Yulia Koloskova
List of John Benjamins publications for which Yulia Koloskova plays a role.
Articles
2010 Pragmatic factors in the development of a switch-adjective language: A case study of the Miyako-Hirara dialect of Ryukyuan Parts of Speech: Empirical and theoretical advances, Ansaldo, Umberto, Jan Don and Roland Pfau (eds.), pp. 107–133 | Article
2008 Pragmatic factors in the development of a switch-adjective language: A case study of the Miyako-Hirara dialect of Ryukyuan Parts of Speech: Descriptive tools, theoretical constructs, Ansaldo, Umberto, Jan Don and Roland Pfau (eds.), pp. 610–636 | Article
The Miyako-Hirara dialect of Ryukyuan is a switch-adjective language, i.e. it employs both nominal and verbal strategies for its adjectival roots. The choice of the encoding option in the predicative position depends on the information structure of the sentence. If a predicative adjective is in… read more