Thomas E Payne

Biographic Data

ID83056
NAMEThomas E Payne
GIVEN NAMESThomas E
FAMILY NAMEPayne
SIGNATUREPAYNE T E
AFFILIATIONSSIL International
ORCID0009-0000-0943-8082
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS16
TOTAL CITATIONS65
AUTHOR COUNT16
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1982
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX3

  • Contrastive topic marking in Xibe

    Open AccessTaeho Jang, Thomas E PayneARTICLEStudies in Language2026

    Xibe (Sibe), a Tungusic language spoken by roughly 30,000 people in northwestern China, exhibits a specialized TOPIC + COMMENT construction involving the particle oqi . This paper investigates the origins and discourse-semantic functions of this construction. Drawing on a corpus of 3,531 sentences of oral narrative, we provide structural and functional evidence that oqi derives from the auxiliary o- plus the conditional suffix -qi . Synchronicall…

  • Field Sites and Field Methods in Linguistic Anthropology

    Open AccessThomas E PayneOTHERThe International Encyclopedia of…2020

    Linguistic anthropologists attempt to infer the tacit system of categories and patterns (or “grammar”) that allow members of a culture group to communicate with one another. The field for linguistic anthropology is any community in which the system is used. If the researcher is an outsider to the system, there are two possible approaches: a monolingual approach or a common language approach. In either case, there are several recurring “stages” of…

  • Yagua

    Doris L Payne, Thomas E PayneARTICLEInternational Journal of American…2018

  • A grammar as a communicative act

    Thomas E PayneARTICLEStudies in Language2006

    A descriptive grammar is a document that is intended to communicate important and complex patterns of knowledge within a speech community. Previous conceptions of linguistic grammars have emphasized a metaphor in which the internal grammar of a language is perceived as a “machine” that transforms thoughts into language structure. Written grammars were conceived as schematic representations of such machines. The present paper argues for a differen…

  • Case . Barry J. Blake

    Thomas E PayneARTICLEInternational Journal of American…2000

  • Describing Morphosyntax

    Open AccessThomas E PayneBOOKDescribing Morphosyntax1997Cited by: 29

    Current estimates are that around 3,000 of the 6,000 languages now spoken may become extinct during the next century. Some 4,000 of these existing languages have never been described, or described only inadequately. This book is a guide for linguistic fieldworkers who wish to write a description of the morphology and syntax of one of these many under-documented languages. It uses examples from many languages both well known and virtually unknown;…

  • Perspectives on Sentence Processing . Charles Clifton, Jr. , Lyn Frazier , Keith Rayner

    Thomas E PayneARTICLEInternational Journal of American…1996

  • Object Incorporation in Panare

    Thomas E PayneARTICLEInternational Journal of American…1995Cited by: 12

  • The pragmatics of voice in a Philippine language

    Thomas E PayneCHAPTERVoice and inversion1994

  • Medial clauses and interpropositional relations in Panare

    Open AccessThomas E PayneARTICLECognitive Linguistics1991

    Americanae nace como un proyecto conjunto que surge dentro de la Red Europea de Información y Documentación sobre América Latina (REDIAL), y que ha afrontado la Biblioteca de la Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (AECID). Esta nueva biblioteca virtual hace más accesibles los libros digitales de tema americanista a los investigadores y usuarios interesados de cualquier parte del mundo

  • The Body in the Mind

    Thomas E PayneARTICLEInternational Journal of American…1991

  • Transitivity and Discourse Continuity in Chamorro Narratives

    Thomas E Payne, Anne CooremanARTICLELanguage1990

  • Referential Distance and Discourse Structure in Yagua

    Thomas E PayneARTICLEStudies in Language1988

    Americanae nace como un proyecto conjunto que surge dentro de la Red Europea de Información y Documentación sobre América Latina (REDIAL), y que ha afrontado la Biblioteca de la Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (AECID). Esta nueva biblioteca virtual hace más accesibles los libros digitales de tema americanista a los investigadores y usuarios interesados de cualquier parte del mundo

  • Pronouns in Yagua Discourse

    Thomas E PayneARTICLEInternational Journal of American…1987Cited by: 2References: 1

  • Linguistic Anthropology

    Open AccessThomas E PayneARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist1985

  • Role and Reference Related Subject Properties and Ergativity in Yup'Ik Eskimo and Tagalog

    Thomas E PayneARTICLEStudies in Language1982Cited by: 22

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