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BOOKS

Check it out - (2007) Motion, transfer, and transformation: The grammar of change in Lowland Chontal. Studies in Language Companion Series 95, John Benjamins Publishing Company.

ALIM series - (2010) El chontal de la baja. Mexico City: Centro para la Investigación para la Integración Social. Contribution to series of descriptions of Mexican indigenous languages, following a standardized format

BOOK CHAPTERS

(in review) Language Profile: Lowland Chontal of Oaxaca. In How Languages Work: an Introduction to Linguistics , C. Genetti (ed), Cambridge University Press.

(in press) Take it up, down, and away: Encoding placement and removal in Lowland Chontal In Events of “putting” and “taking”: A crosslinguistic perspective, , A. Kopecka & B. Narasimhan (eds), John Benjamins Typological Studies in Language series.

(2009) All typologies leak: Predicates of change in Lowland Chontal of Oaxaca. In New Challenges in Typology 2: Transcending the Borders and Refining the Distinctions , P. Epps & A. Arkhipov (eds), Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 343-363.

PDF - (2006) Sobre los predicados complejos en el chontal de la baja. In Historia y Etnografía entre los Chontales de Oaxaca, A. Oseguera ed. Oaxaca: Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, 119-161. (On complex predicates in Lowland Chontal, contribution to a volume on Chontal studies.)

PDF - (2004) Going getting tired: Associated motion through space and time in Lowland Chontal. In Language, Culture and Mind, M. Achard & S. Kemmer, eds., Stanford: CSLI publications, 181-198.

JOURNAL ARTICLES

PDF - (2009) The phonetic structures of Lowland Chontal of Oaxaca (third author, with Ian Maddieson and Heriberto Avelino). International Journal of American Linguistics, 75.1: 71-103.

PDF - (2008) The land remembers: Landscape terms and place names in Lowland Chontal of Oaxaca, Mexico (first author, with Peter Kroefges). Language Sciences 30, 291-315.

PDF - (2007) Chop, shred, split apart: Cutting and breaking in Lowland Chontal. Cognitive Linguistics 18-2 , 219-230.

CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

PDF - (2008) De verbos y satélites: La expresión del movimiento en el chontal de la Baja. Memorias del Coloquio Francisco Belmar: Las lenguas Otomangues y Oaxaqueñas ante el Siglo XXI. Oaxaca: Instituto Estatal de Educación Pública de Oaxaca. (Of verbs and satellites: The expression of motion in Lowland Chontal.)

PDF - (2000) Aspectual classes and non-agentive morphosyntax in Lowland Chontal. Proceedings of the 26th Annual Berkeley Linguistics Society meeting, Special Session on the semantic and syntax of languages of the Americas, University of California-Berkeley.

PDF - (2000) Classificatory verbs of transfer in Lowland Chontal. Proceedings of the Second Annual Workshop on American Indigenous Languages, Santa Barbara Working Papers.

PDF - (1999) The agentive system of Lowland Chontal. Proceedings of the First Annual Workshop on American Indigenous Languages, Santa Barbara Working Papers.

REVIEWS

PDF - (2010) Review of Belmar (1900), Estudio de el Chontal, in edited volume of Homenaje a Francisco Belmar, F. Barriga, ed.

PDF - (2007) Review of Bhat (2004), Pronouns, Journal of Pragmatics 39, 612-616.

PDF - (2006) Review of Talmy (2000), Toward a cognitive semantics: Concept structuring systems, Volume I, and Typology and process in concept structuring, Volume II. Journal of Pragmatics 38, 1126-1134.