Rosa Vallejos

List of John Benjamins publications for which Rosa Vallejos plays a role.

Title

Nonverbal Predication in Amazonian Languages

Edited by Simon E. Overall, Rosa Vallejos and Spike Gildea

[Typological Studies in Language, 122] 2018. vi, 407 pp.
Subjects Languages of South America | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics | Typology

Articles

Overall, Simon E., Rosa Vallejos and Spike Gildea. 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
Vallejos, Rosa. 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
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 | Chapter
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 | 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 | Article