Regina Pustet
List of John Benjamins publications for which Regina Pustet plays a role.
2015 The syntax of temperature predications The Linguistics of Temperature, Koptjevskaja-Tamm, Maria (ed.), pp. 889–916 | Article
The syntactic structures encountered in clauses containing temperature concepts tend to differ from the ones employed in standard intransitive clause types. These constructions are remarkable not only because of their unusual internal makeup, but also because of the great variety in syntactic… read more
2008 Discourse frequency and the collapse of the adposition vs. affix distinction in Lakota Theoretical and Empirical Issues in Grammaticalization, Seoane, Elena and María José López-Couso (eds.), pp. 269–292 | Article
2008 The Lakota aspect/modality markers -kinica and tkhá Modality–Aspect Interfaces: Implications and typological solutions, Abraham, Werner and Elisabeth Leiss (eds.), pp. 331–355 | Article
Developments of aspectual out of modal grammemes do not appear to be sufficiently documented in the extant literature on grammaticalization. The Native American language Lakota is equipped with two grammatical elements which encode both aspectual and modal concepts: -kinica ‘‘proximative,… read more
2007 Review of Wälchli (2005): Co-compounds and natural coordination Studies in Language 31:3, pp. 708–716 | Review
2006 Progressives in typological perspective Languages in Contrast 6:2, pp. 177–227 | Article
The category of progressive is known for the notorious difficulties of definition it poses not only within individual languages, but for general theories of aspect as well. A particularly challenging problem is the fact that in any one language, there seem to be lexemes that block progressive… read more
2005 On discourse frequency, grammar, and grammaticalization Linguistic Diversity and Language Theories, Frajzyngier, Zygmunt, Adam Hodges and David S. Rood (eds.), pp. 143–168 | Article
2002 Copulas in Sgaw Karen Studies in Language 26:3, pp. 595–612 | Article
Many languages have copula systems involving more than one copula. In such languages, the functional scopes of the participating copulas vary. This kind of typological variation has not yet been studied in great detail. In Sgaw Karen, three copulas exist, and the functional differences among these… read more
2000 Echo Pronominalization and Complementation in Lakota Studies in Language 24:1, pp. 137–170 | Article
The functional domain of complementation breeds a vast spectrum of construction types. This structural diversification concerns, among other things, the coding of the notional subject of the complement clause. One coding option which invites further study within the functional-typological framework… read more
