John Mansfield

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 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..

Prosodic words in cyclic derivation: the strange case of Murrinhpatha compound verbs

J MANSFIELD

Journal article  |  2017  |  Morphology

Lexical compounding generally works by adjoining a second lexeme either directly to the stem of the first lexeme (as in [sabre-[to..

Intersecting formatives and inflectional predictability: How do speakers and learners predict the correct form of Murrinhpatha verbs?

J MANSFIELD

Journal article  |  2016  |  WORD Structure

Borrowed verbs and the expansion of light verb phrases in Murrinhpatha

J MANSFIELD

Book Chapter  |  2016