Jeffrey Heath

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ID147550
NOMEJeffrey Heath
PRENOMESJeffrey
SOBRENOMEHeath
ASSINATURAHEATH J
AFILIAÇÕESUniversity of Michigan
ORCID0000-0002-1918-2137
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TOTAL DE OBRAS97
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES152
TOTAL COMO AUTOR97
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO1838
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2023
ÍNDICE H7

  • Dogon pseudo-subjects with or without true subjects

    Open AccessJeffrey Heath, Vadim DyachkovARTICLEStudies in Language2023

    Dogon pseudo-subjects are bare meteorological, temporal-environmental, and partonymic nouns of low referentiality/specificity that occur in fixed noun-verb collocations. The pseudo-subject controls the choice of verb in all cases, but it fails to behave like a true subject in linear position, in a quotative-subject construction, or in pronominal-subject agreement. The pseudo-subject is the sole nominal in these meteorological and temporal colloca…

  • Origins of Dogon NP tonosyntax

    Open AccessJeffrey HeathARTICLEDiachronica2022

    Like other complex morphosyntactic and morphophonological structures that are endemic to single language families, Dogon NP tonosyntax is the result of the fortuitous interlocking of diachronically unrelated processes and constructions. It arose due to the following combination: (a) right-headed prosodic pattern in noun-modifier sequences; (b) loss of numeral classifiers which had previously protected nouns from the right-headed prosodic pattern …

  • Onset Prominence in Wubuy Reduplication

    Open AccessKevin Ryan, Kevin M Ryan et al.ARTICLEProceedings of the Annual…2022

    Wubuy (also known as Nunggubuyu; Australia) exhibits a regular and productive pattern of partial reduplication by which the reduplicant is one syllable if its base begins with an obstruent and two if it begins with a sonorant. We compare two approaches to the synchronic analysis of this pattern based on phonotactics and weight, respectively, ultimately arguing for the latter. As we show, an analysis in terms of general markedness constraints (e.g…

  • Kinship Terms and Kinship Systems

    Open AccessJeffrey HeathOTHERThe International Encyclopedia of…2020

    Kinship terminology has been studied in three distinct but overlapping ways. In one, kin terms are mapped onto genealogical grids consisting of kintypes, both consanguineal like cousin {MoBrCh, MoSiCh, FaBrCh, FaSiCh, ...} and affinal like brother‐in‐law (SiHu, BrWi). The goal is to identify the principles underlying the full set of mappings in a given system. Correlations with social practices and cultural models may follow. The second approach …

  • Converging Tonosyntactic Supercategories

    Jeffrey HeathARTICLEAnthropological linguistics2020

    Dogon NPs divide modifiers into two opposing supercategories defined by convergent semantic and tonosyntactic properties. Dogon verbs undergo various tonal overlays controlled by tense-aspect-mood-polarity suffixes. One Dogon language, Jamsay, similarly systematized tonal patterns in verbal inflection. The tonosyntactically active elements are reference restrictors in NPs and negative suffixes in verbs; these combine to constitute a language-spec…

  • Caught in the middle

    Jeffrey HeathARTICLEJournal of Pidgin and Creole…2019

    The relationship between the Songhay and Mande language families has fascinated West Africanists. The typological similarities run deep, but the respective lexicons are noncognate. I focus here on a typological rarity, a bidirectional case marker (BCM), namely Proto-Songhay *nà and its descendants, and argue that it was most likely borrowed from Mande as part of the adoption by Songhay of the equally typologically rare Mande-type S(‐infl)‐O‐V‐X s…

  • Halfway up the mountain

    Jeffrey HeathARTICLELanguage Dynamics and Change2018

  • Dogon existential(-presentative) proclitics

    Open AccessJeffrey HeathARTICLELingua2018Referências: 1

  • Cyclical ups and downs

    Jeffrey HeathARTICLEStudies in Language2017

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  • Phrasal grammatical tone in the Dogon languages

    Open AccessLaura Mcpherson, Jeffrey HeathARTICLENatural Language and Linguistic…2016Citada por: 9Referências: 26

  • Dogon adjective-numeral inversion

    Open AccessJeffrey HeathARTICLELinguistics2016

    In several Dogon languages, the ordering of simple N-Adj-Num DPs is strict. Adjectives and numerals also differ from each other in morphology and tonosyntax. When an inversion licensor (usually a reference restrictor) is addèd, N-Adj-Num is optionally inverted to N-Num-Adj. Pronominal possessors are also subject to reordering in some of the languages. The order of two adjectives in N-Adj1-Adj2 is free, so a syntactically conditioned stem-class me…

