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Plural-Marking Strategies in Äiwoo by Naess, Ashild

“…This paper describes the range of strategies found in Äiwoo (a language of the Temotu subgroup of Oceanic) to mark a noun as having plural reference. Äiwoo…”
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Voice at the Crossroads: Symmetrical Clause Alternations in Äiwoo, Reef Islands, Solomon Islands by Naess, Ashild

“…This paper argues that the Äiwoo language of the Reef Islands shows what could be characterized as a symmetrical voice system with three voices: an actor…”
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The Äiwoo verb phrase: Syntactic ergativity without pivots by Naess, Ashild

“…Formal models of syntax typically accord the structural position external to the verb's domain a privileged status in the overall syntactic makeup of a…”
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Jespersen in the Reef Islands: Single versus Bipartite Negation in Äiwoo by Roversi, Giovanni, Næss, Åshild

“…In this paper, we discuss the properties of negation in the Oceanic language Äiwoo. Like many Melanesian languages, Äiwoo has a bipartite negation…”
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From Austronesian Voice to Oceanic Transitivity: Äiwoo as the "Missing Link" by NAESS, Ashild

“…This paper examines three properties of the Reefs-Santa Cruz language Äiwoo that are unusual for an Oceanic language—a distinction between prefixal marking of…”
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The Grammar of Eating and Drinking Verbs by Naess, Ashild

“…Verbs referring to acts of eating and drinking show a crosslinguistic tendency to behave in ways which distinguish them from other verbs in a language…”
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Static spatial descriptions in five Germanic languages by Berthele, Raphael, Whelpton, Matthew, Næss, Åshild, Duijff, Pieter

“…The paper presents qualitative and quantitative analyses of expressions describing static topological relations in Frisian, Icelandic, and Norwegian (Bokmål),…”
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An Oceanic Origin for Äiwoo, the Language of the Reef Islands? by Ross, Malcolm, Næss, Åshild

“…Whether the languages of the Reefs-Santa Cruz (RSC) group have a Papuan or an Austronesian origin has long been in dispute. Various background issues are…”
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What markedness marks: the markedness problem with direct objects by Naess, Ashild

“…This paper discusses a number of problems associated with the widely accepted analysis of differential object marking (DOM) as reflecting the semantic…”
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Ancient DNA and its contribution to understanding the human history of the Pacific Islands by BEDFORD, STUART, BLUST, ROBERT, BURLEY, DAVID V., COX, MURRAY, KIRCH, PATRICK V., MATISOO‐SMITH, ELIZABETH, NÆSS, ÅSHILD, PAWLEY, ANDREW, SAND, CHRISTOPHE, SHEPPARD, PETER

“…ABSTRACT Two recent papers, by Lipson et al. and Posth et al., have challenged current interpretations of the initial settlement of Remote Oceania. We invited…”
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Two kinds of pink: development and difference in Germanic colour semantics by Vejdemo, Susanne, Levisen, Carsten, van Scherpenberg, Cornelia, Guðmundsdóttir Beck, þórhalla, Næss, Åshild, Zimmermann, Martina, Stockall, Linnaea, Whelpton, Matthew

“…This article traces the birth of two different pink categories in western Europe and the lexicalization strategies used for these categories in English,…”
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Bound Nominal Elements in Äiwoo (Reefs): A Reappraisal of the "Multiple Noun Class Systems" by Naess, Ashild

“…The little-described Reefs-Santa Cruz (RSC) languages are usually assumed to be of mixed Papuan-Austronesian origin, though attempts at linking them…”
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An Agent-First Preference in a Patient-First Language during Sentence Comprehension by Sauppe, Sebastian, Naess, Åshild, Roversi, Giovanni, Meyer, Martin, Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, Ina, Bickel, Balthasar

“…The language comprehension system preferentially assumes that agents come first during incremental processing. While this might reflect a biologically fixed…”
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Reefs-Santa Cruz as Oceanic: Evidence from the Verb Complex by Næss, Åshild, Boerger, Brenda H.

“…Recent research has shown that the long-standing assumption that the Reefs-Santa Cruz languages have a non-Austronesian substrate is unlikely to be valid: the…”
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Prototypical Transitivity by Naess, Ashild

“…This book presents a functional analysis of a notion which has gained considerable importance in cognitive and functional linguistics over the last couple of…”
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Arnfinn Muruvik Vonen: "Norsk tegnspråk: en innføring" by Åshild Næss

“…Det er heldigvis ikke så ofte lenger, når man skal skrive om et minoritetsspråk, at man må begynne med å slå fast at språket er et fullverdig menneskelig språk…”
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The Äiwoo verb phrase: Syntactic ergativity without pivots1 by NÆSS, ÅSHILD

“…Formal models of syntax typically accord the structural position external to the verb's domain a privileged status in the overall syntactic makeup of a…”
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Structural Parallels between Vaeakau-Taumako and the Vanuatu Outliers: Capell Revisited by NAESS, Ashild

“…This paper examines a set of structural parallels between Vaeakau-Taumako (Pileni), a Polynesian Outlier spoken in Temotu Province in the Solomon Islands, and…”
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Directional Verbs in Vaeakau-Taumako by Naess, Ashild

“…This paper argues that the best way of analyzing the directional morphemes in the Polynesian Outlier Vaeakau-Taumako (Pileni) is as verbs that most…”
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Language description, history and development; Linguistic indulgence in memory of Terry Crowley. [Creole Language Library 30.] by NÆSS, ÅSHILD

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