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Eloise Jelinek was a leading authority on syntactic and semantic
theory, information structure, and several Native American
languages (including Lummi, Yaqui, and Navajo). She was one of the
very first generative linguists who brought the theoretical
implications of the properties of typologically unusual and
understudied languages to the forefront of mainstream generative
thinking. Jelinek originated the Pronominal Argument Hypothesis -
the idea that many languages restrict realization of their
arguments to pronouns. In other work, Jelinek investigated a broad
range of morphological, syntactic and semantic phenomena in
understudied and endangered languages. Besides the theoretical
value of that work, it was instrumental in providing sophisticated
semantic and syntactic documentation for such languages, where
description is typically limited to the basic morphophonology and
morphosyntax, as well as texts, that form the core of most
descriptive work. Thirteen of her most important papers, together
with a fourteenth essay previously unpublished, are here collected,
each preceded by a short introduction that provides context for the
work and evidence of its subsequent influence.
Eloise Jelinek was a leading authority on syntactic and semantic
theory, information structure, and several Native American
languages (including Lummi, Yaqui, and Navajo). She was one of the
very first generative linguists who brought the theoretical
implications of the properties of typologically unusual and
understudied languages to the forefront of mainstream generative
thinking. Jelinek originated the Pronominal Argument Hypothesis -
the idea that many languages restrict realization of their
arguments to pronouns. In other work, Jelinek investigated a broad
range of morphological, syntactic and semantic phenomena in
understudied and endangered languages. Besides the theoretical
value of that work, it was instrumental in providing sophisticated
semantic and syntactic documentation for such languages, where
description is typically limited to the basic morphophonology and
morphosyntax, as well as texts, that form the core of most
descriptive work. Thirteen of her most important papers, together
with a fourteenth essay previously unpublished, are here collected,
each preceded by a short introduction that provides context for the
work and evidence of its subsequent influence.
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