Sarah Thomason's Online Papers



 

 
  •  Séliš-Ql'ispé transitivity.  In Edward Gibson and Moshe Poliak, eds., From fieldwork to linguistic theory: a tribute to Dan Everett (Berlin: Language Science Press), 275-304, 2024. 
  •  Sound symbolic words in Séliš-Ql'ispé.  In Darya Kavitskaya and Alan C.L. Yu, eds., The life cycle of language: past, present, and future (a Festschrift for Andrew Garrett; Oxford University Press), 173-197, 2023 (pre-publication copy).
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  •  The phoneme /h/ in Montana Salish.  In Lucy Thomason, David J. Costa, and Amy Dahlstrom, eds., Webs of relationships and words from long ago: a Festschrift presented to Ives Goddard on the occasion of his 80th birthday (Petoskey, MI: Mundart Press), 381-396, 2021 (pre-publication copy).
  •  Irregular dorsal developments in Montana Salish.  In Mark W. Post, Stephen Morey, and Scott DeLancey, eds., Language and culture in northeast India and beyond: In honour of Robbins Burling (Canberra & Guwahati: Asia-Pacific Linguistics, College of Asia and the Pacific, Australian National University, & Spectrum), 222-244, 2016 (pre-publication copy).
  •  Phonetic structures of Montana Salish (third author, with Edward Flemming and Peter Ladefoged).  Journal of Phonetics 36:465-491, 2008 (pre-publication copy).
  •  Qeyqeyší's marriage.  In M. Terry Thompson and Steven M. Egesdal, eds., One people's stories: a collection of Salishan myths and legends (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press), 223-234, 2008 (pre-publication copy). 
  •  Salishan languages  In Keith Brown, ed., Encyclopedia of language and linguistics, 2nd edn. (Oxford: Elsevier), vol. 10:732-734, 2006 (pre-publication copy). 
  •  Lexical transfer between Southern Interior Salish and Molalla-Sahaptian (second author; Nicholas Pharris, first author).  Quasi-published in J.C. Brown, Masaru Kiyota, and Tyler Peterson, eds., Papers for the 40th International Conference on Salish and Neighbouring Languages (Vancouver: Department of Linguistics, University of British Columbia), 184-209, 2005.
  •  Truncation in Montana Salish (second author; Lucy Thomason, first author).  In Donna B. Gerdts and Lisa Matthewson, eds., Studies in Salish linguistics in honor of M. Dale Kinkade (Missoula: UMOPL-Linguistics Laboratory, University of Montana), 354-376, 2004 (pre-publication copy).
  •  Montana Salish root classes: Evidence from the 19th-century Jesuit dictionary (with Dorothy Berney, Gail Coelho, Jeffrey Micher, and Daniel Everett).  Quasi-published in Joyce Silverthorne, ed., Papers for the 29th International Conference on Salish and Neighboring Languages (Pablo, MT: Salish Kootenai College), 288-312, 1994.
  •  How I got here and where I'm going next.  The Annual Review of Linguistics 8, 2022.
  •  On the ?joys? of editing Language.  In Patricia Casey Sutcliffe, ed., The polymath intellectual: a Festschrift in honor of Professor Robert D. King (Agarita Press), 179-200, 2020 (pre-publication copy).
  •  Pronoun borrowing.  Berkeley Linguistics Society 27:301-315, 2005.
  •  Hypothesis generation vs. hypothesis testing: a comparison between Greenberg's classifications in Africa and in the Americas.  Written for the proceedings volume of the 1990 "Greenberg Conference", but that volume never appeared.
  •  On the unpredictability of contact effects.   In Estudios de Sociolinguistica 1.1:173-182, 2000 (pre-publication copy).
  •  Linguistic areas and language history.   In Dicky Gilbers, John Nerbonne, and Jos Schaeken, eds.,
       Languages in Contact Amsterdam: Rodopi), 311-327, 2000 (pre-publication copy).
  •  Contact-induced typological change.   In Martin Haspelmath, Ekkehard Koenig, Wulf Oesterreicher,
       and Wolfgang Raible, eds., Language typology and language universals, Sprachtypologie und
       sprachliche Universalien: An international handbook     (Berlin & New York: Walter de Gruyter), 1640-1648, 2001 (pre-publication copy). 
  •  Chinook Jargon.  In Philipp Strazny, ed. Encyclopedia of linguistics (New York: Routledge), 2004 (pre-publication copy).
  •  Can rules be borrowed?   Written in 2001 for a planned Festschrift for Terry Kaufman; but the volume never appeared. 
  •  Xenoglossy.   In Gordon Stein, ed., The encyclopedia of the paranormal (Prometheus Books), 835-844, 1996 (pre-publication copy). 
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