Lisa Matthewson
List of John Benjamins publications for which Lisa Matthewson plays a role.
Articles
2009 ‘Out of control’ marking as circumstantial modality in St’át’imcets Cross-linguistic Semantics of Tense, Aspect, and Modality, Hogeweg, Lotte, Helen de Hoop and Andrej L. Malchukov (eds.), pp. 205–244 | Article
This paper provides a unified semantic analysis of the so-called ‘out-of-control’ circumfix ka-…-a in St’át’imcets (Lillooet Salish). ka-…-a expresses an initially puzzling range of meanings, including “be able to”, “manage to”, “suddenly”, “accidentally”, and “non-controllable”. We propose that… read more
2007 Evidentials as epistemic modals: Evidence from St'át'imcets Linguistic Variation Yearbook 2007, van Craenenbroeck, Jeroen (ed.), pp. 201–254 | Article
This paper argues that evidential clitics in St’át’imcets (a.k.a. Lillooet; Northern Interior Salish) must be analyzed as epistemic modals.We apply a range of tests which distinguish the modal analysis from the main alternative contender (an illocutionary operator analysis, as in Faller 2002), and… read more
2003 Quasi objects in St’át’imcets: On the (semi-)independence of Agreement and Case Formal Approaches to Function in Grammar: In honor of Eloise Jelinek, Carnie, Andrew, Heidi Harley and MaryAnn Willie (eds.), pp. 79–106 | Article