Alexandra Vydrina
List of John Benjamins publications for which Alexandra Vydrina plays a role.
Articles
2020 Topicality in Sentence Focus utterances Studies in Language 44:3, pp. 501–547 | Article
Focus and newness are distinct features. The fact that subconstituents of focus can be given or discourse-old has been pointed out in Selkirk (1984) and Lambrecht (1994). Nevertheless, when it comes to Sentence Focus, it is still common to equate Focus with newness, and to treat SF sentences as… read more
2014 From agent-oriented modality to sequential: The polysemy of the marker ni in Kakabe (Mande) Modes of Modality: Modality, typology, and universal grammar, Leiss, Elisabeth and Werner Abraham (eds.), pp. 379–406 | Article
The paper provides an analysis of an unusual type of polysemy of a modal marker which so far has not been in the focus of the studies dealing with semantics and grammaticalization paths of modal meaning, namely the polysemy between the modal meaning of obligation and the sequential meaning. Modal… read more