Michael Fortescue

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PhD Linguistics University of Copenhagen

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According to Wikipedia, Michael David Fortescue is a British-born linguist specializing in Arctic and native North American languages, including Kalaallisut, Inuktun, Chukchi and Nitinaht. Fortescue is known for his reconstructions of the Eskimo–Aleut, Chukotko-Kamchatkan, Nivkh, and Wakashan proto-languages.

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Michael Fortescue's Published Works

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Pattern and Process: A Whiteheadian perspective on linguistics (2001) (167)
Comparative Eskimo Dictionary: With Aleut Cognates (1994) (86)
Language relations across Bering Strait : reappraising the archaeological and linguistic evidence (1998) (66)
Content, expression and structure : studies in Danish functional grammar (1996) (61)
Affix Ordering in West Greenlandic Derivational Processes (1980) (58)
Thoughts about thought (2001) (35)
Why the ‘language of thought’ is not a language: Some inconsistencies of the computational analogy of thought (1979) (30)
A comparative manual of affixes for the Inuit dialects of Greenland, Canada, and Alaska (1983) (30)
Learning to speak Greenlandic: a case study of a two-year-old's morphology in a polysynthetic language (1984) (26)
13. Evidentiality in West Greenlandic: A case of scattered coding (2003) (25)
Eskimo word order variation and its contact-induced perturbation (1993) (17)
Comparative Chukotko-Kamchatkan Dictionary (1994) (17)
Similitude: A conceptual category (2010) (16)
Historical linguistics 2003 : selected papers from the 16th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Copenhagen, 11-15 August 2003 (2005) (13)
Diachronic typology and the genealogical unity of Chukotko-Kamchatkan (2003) (13)
The Acquisition of Polysynthetic Verb Forms in Chintang (2017) (13)
Layered structure and reference in a functional perspective : papers from the Functional Grammar Conference in Copenhagen, 1990 (1992) (13)
The Degree of Interrelatedness between Inuit Dialects as Reflected by Percentages of Shared Affixes (1985) (12)
The typological position and theoretical status of polysynthesis (2007) (10)
The relationship of Nivkh to Chukotko-Kamchatkan revisited (2011) (10)
Drift and the Grammaticalization Divide between Northern and Southern Wakashan (2006) (9)
Morphophonemic Complexity and Typological Stability in a Polysynthetic Language Family (1992) (9)
Polysynthesis: A Diachronic and Typological Perspective (2016) (9)
Comparative Wakashan Dictionary (2007) (7)
Eskimo Influence on the Formation of the Chukotkan Ergative Clause (1997) (7)
The Rise and Fall of Polysynthesis in the Eskimo-Aleut Family (1999) (7)
Grammaticalized focus in Yukagir: Is it really grammaticalized and is it really focus? (1996) (7)
The development of morphophonemic complexity in Eskimo languages (1992) (6)
The complementarity of the process and pattern interpretations of Functional Grammar (2004) (6)
The origins of the Wakashan classificatory verbs of location and handling (2006) (6)
Switch reference anomalies and ‘topic’ in west greenlandic: A case of pragmatics over syntax (1991) (6)
Orientation Systems of the North Pacific Rim (2011) (5)
Polysynthesis in the Arctic/Sub-Arctic (2017) (5)
Non-fluent aphasia in a polysynthetic language: five case studies (2020) (5)
Polysynthesis in the Arctic/Sub-Arctic: How recent is it? (2013) (4)
How far west into Asia have Eskimo languages been spoken, and which ones? (2006) (4)
What are the Limits of Polysynthesis (2017) (4)
The Abstraction Engine: Extracting patterns in language, mind and brain (2017) (4)
Where 'Out to Sea' Equals 'Towards the Fire': The Macrocosm-Microcosm Relationship in Languages of the North Pacific Rim (2012) (4)
6. Anaphoric agreement in Aleut (1985) (4)
The eskimo-aleut-yukagir relationship: An alternative to the genetic/contact dichotomy (1988) (3)
The language system (2001) (3)
