Nonverbal Predication in Amazonian Languages
Edited by Simon E. Overall, Rosa Vallejos and Spike Gildea
[Typological Studies in Language, 122] 2018. vi, 407 pp.
Rosa Vallejos
List of John Benjamins publications for which Rosa Vallejos plays a role.
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Subjects Languages of South America | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Articles
2018 Chapter 1. Nonverbal predication in Amazonia: Typological and diachronic considerations Nonverbal Predication in Amazonian Languages, Overall, Simon E., Rosa Vallejos and Spike Gildea (eds.), pp. 1–50 | Chapter
2018 Chapter 11. Possessive semantic relations and construction types in Kukama-Kukamiria Nonverbal Predication in Amazonian Languages, Overall, Simon E., Rosa Vallejos and Spike Gildea (eds.), pp. 295–314 | Chapter
This study examines the correlations between possessive semantic relations and construction types in Kukama-Kukamiria (Amazon of Peru). The language does not have lexical verbs such as ‘have’, ‘belong,’ or a copula to predicate ownership. Yet possession can be inferred from other constructions,… read more
2014 Peruvian Amazonian Spanish: Uncovering variation and deconstructing stereotypes Spanish in Context 11:3, pp. 425–453 | Article
Some linguistic structures found in Amazonian Spanish tend to be associated by and large with a rural variety spoken by people frequently depicted as indigenous. However, direct observations indicate that most of these features are pervasive among speakers across the social spectrum. What, then,… read more
2010 Is there a ditransitive construction in Kokama-Kokamilla? Studies in Language 34:1, pp. 75–107 | Article
In Kokama-Kokamilla (KK), ditransitive constructions — i.e. syntactic units that profile three participants and contain two non-subject arguments — do not exist as a distinct type relative to transitives. KK shows both indirective and secundative alignment types (Haspelmath 2004, Dryer 1986, 2006),… read more