Investigations of the Syntax–Semantics–Pragmatics Interface, 2008
Wari', the last viable language of the Chapakuran family of Brazil and Bolivia, manifests a typol... more Wari', the last viable language of the Chapakuran family of Brazil and Bolivia, manifests a typologically and theoretically interesting construction for expressing intentional states. I refer to this construction as the INTENTIONAL STATE CONSTRUCTION. The special interest of this construction is that it simultaneously manifests properties of both words and clauses, yet seems difficult to subsume under common definitions of Complex Predicates, mixed categories, or within theories of syntax based strictly on endocentricity. It is argued that these constructions are handled straightfowardly by Role and Reference Grammar , in which they are dominated by a non-projecting node (NUC) heading an exocentric unit, CLAUSE.
No one seems to understand anyone anymore. Daniel Everett does not understand Noam Chomsky. And C... more No one seems to understand anyone anymore. Daniel Everett does not understand Noam Chomsky. And Chomsky and his supporters do not understand Everett. The latter traces the root of this ongoing debate.
Often, general education teachers receive minimal instruction in working with students with disab... more Often, general education teachers receive minimal instruction in working with students with disabilities. While most undergraduate programs require general educators to take a basic course on the requirements relative to differentiation for an individual with exceptional needs, it was my experience that this course offered more information on characteristics of disabilities rather than knowledge, strategies, and interventions needed to help meet the individual student needs within an inclusive environment. This paper focuses on strategies that I implemented with the guidance from my graduate course instructor. I found these strategies and collaborative experiences to be successful during my first years as a general education math teacher at the secondary level. The purpose of this paper is to share my experience to support student success that centers on whole schooling-particularly secondary classrooms. Special education aspects examined include: coteaching, secondary math strategies or interventions such as visual cues and mnemonics, Individual Education Programs, accountability among students, and successful self-advocacy.
This paper argues that the origins of language can be detected one million years ago, if not earl... more This paper argues that the origins of language can be detected one million years ago, if not earlier, in the archaeological record ofHomo erectus. This controversial claim is based on a broad theoretical and evidential foundation with language defined as communication based on symbols rather than grammar. Peirce’s theory of signs (semiotics) underpins our analysis with its progression of signs (icon, index and symbol) used to identify artefact forms operating at the level of symbols. We draw on generalisations about the multiple social roles of technology in pre-industrial societies and on the contexts tool-use among non-human primates to argue for a deep evolutionary foundation for hominin symbol use. We conclude that symbol-based language is expressed materially in arbitrary social conventions that permeate the technologies ofHomo erectusand its descendants, and in the extended planning involved in the caching of tools and in the early settlement of island Southeast Asia.
Este trabalho apresenta um panorama de algumas pesquisas a respeito de como a cultura está relaci... more Este trabalho apresenta um panorama de algumas pesquisas a respeito de como a cultura está relacionada de forma causal com o entendimento da cognição humana. Particularmente, avalio estudos a respeito da influência da cultura na memória de curto prazo, na percepção visual, na gramática, na cognição numérica, e na evolução linguística. Além disso, apresento um desiderato de metodologias sobre as conexões entre cultura e cognição, e um direcionamento para pesquisas futuras.
Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session, 1988
INTRODUCTION 1 Overview of Yagua word order 2 Clitics 2.1 Set I clitics 2.2 Set II clitics 3 Para... more INTRODUCTION 1 Overview of Yagua word order 2 Clitics 2.1 Set I clitics 2.2 Set II clitics 3 Parametrization of Yagua clitics 4 Case and word order 4.1 Introduction 4.2 Case assignment 4.3 Multi-AGR languages 4.4 Case assignment and doubling in VP 4.4.1 Direct objects 4.4.2 Indirect objects 4.5 Definiteness 4.6 Suunnary 4.7 Unaccusative subjects 4.8 Case, subjects, possessors and obliques 4.8.1 Subjects 4.8.2 Possessor doubling 4.8.3 Postpositional phrases 4.8.4 Conclusion 5 Reflexives 6 Underlying versus basic word order 6.1 Underlying word order 6.2 Basic word order 7 Some diachronically oriented speculation 8 Implications for lexical theories 9 Conclusion NOTES REFERENCES
Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session, 1985
Introduction 2 Word order and absolutive marking 2.1 Karitiana phrase structure 2.2 Affirmative p... more Introduction 2 Word order and absolutive marking 2.1 Karitiana phrase structure 2.2 Affirmative particles 2.3 Pronouns 3 WH-questions and topics 4 An alternative analysis 5 On the default affirmative 6 Conclusion
ABSTRACT If ideas about culture's involvement in the origins of language are right where ... more ABSTRACT If ideas about culture's involvement in the origins of language are right where does that leave universal grammar?
