John R. Roberts

List of John Benjamins publications for which John R. Roberts plays a role.

Serial verb constructions (SVCs) are found in Creole languages and in the languages of West Africa, Southeast Asia, Amazonia, Oceania, and New Guinea. In this article we examine catenative verb constructions (CVCs) in English from a Role and Reference Grammar perspective and compare them with SVCs. read more
Roberts, John R. 2001 Impersonal constructions in AmeleNon-canonical Marking of Subjects and Objects, Aikhenvald, Alexandra Y., R.M.W. Dixon and Masayuki Onishi (eds.), pp. 201–250 | Article
Roberts, John R. 1998 GIVE in AmeleThe Linguistics of Giving, Newman, John (ed.), pp. 1–34 | Article
Roberts, John R. 1993 Haiman, John. Hua-English DictionaryStudies in Language 17:2, pp. 504–506 | Squib
Andersen, T. David and John R. Roberts 1991 Hodiernal vs. NondiernalStudies in Language 15:2, pp. 295–299 | Article