David Beck

List of John Benjamins publications for which David Beck plays a role.

Titles

Subjects Cognition and language | Functional linguistics | Pragmatics | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Subjects Cognition and language | Functional linguistics | Pragmatics | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Subjects Cognition and language | Functional linguistics | Pragmatics | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
The Salishan language Lushootseed has been claimed to lack both syntactic subjects and morphosyntactically transitive clauses, a problematic stance from a universalist/typological point of view. This paper offers evidence both for the syntactic role of subject in Lushootseed and the existence of… read more
Beck, David 1999 Words and Prosodic Phrasing in Lushootseed NarrativeStudies on the Phonological Word, Hall, Tracy Alan and Ursula Kleinhenz (eds.), pp. 23–46 | Article
Beck, David 1997 Theme, Rheme, and Communicative Structure in Lushootseed and Bella CoolaRecent Trends in Meaning–Text Theory, Wanner, Leo (ed.), pp. 93–92 | Section header