ABSTRACT Biologist Jared Diamond is being sued by people he studied. The case has serious lessons... more ABSTRACT Biologist Jared Diamond is being sued by people he studied. The case has serious lessons for all field researchers, says Daniel Everett
Adventures in the jungle of language.[Interview by Asifa Majid and Jon Sutton.]
Daniel Everett has spent his career in the Amazon, challenging some fundamental ideas about langu... more Daniel Everett has spent his career in the Amazon, challenging some fundamental ideas about language and thought. Asifa Majid and Jon Sutton pose the question
for their help in data collection and analysis. These data were reported to the Cognitive Science... more for their help in data collection and analysis. These data were reported to the Cognitive Science Society in Yoon et al. (2011).
Phonetic Structures of Banawá, an Endangered Language
Phonetica, 1997
This paper describes the phonetic characteristics of Banawá, an endangered language spoken in Bra... more This paper describes the phonetic characteristics of Banawá, an endangered language spoken in Brazil. The qualities of the Banawá vowels are described in terms of their formant frequencies. The places of articulation of each consonant, the voice onset time and the manner of articulation are documented. The structure of syllables and words is delimited, and the location of stressed syllables
... Everett and Kern (1996) noted that Itf] is produced by forming a dental stop, and then allowi... more ... Everett and Kern (1996) noted that Itf] is produced by forming a dental stop, and then allowing the blast of air that occurs when this is ... were directly observable on only five occasions, four of those being in the word [tfsum], the only word containing the high back rounded vowel. ...
Investigations of the Syntax–Semantics–Pragmatics Interface, 2008
Wari', the last viable language of the Chapakuran family of Brazil and Bolivia, manifests a typol... more Wari', the last viable language of the Chapakuran family of Brazil and Bolivia, manifests a typologically and theoretically interesting construction for expressing intentional states. I refer to this construction as the INTENTIONAL STATE CONSTRUCTION. The special interest of this construction is that it simultaneously manifests properties of both words and clauses, yet seems difficult to subsume under common definitions of Complex Predicates, mixed categories, or within theories of syntax based strictly on endocentricity. It is argued that these constructions are handled straightfowardly by Role and Reference Grammar , in which they are dominated by a non-projecting node (NUC) heading an exocentric unit, CLAUSE.
No one seems to understand anyone anymore. Daniel Everett does not understand Noam Chomsky. And C... more No one seems to understand anyone anymore. Daniel Everett does not understand Noam Chomsky. And Chomsky and his supporters do not understand Everett. The latter traces the root of this ongoing debate.
Often, general education teachers receive minimal instruction in working with students with disab... more Often, general education teachers receive minimal instruction in working with students with disabilities. While most undergraduate programs require general educators to take a basic course on the requirements relative to differentiation for an individual with exceptional needs, it was my experience that this course offered more information on characteristics of disabilities rather than knowledge, strategies, and interventions needed to help meet the individual student needs within an inclusive environment. This paper focuses on strategies that I implemented with the guidance from my graduate course instructor. I found these strategies and collaborative experiences to be successful during my first years as a general education math teacher at the secondary level. The purpose of this paper is to share my experience to support student success that centers on whole schooling-particularly secondary classrooms. Special education aspects examined include: coteaching, secondary math strategies or interventions such as visual cues and mnemonics, Individual Education Programs, accountability among students, and successful self-advocacy.
