Scott DeLancey
Scott DeLancey is an American linguist (University of Oregon). His work focuses on typology and historical linguistics of Tibeto-Burman languages as well as Plateau Penutian, especially the Klamath language.
He is well known for having developped the concept of mirative,[1] for promoting the study of comparative Penutian[2] and for being a vocal proponent of the idea that a system of agreement should be reconstructed in proto-Tibeto-Burman[3]
He is currently undertaking field research on several Tibeto-Burman languages of North-Eastern India.
References
- 1981. The category of direction in Tibeto-Burman. Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 6.1:83-102.
- 1981. An interpretation of split ergativity and related patterns. Language 57.3:626-57.
- 1997. The Penutian hypothesis: Retrospect and prospect. (with Victor Golla). International Journal of American Linguistics 63:171-202.
- 1997. "Mirativity: The grammatical marking of unexpected information". Linguistic Typology 1: 33–52.
- 2002. The mirative and evidentiality. Journal of Pragmatics 33.3:369-382.
- 2010. DeLancey, Scott. 2010. 'Towards a history of verb agreement in Tibeto-Burman.' Himalayan Linguistics Journal 9.1. 1-39.
notes
- ^ DeLancey, Scott (1997). "Mirativity: The grammatical marking of unexpected information". Linguistic Typology 1: 33–52. doi:10.1515/lity.1997.1.1.33.
- ^ DeLancey, Scott; & Golla, Victor. (1997). The Penutian hypothesis: Retrospect and prospect. International Journal of American Linguistics, 63, 171–202
- ^ DeLancey, Scott. 2010. 'Towards a history of verb agreement in Tibeto-Burman.' Himalayan Linguistics Journal 9.1. 1-39.