Nicoletta Romeo

List of John Benjamins publications for which Nicoletta Romeo plays a role.

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Aspect in Burmese: Meaning and function

Nicoletta Romeo

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 96] 2008. xv, 289 pp.
Subjects Semantics | Sino-Tibetan languages | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

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Romeo, Nicoletta 2009 The grammaticalised use of the Burmese verbs la ‘come’ and thwà ‘go’ Cross-linguistic Semantics of Tense, Aspect, and Modality, Hogeweg, Lotte, Helen de Hoop and Andrej L. Malchukov (eds.), pp. 131–154 | Article
This paper describes the grammatical uses of the Burmese motion verbs la ‘come’ and thwà ‘go’. The verbal markers -la ‘come’ and thwà ‘go’ fulfil different functionsaccording to (1) the semantics of the verb they modify, (2) the way in whichevents are represented in the clause/sentence, and (3) the… read more