John Whitman

List of John Benjamins publications for which John Whitman plays a role.

Journal

Titles

Honorific language and linguistic politeness in Korean

Edited by John Whitman and Lucien Brown

Special issue of Korean Linguistics 17:2 (2015) v, 140 pp.

Subjects Linguistics of isolated languages | Theoretical linguistics

Proto-Japanese: Issues and Prospects

Edited by Bjarke Frellesvig and John Whitman

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 294] 2008. vii, 229 pp.

Subjects Historical linguistics | Japanese linguistics | Theoretical linguistics

Articles

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Brown, Lucien and John Whitman 2015 Honorifics and politeness in Korean Honorific language and linguistic politeness in Korean, Whitman, John and Lucien Brown (eds.), pp. 127–131 | Article

Ko, Seongyeon, Andrew Joseph and John Whitman 2014 Chapter 7. Comparative consequences of the tongue root harmony analysis for proto-Tungusic, proto-Mongolic, and proto-Korean Paradigm Change: In the Transeurasian languages and beyond, Robbeets, Martine and Walter Bisang (eds.), pp. 141–176 | Chapter

This paper examines the role of retracted tongue root ([RTR]) harmony in Northeast Asian areal and genetic relationships. Recent research has suggested that at least three of the families grouped together as Altaic by Poppe (1960) – Korean, Mongolic, and Tungusic (KMT) – should be reconstructed… read more

Kim-Renaud, Young-Key and John Whitman 2013 Introduction Korean Historical Linguistics, pp. 125–128 | Article

Whitman, John 2013 Review of Lee & Ramsey (2011): A History of the Korean Language Korean Historical Linguistics, pp. 247–260 | Review

Whitman, John 2012 Misparsing and syntactic reanalysis Historical Linguistics 2009: Selected papers from the 19th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Nijmegen, 10-14 August 2009, Kemenade, Ans M.C. van and Nynke de Haas (eds.), pp. 69–88 | Article

This paper argues that syntactic misparsing is not a significant factor in syntactic change, contrary to many earlier claims. It examines the best known examples in the literature of syntactic change resulting from alleged misparsing, and shows that the misparsing analysis is rejected in the most… read more

Paul, Waltraud and John Whitman 2010 Applicative structure and Mandarin ditransitives Argument Structure and Syntactic Relations: A cross-linguistic perspective, Duguine, Maia, Susana Huidobro and Nerea Madariaga (eds.), pp. 261–282 | Chapter

We argue that applicative heads always appear above the lexical VP, regardless of the semantics of the construction. Thematic Applicatives select a nominal expression and a VP as argument, parallel to Pylkkänen’s (2008) “high” applicatives. The applied argument is merged in Spec, ApplP and receives… read more

Frellesvig, Bjarke and John Whitman 2008 Introduction Proto-Japanese: Issues and Prospects, Frellesvig, Bjarke and John Whitman (eds.), pp. 1–9 | Miscellaneous

Frellesvig, Bjarke and John Whitman 2008 Evidence for seven vowels in proto-Japanese Proto-Japanese: Issues and Prospects, Frellesvig, Bjarke and John Whitman (eds.), pp. 15–41 | Article

Whitman, John 2008 The source of the bigrade conjugation and stem shape in pre-Old Japanese Proto-Japanese: Issues and Prospects, Frellesvig, Bjarke and John Whitman (eds.), pp. 159–173 | Article

Whitman, John 2001 Kayne 1994: p.143, fn.3 The Minimalist Parameter: Selected papers from the Open Linguistics Forum, Ottawa, 21–23 March 1997, Alexandrova, Galina M. and Olga Arnaudova (eds.), pp. 77–100 | Article

Whitman, John 1999 Personal pronoun shift in Japanese: A case study in lexical change and point of view Function and Structure: In honor of Susumu Kuno, Kamio, Akio and Ken-ichi Takami (eds.), pp. 387 ff. | Article