Sarah Grey Thomason
Biographic Data
| ID | 685043 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sarah Grey Thomason |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sarah Grey |
| FAMILY NAME | Thomason |
| SIGNATURE | THOMASON S G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Michigan–Dearborn |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 206 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Celebrating the Lsa Centennial in Language
The year 2024 marks the Linguistic Society of America's centennial, dating from the founding of the Society at its first meeting, 28 December 1924, at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. Work on the LSA's journal, Language , began in 1924 as well, since a Committee on Publications was constituted at that meeting, with the express purpose, as reported in the Proceedings of that meeting, of overseeing ‘a regular independent pub…
Language Contact, Creolization, and Genetic Linguistics
Obituary
Contact-induced typological change
effect on the typological profile of the receiving language. Probably the most obvious examples, and also the ones that are easiest to find, are changes in basic sentential word order. These are especially striking because it is word order features that have attracted the most attention in the typological literature, starting with the famous 1963 article by Greenberg
Language Contact, Creolization, and Genetic Linguistics
Language Contact, Creolization, and Genetic Linguistics
Language Contact, Creolization, and Genetic Linguistics
Ten years of research back up the bold new theory advanced by authors Thomason and Kaufman, who rescue the study of contact-induced language change from the neglect it has suffered in recent decades. The authors establish an important new framework for the historical analysis of all degrees of contact-induced language change.
Papers from the Third International Conference on Historical Linguistics
1. Preface 2. Program 3. Synchronic, diachronic, and panchronic linguistics (by Christie, Jr., William M.) 4. The interplay between diachronic linguistics and dialectology: Some refinements of Trudgill's formula (by Gerritsen, Marinel) 5. Development of tones in languages with distinctive tonal accents (by Gvozdanovic, Jadranka) 6. Diachrony in synchrony (by Hammarstrom, Goran) 7. Determinism in linguistics: neogrammarian and transformationalist …
Do You Remember Your Previous Life's Language in Your Present Incarnation
TrE ANSWER TO THE QUESTION in the title is No: the evidence available 1 to date offers no support for those who would prefer a YES answer. Before giving reasons for this conclusion, I would like to make two preliminary comments. One is a disclaimer directed toward people who believe in reincarnation or speaking in tongues; the other is an explanation directed toward linguists who do not believe and who wonder why a linguist would bother to addres…
Indo-European Noun Inflection
Chinook Jargon in Areal and Historical Context
This paper addresses two current controversies about the nature and origin of Chinook Jargon. First, evidence is presented to support the claim that CJ is a true pidgin—rather than a jargon, in Silverstein's sense (1972) of a speech form without independent grammatical status. When structural features of CJ, as used by English (and French) speakers and by Indians, are compared with those of the speakers' native languages, we see that CJ possesses…
Languages in Conflict
Analogy
On interpreting 'The Indian Interpreter
This paper addresses the proposition that certain multilingual situations favor certain learning strategies on the part of speakers. The paper takes this proposition as the best approach to explaining the development of pidgin grammars, and exemplifies the general approach by studying the seventeenth-century Delaware-based Traders' Jargon in its linguistic and social context. The task of the paper, then, is to see if the evidence provided by the …
Language Contact, Creolization, and Genetic Linguistics
Ten years of research back up the bold new theory advanced by authors Thomason and Kaufman, who rescue the study of contact-induced language change from the neglect it has suffered in recent decades. The authors establish an important new framework for the historical analysis of all degrees of contact-induced language change.
