Scott DeLancey

Scott DeLancey (born 1949) 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 developed 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

• DeLancey, Scott, Lon Diehl & LaRaw Maran. 1978a. A localistic account of aspect in Jinghpaw. University of Michigan Papers in Linguistics 2(4). 49-64.
• DeLancey, Scott, Lon Diehl & LaRaw Maran. 1978b. The Tibeto-Burman aspect mechanisms. University of Michigan Papers in Linguistics 2(4). 65-88.
• Delancey, Scott (1982). "Modern Tibetan: A case study in ergative typology". Journal of Linguistic Research 2 (1): 21–31. 

• Delancey, Scott (1984). "Transitivity and ergative case in Lhasa Tibetan". Proceedings of the Tenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: 131–140. 

• (1984). "Categories of non-volitional actor in Lhasa Tibetan." A. Zide et al., eds., Proc. of the Conference on Participant Roles: South Asia and Adjacent Areas, pp. 58–70. IULC.
• (1984). "Agentivity in syntax." Chicago Linguistic Society Parasession on Agentivity and Causation.
• (1985). "On active typology and the nature of agentivity." F. Plank, ed., Relational Typology. Mouton.
• (1985). "Lhasa Tibetan evidentials and the semantics of causation." Proc. of the Eleventh Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, 65-72.
• (1986). "Evidentiality and volitionality in Tibetan." W. Chafe and J. Nichols, eds., Evidentiality: The Linguistic Coding of Epistemology, pp. 203–13.

• Delancey, Scott (1990). "Ergativity and the cognitive model of event structure in Lhasa Tibetan". Cognitive Linguistics 1 (3): 289–321. 

• Delancey, Scott (1990). "Tibetan evidence for Nungish metathesis". Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 12 (2): 25–31. 

• Delancey, Scott (1990). "Contour tones from lost syllables in Central Tibetan". Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 12 (2): 33–34. 

• Delancey, Scott (1991). "The origins of verb serialization in Modern Tibetan". Studies in Language 15 (1): 1–23. 

• Delancey, Scott (1992). "The historical status of the conjunct/disjunct pattern in Tibeto-Burman". Acta Linguistica Hafniensia 25: 39–62. 
• Delancey, Scott (1997). "Mirativity: the grammatical marking of unexpected information". Linguistic Typology 1: 33–52. doi:10.1515/lity.1997.1.1.33. 
• (1998). "Semantic categorization in Tibetan honorific nouns." Anthropological Linguistics 40:109-23.
• (1999). "Relativization in Tibetan." in Yogendra Yadava and Warren Glover, eds., Studies in Nepalese Linguistics, pp. 231–49. Kathmandu: Royal Nepal Academy.
• (2012) 'Still mirative after all these years. Linguistic Typology 16.3

• 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.
• 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

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