Associate Professor of Linguistics and Cognitive Science, Ph.D. (Linguistics) University of California, Berkeley, 1999 307 Reed Hall (603) 646-4024 Fax: (603) 646-9288 E-mail: David.a.Peterson@Dartmouth.edu
Program in Linguistics and Cognitive Science 6220 Reed Hall Dartmouth College Hanover, NH 03755
Research Interests
Morphosyntactic typology
Language change
Comparative Tibeto-Burman
Language documentation
Courses Taught Regularly
Introduction to Linguistics
Discourse Analysis
Typology
Morphology
Field Methodology
Selected Publications
2011: Core participant marking in Khumi. Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 34.2:73-100.
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: 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: 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: Hakha 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
1996: The Amerind personal pronouns (with Johanna Nichols). Language 72:336-371
Associate Professor of Linguistics and Cognitive Science, 