Lisa Matthewson

List of John Benjamins publications for which Lisa Matthewson plays a role.

Articles

Davis, Henry, Lisa Matthewson and Hotze Rullmann 2009 ‘Out of control’ marking as circumstantial modality in St’át’imcetsCross-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
Matthewson, Lisa, Henry Davis and Hotze Rullmann 2007 Evidentials as epistemic modals: Evidence from St'át'imcetsLinguistic 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
Davis, Henry and Lisa Matthewson 2003 Quasi objects in St’át’imcets: On the (semi-)independence of Agreement and CaseFormal Approaches to Function in Grammar: In honor of Eloise Jelinek, Carnie, Andrew, Heidi Harley and MaryAnn Willie (eds.), pp. 79–106 | Article