Peter Jenks

Job title: 
Associate Professor of Linguistics
Bio/CV: 

PhD, Harvard

Syntax, semantics, phonology, fieldwork; Moro and other Niger-Congo languages; Thai, Mandarin, and other East and Southeast Asian languages

Role: 
Syntax and Semantics
Faculty

Topics

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Contact

jenks@berkeley.edu
1217 Dwinelle Hall
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Publications

Cophonologies by Ph(r)ase

Hannah Sande; Peter Jenks; Sharon Inkelas
Recent Publication, 2020

Theory and description in African linguistics

Emily Clem; Peter Jenks; Hannah Sande
Recent Publication, 2019

The syntactic diversity of SAuxOV in West Africa

Hannah Sande; Nico Baier; Peter Jenks
Recent Publication, 2019

Niger-Congo linguistic features and typology

Larry M. Hyman; Nicholas R. Rolle; Hannah L. Sande; Emily C. Clem; Peter Jenks; Florian A. J. Lionnet; John Merrill; Nico Baier
Recent Publication, 2019

On the lexical semantics of property concept nouns in Basaá

Peter Jenks; Andrew Koontz-Garboden; Emmanuel-Moselly Makasso
Recent Publication, 2018

Articulated Definiteness without Articles

Peter Jenks
Recent Publication, 2018

Accessibility and demonstrative operators in Basaá relative clauses

Peter Jenks; Emmanuel-Moselly Makasso; Larry M. Hyman
Recent Publication, 2017

Clefts and anti-Superiority in Moken

Kenneth Baclawski Jr.; Peter Jenks
Recent Publication, 2016

Mobile object markers in Moro: The role of tone

Peter Jenks; Sharon Rose
Recent Publication, 2015

Two kinds of definites in numeral classifier languages

Peter Jenks
Recent Publication, 2015
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