Chinook Jargon in Areal and Historical Context
This paper addresses two current controversies about the nature and origin of Chinook Jargon. First, evidence is presented to support the claim that CJ is a true pidgin—rather than a jargon, in Silverstein's sense (1972) of a speech form without independent grammatical status. When structural features of CJ, as used by English (and French) speakers and by Indians, are compared with those of the speakers' native languages, we see that CJ possesses…
On interpreting 'The Indian Interpreter
This paper addresses the proposition that certain multilingual situations favor certain learning strategies on the part of speakers. The paper takes this proposition as the best approach to explaining the development of pidgin grammars, and exemplifies the general approach by studying the seventeenth-century Delaware-based Traders' Jargon in its linguistic and social context. The task of the paper, then, is to see if the evidence provided by the …
Do You Remember Your Previous Life's Language in Your Present Incarnation
TrE ANSWER TO THE QUESTION in the title is No: the evidence available 1 to date offers no support for those who would prefer a YES answer. Before giving reasons for this conclusion, I would like to make two preliminary comments. One is a disclaimer directed toward people who believe in reincarnation or speaking in tongues; the other is an explanation directed toward linguists who do not believe and who wonder why a linguist would bother to addres…
Analogy
On interpreting 'The Indian Interpreter
This paper addresses the proposition that certain multilingual situations favor certain learning strategies on the part of speakers. The paper takes this proposition as the best approach to explaining the development of pidgin grammars, and exemplifies the general approach by studying the seventeenth-century Delaware-based Traders' Jargon in its linguistic and social context. The task of the paper, then, is to see if the evidence provided by the …
Languages in Conflict
Indo-European Noun Inflection
Chinook Jargon in Areal and Historical Context
This paper addresses two current controversies about the nature and origin of Chinook Jargon. First, evidence is presented to support the claim that CJ is a true pidgin—rather than a jargon, in Silverstein's sense (1972) of a speech form without independent grammatical status. When structural features of CJ, as used by English (and French) speakers and by Indians, are compared with those of the speakers' native languages, we see that CJ possesses…
Papers from the Third International Conference on Historical Linguistics
1. Preface 2. Program 3. Synchronic, diachronic, and panchronic linguistics (by Christie, Jr., William M.) 4. The interplay between diachronic linguistics and dialectology: Some refinements of Trudgill's formula (by Gerritsen, Marinel) 5. Development of tones in languages with distinctive tonal accents (by Gvozdanovic, Jadranka) 6. Diachrony in synchrony (by Hammarstrom, Goran) 7. Determinism in linguistics: neogrammarian and transformationalist …
Do You Remember Your Previous Life's Language in Your Present Incarnation
TrE ANSWER TO THE QUESTION in the title is No: the evidence available 1 to date offers no support for those who would prefer a YES answer. Before giving reasons for this conclusion, I would like to make two preliminary comments. One is a disclaimer directed toward people who believe in reincarnation or speaking in tongues; the other is an explanation directed toward linguists who do not believe and who wonder why a linguist would bother to addres…
Language Contact, Creolization, and Genetic Linguistics
Ten years of research back up the bold new theory advanced by authors Thomason and Kaufman, who rescue the study of contact-induced language change from the neglect it has suffered in recent decades. The authors establish an important new framework for the historical analysis of all degrees of contact-induced language change.
Language Contact, Creolization, and Genetic Linguistics
Language Contact, Creolization, and Genetic Linguistics
Contact-induced typological change
effect on the typological profile of the receiving language. Probably the most obvious examples, and also the ones that are easiest to find, are changes in basic sentential word order. These are especially striking because it is word order features that have attracted the most attention in the typological literature, starting with the famous 1963 article by Greenberg
Language Contact, Creolization, and Genetic Linguistics
Obituary
Celebrating the Lsa Centennial in Language
The year 2024 marks the Linguistic Society of America's centennial, dating from the founding of the Society at its first meeting, 28 December 1924, at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. Work on the LSA's journal, Language , began in 1924 as well, since a Committee on Publications was constituted at that meeting, with the express purpose, as reported in the Proceedings of that meeting, of overseeing ‘a regular independent pub…
Linguistics (11 works) · Philosophy (11 works) · History (8 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Creolization (4 works) · Hume's philosophy and hair distribution (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Language contact (3 works)