John Mansfield

Clause chaining and the utterance phrase: Syntax-prosody mapping in Matukar Panau

John Mansfield, Danielle Barth

Journal article  |  2021  |  OPEN LINGUISTICS

Clause chaining is a form of syntactic dependency holding between a series of clauses, typically expressing temporal or causal rel..

Inflectional predictability and prosodic morphology in Pitjantjatjara and Yankunytjatjara

Sasha Wilmoth, John Mansfield

Journal article  |  2021  |  MORPHOLOGY

Lexically stipulated suppletive allomorphy, such as that found in inflection class systems, makes wordforms unpredictable because ..

Positional dependency in Murrinhpatha: expanding the typology of non-canonical morphotactics

Rachel Nordlinger, John Mansfield

Journal article  |  2021  |  Linguistics Vanguard

Principles of morphotactics are a major source of morphological diversity amongst the world’s languages, and it is well-known that..

Demorphologization and deepening complexity in Murrinhpatha.

John Mansfield, Rachel Nordlinger

Book Chapter  |  2020

This volume explores the multiple aspects of morphological complexity, offering typological, acquisitional, sociolinguistic, and d..

Category clustering: A probabilistic bias in the morphology of verbal agreement marking

John Mansfield, Sabine Stoll, Balthasar Bickel

Journal article  |  2020  |  Language

Recent research has revealed several languages (e.g. Chintang, Rarámuri, Tagalog, Murrinhpatha) that challenge the general expecta..

UniMorph 3.0: Universal morphology

AD McCarthy, C Kirov, M Grella, A Nidhi, P Xia, K Gorman, E Vylomova, SJ Mielke, G Nicolai, M Silfverberg, T Arkhangelskij, N Krizhanovsky, A Krizhanovsky, E Klyachko, A Sorokin, J Mansfield, V Ernštreits, Y Pinter, CL Jacobs, R Cotterell, et al.

Conference Proceedings  |  2020  |  LREC 2020 - 12th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Conference Proceedings

The Universal Morphology (UniMorph) project is a collaborative effort providing broad-coverage instantiated normalized morphologic..

Murrinhpatha Morphology and Phonology

John Mansfield

Book  |  2019

between lexicon and grammar, that meaning may be specified on various levels of nested structure, and that a complex structure ma..

Epistemic authority and sociolinguistic stance in an Australian Aboriginal language

John Mansfield

Journal article  |  2019  |  Open Linguistics

Murrinhpatha, an Aboriginal language of northern Australia, has an initial k-alternation in verbs that has hitherto been resistant..

Murrinhpatha personhood, other humans, and contemporary youth

J Mansfield

Book Chapter  |  2018

The traditional Murrinhpatha conception of personhood is similar to what has been observed in other Australian Aboriginal societie..

Documenting sociolinguistic variation in lesser-studied indigenous communities: Challenges and practical solutions

J MANSFIELD, J Stanford

Journal article  |  2017  |  Language Documentation & Conservation

Documenting sociolinguistic variation in lesser-studied languages presents methodological challenges, but also offers important re..