Publications
Recent Publications (for full list, see CV)
Edited volumes
Barðdal, Jóhanna, Eugenio Luján, & Spike Gildea (eds). 2020. Reconstructing Syntax. Brill Series in Historical Linguistics. Leiden: Brill Press.
Guillaume, Antoine & Spike Gildea (eds). 2018. The evolution of argument coding patterns in South American languages. Special Issue, Journal of Historical Linguistics 8.1.
Overall, Simon, Rosa Vallejos, & Spike Gildea (eds). 2018. Nonverbal Predication in Amazonian Languages.Typological Studies in Language, John Benjamins.
Mattiola, Simone & Spike Gildea. 2023. The pluractional marker -pödï of Akawaio (Cariban) and beyond. International Journal of American Linguistics 89(4): 457-491.
Journal Articles
Gildea, Spike & Jóhanna Barðdal. 2023. From Grammaticalization to Diachronic Construction Grammar: A Natural Evolution of the Paradigm. Studies in Language: 47(4): 743-788. https://doi.org/10.1075/sl.20079.gil | Published online: 19 December 2022
Gildea, Spike & Natalia Cáceres Arandia. 2022. A first analysis of tense-aspect constructions in Yawarana (Cariban). Cadernos de Etnolinguística 10 (7) e100107, 1-22. (http://www.etnolinguistica.org/article:vol10n1-7)
Douglas-Tavani, Jordan A. G. & Spike Gildea. 2022. A lexical class as construction: On the origins of Cariban postpositions. Cadernos de Etnolinguística 10 (1) e100106, 1-24. (http://www.etnolinguistica.org/article:vol10n1-6)
Chapters of volumes
Sapién, Racquel-María, Natalia Cáceres, Spike Gildea & Sérgio Meira. 2021. Antipassive and semantic classes of verbs in the Cariban family. The Multifaceted Nature of Antipassive, ed. by Katarzyna Janic & Alena Witzlack, 65-96. Typological Studies in Language. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Gildea, Spike, Eugenio Luján, & Jóhanna Barðdal. 2020. The curious case of reconstructing syntax. Reconstructing Syntax, ed. by Eugenio Luján, Jóhanna Barðdal, & Spike Gildea, 1-44. Brill Series in Historical Linguistics. Brill Series in Historical Linguistics. Leiden: Brill Press.
Gildea, Spike & Flávia de Castro Alves. 2020. Reconstructing the Source of Nominative-Absolutive Alignment in Two Amazonian Language Families. Reconstructing Syntax: Cognates and Directionality, ed. by Eugenio Luján, Jóhanna Barðdal, & Spike Gildea, 47-107. Brill Series in Historical Linguistics. Leiden: Brill Press.
Gildea, Spike. 2018. Reconstructing the copulas and nonverbal predicate constructions in Cariban. Nonverbal predication in Amazonian Languages, ed. by Simon Overall, Rosa Vallejos, & Spike Gildea, 365-402. Typological Studies in Language. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Overall, Simon, Rosa Vallejos, & Spike Gildea. 2018. Non-verbal predication in Amazonian languages: Introduction. Nonverbal predication in Amazonian Languages, ed. by Simon Overall, Rosa Vallejos, & Spike Gildea, 1-49. Typological Studies in Language. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Gildea, Spike & Joana Jansen. 2018. The development of referential hierarchy effects in Sahaptian. Typological Hierarchies in Synchrony and Diachrony, ed. by Sonia Cristofaro & Fernando Zúñiga, 131-189. Typological Studies in Language. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.