Linguistics and Cognitive Science
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Dartmouth College
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Email: david.a.peterson@dartmouth.edu
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Associate Professor of Linguistics and Cognitive Science, PhD.
University of California, Berkeley, 1999
morphosyntactic typology
language change
comparative Tibeto-Burman
language documentation
Field Methodology
Morphology
Introduction to Linguistics
Discourse Analysis
Typology
2008. Bangladesh Khumi verbal classifiers and Kuki-Chin 'chiming'. Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 31.1:109-138.
2007. Applicative constructions. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
2006. High and low applicatives: Evidence from Lai. Berkeley Linguistics Society 30:353-364 (presented 2004)
2006. On Khumi pronominal agreement morphology. Berkeley Linguistics Society (Special Session) 28:99-110 (presented 2002)
2005. Personal pronouns (with Johanna Nichols). In Martin Haspelmath, Matthew Dryer, David Gil, and Bernard Comrie, eds. World atlas of language structures, 546-553. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
2004. Coordination in Hakha Lai (with Kenneth VanBik). In Martin Haspelmath, ed. Coordinating constructions, 333-356. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
2004. Transitivizing and detransitivizing languages (with Johanna Nichols and Jonathan Barnes), Linguistic Typology 8:149-211.
2003. Agreement and grammatical relations in Hyow. In David Bradley, Randy LaPolla, Boyd Michailovsky and Graham Thurgood, eds. Language variation: Papers on variation and change in the Sinosphere and in the Indosphere in honour of James A. Matisoff, 173-183. Pacific Linguistics. Canberra: Australian National University.
2003. Hahka Lai. In Graham Thurgood and Randy J. LaPolla, eds. The Sino-Tibetan Languages, 409-426. London: Routledge.
2001. Ingush ?a: The elusive type five clitic? Language 75:144-155.
1998: The morphosyntax of transitivization in Lai (Haka Chin). Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area. 21.1:87-153.
1996. The Amerind personal pronouns (with Johanna Nichols). Language 72:336-371