John Mansfield

3 The sound of one quotation mark: Quoted speech in Indigenous Australian narrative

Alan Rumsey, John Mansfield, Nicholas Evans

Book Chapter  |  2023

Aboriginal linguistic exchange in an Australian city

J Mansfield

Journal article  |  2022  |  International Journal of the Sociology of Language

Tropical northern Australia is a region of high linguistic diversity, with dozens of language varieties each spoken by a small num..

Category Clustering and Morphological Learning

John Mansfield, Carmen Saldana, Peter Hurst, Rachel Nordlinger, Sabine Stoll, Balthasar Bickel, Andrew Perfors

Journal article  |  2022  |  COGNITIVE SCIENCE

Inflectional affixes expressing the same grammatical category (e.g., subject agreement) tend to appear in the same morphological p..

Language vs. individuals in cross-linguistic corpus typology

D Barth, N Evans, IW Arka, H Bergqvist, D Forker, S Gipper, G Hodge, E Kashima, Y Kasuga, C Kawakami, Y Kimoto, D Knuchel, N Kogura, K Kurabe, J Mansfield, H Narrog, DPE Pratiwi, S van Putten, C Senge, O Tykhostup

Journal article  |  2022  |  Language Documentation and Conservation

There is a long tradition in linguistics of seeing each language as a powerful factor setting out predetermining grooves in how pe..

Fricative contrasts and neutralization in Marri Tjevin

John Mansfield, Ian Green

Journal article  |  2021  |  AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF LINGUISTICS

Marri Tjevin is the language of the Rak Thangkurral and Rak Nadirri people of the Daly River region in northern Australia. Unusual..

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..

The word as a unit of internal predictability

John Mansfield

Journal article  |  2021  |  LINGUISTICS

A long-standing problem in linguistics is how to define word. Recent research has focused on the incompatibility of diverse defini..

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..