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Overview

Jeffrey Heath is affiliated with the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in the United States. Their research spans several fields within the arts and humanities as well as social sciences, focusing largely on language and linguistics.

The main fields of study for Heath include:

  • Arts and Humanities
  • Social Sciences

Their work covers subfields such as:

  • Language and Linguistics
  • Linguistics and Language
  • Cultural Studies
  • Communication
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

Key topics of Heath's research include:

  • Linguistic Variation and Morphology
  • Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
  • Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity
  • Language, Linguistics, Cultural Analysis
  • Historical Linguistics and Language Studies
  • Language and cultural evolution
  • Swearing, Euphemism, Multilingualism

Heath has published several papers in various venues, including:

  • "Converging Tonosyntactic Supercategories: Crossing the Noun-Verb Barrier in Jamsay", 2020, Anthropological Linguistics
  • "Kinship Terms and Kinship Systems", 2020, The International Encyclopedia of Linguistic Anthropology
  • "Origins of Dogon NP tonosyntax", 2022, Diachronica

Heath's publications also appear in venues such as Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), SSRN Electronic Journal, and others. Their presence in these platforms reflects a continuing focus on linguistic research.

Notable coauthors frequently collaborating with Heath include:

  • Laura McPherson
  • Kirill Prokhorov
  • Steven Moran
  • Aminata Ouattara
  • Hiba Babiker

Heath has contributed to book publications primarily with European Organization for Nuclear Research and the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. These works include:

  • A Grammar of Tebul Ure (Dogon, Mali), 2020
  • A Grammar of Tiranige, 2020
  • A grammar of Tiranige (Dogon, Mali), 2022

Best Publications

  • Syntax: A Functional-Typological Introduction

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  • Functional grammar of Nunggubuyu

    Jeffrey Heath

  • Linguistic Diffusion in Arnhem Land

    Jeffrey Heath

  • Basic materials in Ritharngu: Grammar, texts, and dictionary

    Jeffrey Heath

  • Pragmatic disguise in pronominal-affix paradigms

    Jeffrey Heath

  • Ngandi grammar, texts, and dictionary

    Jeffrey Heath

  • Some Functional Relationships in Grammar.

    Jeffrey Heath

  • A CASE OF INTENSIVE LEXICAL DIFFUSION: ARNHEM LAND, AUSTRALIA

    Jeffrey Heath

  • Language Contact and Language Change

    J G Heath

  • A Grammar of Tamashek (Tuareg of Mali)

    Jeffrey Heath

  • Verbal inflection and macro-subgroupings of Australian languages: The search for conjugation markers in non-Pama-Nyungan

    Jeffrey Heath

  • Pragmatic Skewing in 1 ↔ 2 Pronominal Combinations in Native American Languages

    Jeffrey Heath

  • Syntactic and lexical aspects of nonconfigurationality in Nunggubuyu (Australia)

    Jeffrey Heath

  • Basic materials in Mara : grammar, texts and dictionary

    Jeffrey Heath

  • Hermit Crabs: Formal Renewal of Morphology by Phonologically Mediated Affix Substitution.

    Jeffrey Heath

  • Nunggubuyu myths and ethnographic texts

    Jeffrey Heath

  • Basic materials in Warndarang: Grammar, texts, and dictionary

    Jeffrey Heath

  • Dhuwal (Arnhem Land) texts on kinship and other subjects, with grammatical sketch and dictionary

    Jeffrey Heath

  • Jewish and Muslim Dialects of Moroccan Arabic

    Jeffrey Heath

  • Ablaut and ambiguity : phonology of a Moroccan Arabic dialect

    Jeffrey Heath

  • A Grammar of Koyra Chiini: The Songhay of Timbuktu

    Jeffrey Heath

  • The languages of kinship in Aboriginal Australia

    Jeffrey Heath

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert Dixon
Robert Dixon University of Sydney
Ruth Wodak
Ruth Wodak Lancaster University
Michael Clyne
Michael Clyne University of Melbourne

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