The Performative Power of Vocality offers a fresh perspective on voice as a subject of critical
inquiry by employing an interdisciplinary and cross-cultural approach. Conventional …

This dissertation first addresses various shortcomings in definitions of “applicative” when
compared to what is actually found across languages. It then proposes a four-way distinction …

Abstract Language origins and diversification are vital for mapping human history.
Traditionally, the reconstruction of language trees has been based on cognate forms among …

The classical historical linguistic method for establishing a phylogenetic subgroup requires
evidence of shared innovation from a reconstructed protolanguage. In spite of the fact that …

The internal structure of the Uto-Aztecan language family has been debated since the late
19th century, when the historical relationships among all of its major subdivisions were first …

This work investigates the distribution of “wordhood issues,” in which a morpheme behaves
like a word on one subset of wordhood parameters but like a bound item on another. The …

This book provides the first comprehensive grammatical description of Choguita Rarámuri, a
Uto-Aztecan language spoken in the Sierra Tarahumara, a mountainous range in the …

One of the principle goals of linguistics is to understand the structure of language: what are
the different domains of grammar, and how do they interface and interact? This dissertation …

Uto-Aztecan subgrouping has long been the subject of debate. We aim to establish a more
up-to-date foundation for Uto-Aztecan lexicostatistics by reexamining Wick Miller's influential …

El conocimiento que en la actualidad se tiene de la familia lingüística yutoazteca, también
conocida como uto-azteca, uto-nahua o yuto-nahua, permite tener cierta claridad en …