Thomas Smitherman
Biographic Data
| ID | 9030516 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas Smitherman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas |
| FAMILY NAME | Smitherman |
| SIGNATURE | SMITHERMAN T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bergen |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Quest for Cognates
The enigma of the origin of non-canonical subject marking in the world’s languages has been met with two competing hypotheses: the Object-to-Subject Hypothesis and the Oblique Subject/Semantic Alignment Hypothesis (cf. Eythórsson and Barðdal, 2005). The present article argues in favor of the Oblique Subject/Semantic Alignment Hypothesis, presenting five sets of cognate predicates in the early/archaic Indo-European daughter languages that occur in…
Reconstructing constructional semantics
As the historical linguistic community is well aware, reconstructing semantics is a notoriously difficult undertaking. Such reconstruction has so far mostly been carried out on lexical items, like words and morphemes, and has not been conducted for larger and more complex linguistic units, which intuitively seems to be a more intricate task, especially given the lack of methodological criteria and guidelines within the field. This follows directl…
Typological changes in the evolution of Indo-European syntax
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Typological changes in the evolution of Indo-European syntax
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Reconstructing constructional semantics
As the historical linguistic community is well aware, reconstructing semantics is a notoriously difficult undertaking. Such reconstruction has so far mostly been carried out on lexical items, like words and morphemes, and has not been conducted for larger and more complex linguistic units, which intuitively seems to be a more intricate task, especially given the lack of methodological criteria and guidelines within the field. This follows directl…
The Quest for Cognates
The enigma of the origin of non-canonical subject marking in the world’s languages has been met with two competing hypotheses: the Object-to-Subject Hypothesis and the Oblique Subject/Semantic Alignment Hypothesis (cf. Eythórsson and Barðdal, 2005). The present article argues in favor of the Oblique Subject/Semantic Alignment Hypothesis, presenting five sets of cognate predicates in the early/archaic Indo-European daughter languages that occur in…
Computer Science (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Linguistics and language evolution (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (3 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (2 works) · Mathematics (2 works) · Verb (2 works) · Adverb (1 works) · Artificial Intelligence (1 works)