Hannah Sarvasy

Dados Biográficos

ID672574
NOMEHannah Sarvasy
PRENOMESHannah
SOBRENOMESarvasy
ASSINATURASARVASY H
AFILIAÇÕESCentre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language, College of Asia and the Pacific, Australian National University, H. C. Coombs Building, Fellows Road, Acton, ACT, 2601, Australia
VERIFICADONão
TOTAL DE OBRAS6
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES1
TOTAL COMO AUTOR6
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO2013
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2018
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  • Evidentiality in the Languages of New Guinea

    Hannah Sarvasy, Hannah S SarvasyCHAPTEROxford Handbook of Evidentiality2018

    While most languages spoken on the island of New Guinea lack grammatical evidentiality, attested evidentiality systems are diverse. These range from small systems with only one marked evidentiality category to systems in which five or more categories are marked. Minimal systems mark only reported, only non-firsthand, or only inferred evidentiality; maximal systems mark visual, non-visual sensory, inferred, reasoning, and factual/participatory or …

  • Multiple number systems in one language

    Open AccessHannah Sarvasy, Hannah S SarvasyARTICLELingua2017Referências: 5

  • Warblish

    Open AccessHannah Sarvasy, Hannah S SarvasyARTICLEJournal of Ethnobiology2016

    There are three principal methods humans use to evoke avian vocalizations. This paper explores the two that are constrained by human language: onomatopoeia and warblish. In onomatopoeia, new words are created to mimic sounds within the constraints of a language's phonology. Warblish, named and thoroughly described for the first time in this paper, is the imitation of avian vocalizations using existing words in human language. None of the conventi…

  • Breaking the clause chains

    Hannah Sarvasy, Hannah S SarvasyARTICLEStudies in Language2015

    Clause chaining in Papuan languages is a keystone of the literature on switch-reference (Haiman & Munro 1983, Stirling 1993). Canonically, a clause chain is considered to comprise one or more ‘medial’ clauses, followed by a single ‘final’ clause. In Nungon and other Papuan languages, canonical clause chains coexist with non-canonical clause chains, which either feature medial clauses postposed after the final clause, or lack a final clause altoge…

  • The Imperative Split and the Origin of Switch-Reference Markers in Nungon

    Open AccessHannah Sarvasy, Hannah S SarvasyARTICLEProceedings of the Annual Meeting…2015Citada por: 1Referências: 3

    The origins of switch-reference markers vary widely (Austin 1981, Haiman and Munro 1983, Haiman 1983, Jacobsen 1983, Li 1989, Roberts 1997, Fedden 2008). This paper explores the origins of switch-reference markers and of the imperative inflections in the Papuan language Nungon. Nungon is among those Papuan languages in which the subject-indexing suffixes used in different-subject contexts on ‘medial verbs’ differ formally from the subject-indexin…

  • Across the Great Divide

    Hannah Sarvasy, Hannah S SarvasyARTICLEAnthropological linguistics2013

    The Papuan language Nungon is spoken in four villages of the Uruwa River valley, Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea, each with its own dialect. Only the Kotet village dialect has a system of birth-order terms, which form a nominal subclass. The Kotet birth-order terms are formally similar to birth-order terms in Papuan languages to the south. Because Kotet was historically oriented southward for trade, the Kotet birth-order terms are postulated to…