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

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  1. ^ DeLancey, Scott (1997). "Mirativity: The grammatical marking of unexpected information". Linguistic Typology 1: 33–52. doi:10.1515/lity.1997.1.1.33.
  2. ^ DeLancey, Scott; & Golla, Victor. (1997). The Penutian hypothesis: Retrospect and prospect. International Journal of American Linguistics, 63, 171–202
  3. ^ DeLancey, Scott. 2010. 'Towards a history of verb agreement in Tibeto-Burman.' Himalayan Linguistics Journal 9.1. 1-39.