  • Subject versus addressee in Dogon imperatives and hortatives

    Jeffrey Heath, Vadim DyachkovARTICLEStudies in Language2015

    Indicative sentences in Dogon have a subject of S/A type identifiable by convergent criteria. However, Dogon imperatives diverge from English in lacking full-fledged referential subjects. Specifically, covert imperative actors (“subjects”) cannot bind transpersonal reflexive pronominals the way indicative subjects do. Instead, Dogon imperative verbs morphologically index addressee number. Dogon hortatives have both overt first-person plural subje…

  • D-possessives and the origins of Moroccan Arabic

    Open AccessJeffrey HeathARTICLEDiachronica2015

    Despite the general view that Berber was the only important substratum for Maghrebi Arabic, Moroccan Arabic (MA) took shape in the 7th–8th centuries AD in Roman cities in which Late Latin (LL) was spoken. The occupation of Morocco was far more tenuous than in other areas conquered during the Arab expansion. Rapid language shift from LL to a contact Arabic introduced by eastern Berber troops left telltale signs in phonology and in morphological si…

  • Antipassivization

    Open AccessJeffrey HeathARTICLEProceedings of the Annual Meeting…2014

    Proceedings of the 2nd Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1976), pp. 202-211

  • Secret Manipulations

    Jeffrey HeathARTICLEAnthropological linguistics2013

    Reviewed by: Secret Manipulations: Language and Context in Africa by Anne Storch Jeffrey Heath Secret Manipulations: Language and Context in Africa. Anne Storch . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2011 . Pp. xx + 242 . $99.00 (cloth), $45.00 (paper). This book is an extended rant against culturally unsophisticated African descriptive and especially historical linguistics. Like all rants it is often incoherent and tiresome, and your reviewer wish…

  • Historical Linguistics and the Comparative Study of African Languages by Gerrit Dimmendaal (review)

    Jeffrey HeathARTICLEAnthropological linguistics2013

  • Tonosyntax and reference restriction in Dogon NPs

    Open AccessJeffrey Heath, Laura McphersonARTICLELanguage2013Citada por: 4

    Lexical tone melodies of words and word strings in Dogon languages are overridden by syntactically conditioned word-level or broader tone overlays. In Ben Tey and other Dogon languages, certain NP-internal elements-possessors, adjectives, relative clauses, demonstratives-are controllers, imposing overlays such as {L} and {HL} on adjacent words or word strings (the targets). Other elements (nonsingular quantifiers, discourse-functional morphemes) …

  • Multi-Verb Constructions

    Jeffrey HeathARTICLEAnthropological linguistics2012

    Reviewed by: Multi-Verb Constructions: A View from the Americas Jeffrey Heath Multi-Verb Constructions: A View from the Americas. Edited by Alexandra Aikhenvald and Pieter Muysken. Brill's Studies in the Indigenous Languages of the Americas 3. Leiden: Brill, 2011. Pp. xx + 313. $153.00 (hardcover). This is the fruit of a miniconference in Europe in 2008 on South American verb serialization and related constructions. It is a hemispheric follow-up …

  • Innovation of head-marking in Humburi Senni (Songhay, Mali)

    Jeffrey HeathARTICLEDiachronica2011

    Humburi Senni (HS), the Songhay language spoken in the town of Hombori in Mali, has innovated not one but two suffixal pronominal-possessor paradigms for nouns (inalienable vs. alienable), a suffixal pronominal-complement paradigm for (original) postpositions, and a suffixal Imperative Singular for verbs. These are absent (with one very limited, but important, exception) in other Songhay languages, including HS’s nearest genetic neighbor. The eff…

  • Basic materials in Ritharngu

    Jeffrey Heath

  • The languages of kinship in Aboriginal Australia

    Jeffrey Heath

  • Nunggubuyu myths and ethnographic texts

    Jeffrey Heath

    LoC Class: PL7101.N8, LoC Subject Headings: Nunggubuyu (Australian people)--Mythology, Nunggubuyu language--Texts

  • Ngandi grammar, texts, and dictionary

    Jeffrey Heath

    Reference grammar, texts, and short dictionary of the Ngandi language of eastern Arnhem Land, Australia.

  • Dhuwal (Arnhem Land) texts on kinship and other subjects, with grammatical sketch and dictionary

    Jeffrey Heath

    Texts from the Dhuwal language, of the Yuulngu (Yolngu) language family in northeastern Arnhem Land, Australia. Many of the texts focus on kinship.

  • Linguistic Diffusion in Arnhem Land

    Jeffrey Heath

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