This paper argues that the origins of language can be detected one million years ago, if not earl... more This paper argues that the origins of language can be detected one million years ago, if not earlier, in the archaeological record ofHomo erectus. This controversial claim is based on a broad theoretical and evidential foundation with language defined as communication based on symbols rather than grammar. Peirce’s theory of signs (semiotics) underpins our analysis with its progression of signs (icon, index and symbol) used to identify artefact forms operating at the level of symbols. We draw on generalisations about the multiple social roles of technology in pre-industrial societies and on the contexts tool-use among non-human primates to argue for a deep evolutionary foundation for hominin symbol use. We conclude that symbol-based language is expressed materially in arbitrary social conventions that permeate the technologies ofHomo erectusand its descendants, and in the extended planning involved in the caching of tools and in the early settlement of island Southeast Asia.
Este trabalho apresenta um panorama de algumas pesquisas a respeito de como a cultura está relaci... more Este trabalho apresenta um panorama de algumas pesquisas a respeito de como a cultura está relacionada de forma causal com o entendimento da cognição humana. Particularmente, avalio estudos a respeito da influência da cultura na memória de curto prazo, na percepção visual, na gramática, na cognição numérica, e na evolução linguística. Além disso, apresento um desiderato de metodologias sobre as conexões entre cultura e cognição, e um direcionamento para pesquisas futuras.
Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session, 1988
INTRODUCTION 1 Overview of Yagua word order 2 Clitics 2.1 Set I clitics 2.2 Set II clitics 3 Para... more INTRODUCTION 1 Overview of Yagua word order 2 Clitics 2.1 Set I clitics 2.2 Set II clitics 3 Parametrization of Yagua clitics 4 Case and word order 4.1 Introduction 4.2 Case assignment 4.3 Multi-AGR languages 4.4 Case assignment and doubling in VP 4.4.1 Direct objects 4.4.2 Indirect objects 4.5 Definiteness 4.6 Suunnary 4.7 Unaccusative subjects 4.8 Case, subjects, possessors and obliques 4.8.1 Subjects 4.8.2 Possessor doubling 4.8.3 Postpositional phrases 4.8.4 Conclusion 5 Reflexives 6 Underlying versus basic word order 6.1 Underlying word order 6.2 Basic word order 7 Some diachronically oriented speculation 8 Implications for lexical theories 9 Conclusion NOTES REFERENCES
Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session, 1985
Introduction 2 Word order and absolutive marking 2.1 Karitiana phrase structure 2.2 Affirmative p... more Introduction 2 Word order and absolutive marking 2.1 Karitiana phrase structure 2.2 Affirmative particles 2.3 Pronouns 3 WH-questions and topics 4 An alternative analysis 5 On the default affirmative 6 Conclusion
ABSTRACT If ideas about culture's involvement in the origins of language are right where ... more ABSTRACT If ideas about culture's involvement in the origins of language are right where does that leave universal grammar?
ABSTRACT Biologist Jared Diamond is being sued by people he studied. The case has serious lessons... more ABSTRACT Biologist Jared Diamond is being sued by people he studied. The case has serious lessons for all field researchers, says Daniel Everett
Adventures in the jungle of language.[Interview by Asifa Majid and Jon Sutton.]
Daniel Everett has spent his career in the Amazon, challenging some fundamental ideas about langu... more Daniel Everett has spent his career in the Amazon, challenging some fundamental ideas about language and thought. Asifa Majid and Jon Sutton pose the question
for their help in data collection and analysis. These data were reported to the Cognitive Science... more for their help in data collection and analysis. These data were reported to the Cognitive Science Society in Yoon et al. (2011).
Phonetic Structures of Banawá, an Endangered Language
Phonetica, 1997
This paper describes the phonetic characteristics of Banawá, an endangered language spoken in Bra... more This paper describes the phonetic characteristics of Banawá, an endangered language spoken in Brazil. The qualities of the Banawá vowels are described in terms of their formant frequencies. The places of articulation of each consonant, the voice onset time and the manner of articulation are documented. The structure of syllables and words is delimited, and the location of stressed syllables
... Everett and Kern (1996) noted that Itf] is produced by forming a dental stop, and then allowi... more ... Everett and Kern (1996) noted that Itf] is produced by forming a dental stop, and then allowing the blast of air that occurs when this is ... were directly observable on only five occasions, four of those being in the word [tfsum], the only word containing the high back rounded vowel. ...
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