Space, Time, World
Michael Fortescue
[Human Cognitive Processing, 77] 2024. viii, 223 pp
Michael Fortescue
List of John Benjamins publications for which Michael Fortescue plays a role.
Titles
Subjects Anthropological Linguistics | Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
The Abstraction Engine: Extracting patterns in language, mind and brain
Michael Fortescue
[Advances in Consciousness Research, 94] 2017. vi, 192 pp.
Subjects Cognition and language | Consciousness research | Psycholinguistics
Historical Linguistics 2003: Selected papers from the 16th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Copenhagen, 11–15 August 2003
Edited by Michael Fortescue, Eva Skafte Jensen, Jens Erik Mogensen and Lene Schøsler
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 257] 2005. x, 312 pp.
Subjects Historical linguistics
Pattern and Process: A Whiteheadian perspective on linguistics
Michael Fortescue
[Human Cognitive Processing, 6] 2001. viii, 311 pp.
Subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive psychology | Philosophy | Pragmatics
Content, Expression and Structure: Studies in Danish functional grammar
Edited by Elisabeth Engberg-Pedersen, Michael Fortescue, Peter Harder, Lars Heltoft and Lisbeth Falster Jakobsen
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 29] 1996. xvi, 510 pp.
Subjects Functional linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Typology
Layered Structure and Reference in a Functional Perspective: Papers from the Functional Grammar Conference, Copenhagen, 1990
Edited by Michael Fortescue, Peter Harder and Lars Kristoffersen
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 23] 1992. xiii, 444 pp.
Subjects Functional linguistics | Pragmatics | Theoretical linguistics
A Discourse Production Model for 'Twenty Questions'
Michael Fortescue
[Pragmatics & Beyond, I:2] 1980. x, 137 pp.
Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Articles
2018 Chapter 7. Drinking of the iceberg: Thirty years of fieldwork on Arctic languages Word Hunters: Field linguists on fieldwork, Sarvasy, Hannah and Diana Forker (eds.), pp. 95–105 | Chapter
2016 How the accusative became the relative: A Samoyedic key to the Eskimo-Uralic relationship? Journal of Historical Linguistics 6:1, pp. 72–92 | Article
The Eskimo-Uralic hypothesis of a genetic link between Eskimo-Aleut and the Uralic languages is now reaching its second centenary. Two major problems with its advancement since Bergsland’s (1959) summary of its status are addressed in this article. The first of these is the lack of an obvious… read more
2013 Polysynthesis in the Arctic/Sub-Arctic: How recent is it? Language Typology and Historical Contingency: In honor of Johanna Nichols, Bickel, Balthasar, Lenore A. Grenoble, David A. Peterson and Alan Timberlake (eds.), pp. 241–264 | Article
This paper presents a diagnostic for distinguishing older from newer forms of polysynthesis. Explanations for the global “cline” of polysynthesis from northern Asia into northwestern America are examined in this light. This leads to addressing the questions as to the “robustness” of polysynthesis… read more
2010 A neural network approach to compositionality and co-compositionality Words and their meaning: A deep delve from surface distribution intounderlying neural representation, Horne, Merle and Mikael Roll (eds.), pp. 180–204 | Article
The issue of compositionality is applied to the modelling of the mental lexicon in terms of neural networks as described in Fortescue (2009). The approach is illustrated by applying it to the analysis of a semantically complex verb, conquer, illustrating the need to draw upon top-down (social,… read more
2009 Analytic vs. synthetic verbal constructions in Chukchi and West Greenlandic Variations on Polysynthesis: The Eskaleut languages, Mahieu, Marc-Antoine and Nicole Tersis (eds.), pp. 35–49 | Chapter
In both Chukchi and West Greenlandic, there are certain circumstances where a choice exists between an analytic and a corresponding synthetic construction. These cases are more widespread and systematic in Chukchi, where it is a matter of the presence or absence of an auxiliary verb, although the… read more
2007 The non-linearity of speech production Structural-Functional Studies in English Grammar: In honour of Lachlan Mackenzie, Hannay, Mike and Gerard J. Steen (eds.), pp. 337–351 | Article
The traditional linear conception of speech production shared by the majority of formalists and functionalists alike envisages a step-by-step succession of stages on the way from conceptual intention to speech chain product. However, the alternative conception of parallel distributed processing has… read more
2007 19. Reciprocals in West Greenlandic Eskimo Reciprocal Constructions, Nedjalkov, Vladimir P. (ed.), pp. 813–842 | Chapter
2006 The non-linear nature of diachronic change Competing Models of Linguistic Change: Evolution and beyond, Nedergaard Thomsen, Ole (ed.), pp. 17–31 | Article
2005 The origin of transitive auxiliary verbs in Chukotko-Kamchatkan Historical Linguistics 2003: Selected papers from the 16th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Copenhagen, 11–15 August 2003, Fortescue, Michael, Eva Skafte Jensen, Jens Erik Mogensen and Lene Schøsler (eds.), pp. 115–130 | Article
2004 An acquisitional approach to disharmonic word-order/affixation pairings Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics: Volume 2, Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez, Francisco José (ed.), pp. 31–71 | Article
Various proposals have been put forward to explain the typological skewing produced by the universal preference for suffixing as opposed to prefixing. These proposals have focused either on processing or on diachronic explanations (or a combination of both). In the present paper it is argued that a… read more
2003 13. Evidentiality in West Greenlandic: A case of scattered coding Studies in Evidentiality, Aikhenvald, Alexandra Y. and R.M.W. Dixon (eds.), pp. 291–306 | Chapter
1997 Eskimo Influence on the Formation of the Chukotkan Ergative Clause Studies in Language 21:2, pp. 369–409 | Article
It has generally been assumed in the literature on ergativity that the phenomenon of ergative clause structure in Chukotkan languages represents a family-internal development reflecting the common source of such constructions in earlier passives. On closer inspection it appears that Chukotkan… read more
1996 Grammaticalized focus in Yukagir: Is it really grammaticalized and is it really focus? Content, Expression and Structure: Studies in Danish functional grammar, Engberg-Pedersen, Elisabeth, Michael Fortescue, Peter Harder, Lars Heltoft and Lisbeth Falster Jakobsen (eds.), pp. 17 ff. | Article
1992 Aspect and Superaspect in koyukon: An Application of the Functional Grammar Model to a Polysynthetic Language Layered Structure and Reference in a Functional Perspective: Papers from the Functional Grammar Conference, Copenhagen, 1990, Fortescue, Michael, Peter Harder and Lars Kristoffersen (eds.), pp. 99 ff. | Article
1991 Switch reference anomalies and ‘topic’ in west greenlandic: A case of pragmatics over syntax Levels of Linguistic Adaptation: Selected papers from the International Pragmatics Conference, Antwerp, August 1987, Verschueren, Jef (ed.), pp. 53 ff. | Article