central Mountains of Irian Jaya (West New Guinea), Indonesia
Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages
Morphophonemic Variability, Productivity, and Change
This volume presents an empirical investigation of processes associated with morphophenomic variability, productivity and change. The author examines the use of two or more morphophenomic alternations in Rusyn, a Slavic minority language
Few People, Many Tongues
Cross-Border Languages
Handbook of the International Phonetic Association
The Language of the Ogam Inscriptions of Scotland
People, Countries, and the Rainbow Serpent
The Lardil, an Australian Aboriginal tribe, have a rich and complex cognitive culture and are native speakers of three different languages, each used for separate occasions. McKnight examines their systems of classifying the world, and creates the first inventory of the cognitive aspects of an Aboriginal tribe's social structures (including kinship, myth, and ritual)
Estonian Prosody
North Sulawesi Language Survey
Lithuanian Grammar
Lexical Perspectives on Transitivity and Ergativity
Animacy and reference. (Studies in language companion series 46.) By Mutsumi Yamamoto. Amsterdam & Philadelphia
Reviewed by: Animacy and reference by Mutsumi Yamamoto Edward J. Vajda Animacy and reference. (Studies in language companion series 46.) By Mutsumi Yamamoto. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1999. Pp. xviii, 278. Without attempting to link the notion of ‘animacy’ to any specific formal model of grammar, Mutsumi Yamamoto constructs a conceptual framework based on general semantic, cognitive, and ontological factors. Y assumes an essential…
The role of position class in Ket verb morphophonology
Each Ket verb lexically determines the morpheme positions its subject/object agreement markers will occupy (Vajda 2000a), raising an interesting question about the division between derivation and inflection in this language. Stump (1997) showed that inflectional morphology in all languages is “templatic” according to Simpson and Withgott's (1986) definition, but suggested a non-trivial distinction may exist between “templatic” and “non-templatic”…
Letters to Language
Letters to Language Thomas W. Stewart Jr. Language accepts letters from readers that briefly and succinctly respond to or comment upon either material published previously in the journal or issues deemed of importance to the field. The editor reserves the right to edit letters as needed. June 27, 2003 To the Editor: In a book notice (Language 79.1.224–25) on Gregory Stump’s Inflectional morphology: A theory of paradigm structure (CUP, 2001), Edwa…
Heinrich Werner, Vergleichendes Wörterbuch der Jenissej-Sprachen
(2004). HEINRICH WERNER, Vergleichendes Worterbuch der Jenissej-Sprachen.. WORD: Vol. 55, No. 3, pp. 499-502
George VAN DRIEM, Languages of the Himalayas
PÉTER SiptÁR and MiklÓS TÖRKENCZY. The phonology of Hungarian
(2004). PETER SIPTAR and MIKLOS TORKENCZY. The phonology of Hungarian.. WORD: Vol. 55, No. 3, pp. 491-495
The Languages of Siberia
Although Russian today is the dominant language in virtually every corner of North Asia, Siberia and the Northern Pacific Rim of Asia remain home to over three dozen mutually unintelligible indigenous language varieties. Except for Tuvan, Buryat, and Yakut, most are rapidly losing ground to Russian if not already critically endangered. Several more have already become extinct in the four centuries since the area's incorporation into the Russian s…
Metathesis and Reanalysis in Ket
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt:This article identifies cases where metathesis and reanalysis have left idiosyncratic changes in the morphology of Ket, a critically endangered language of Central Siberia. The analysis reflects ongoing work compiling The Etymological Dictionary of the Yeniseian Languages (Vajda and Werner, in preparation). With fewer than 100 speakers, Ket is the last surviving member of the Yeniseian family and ge…
A Response to Campbell
Orientation Systems of the North Pacific Rim by Michael Fortescue (review)
Reviewed by: Orientation Systems of the North Pacific Rim by Michael Fortescue Edward Vajda Orientation Systems of the North Pacific Rim. Michael Fortescue. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 2011. Pp. 138. $43.00 (paper). This pioneering study compares directional vocabulary across the genealogically and typologically diverse indigenous languages of northeastern Asia and northwestern North America. Its scope extends considerably beyond the nor…
Mongolian
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