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Why a language may lack productive argument demotion strategies: Zenzontepec Chatino valency patterns in lexicon and discourse
Green Hall 0-S-9Languages display a range of strategies for adding or promoting arguments (e.g. causatives, applicatives) and removing or syntactically demoting them (e.g. passives, antipassives), but not all languages do these things in the same ways or to the same extent. Zenzontepec Chatino, a Zapotecan (Otomanguean) language of Mexico, displays minimal valence reducing strategies that would demote […]
“Articulate” Book Talk with Rachel Kolb
219 Aaron Burr PrincetonJoin us on November 7 for a book talk and signing by deaf writer and educator, Rachel Kolb, who grew up between signing and speaking worlds as part of the “ADA generation,” people with disabilities whose legal right to accessibility in the United States was guaranteed when the Americans with Disabilities (ADA) Act was passed […]
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East Pyne 161It has been clear since the 1890s that some pieces of ancient Greek vocal music display a correlation between the melody that is inherent in the text, on the one hand, and the melody to which is it sung, on the other. The Delphic hymns (127 BCE) provide the fullest picture of that phenomenon. For […]
