Publications

• Beck, David. — (to appear). Totonacan. In Søren Wichmann (ed.), The Languages and Linguistics of Middle and Central America: A Comprehensive Guide. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
• — (2017). Relative clauses in Upper Necaxa Totonac: Local, comparative, and diachronic perspectives. Linguistic Discovery 14: 1–45.
• — (2016). Uniqueness and grammatical relations in Upper Necaxa Totonac. Linguistics 54, 59–118.
• — (2013). Argument quantification and qualification in Upper Necaxa Totonac. In Zhenya Antić, Charles B. Chang, Clare S. Sandy, and Maziar Toosarvandani (eds.), Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: Special Session of Languages of Mexico and Central America, 17–27. Berkeley, CA: UC Berkeley.
• — (2012a). Apéndice: tablas de morfología comparativa. In Paulette Levy and David Beck (eds). Las lenguas totonacas y tepehuas: textos y otros materiales para su estudio, 587–596. Mexico, DF: UNAM. (English translation)
• — (2012b). Nuevo diccionario del idioma totonaco del Río Necaxa. Edmonton: Espresso Press.
• — (2011a). Upper Necaxa Totonac Dictionary. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
• — (2011b). Lexical, quasi-inflectional, and inflectional compounding in Upper Necaxa Totonac. In Alexandra Aikhenvald and Pieter Muysken (eds.), Multi-verb Constructions: A view from the Americas, 63–106. Leiden: Brill.
• — (2008). Ideophones, adverbs, and predicate qualification in Upper Necaxa Totonac. International Journal of American Linguistics 74, 1–46. (Slideshow)
• — (2007a). Variable ordering of affixes in Upper Necaxa Totonac. In Proceedings of the 12th Workshop on Structure and Constituency in the Languages of the Americas. Vancouver: UBC Working Papers in Linguistics.
• — (2007b). Morphological phrasemes in Totonacan inflection. In Papers for the 2007 International Conference on Meaning-Text Theory. Vienna: Wiener Slawistischer Almananch, Sonderband 69.
• — (2007c). Voice and agreement in multi-object constructions in Upper Necaxa Totonac. In Memorias de IX Encuentro Internacional de Lingüística en el Noroeste. Hermosillo, Mexico: University of Sonora.
• — (2006a). Control of agreement in multi-object constructions in Upper Necaxa Totonac. In Atsushi Fujimori and Maria Amelia Reis Silva (eds.), Proceedings of the 11th Workshop on Structure and Constituency in the Languages of the Americas, 1–11. Vancouver: UBC Working Papers in Linguistics.
• — (2006b). The emergence of ejective fricatives in Upper Necaxa Totonac. In Robert Kirchner (ed.), University of Alberta Working Papers in Linguistics 1.
• — (2004). Upper Necaxa Totonac. LINCOM: Europa.
• — (2003). Person-hierarchies and the origin of asymmetries in Totonac verbal paradigms. Linguistica Atlantica 23, 1–33.
• — (2001). Primer vocabulario práctico del idioma totonaco del Río Necaxa. (First practical vocabulary of Upper Necaxa Totonac.) Edmonton: University of Alberta. (185pp)
• — (2000). The syntax, semantics, and typology of adjectives in Upper Necaxa Totonac. Linguistic Typology 4, 213–50.
• Beck, David, and Yvonne Lam. (2020). Los cargos: Un relato del sistema de cargos en el totonaco del Río Necaxa. Tlalocan 25.
• — (2009). Language loss and linguistic suicide: A case study from the Sierra Norte de Puebla, Mexico. In Sarah Cummins, Brigit Janoski, and Patricia A. Shaw (eds.), All the Things You Are: A Festschrift for Jack Chambers, 5–16. Toronto: Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics.
• Beck, David, and Igor A. Mel’čuk. (2011). Morphological phrasemes and Totonacan verbal morphology. Linguistics 49, 175–228.
• Brown, Cecil H., David Beck, Grzegorz Kondrak, James K. Watters, and Søren Wichmann. (2011). Totozoquean. International Journal of American Linguistics 77, 323–372.
• Brown, Cecil H, Søren Wichmann, and David Beck. (2014). Chitimacha: A Mesoamerican language in the Lower Mississippi Valley. International Journal of American Linguistics 80: 425–474.
• Kirchner, Robert, and Eleni Varelas. (2002). A cue-based approach to the phonotactics of Totonac. Presented at the 7th Workshop on Structure and Constituency in the Languages of the Americas. University of Alberta, March 23.
• Kondrak, Grzegorz, David Beck, and Philip Dilts. (2007). Creating a comparative dictionary of Totonac-Tepehua. In John Nerbonne, T. Mark Ellison, and Grzegorz Kondrak (eds.), Computing and Historical Phonology: Proceedings of the Ninth Meeting of the ACL Special Interest Group in Computational Morphology and Phonology, 134–141. Prague: Association for Computational Linguistics.
• Lam, Yvonne. (2009). The straw that broke the language’s back: Language shift in the Upper Necaxa Valley of Mexico. International Journal of Sociology of Language 195, 219–233.
• — (2007). “Tipping” the scales: Language shift in a Mexican indigenous community. Presented at the 12th Workshop on Structure and Constituency in the Languages of the Americas. University of Lethbridge, March 30–April 1.
• Levy, Paulette, and David Beck. 2012. Las lenguas totonacas y tepehuas: textos y otros materiales para su estudio. Mexico, DF: UNAM.
• Moore, Devin. (2017). Subgrouping of Coahuitlán Totonac. Canadian Journal of Linguistics 62: 84–117.
• — (2016). Relative clauses in Coahuitlán Totonac. Oklahoma Working Papers in Indigenous Languages 2, 22–40.
• Varela, Vianey, and Ryan Klint. (2006). The ribbon sits on the candle’s shin: the acquisition of Basic Locative Constructions in Upper Necaxa Totonac. In Atsushi Fujimori and Maria Amelia Reis Silva (eds.), Proceedings of the 11th Workshop on Structure and Constituency in the Languages of the Americas. Vancouver: UBC Working Papers in Linguistics.