Alice Vittrant
List of John Benjamins publications for which Alice Vittrant plays a role.
Articles
2022 Chapter 4. Deictic directionals revisited in the light of advances in typology Neglected Aspects of Motion-Event Description: Deixis, asymmetries, constructions, Sarda, Laure and Benjamin Fagard (eds.), pp. 69–94 | Chapter
This study explores the issue of Associated Motion (hereafter AM) in five languages spoken in Africa and Asia. We investigate grammatical morphemes whose function is to add a motion process to the event encoded in the verb expressing the main (non-motion) event, and to specify the temporal… read more
2009 Acquisitive modals Cross-linguistic Semantics of Tense, Aspect, and Modality, Hogeweg, Lotte, Helen de Hoop and Andrej L. Malchukov (eds.), pp. 271–302 | Article
The paper explores the fact that ‘get’ etymons may acquire modal meanings. It tries to fit this fact into the modal map proposal of van der Auwera & Plungian (1998) and concludes that the map has to be revised, in part because the lexical input, the predicates meaning ‘get/acquire’ allow more than… read more
2009 Review of Romeo (2008): Aspect in Burmese. Meaning and function Studies in Language 33:3, pp. 766–775 | Review