The Grammar of Possession: Inalienability, incorporation and possessor ascension in Guaraní
Maura Velázquez-Castillo
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 33] 1996. xvi, 274 pp.
Maura Velázquez-Castillo
List of John Benjamins publications for which Maura Velázquez-Castillo plays a role.
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Subjects Functional linguistics | Languages of South America | Semantics
2013 Quiero para mi novio: Aspectual uses of para in Paraguayan Spanish Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 28:1, pp. 65–102 | Article
There is an extensive bibliography on the meanings of the Spanish preposition para but very little has been done to address the different traits that this form acquires in contact varieties of Spanish. Paraguayan Spanish exhibits a high incidence of an innovative use of the preposition para that… read more
2003 Grammatical relations in active systems: The case of Guaraní The Interaction of Data, Description, and Theory in Linguistics: Functional perspectives, McGregor, William B. (ed.), pp. 133–167 | Article
An active system is frequently analyzed as the most semantically transparent case-marking system, where the agent-patient opposition underlies case marking and/or cross-referencing patterns. It has also been claimed that transitivity and its prototypical manifestation of subject-object opposition… read more
2002 Guaraní causative constructions The Grammar of Causation and Interpersonal Manipulation, Shibatani, Masayoshi (ed.), pp. 507–534 | Article
1999 Body-Part EP Constructions: A Cognitive/Functional Analysis External Possession, Payne, Doris L. and Immanuel Barshi (eds.), pp. 77–108 | Article
1995 Noun incorporation and object placement in discourse: the case of Guaraní Word Order in Discourse, Downing, Pamela A. and Michael Noonan (eds.), pp. 555–579 | Article