Helga Schröder

List of John Benjamins publications for which Helga Schröder plays a role.

Articles

Schröder, Helga 2024 Chapter 14. Verbal lexicalization and cultural domains in ToposaAnthropological Linguistics: Perspectives from Africa, Hollington, Andrea, Alice Mitchell and Nico Nassenstein (eds.), pp. 367–392 | Chapter
Toposa, an Eastern Nilotic language of South Sudan, packages a great deal of semantic information in verb roots. This chapter investigates whether lexicalization processes in the verb can be linked to the emergence of cultural “schemas”, “frames” or “scenarios” (Goddard & Wierzbicka, 2014). The… read more
Using data from Toposa and Kiswahili, this article demonstrates that the reference assignment in pronominal languages does not only constrain the process of identifying the intended referent, but the pronominal marking on the verb also assists with disambiguating whether a nominal expression has… read more