Viveka Velupillai

List of John Benjamins publications for which Viveka Velupillai plays a role.

Journals

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Gesture (GEST)

Edited by Ruth Breckinridge Church

ISSN 1568-1475 | E-ISSN 1569-9773
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Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages (JPCL)

Edited by Bettina Migge and Anthony P. Grant

ISSN 0920-9034 | E-ISSN 1569-9870
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Studies in Language (SL)

General Editor: Katharina Haude and Nicole Kruspe

ISSN 0378-4177 | E-ISSN 1569-9978

Book series

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Contact Language Library (CoLL)

Edited by Felicity Meakins and Viveka Velupillai

ISSN 2542-7059

Titles

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Pidgins, Creoles and Mixed Languages: An Introduction

Viveka Velupillai

[Creole Language Library, 48] 2015. xxvii, 599 pp.
Subjects Contact Linguistics | Creole studies | Theoretical linguistics
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An Introduction to Linguistic Typology

Viveka Velupillai

[Not in series, 176] 2012. xxii, 517 pp.
Subjects Functional linguistics | Typology
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Synchronic and Diachronic Perspectives on Contact Languages

Edited by Magnus Huber and Viveka Velupillai

[Creole Language Library, 32] 2007. xii, 370 pp.
Subjects Contact Linguistics | Creole studies | Historical linguistics | Theoretical linguistics

Articles

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Velupillai, Viveka 2019 Gendered inanimates in Shetland dialect: Comparing pre-oil and contemporary speech English World-Wide 40:3, pp. 269–298 | Article
The use of gendered pronouns with inanimate noun referents, such as referring to line and pipe as she and to bag or lid as he, has been described as typical for Shetland dialect. In light of recent discussion on the shift from Shetland dialect to Standard English, presumably triggered by the… read more
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Velupillai, Viveka 2016 Review of Drechsel (2014): Language Contact in the Early Colonial Pacific: Maritime Polynesian Pidgin before Pidgin English Journal of Historical Pragmatics 17:1, pp. 153–158 | Review
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Velupillai, Viveka 2016 Partitioning the timeline: A cross-linguistic survey of tense Studies in Language 40:1, pp. 93–136 | Article
This article presents the findings of a cross-linguistic survey of tense. In an areally and genetically balanced sample, 318 languages were investigated for whether they have tense and, if so, how they partition the timeline with respect to the deictic centre. Three quarters of the languages have… read more
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Wichmann, Søren, André Müller and Viveka Velupillai 2012 Homelands of the world’s language families: A quantitative approach Quantitative Approaches to Linguistic Diversity: Commemorating the centenary of the birth of Morris Swadesh, Wichmann, Søren and Anthony P. Grant (eds.), pp. 57–86 | Article
A systematic, computer-automated tool for narrowing down the homelands of linguistic families is presented and applied to 82 of the world’s larger families. The approach is inspired by the well-known idea that the geographical area of maximal diversity within a language family corresponds to the… read more
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Velupillai, Viveka 2010 Review of Holm & Patrick (2007): Comparative Creole Syntax: Parallel Outlines of 18 Creole Grammars English World-Wide 31:1, pp. 112–114 | Review
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Wichmann, Søren, André Müller and Viveka Velupillai 2010 Homelands of the world’s language families: A quantitative approach Quantitative Approaches to Linguistic Diversity: Commemorating the centenary of the birth of Morris Swadesh, Wichmann, Søren and Anthony P. Grant (eds.), pp. 247–276 | Article
A systematic, computer-automated tool for narrowing down the homelands of linguistic families is presented and applied to 82 of the world’s larger families. The approach is inspired by the well-known idea that the geographical area of maximal diversity within a language family corresponds to the… read more