Andrew Swearingen
List of John Benjamins publications for which Andrew Swearingen plays a role.
Articles
2017 Crossing the categorial divide: Imperative and interjection conversions in Romance Imperatives and Directive Strategies, Van Olmen, Daniël and Simone Heinold (eds.), pp. 291–318 | Chapter
Imperatives and interjections are distinct categories differing in both form and function. As the prototypical directive verb form, an imperative exhibits both typical as well as unique morphosyntactic properties of its class. Interjections are discourse markers anchored in pragmatics and… read more
2014 From blood to worms: The semantic evolution of a Portuguese colour term Colour Studies: A broad spectrum, Anderson, Wendy, Carole P. Biggam, Carole Hough and Christian Kay (eds.), pp. 79–92 | Article
The historical record provides evidence of an apparent semantic shift in the denotational range of the Portuguese colour term roxo, whereby its referent, initially designating the colour red, came to designate the colour purple. Drawing on colour term research from the World Colour Survey,… read more
2009 Imperative morphology in diachrony evidence from the Romance languages Historical Linguistics 2007: Selected papers from the 18th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Montreal, 6–11 August 2007, Dufresne, Monique, Fernande Dupuis and Etleva Vocaj (eds.), pp. 99–108 | Article
This paper presents an initial comparative-historical synthesis of Romance affirmative imperative morphology. It explores its implications for morphological change generally. Imperatives emerge as a recurrent locus of suppletion and defectiveness, which can uniquely escape morphological changes… read more