Aspect and Superaspect in koyukon: An Application of the Functional Grammar Model to a Polysynthetic Language (1992) (3)
How to catch a mental model by the tale (2007) (3)
Icelandic, Faroese and Greenlandic orientation systems: all absolute? (2017) (3)
West Greenlandic Eskimo (2010) (3)
A Discourse Production Model for 'Twenty Questions' (1980) (3)
The Eskimo-Aleut Language Family (2017) (3)
A neural network approach to compositionality and co-compositionality (2010) (2)
From the writings of the Greenlanders : Kalaallit atuakkiaannit (1991) (2)
44 North America: Eskimo-Aleut linguistic history (2013) (2)
The Acquisition of West Greenlandic (2022) (2)
The non-linearity of speech production (2007) (2)
A network model of lexical organisation in the bilingual brain (2014) (2)
Comparative Nivkh Dictionary (2016) (2)
An acquisitional approach to disharmonic word-order/affixation pairings (2004) (2)
The domain of language (2002) (2)
13. Evidentiality in West Greenlandic (2003) (2)
A procedural discourse generation model for 'Twenty Questions' (1978) (1)
The trials and joys of comparative dictionary making (2009) (1)
Journal of historical pragmatics (2002) (1)
The non-linear nature of diachronic change (2006) (1)
10. The semantic domain of emotion in Eskimo and neighbouring languages (2016) (1)
A Neural Network Model of Lexical Organization (2009) (1)
19. Reciprocals in West Greenlandic Eskimo (2007) (1)
The Pattern and Process of Language in Use: A Test Case (2004) (1)
Lexical Suffixes and the Position of Proto-Wakashan within the Northwest Coast Linguistic Area (2009) (1)
Jørgen Rischel, 1934–2007: Linguistic explorer with typological breadth (2007) (0)
3. Indirect realizations of discourse acts (1980) (0)
The historical transmission of language (2001) (0)
Report to the elders (A discourse on semantic relativity) (2002) (0)
Appendix 2. The question strategy flow diagram (1980) (0)
How the accusative became the relative: A Samoyedic key to the Eskimo-Uralic relationship? (2016) (0)
The calculus of feeling, or how to live on as a linguist after the death of the representation (1999) (0)
Chapter 7. Drinking of the iceberg: Thirty years of fieldwork on Arctic languages (2018) (0)
Understanding written texts (2001) (0)
Appendix 1. The game rules (1980) (0)
Book Review (1954) (0)
The Iconicity of Lengthening and Reduplicating Suffixes in Nuuchahnulth (2014) (0)
6. Modelling individual game utterance (1980) (0)
Nunamiut, the Tundra Dwellers (2021) (0)
Language processing and the mind/brain (2001) (0)
How ‘concrete’` is West Greenlandic? (1994) (0)
4. Discourse analysis for 'Twenty Questions (1980) (0)
Polysemy, Diachrony, and the Circle of Cognition (2021) (0)
Key to symbols and abbreviations (1980) (0)
The origin of transitive auxiliary verbs in Chukotko-Kamchatkan (2005) (0)
Whitehead and linguistic metatheory (2001) (0)
Quantum Cognition – Quantum Analogy (2021) (0)
Aspect and Superaspect in koyukon (1992) (0)
Indo-European Reflections (1998) (0)
Gra yna J. Rowicka and Eithne B. Carlin (eds.), What's in a verb? (2013) (0)
Appendix 3. Sample Games (1980) (0)
Grammar as Patterns and Process (1999) (0)
7. Strategies & wider cognitive aspects of the model (1980) (0)
In defence of the armchair (1980) (0)
Conditionals in the layered structure of FG (1992) (0)
The content side of language (2001) (0)
Mid-Holocene Language Connections between Asia and North America (2022) (0)
A Whiteheadian approach to natural dialogue (2001) (0)
Case and Context in Inuktitut (Eskimo). Ivan KalmárSuffixes of the Eskimo Dialects of Cumberland Peninsula and North Baffin Island. Kenn Harper (1982) (0)
Analytic vs. synthetic verbal constructions in Chukchi and West Greenlandic (2009) (0)
Language Contact on Both Sides of the Bering Strait A Comparative Study of Central Siberian Yupik-Russian and Central Alaskan Yupik-English Language Contact (2005) (0)
Grammaticalized focus in Yukagir (1996) (0)
Language as organism or eternal object (2001) (0)
2. Responses to questions & other discourse acts (1980) (0)
1. Interrogatives and questions (1980) (0)

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