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The Rise and Fall of l Sandhi in California Algic
- LinguisticsInternational Journal of American Linguistics
- 2007
The two Algic languages of California, Wiyot and Yurok, have comparable external sandhi patterns whereby initial h surfaces as l after certain preverbs. We argue that h ⇒ l sandhi in each language…
Yurok Verb Classes1
- LinguisticsInternational Journal of American Linguistics
- 2005
In this paper I detail relationships between verb stems and the conjugation classes to which they belong in Yurok, an Algic language of northwest California. Yurok has four major conjugation classes,…
Classifiers in Yurok, Wiyot, and Algonquian
- Linguistics
- 2004
It is shown that these classifiers occur on verbs other than numerals, that is, they are not only numeral classifiers, and that Wiyot has as extensive a system of classifiers as Yurok does.
The Evolution of Algic Verbal Stem Structure: New Evidence from Yurok
- Linguistics
- 2004
1. The Algic language family consists of the Algonquian language family and its relatives Wiyot and Yurok, two native languages of northwestern California. In this paper, I will use internal…
The Phonology of Yurok Glottalized Sonorants: Segmental Fission under Syllabification1
- LinguisticsInternational Journal of American Linguistics
- 2003
Yurok, an endangered Algic language of northwest California, has a series of glottalized sonorants which contrast with plain nonglottalized sonorants. Glottalized sonorants have interesting…
Yurok Syllable Weight1
- LinguisticsInternational Journal of American Linguistics
- 2003
This paper examines syllable weight in Yurok, a highly endangered Algic language of northwestern California. A productive truncation process has only a two‐way weight contrast between light and heavy…
One Case of Contrast Evolution in the Yurok Vowel System1
- LinguisticsInternational Journal of American Linguistics
- 2003
This paper examines a case of contrast evolution in Yurok, an Algic language. Former *e has split into two vowels, e and a, due to phonetically conditioned vowel lowering which was rendered opaque by…
Developing the feature inventory of the inherent cases
- LinguisticsGlossa: a journal of general linguistics
- 2021
In this squib I propose a modification to Radkevich’s (2010) analysis of the locative cases, such that the privative features [ source ] and [ goal ] replace Radkevich’s binary features [ ±motion ]…
Role-reference associations and the explanation of argument coding splits
- LinguisticsLinguistics
- 2020
Abstract Argument coding splits such as differential (= split) object marking and split ergative marking have long been known to be universal tendencies, but the generalizations have not been…
Hes and Kus Questions in Yurok: A case for lexeme-specific word order
- Linguistics
- 2008
Many syntactic approaches view word order as a derivative property of phrase-structure. An alternative is that word order is a learned property of constructions or even lexemes. What distributional…