Hiram L. Smith
List of John Benjamins publications for which Hiram L. Smith plays a role.
Article
Preverbal a -marking in Palenquero Creole: Testing theories of grammaticalization, convergence, and inheritance Diachronica 39:4, pp. 565–607 | Article
2022 Formally similar grammatical features in a creole and its genetic or areal relatives may indicate substrate transfer, lexifier influence, or grammaticalization. Against this backdrop, the present study investigates the origin(s) of the preverbal past marker a in Palenquero Creole (Colombia).… read more